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News Refurbishment coming soon to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort - Moana details to be included
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Disstevefan1
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I will say it feel good to see something getting finished.
It makes sense they completed this being a deluxe resort while we still have dirt piles and walls in EPCOT, as this deluxe resort is more important..
Just for a laugh, I checked for availability, there is no theme park view rooms available for the 12th to the 18th, but you can get a pool view for $667 a night..
DC0703
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I was wondering this myself, regarding the orbs. The orb lights used elsewhere in the resort are much better themed than this. These lights look oddly like a bunch of balloons. Despite the fact that the entrance is opened, they may still be doing work on it during off hours.
UNCgolf
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It's certainly possible, but it doesn't really make sense that they would go to the trouble of putting those lights up if they were going to be temporary. They'd have been better off just waiting until they had the final product ready.
Clamman73
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One thing that stands out to me now is the lack of “wood texture” to the beams and supports.
JoeCamel
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Not that big of a deal to paint on wood texture
Epcot82Guy
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The same for the colored panels not being framed. It just feels like a giant budget cut that shows.
Literally came on here to say this. At the Poly earlier saw at least three groups asking a CM or themselves what the balloons were for.
castlecake2.0
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Yah I really don’t get what they were going for with these orbs, especially because they don’t match the interior ones at all
castlecake2.0
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Take a moment to tell Disney we notice the cutbacks. If we don’t call them out it won’t get any better.
Take a moment to tell Disney we notice the cutbacks. If we don’t call them out it won’t get any better.
lazyboy97o
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Just getting ahead of the synergy for Up 2: Polynesian Boogaloo.
TrainsOfDisney
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What about that photo says Deluxe Resort???
castlecake2.0
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I get what they were going for, but what happened? Maybe too many Covid related zoom meetings messed it up? That’s what I blame for the incredibles rooms too.
TrainsOfDisney
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“It looked good in the zoom meeting I swear!”
Another side note - has Disney stopped caring about the ceilings? That’s just an exposed metal ceiling. They did the same thing when they rebuilt the roof for the flights of wonder amphitheater. It used to be really nice Asian tapestry / fabric that draped down. Now it’s just bare metal. Of course... let’s look at all the exposed warehouse buildings. :-/
lazyboy97o
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It has nothing to do with remote work. Looking at 3D models and PDFs on a computer screen, which were already the norm, isn’t going to fool someone into thinking that a brown steel beem looks like wood. These types of poor design decisions have been occurring more and more for years.
“It looked good in the zoom meeting I swear!”
Another side note - has Disney stopped caring about the ceilings? That’s just an exposed metal ceiling. They did the same thing when they rebuilt the roof for the flights of wonder amphitheater. It used to be really nice Asian tapestry / fabric that draped down. Now it’s just bare metal. Of course... let’s look at all the exposed warehouse buildings. :-/
Said this upwards somewhere but its like they whatever modicum of design that went into this was only into the exterior and they totally forgot that guests would be driving (and stopping) under it.
Reminds me of the old Streets of America, where you could see all the un-themed metal support structures - but there it was a deliberate design element as you were supposed to be able to see "behind the scenes."
castlecake2.0
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Exactly lol“It looked good in the zoom meeting I swear!”
Another side note - has Disney stopped caring about the ceilings? That’s just an exposed metal ceiling. They did the same thing when they rebuilt the roof for the flights of wonder amphitheater. It used to be really nice Asian tapestry / fabric that draped down. Now it’s just bare metal. Of course... let’s look at all the exposed warehouse buildings. :-/
lazyboy97o
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Ceilings are hard. They’re not sexy but they require a lot of work, especially if you want anything hanging from them. Even in this project where they didn’t bother to coordinate even the basic bare necessities. If you go back and look at the photos of the Wilderness Lodge you’ll notice that there are similar up-turned fire sprinklers, but they are parallel to the wood [pattern] on the ceiling helping them to blend in. Here at the Polynesian the metal roof deck spans in a different direction at the porte-cochère and the monorail station, and in each case the fire sprinklers are a contrasting color running perpendicular to the ribbing of the metal deck making them all the more obvious since they break the larger pattern.“It looked good in the zoom meeting I swear!”
Another side note - has Disney stopped caring about the ceilings? That’s just an exposed metal ceiling. They did the same thing when they rebuilt the roof for the flights of wonder amphitheater. It used to be really nice Asian tapestry / fabric that draped down. Now it’s just bare metal. Of course... let’s look at all the exposed warehouse buildings. :-/