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Pixie Hollow To Replace Swiss Family Treehouse?
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WDW1974
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Apparently, they love me ... they really, really love me.
Think about the likes and remember the 'welcome' I got here in 2008 ... things sure CHANGE, don't they, Numero Dos?
Sometimes that's OK. Apparently, YOU can make fun of the disabled but a harmless joke about male 20-something CMs who go to bat (or catch or both) for their own team is out of bounds (good thing no one here was with me that day at Vista Lay when I walked in on those characters engaging in an unsanctioned by Disney um ... ah ... crossover!) even if it was as @Belowthesurface said ''perfectly accurate'', which I'm thinking of adding to my SIG!
WDW1974
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That could be said almost any week. ... I won't say anymore in case you are one of those time-switching DVR users that drive everyone I know in the industry. Can't believe there's only two episodes left in the season.
WDW1974
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Wait, now is THAT a joke too ... like in the vein of our past back-and-forth that likely offended someone who lives to be offended?
WDW1974
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I love fanbois. I've said so ... well, some of them. Oh, wait you said fairies ... is there really that much of a difference?
Magenta Panther
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Then please explain the name of their dust, smart guy....
That's one of the weird things about the Disney Fairies direct-to-DVD series...the characters call themselves fairies, but they call their sparkly effervescence pixie dust...what's up with that?
WDW1974
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OK, I thought I just did ... but how about what if a fanboi (not @WDWFigment) tells me they want to play 'Find Tom Bricker's Lens Cap' with me? Should I be concerned?
HMF
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You are really asking why a direct-to DVD movie has logical inconsitincies?
WDW1974
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42 pages on a non-announcement announcement? People jumping to all sorts of conclusions? The very thread you are posting in and you have to ask about absurd? Keep on trucking, dude!
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
From my experience in Complying with ADA requirements within our schools, you are OK with out it being compliant as long as you don't start major construction. Once you do, you pretty much have to start making ADA adjustments. Not everything can be, waterpark slides for example. This would be a reason to leave the Tree alone
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As for the post of Imagination, I believe it was more the loss of sponsors and cutting expenses and CMs. The second floor always had elevator access right near the stairs. The elevator was yet another expense to endure without a sponsor something Disney just chooses not to shoulder on their own.
TP2000
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They can remodel the tree and re-theme it to Pixies with no problem from ADA laws. Disneyland did.
Disneyland's treehouse was built in 1962, nearly a decade before WDW's treehouse was built and when Walt was still, you know, alive.
Walt Disney, hanging the Swiss flag at his new treehouse - Disneyland, 1962
In 1999, they simply re-themed the Disneyland treehouse to Tarzan, without any need to retrofit the stairs and upper levels for wheelchairs. They even added a second tree with a rope bridge over to the original '62 tree, so major structural additions can also be added with current ADA laws.
Tarzan's Treehouse @ Disneyland - New 1999 entry stairs and bridge on right leading to original treehouse structure
Even with existing ADA laws, you can change up all sorts of stuff with older granfathered facilities like the treehouse. But when you have the vast blessing of size that WDW does, the question isn't "if" you can do something, but "where" you should do something.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
They can remodel the tree and re-theme it to Pixies with no problem from ADA laws. Disneyland did.
Disneyland's treehouse was built in 1962, nearly a decade before WDW's treehouse was built and when Walt was still, you know, alive.
Walt Disney, hanging the Swiss flag at his new treehouse - Disneyland, 1962
In 1999, they simply re-themed the Disneyland treehouse to Tarzan, without any need to retrofit the stairs and upper levels for wheelchairs. They even added a second tree with a rope bridge over to the original '62 tree, so major structural additions can also be added with current ADA laws.
Tarzan's Treehouse @ Disneyland - New 1999 entry stairs and bridge on right leading to original treehouse structure
Even with existing ADA laws, you can change up all sorts of stuff with older granfathered facilities like the treehouse. But when you have the vast blessing of size that WDW does, the question isn't "if" you can do something, but "where" you should do something.
Yep, that was my point. Decorating is just fine, start altering its structure, not so much.
PhotoDave219
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HiYa Pal
Active Member
I HIGHLY doubt they would do a meet-n-greet that wasn't fully ADA compatible, I can only imagine the he!! that would ensue from a parent who's child couldn't meet Tink and friends because they couldn't get up the stairs. This is not a dig at the disabled, but a reality of something that TWDC wants as a cash cow, the whole point of the m-n-g is to get as many ppl to buy the photos as possible, if you cut a fairly significant portion of park attendies, you're not fully realizing the potential of the profit center. I can't see them installing elevators to each teapot and coffee urn (Fairy house)........
John
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Besides Dave.....anybody who knows what movie this quote is from....gets a free dime bag of pixie dust ( and no you are not allowed to google).
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
It's been a standard comedian joke for quite sometime, but it was referenced in Shrek.
jt04
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I don't think they would put the M&Gs in the tree. Rather they would create interactive elements and special effects and the tree would serve as the queue to get you to the main PH area. There could also be a ground level path to the PH area that bypasses the tree to be ADA compliant. If they ever do this. I'd say the odds are pretty even.
And no Tarzan please. Could we stop with Tarzan.
Goofyernmost
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I believe that Shrek said it in the first movie. I would have no idea where it was first used, it's been around for quite a while.
Cliff Racer
Member
Stop with the 90s version at least. Wish classic Tarzan had representation somewhere. A stage show or the like.
FrankLapidus
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You mean the Disney adaptation of Tarzan? At a Disney theme park that's the one they're most likely going to go with. Classic Tarzan does make an appearance in the Great Movie Ride.