danlb_2000
Premium Member
I doubt it's about safety anymore, now it's about the cost of removing them. There are cases where they are screwed into things that will now need to be patched and repainted when they remove them.
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I doubt it's about safety anymore, now it's about the cost of removing them. There are cases where they are screwed into things that will now need to be patched and repainted when they remove them.
Royal Purple Pigment
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There are a few random cast members on Main Street who will pin trade right now, mainly just a few people at Casey's. It will be really nice to see it make a real comeback.
Last Saturday at the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor there was a bib with pins for trading that I saw staff leaving shift hand over to an incoming staff. I was waiting for my ADR at The Plaza. They were trading with folks.
Royal Purple Pigment
Well-Known Member
We only started pin trading in the last 6 months. Before, it was cast members all over the place right? Now there are a few people starting to trade on Main Street (which is great!) but I haven't seen any other cast members in Magic Kingdom or any other parks yet.
It seems like it’s starting to pick back up. There are pinboards up around the parks. Pete’s Silly Sideshow, Memento Mori, Plaza del Sol Caribe Bazaar, Sid Cahengua’s, etc. Ask a staff and they can usually circle them on your Times Guide
Royal Purple Pigment
Well-Known Member
I definitely know where ALL the boards are.
I am just really looking forward to trading with more cast members.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I was in the parks last week and took a look at the remaining plexi-glass. I didn't ride every ride, but to the list above I can add Smugglers Run, Rise of the Resistance and Navi River Journey. As to what it will take to remove them there are a couple variations of how they were attached.
Navi River Journey is a good example of what is probably the worst case, look like they mounted some of the sections right into the concrete. I believe the remaining walls in Small World are also bolted into the floor.
As I mentioned above, Grand Fiesta Tour is mainly strapped to the railings, but they also bolted it into a couple of the columns this will also require a repair to remove them properly. The other interesting thing I noticed that that and some others queues is that they put some sort of caulking between the railing and the panel. I doubt this was structural so maybe it was just to prevent people from sticking things in between. This may also make removal harder.
Here is a pictures of Living with the Land with the U bolts holding the panels to the railings. In this case the U bolts where just pieces of all-thread bent to shape. This is not ideal since the exposed thread could damage the wood railings. This is the only place I saw this, the other queues had proper U bolts that had only enough thread to bolt it on. Might be because these were square railings where most are round. Most of the queues use some variation of this technique.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
As I have mentioned before, I assume it's because they just don't want to take on the cost of removal at this point.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
That queue is SO claustrophobia-triggering!
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Not sure if this is a victim on the pandemic or not, but one thing I noticed closed last week was the news stand at the front of Magic Kingdom.
castlecake2.0
Well-Known Member
There’s still a ton of retail locations closed, this one in particular is bad bad you’re not even into the park yet and are greeted with a closed store.
MK
Merchant Of Venus
Newsstand
TTC Cart
Westward Ho
Briar Patch
EPCOT
The Land
Toy Soldier
Half of Morocco
Half of Germany
Mexico outdoor market
Studios
Villains in Vogue whatever it’s called now
Everything in Animation Courtyard
Everything in Grand Avenue
Indiana Jones store
DAK
Unsure, don’t spend much time there
Maybe with CRPs returning to Epcot that will free up some cast to open more locations?
DisneyDreamer08
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Has anyone heard anything about Restaurant Marrakesh and/or Akershus?
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I really miss the shops in Morocco.
castlecake2.0
Well-Known Member
Be sure to tell Guest Relations on your way out, so many things shuttered in World Showcase replaced by stupid tents or nothing at all.
mattpeto
Well-Known Member
No, but I really thought Akershus would be online by now. I still think it's next with 1900.
Hopefully Cultural Representation will kick these into gear before the end of the year.
Gran Fiesta
Well-Known Member
Geez, I had no idea there were this many closed still. I swear every time we get closer to being back to normal, I get reminded still how far away we actually are from being back.
castlecake2.0
Well-Known Member
I think the biggest culprit other than closed retail is the number of restaurants at resorts that still aren’t open 7 days a week
mikejs78
Well-Known Member
Which ones aren't open 7 days a week? Also - slightly off topic, but is the Boardwalk Pizza window open?
It has been.