News Round Up 2017

[rteetz]

That was all under Eisner right who wanted all these "signature" architecture styles?

Yep.

 

[ejgonz2]

Not yet.

Any idea when the NBA experience might open?

 

[rteetz]

Any idea when the NBA experience might open?

Not at this time.

 

[skier_pete]

And the avg family's income has not gone up 50%, yet alone 92% in the last 10 years!

Plus the dining plan increase is significantly more IF the loss of tip being excluded is factored in.

The good ole days of dinners being $28.....
THEN lunches went up to $28!
NOW lunches are the same as dinners
--$46,
and breakfast buffets are $35!

The sort of scary thing is when I was looking up stuff I came across Tusker House converting to a buffet in 2007, and it's initial price was $12.99 per person! (No characters I think at that time.) So not all good examples, because that price has gone up about 150 %.

The fact is, Disney raises these prices this fast because people KEEP ON PAYING IT. The day people stop coming is the day they hold the prices steady. (Unlikely to ever lower them.)

 

[FoxC63]

If we could get off the dolphin debate that would be great.

And the dining plan! No offense skier_Pete

 

[crazy4wdw]

That was all under Eisner right who wanted all these "signature" architecture styles?

Yes, correct. Eisner wanted Disney to have a major influence on architecture. Architecture was one of his passions. So he hired Graves for the Swan/Dolphin, Peter Dominick for Wilderness Lodge (went on to design Animal Kingdom Lodge and Sequoia Lodge at Disneyland Paris), and Robert A. M. Stern for the Yacht Club, Beach Club, Boardwalk, and Newport Bay Club at Disneyland Paris. Stern also designed the new animation building in Burbank and the casting building at WDW.

 

[skier_pete]

And the dining plan! No offense skier_Pete

I keep trying to stop...but they PULL me back in!!!

 

[rteetz]

Yes, correct. Eisner wanted Disney to have a major influence on architecture. Architecture was one of his passions. So her hired Graves for the Swan/Dolphin, Peter Dominick for Wilderness Lodge (went on to design Animal Kingdom Lodge and Sequoia Lodge at Disneyland Paris), and Robert A. M. Stern for the Yacht Club, Beach Club, Boardwalk, and Newport Bay Club at Disneyland Paris. Stern also designed the new animation building in Burbank and the casting building at WDW.

Stern even designed one of Eisners personal houses.

 

[rteetz]

News

According to a WDWMagic poster backstage areas in France at Epcot have been cleared out and electrical/gas line markers are on the ground...

 

[JJZMgailey]

News

Shoulder Banshees Have Flown Back Into The Rookery at Windtraders

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories...e-flown-back-into-the-rookery-at-windtraders/

 

[George4]

Changed? I haven't heard anything. It didn't seem different when I was there in January and I saw it twice during that trip.

There was an incident a few weeks back with a tumble monkey. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

We saw it years ago (before Pandora was started), and there was a whole section of tumbler monkeys using trampolines that was amazing, and that part is gone. Takes some of the fun for kids out of the show. Make that almost all of the fun, now it is just mildly entertaining at best for them.

 

[danikoski]

We saw it years ago (before Pandora was started), and there was a whole section of tumbler monkeys using trampolines that was amazing, and that part is gone. Takes some of the fun for kids out of the show. Make that almost all of the fun, now it is just mildly entertaining at best for them.

Tumbler monkeys were there in February. They did bouncing on trampolines, bars, and trapeze type acrobatics. It was pretty much the same show I saw in 2013 and 2015.

 

[PolyRob]

Tumbler monkeys were there in February. They did bouncing on trampolines, bars, and trapeze type acrobatics. It was pretty much the same show I saw in 2013 and 2015.

Saw the show in March and it was the same as 2016. 4 Monkeys.

 

[jknezek]

We saw it in Dec and as far as I know, it was the same show I saw and loved in 2008. I don't think it changed. I think you just got unlucky and not enough monkeys were available to do the show.

 

[ckelly14]

However, a DDP increase only means that the OOP prices increase in order to give the DDP a better "value" and that's a lose/lose for all.

 

[FoxC63]

News

Shoulder Banshees Have Flown Back Into The Rookery at Windtraders

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories...e-flown-back-into-the-rookery-at-windtraders/

Wow that's great news! I'm sure the shelving system looked sad without them perched on top!

 

[FoxC63]

News

According to a WDWMagic poster backstage areas in France at Epcot have been cleared out and electrical/gas line markers are on the ground...

Do you think they might close down France at all?

 

[Delano Fiedler]

News

According to a WDWMagic poster backstage areas in France at Epcot have been cleared out and electrical/gas line markers are on the ground...

Probably for the ratatouille attraction I guess

 

[rteetz]

Do you think they might close down France at all?

No any construction will happen backstage for the most part.

 

[rteetz]

Probably for the ratatouille attraction I guess

Yep!