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Social distanced Fantasmic coming by February.
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LittleMerman
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Man I really miss the nighttime entertainment at Disney. I totally get it but the parks come alive in a magical way at night.
Crying! LOL! There has to be a way for TDO to get back safely!!!! SWO and UOR figured it out, You would think TDO would be capable!
What is more not fair is SDL is open and HKDL can't enjoy the new Castle and the 15th! Is COVID that different between HKDL and SDL?
TTA94
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It’s gotta be more of a financial thing tbo. I mean there are ways WDW can do fireworks. Limited availability/Reservation type thing, space out the guests, run a shorter show. I highly doubt it would cause a major covid risk, no more than other things such as eating in a restaurant for at least 10 minutes and taking off your mask.
You only have 2 weeks to.wait according to the original poster who is always posting facts and not just throwing anything out there in hopes something is right.
mm52200
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Disney doesn’t generally give a huge heads up to large numbers of cast about this for fear of it leaking, so they generally find out just a little before the public.
Indeed, Disney in general doesn't tell the cast anything about future plans at all, unless it affects their employment or hours.
That's why front line CMs, in general, are a poor source of information about large scale plans. They *seem* like they know stuff because:
1. For their area of work, they are given a heads up for that small slice of Disney workings.
2. They read the blogs and share rumors... but none of that is real inside info from Disney execs given to CMs, which makes a CM's inside info as good as anyone else's who also reads the same blogs.
So, perhaps a crew of CMs were given the job of refurbing Fantasmic! stage and were told to be done by February. This might lead to these CMs working on the refurb to tell outsiders that Fantasmic! is coming back in February. However, execs may have been planning to bring it back in May... or some later time depending on circumstances; they just wanted it ready by February in case the preparations ran long. And so, February comes and goes with no Fantasmic!
It won't be until a bunch of CMs get the call to run ops for Fantasmic! that we'll hear about a better target date. Even more so when rehearsals start.
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You mean to tell me the original poster just made this up, well that's a suprise.
TrainsOfDisney
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Hong Kong and mainland China are two very different places.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Has there been any updates or ramblings on this?
TTA94
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There’s been hints recently of some nighttime entertainment returning this Summer. As long as things do not take a turn in the wrong direction.
What hints?
TTA94
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In the FOTL returning thread
That wasn't a hint. Disney announced it's coming back sometime this Summer.
We really don't know when other entertainment will restart.
gerarar
Premium Member
Considering the enormous cast this show requires, if there’s any plans to bring it back soon, it would for sure be breaking news everywhere. Also we get monthly aerials of the amphitheater and currently the moat is drained and some bleachers are removed.
It takes weeks to rehearse and get ready, so there will be plenty of notices everywhere about its return.
TTA94
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@MansionButler84 mention in that thread there are plans to bring back some nighttime entertainment this summer.
I think it’s reasonable to use the FotLK announcement as sort of ‘setting an expectation’ of how much lead time Disney intends to announce the return of its flagship shows with.
I would be surprised to see any restart of anything significant without at least a four month lead time. Maybe more like 6. It would be very un-like even pre-covid Disney to announce something as big as F! returning with only a few weeks notice to guests.
TTA94
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Honestly IMO when it comes to them announcing the return of nighttime shows, I think that’s going to be a different situation. I can promise you there are way more people out there itching to see Disney firework shows again than FotLK, and Disney is well aware of this. The last thing they are going to want is a mad rush of guests planning on hitting the parks on a certain date and night to see the shows. How they are going to handle it I don’t know. I’m thinking little notice, likely reservation/FP only, possibly resort guests only, special ticketed party night type thing. At least for awhile. The unfortunate part is no matter how they do it, it won’t be easy getting reservations. Really no way around that.