News Round Up 2020

[CastAStone]

Wow - that is amazing. 1065 pages of documents!

Love how the two-person rooms are called "Pods".

3/4s is a geology report and a traffic impact report. The only thing I learned after about page 60 is that this project was code named Project Pascal internally

 

[CastAStone]

Yeah I was looking for the Grand Villa layout and to see what else I could find in the document.

Gotcha. Yeah, I had to download the document, and even then it was exceptionally fussy.

 

[CastAStone]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/work...at-disney-world-first-look-at-exterior-paint/

 

[Vern60]

https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/work...at-disney-world-first-look-at-exterior-paint/

I'm a little surprised by this, though I suppose they could be just finishing the shell to protect from weather.
I would think of all the projects that could be cut, this one would be high on the list if for no other reason than I'd think the clientele would be quite limited.

 

[rteetz]

did anyone see that trump and barr are going after disneys assets for working with the chinese communist party at shanghai disney

Posted an article from Bloomberg yesterday on it. Sort of hard to discuss without getting political which is against the rules here.

 

[Edward90]

sorry wasnt trying to be political was just surprised is all

 

[SaintsManiac]

sorry wasnt trying to be political was just surprised is all

Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[Gusey]

Just saw the latest episode of One Day at Disney, on Disney+, and it has a behind the scenes look of the new Ratatouille attraction coming to EPCOT

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284157176764825600

 

[TheMaxRebo]

The new Skyliner Dooney and Bourke bags are pretty cute

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284240734397194240

 

[BaymaxFan78]

Trying to stay as non-political as possible, I think if something does go down between China and the USA, it could be damaging for the Chinese Disney parks. If Disney were forced to cut ties with them, what would happen to those parks? Would they just lose the Disney IP?

 

[rteetz]

Trying to stay as non-political as possible, I think if something does go down between China and the USA, it could be damaging for the Chinese Disney parks. If Disney were forced to cut ties with them, what would happen to those parks? Would they just lose the Disney IP?

I think they would attempt for an OLC/Tokyo type deal first. It’s hard though because then the government has more say in what happens to the parks.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284157176764825600

I liked Guano Joe. This must be my time to point out things in Disney parks that I enjoyed and apparently no one else did.

 

[rteetz]

I liked Guano Joe. This must be my time to point out things in Disney parks that I enjoyed and apparently no one else did.

Right but they got rid of him in the last version too.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

The new Skyliner Dooney and Bourke bags are pretty cute

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284240734397194240

And coincidentally my wife's 45th birthday is next month and now I know what I am getting her

 

[Spaceguy55]

The trees are back in the France pavilion....

 

[only hope]

I'm a little surprised by this, though I suppose they could be just finishing the shell to protect from weather.
I would think of all the projects that could be cut, this one would be high on the list if for no other reason than I'd think the clientele would be quite limited.

I dunno. Most people who could easily afford that before covid probably still can now. People for whom it is huge splurge- that number has likely decreased

https://twitter.com/x/status/1284157176764825600

I liked Guano Joe. This must be my time to point out things in Disney parks that I enjoyed and apparently no one else did.

Guana Joe was the star of the show!! I love him! I saw it once when the main Joe had a day off and the alternate was not nearly as good. I recorded it the last time I saw it but something was wrong with the camera and it didn’t turn out. I spoke to the actor afterwards and thanked him. He was very sad to be leaving and hoped my video turned out. They should just admit failure with the Up version and bring him back at this point, if he’s available and willing.

 

[rteetz]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2020/07/peop...ntime-one-week-after-magic-kingdom-reopening/

 

[wareagle57]

Has anyone seen if they are handing out AP magnets at Epcot and which magnet it is? I was really hoping for the Orange bird and I’m not holding my breath that that’s the one we’ll get in the mail.

 

[rteetz]

Has anyone seen if they are handing out AP magnets at Epcot and which magnet it is? I was really hoping for the Orange bird and I’m not holding my breath that that’s the one we’ll get in the mail.

I have not seen them handing out any magnets.