Lee said:
Like MK and Space Mountain? Hmmm? Anything to share there?
I've already shared a little bit about that refurb, but I can't go into much more detail at this time. The timeframe (which is wishful thinking) should let you know it's not going to be as great a change as the DL change though.
WDW1974 said:
You keep using the term 'refurbishment' which I find a bit odd as that's something I'd put on par with Small World or even the recent CBJ closure. This is something that's been presented to me (and others) as much more extensive as that. The whole ride 'experience' will be different ... to me, that makes it more 'extensive' than Space Mountain's cleaning and track work.
It's considered a refurb, just like Space Mountain is considered a refurb, just like Haunted Mansion and PoTC are considered refurbs, etc.
WDW is incredibly stale except for DAK, which unfortunately is suffering greatly in the ops dept. under Val Bunting alleged leadership.
Still the #1 tourist destination in the world. Needing some newness? Sure. Stale? Only if you've been coming since 1974
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... and probably not really even then.
Is this going to cost what a new attraction would? Of course not. But it certainly isn't a simple refurb.
As far as physical refurbishments go, its a breeze. It's getting to the physical part that has been a pain in the derrier.
I am convinced they have no firm plan for their 40th anniversary and beyond because they are so kneejerk fiscally conservative and reactionary.
It's a big company. We don't kneejerk.
The whole point of ONE DISNEY is to supposedly spread out costs by doing things like TSMM in multiple locations. That was the whole reason why Mermaid was brought up for MK (and now DLP).
Which is why a very expensive CGI film is going in multiple parks, and nobody in WDW managment could stop it at this point, even if they wanted to. They might could have said in 2005, "We don't want to proceed with this," but its way too late at this point.
TP2000 said:
Al Lutz has said that Star Tours 2 will involve StormRider in-cabin effects plus a new attraction technology that uses random plot twists and in-cabin animatronics that interact with selected audience members. For me, that puts it way beyond simple rehab and film swap.
I'm inclined to believe Al Lutz and his generally excellent track record, as well as a few very respectable insider sources here that have been a part of this community for years. And the info from those sources all seems to point in the direction that the info Al Lutz presented on Tuesday regarding Star Tours 2 is accurate.
Al got that information from a guy who was posting information on Disney World forums like this one. Don't know where he got his information, but he was right about some stuff and really wrong about other things. He scared the crap out of us with some stuff that made it look like he was leaking information, but then he'd post some nutty stuff about autograph books that made us think he just could guess really well. That's all I'll say. Obviously Al didn't take his salt.
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