SSG
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Sure, but I'm talking the post-Walt reality. I really can't recall a major project moving this fast.
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News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions
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HauntedMansionFLA
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TP2000
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I know. I was kidding. Different time without permits. They have to get ROA and the railroad up and running ASAP. I'm enjoying the pace of the projects. Unlike DHS
What is the current status of construction at DHS? The threads over in the DHS forum just seem to be all talk and no photos. Are they doing anything yet at DHS?
Yup . . . Talking and not taking photo's
Phroobar
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Looks like DHS cleared out some areas and now will leave it that way for a year or two to save on labor. Then quickly slap something together to say they have SWL too. I still think it will be the inferior version. If you include the changes to the train, Fantasmic and the island into project cost in order to blend it in, DHS is getting short changed. From the DHS concept art, it looks like it will be an abrupt change in pure cheap studios style while DL's will be an actual real place.
Mike S
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Thi was drawn by @marni1971. There will be transitions.
Sorry DHS didn't have to cut into a great area of a park to get SWL shoved in.
Phroobar
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So at the end of a street you will see a rock arch? How does that blend in? I'm thinking the outside walls will be unthemed to look like the back of a set. At least at Disneyland your out in the forest or desert areas already and come across this stuff. It looks like here is Star Tours. Now your on a city street. Now your back in Star Wars? Lame. However, the Toy Story stuff will have some reason to exist since you enter Pixar studios to get into TSM.
Phroobar
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Fixed that for you.
Rich T
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Of course... it wasn't exactly anywhere near ready...
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Mike S
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There's rumors for both coasts that Star Tours will leave once the land opens. A cave like entrance could easily work from the Toy Story side. If Disney wanted to get really interesting with it we could enter SWL from TSL through a box of some kind of Star Wars play set (not gonna happen). The street side is simple: rocks on the SWL side, street tunnel on the city side. Pixar Studios will be converted to backstage and no longer exist.
I was talking about the shortening of the RoA.
Phroobar
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That's it! A Fraggle Rock dark ride is just what the Muppet area at DHS needs!
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13%. If we are being entirely honest, SWL didn't really cut into the ROA at all! It is actually the fault of Fantasmic storage, which is entirely hogging up that added acreage. It did significantly re-route the train though, that's true.
Don't fall for the propaganda!
No goat spies were harmed to bring you these plans: (Walt hated left turns and loved BBQs, he is angry).
Phroobar
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I'm sure Fantasmic will be wonderful and improved when it returns. The SWL haters will continue to blame SW for river changes it had nothing to do with.
RMichael21
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While it isn't on the RoA land, let's be honest, would they really have gone out of their way to add Fantastic storage, a re-imagined Fantasmic, reroute the train AND expensive rock work along the bank (after a 18 month closure of five attractions, by the way) if SWL wasn't going forward?
Just to be clear, I'm all for all of this, I'm not SWL hater.
I agree, ROA/Fantasmic was super low on the totem pole for getting upgrades. Especially on top of the 60th - it may have been an eventual project for the 65th perhaps. The upgrades are a super nice bonus to the whole shenanigans, in my opinion.
Ok - before I run this thread off the rails, here is a semi-new video - which I haven't yet watched and can't vouch for. It is from Saturday though and Mint Crocodile's photos were from Friday, so it's ever so slightly 'newer'.
Ok - before I run this thread off the rails, here is a semi-new video - which I haven't yet watched and can't vouch for. It is from Saturday though and Mint Crocodile's photos were from Friday, so it's ever so slightly 'newer'.
Disney Analyst
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I was watching the video but dang these people are silly. They think they are building a new Fantasmic stage... are these people for real?? They are also saying the fort is gone, isn't the fort further up the island and not demolished?
TP2000
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While I appreciate being able to watch a video of active construction on a huge new Disneyland expansion.... these people who created this video are idiots.
There's just so much wrong with this. The constant banter of nonsense. The narcissistic foundation of making videos like this every week. The extreme lack of self-awareness coupled with very bad directional instincts that lead to them thinking the new northern end of the Island is some sort of "overlook" made for them and that it's connected to Fort Wilderness somehow. The idea that parrots that escaped from Busch Gardens in Van Nuys in the 1960's migrated to Anaheim, when the parrots in the video are related to the flock of parrots based in Orange that escaped from a circus in the 1980's. Etc., etc., etc.
The pictures in this video make me excited to be a Disneyland fan in the 2010's. But the dialogue in this video makes me want to cut up my AP, cleanse my mind and soul of Disney freaks, and focus on planning an ancestry-research trip to Sweden instead.
rle4lunch
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I'd really like to know what these people do for a living. Surely they're not living off of their website 'click hits'???