WDWYankee15
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I don't doubt you at all, but I can't find it on their site. Do you have the link to where it reports this?
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Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Opening Sooner than we think?
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Weather_Lady
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I agree! "Mostly finished and attractive" is better "show" than "mostly finished and LOOKATTHESEHIDEOUSWALLS"!!!
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Yeah, it is those IFs. Remember Test Track. 1.0 and 2.0
DisneyConstruction23
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Luckily I was not working for this company back when TT was built so IDK if we had any deal on that ride....I know we did not have any though on the recent changes. (also got to say a 3-1 like per post is not a bad little ratio lol)
Any chance you can fill us in on the rumored problems with the swinging ride vehicles as they come into the load area?
PrincessNelly_NJ
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It was actually in a reply to a comment in which someone asked when it would be open, I believe the exact phrasing was "Predicting soft openings on or about Feb 18th" but I can't seem to find it in my browser history. Ill post the link as soon as I can find it.
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DisneyConstruction23
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No unfortunately I cannot....I do know of these slightly but due to our contractual status I am unable to really release much about this project. I apologize for not being helpful but I have put out a little info on other threads that I would not call ground breaking but regardless is something that not everyone knows. Again Sorry for having to remain silent, but Disney is one of our larger contractors so we would not want to bite the hand that feeds us and risk any future work.
djkidkaz
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I've stated it before but I will again, I wouldn't expect a soft open until sometime in March. Cast members have until Sunday February 16th to apply to work the mine train. Which means they will have two weeks worth of schedules to work at their current location before they could be transferred and then they still have to be trained. Putting the timeframe for soft opens around early March.
tahqa
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I dunno. I've had one friend tell me it was gone and another tell me it wasn't.
I probably won't be there to check it out for myself until this weekend.
Now stop that this instance. You are only allowed to be overly optimistic or overly pessimistic. There is no "sensible" option.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
TT 2.0 ran so far behind schedule. Without notice the time frame kept getting pushed farther off, originally it should have re-opened in September 0f 2012, it did not. The M & G in NFL was months off too, that puppy kept having it's dates pushed off also. It was to open in early 2013 and instead pretty late in 2013.
TT 1.0 missed its target opening date by a couple years. Ouch.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
OK, now that is what my DS said to me. Ya hear it a second time and that rings truer.
I thought TT 1.0 was 11 months late, not years.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
According to this site it was supposed to open in May of 1997, but didn't have it's official grand opening until March 1999.
http://www.intercot.com/edc/Motion/index.html
The same article has it opening in mid December of 98. The "Grand Opening" was in May of 99, but the attraction had been running for 5 months by that time. It is still longer than the 11 months I thought, but shorter than 2 years.
JEANYLASER
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awesome! I can't wait to ride this one on September 2014! This will be awesome Ride!
DManRightHere
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TT 2.0? We rode it in May 2013 no problem. Broke down less than test track 1.0. Still late opening though.
Here's hoping, Jeany.
Lucky you - you will probably get to ride it before me. Instead of going to WDW this fall, I am determined to visit DLR for the first time this year.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I don't think that is correct. Target date was May 1997, it had an incredibly short soft opening on December 19, 1998 and there were all sorts of rumors of what happened during that short time frame. It never grand opened in 1998 after that short soft and instead, the attraction officially opened on March 17, 1999.
I remember it well because I was there in the Fall of 1997, 1998. I finally was able to ride it Millennium Eve night at Epcot.
That is how history kind of get mangled. Some say the TT 2.0 soft opened before it's target date. Well it had so many target dates that the last one finally stuck. It missed its first one of September and another one after that. The fan community tends to sugar coat things on fan sights and then people believe what they read as if it is gospel.