The Spirited 11th Hour ...

[rael ramone]

I have heard this as well Black Hawlk Down set in the Star Wars Universe. Think Saving Private Ryan but with Rebels vs Empire. Very gritty and dark an actual war movie set in star wars. Probably not as graphic per say but dark. Aprently they are doing this with most of the Anthology Series. Taking cues from other genres and smashing them together with the Star Wars Universe. So this one is part SW part war flic, the next one will be part star wars part something else kind of very them to tell the story and not the same formula of galaxic soap opera. Not that I think the film's are doing bad as they are but it might be regressing to see a slightly different spin on them. As long as they stay according to canon and are solid films.

Variety is the spice of life. Jiko is one of my favorite restaurants on the planet. Doesn't mean I want to spend every night of a trip eating there.

While I'm disappointed in TFA (haven't picked it up, and I don't believe I will at this point), Rogue One I think will be better, even if the box office doesn't show it...

 

[Mike S]

2 Billion. I don't think it will match TFA #'s. Doesn't mean it won't be a better film and better overall for the long term health of the franchise. People who like their PG-13's a bit milder may not enjoy it...

I feel so stupid now, of course. Lol.

 

[asianway]

Star Tours was never Canon.

Im pretty sure it was back in the Lucas "Lawless Society" days. Of course, now? Who knows. ST2 has no sense of continuity at all.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Yeah. It's very castle heavy...and unfortunately I'm not a fan of it.

I'm trying to spot their version of Main Street but I am struggling...have you noticed it in the video?

I thought there was no Main Street. Or it was outside the gate or something. Or I'm just completely wrong.

Mickey Avenue is relatively short and hard to spot on the video, as it kind of butts up against DisneyTown outside the park gates.

 

[BrianLo]

Yeah. It's very castle heavy...and unfortunately I'm not a fan of it.

I'm trying to spot their version of Main Street but I am struggling...have you noticed it in the video?

Here's a good semi-recent photo for you. That's part of it in the bottom right panel. It's fairly narrow but then the entire South lower ring of the hub is basically Main street splayed out in either direction.

It's all done for very smart operational reasons, running a parade down your major bottleneck has been causing Disney parks headaches for years.

 

[BrianLo]

A few more for @Soarin' Over Pgh. I wouldn't really say Shanghai Disneyland completely got rid of Main street. It's actually about the same number of buildings as a typical Main street, but they splayed it into a Y shape and obviously strayed away from the Americana.

 

[brb1006]

Surprisingly... it's no longer looking like a complete and utter disaster. Somebody has been majorly cracking the whip as we've seen more progress in a couple months than we saw in the preceding 6-9.

Roarin' Rapids, Voyage of the Crystal Grotto, SDMT, Dumbo, Jetpacks, the Carousel, Winnie the Pooh, Hunny Pots and Buzz are all cycling (and some have been for quite a while).

TRON actually has people riding that we have photographic proof of.

The night spectacular (fireworks) is having nightly testing.

Not sure on the cycling status of Pirates, Soarin' or Pan.

I'm still curious to see any concept art for the daytime parade.

 

[brb1006]

Is that last shot... the last second at the very end... a shot of Dismaland?

Yep

 

[brb1006]

Here's a good semi-recent photo for you. That's part of it in the bottom right panel. It's fairly narrow but then the entire South lower ring of the hub is basically Main street splayed out in either direction.

It's all done for very smart operational reasons, running a parade down your major bottleneck has been causing Disney parks headaches for years.

The park is actually starting to look more alive then we seen in previous screenshots.

 

[brb1006]

A few more for @Soarin' Over Pgh. I wouldn't really say Shanghai Disneyland completely got rid of Main street. It's actually about the same number of buildings as a typical Main street, but they splayed it into a Y shape and obviously strayed away from the Americana.

Can you make a line showing where the park's parade route will be?

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

Here's a good semi-recent photo for you. That's part of it in the bottom right panel. It's fairly narrow but then the entire South lower ring of the hub is basically Main street splayed out in either direction.

It's all done for very smart operational reasons, running a parade down your major bottleneck has been causing Disney parks headaches for years.

Mickey Avenue seems to share a lot with Buena Vista Street (including no parade route), no doubt due to Weis' involvement. It looks like an interesting mashup of Main Street and Toontown, with Carthay Circle thrown in for good measure. Very interested to check it out in person.

 

[BrianLo]

Can you make a line showing where the park's parade route will be?

 

[ford91exploder]

Not really related to the parks, but kind of.


Vancouver, BC Canada has an annual fireworks festival every summer, which has 3 countries competing with each other for best show. The shows are choreographed to music, about 25 minutes, and blasted from two barges on the ocean of our beautiful coastal city. It is called "The Celebration of Light"

Anyway the point is, this year the United States is one of the competitors, and the Walt Disney Company is producing the show! This is very exciting! The damn royals of creating fireworks are coming to Canada and I couldn't be more excited.

Have they ever produced a fireworks show for something outside of their Parks of Cruise Ships?!

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/04/07/celebration-of-light-2016-disney_n_9636692.html

Don't think I'd call Disney the royalty of US fireworks perhaps the WalMart of Fireworks yes, Fireworks by Grucci truly ARE the royalty of US fireworks as the Grucci's have been doing it since 1850 and they did the show for the Beijing Olympics which is great praise from the Chinese who INVENTED fireworks.

Since Disney is representing the US prepare for the US to come in dead last in the competition.

 

[pwnbeaver]

Rogue One.

Word is that this is an 'adult' Star Wars film.

Does anyone actually believe this? The commercial looks like the same type of content we get in any of the other Star Wars movies just without the main cast. You can talk all you want about making the "Saving Private Ryan" of Star Wars but when the whole hook of your announcement trailer is a heist starring a loose cannon cop who can't play by the rules it seems like we're going to get the Marvel formula of marginally different movies with the same tone and style.

That isn't bad because a Star Wars movie should feel like Star Wars but I have a very hard time believing Disney sent a script out to film for their billion dollar franchise that would require cuts to make it rated under an R or that kids couldn't go see. This is going to be maybe a tiny bit darker than the other Disney SW movies but I'd be surprised if it's even dark on a level of Empire Strikes Back. I'm expecting at most something on Winter Soldier's level of dark and mature, that is, enough to be noticeable but not much.

 

[brb1006]

And I thought Tokyo's parade route was huge!

 

[Cesar R M]

Mickey Avenue is relatively short and hard to spot on the video, as it kind of butts up against DisneyTown outside the park gates.

I still wonder how long until Mickey Avenue becomes "Mao's Avenue of Happy Genocide".

 

[Cesar R M]

Those green stripes in the road.. are they grass? or just paint?
Also, the green brown thing in the middle with2 circular pools and one D pool.. what its going to be there?

 

[Disney Analyst]

Don't think I'd call Disney the royalty of US fireworks perhaps the WalMart of Fireworks yes, Fireworks by Grucci truly ARE the royalty of US fireworks as the Grucci's have been doing it since 1850 and they did the show for the Beijing Olympics which is great praise from the Chinese who INVENTED fireworks.

Since Disney is representing the US prepare for the US to come in dead last in the competition.

Well... as someone who has watched this competition many years in a row... Disney fireworks have always been better.... I think this is a great win-win for everyone.

 

[Nmoody1]

I'm still curious to see any concept art for the daytime parade.

 

[Nmoody1]

I'm still curious to see any concept art for the daytime parade.