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Pirates wall and boats
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mkepcotmgmak
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What is the "Line-X" treatment?
goofntink
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Sorry.. Line-X is a protective spray on product mainly used to protect beds of pickup trucks that replaces old drop in bedliners. Disney has been using it on the seating on the parking lot trams and even used it on the seating of the "it's a small world ride". They like it because you can add color to it, and because it so durable. In other words, saves Mickey money on painting costs.
.... STOLPort was a Short Take Off and Landing airstrip just to the north east of the MK autoplaza. It wasn`t officially used, has lots of urban legends, and today is a wider than average concrete roadway from and to nowhere.
On this image it`s the wider north-south roadway to the right of the MK parking lot (it`s in the yellow area)
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22639&d=1146513700
On this image it`s the wider north-south roadway to the right of the MK parking lot (it`s in the yellow area)
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22639&d=1146513700
I thought it was "officially" used. Granted it was for a very short time but I am pretty sure that a small commercial airline (Swanee Air I think) used it for a short time.marni1971 said:
I am a little concerned about the rather short time frame for this major refurb. I have no doubt that it will be done on time I am just worried about what corners are going to be cut to make the dead line. I was really hoping for a IASW style refurb. But only time will tell.marni1971 said:
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This is just my guess but I remember hearing the the IASW building had lots of major issues besides effects etc. I don't think the pirates building has quite as extensive damage as the IASW building did. All they really are doing in pirates is adding a few new scenes and refreshing the old ones with new effects, clean costumes, fresh paint etc..... im sure the effect will be great though. I think pirates has more draw than IASW does so they are trying to get it back up more quickly this time too.
napnet
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Master Yoda said:
I know Disney usually has no problem delaying the opening of attractions but this one is tied in with the movie so it probably wont change. You never know how much can be done if you throw enough manpower and money at it 
hopefully there is an army of people working on it to make the deadline.
hopefully there is an army of people working on it to make the deadline.
Master Yoda said:
I`m not sure. One myth is it wasn`t used apart from one emmergency landing by a prop. Once down it didn`t have enough room to take off so departed the World on the back of a truck. It was however marked as operational on charts for a time - though who had STOLcraft in 1971??
This is very true. I was involved with the Extreme Home makeover in Hastings Fl so I have seen a house that under normal circumstances would take 6 months to build go from bare ground to finished house in a week.napnet said:I know Disney usually has no problem delaying the opening of attractions but this one is tied in with the movie so it probably wont change. You never know how much can be done if you throw enough manpower and money at it
goofntink
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Airline was Shawnee Airlines,flew from McCoy. now Orlando International. Planes were Dehavilland 19 seat Twin otters. My Father has pics somewhere, we are trying to find them. Did you know? The runway was to short when they brought in Mickey 1, and they actually landed it on World Drive, when it was brought here to be put on permanant display at MGM..Runway was used as recently as February 16th. Was at Stol getting something out of one of our containers, and at about 3 pm a plane landed, dumped it's cargo and left. Found out afterwards it was for the Presidential visit. Also, if you think about it, how did Micheal Jackson always seem to appear at the park and noone saw him arrive at OIA?:lookaroun Also,we do most of our work at night after parks are closed , and trust me that runway is used.