News PHOTOS - Prince Charming Regal Carrousel behind scrims for refurbishment

[ToTBellHop]

The problem is they can’t get that dang sword out of the stone in front of the carousel to get the proper equipment in there to finish the work.

Staggs tried to remove it a few years back after four pints of IgerBock (brown-noser...). That’s how Iger knew Staggs wasn’t destined to be king. Fired on the spot.

 

[Kman101]

Staggs tried to remove it a few years back after four pints of IgerBock (brown-noser...). That’s how Iger knew Staggs wasn’t destined to be king. Fired on the spot.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Staggs tried to remove it a few years back after four pints of IgerBock (brown-noser...). That’s how Iger knew Staggs wasn’t destined to be king. Fired on the spot.

Does Staggs still have a drink inside Gaston's Tavern?

 

[EricsBiscuit]

I just spoke with someone today here and they said the scrims were supposed to be done by Spring break, but THEY HAVENT EVEN STARTED PAINTING YET!

 

[THE Monorail Lime]

I just spoke with someone today here and they said the scrims were supposed to be done by Spring break, but THEY HAVENT EVEN STARTED PAINTING YET!

Dumb....

 

[wdwmagic]

Prince Charming Regal Carrousel closed for refurbishment

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Frozen overlay is taking longer than expected.

 

[TiggerDad]

Frozen overlay is taking longer than expected.

They're having a hard time deciding how many R's should be in the word Carrousel.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

They're having a hard time deciding how many R's should be in the word Carrousel.

French vs English. In Arendelle it'd be Olaf's Vinter Karusell

 

[EricPZ]

Just making sure it's ready for our visit starting the 1st.

 

[PaulZ]

I know this would be met with laughter and derision, but I’ve long felt and wished Disney would announce about 2 years ahead of time it was closing the park for 3-6 months to do all these refurbishments and renovations at once. MK is almost 50. I wish they’d take the $ loss of a few months, fix what needs to be fixed, bring in new stuff where they want, and then reopen after they finish. If you announce it that far in advance, you give guests time to plan accordingly. Then annnouce all parks on some sort of rotation where they do the same thing. I’m not saying there still wouldn’t need to be refurbs occasionally along the way before each shut down, but it does get ridiculous looking when you are there and it feels like tarps and walls are everywhere why they refurb/repair something.

 

[Master Yoda]

I know this would be met with laughter and derision, but I’ve long felt and wished Disney would announce about 2 years ahead of time it was closing the park for 3-6 months to do all these refurbishments and renovations at once. MK is almost 50. I wish they’d take the $ loss of a few months, fix what needs to be fixed, bring in new stuff where they want, and then reopen after they finish. If you announce it that far in advance, you give guests time to plan accordingly. Then annnouce all parks on some sort of rotation where they do the same thing. I’m not saying there still wouldn’t need to be refurbs occasionally along the way before each shut down, but it does get ridiculous looking when you are there and it feels like tarps and walls are everywhere why they refurb/repair something.

A notion that works great on paper, but not so much in practice.

What do you do with 65,000 employees while you shut down a city for 2-3 months?

 

[ThatMouse]

Why do they even bother with the tarps? Hiding the butt crack?

 

[Rteetz]

Why do they even bother with the tarps? Hiding the butt crack from the workers?

To detract from work being done.

If that's the attitude people have why should they bother with refurbishments at all. I would much rather look at the themed tarps than plain scaffolding.

 

[PaulZ]

A notion that works great on paper, but not so much in practice.

What do you do with 65,000 employees while you shut down a city for 2-3 months?

I think you misunderstood or I wasn’t very clear. I said “the park” meaning 1. You don’t close any more than this at any one time and not in a row. I am talking about for example, announcing MK shuts down for major park refurbishment in Mid-January 2023. It will reopen the week before Memorial Day. The other 3 parks and water parks stay open and you move those employees who work in that one park somewhere else for the times this happens. 2 years later, or some other interval you do the same with Epcot, followed by HS, followed by AK. Then every 10-15 years you do this same process again.

I know it’s never going to happen. But that was my thought of something I think they should do.

 

[larryz]

They're having a hard time deciding how many R's should be in the word Carrousel.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Wasn't this closed in April and May as well?

 

[Rteetz]

Wasn't this closed in April and May as well?

I thought that was just the exterior that was blocked off during that time.

 

[EricsBiscuit]

As of May 15th I heard they hadn't even started painting the darn thing despite having it up since the book of Genesis.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Visited today, I don't have pictures but the scrim is STILL up. I'm not sure what work, if any, they've been doing behind it. Anyone know what is going on, and why it's taking so long?