Little hiccup. The entire college program and international program have been sent home and summer and fall programs cancelled. It would look odd if USA cast members work the China, Morocco, Norway, Japan, Italy pavillions as examples. The theming may be slightly off. My take is Epcot will not open right away.
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What's Still On and What's Now Off
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danlb_2000
Premium Member
So yet again “someone” just got caught up on the forums here, and then publishes it as their find. Same old story.
They are public records, it really doesn't bother me. At least he took his own screen shots of the documents unlike some sites that I cannot mention.
Ravenclaw78
Well-Known Member
Alright, that's fair. I am at work and can't take the time right now to search for your prior comments, but I'll do so this afternoon. I'll either post quotes if I find them or an apology if I'm misremembering and the quotes aren't there.
Haymarket2008
Well-Known Member
Dreamfinder, huh?? Love the sound of that.
(Thank you for all the info you’re providing)
The Grand Inquisitor
Well-Known Member
Thyanks for the info
. What about dreamfinder? Where there plans for the character?
The_Jobu
Well-Known Member
Do you know why Brazil didn't work out?
If this blows over, and sanity returns, Disney and Universal will be racing to open first. Every park. They will hire anyone that breathes, and doesn’t cough.
That's good optimism but not reality.
peter11435
Well-Known Member
It’s really too early to tell what happens when things start to reopen. Nobody really know what the new reality will be. There is evidence to support both extremes.
Linked on the Drudge this morning...
Disney might check visitors' temperatures when theme parks reopen, chairman says
Walt Disney Co <DIS.N> might require theme park visitors to have their temperatures checked when they reopen after coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings are lifted, Executive Chairman Bob Iger said in an interview published on Tuesday.www.reuters.com
Here's the original interview...
Temperature Checks At Disney World? Bob Iger on Parks, Movies and Streaming After Coronavirus
The executive chairman doesn’t see a return to business as usual—and that may be good. “Disney will take this opportunity to look for ways to run our businesses more efficiently when we come back, he tells Barron’s.
Not having the 'right' international personnel in a national pavilion is going to be one of the least odd things of getting things back up and running and highly unlikely to be the reason Epcot doesn't open.
"Can we open now?"
"No still need two more Germans!"
They got it from the shopDisney website for the limited edition attraction poster, which is a reliable source. Things change all the time but shopDisney is an official website, Inside the Magic was just reporting the information.
“Celebrate the new aquatic adventure at the reimagined Epcot with this limited edition print promoting the forthcoming Moana-inspired Journey of Water walkthrough maze. Featuring the goddess Te Fiti from the 2016 movie, the poster is printed on archival paper and will whet your appetite for the attraction’s 2021 opening at Walt Disney World.”
“Journey of Water inspired by Moana is scheduled to open at Epcot in 2021.”
After the poster sold out, shopDisney edited the copy to say "forthcoming...walkthrough maze."
Things change all the time but Disney seems confident in moving forward with it based on the original description and selling the poster in the first place. Plus, it was never a huge budget "attraction" to begin with. Like someone else said, it's basically a waterfall and some jumping fountains.
No... this is what happened. It's in the thread you're posting to....
Just so you know: Marketing is not a reliable source. They get things wrong all the time. They are out of the loop.
LSLS
Well-Known Member
Martin has vouched for him multiple times (look no further than this thread). I have had disagreements with WDW Pro (especially on Corona), but he has become a pretty solid insider for this site.
This. Though in fairness, some pavilions like Italy are entirely third party.
Any substitute trained to wear the skimpy outfit and bellydance at Epcot/Morocco?
It turned out to be routine costume maintenance, but happened at a time that had me looking into a Journey announcement. Martin was able to get info on the "friend" of Dreamfinder, which allowed me to know there would be no public performance.
The_Jobu
Well-Known Member
Hey, I'm Canadian, Italian and a little English. Put me where I'm most needed Disney.
As this is emergency employment, my expected salary will be commensurate to the park's General Manager.
And bus drivers can tell you that the monorail was going to go through the black box of the Dolphin Resort. (It never was, it's too narrow for a station.)
Would you believe that because the bus driver was an *official* employee of WDW?
How about how often the calendar of events are just plain wrong? That's an official site. When they don't list the MK parade or fireworks in the following month, does that mean that the MK actually canceled the parade and fireworks?
The Disney Parks Blog has gotten things wrong in the past, too.
I've emailed Disney several times to fix wrong information in the WDE. They had the Frozen lighting of the castle listed as Cinderella's godmother's lighting of the castle two years in a row until I corrected them.
But that's an official site!!
Official sites are always to be taken with suspicion. Same for info from front line CMs. Same for customer reps on the phone when you ask about what's happening at the parks... you'll get different answers depending who you speak to.
Any substitute trained to wear the skimpy outfit and bellydance at Epcot/Morocco?
Get one of the Tarzans to do it!
Please take the SW debate elsewhere, like to a SW thread.