News Round Up 2018

[SaharanTea]

did anyone even ask for this change? so stupid!

Likely they are closing the last bits of a controversial loophole that some guests were abusing. It was a big stink on Disboards, what, last spring?

 

[rteetz]

did anyone even ask for this change? so stupid!

No but I think if its not a mistake that Disney is looking to limit loopholes.

 

[MissGina5]

Likely they are closing the last bits of a controversial loophole that some guests were abusing. It was a big stink on Disboards, what, last spring?

I remember but like.... it wasn't a big enough issue and now creates a big inconvinience for most guests

 

[Roxyfire]

Likely they are closing the last bits of a controversial loophole that some guests were abusing. It was a big stink on Disboards, what, last spring?

Obligatory "This is why we can't have nice things"

 

[samsteele]

News

Sweet Spells closes this month

https://www.wdwmagic.com/shopping/s...dios-permanently-closing-later-this-month.htm

Any word where they will sell the famous carrot cake cookie? Possibly the Trolly/Starbucks? But don't know if park Starbucks even sell WDW unique snacks. Understand that HS is wracked with change & renos right now but for goodness sake.

 

[rteetz]

Any word where they will sell the famous carrot cake cookie? Possibly the Trolly/Starbucks? But don't know if park Starbucks even sell WDW unique snacks. Understand that HS is wracked with change & renos right now but for goodness sake.

Not sure about that.

 

[SaharanTea]

I remember but like.... it wasn't a big enough issue and now creates a big inconvinience for most guests

Judging by the response by some on the board, it was a pretty big deal!

Of course, that's a relatively small subset of typically knowledgeable Disney goers. So who knows?

Disney apparently took note.

 

[SaharanTea]

Any word where they will sell the famous carrot cake cookie? Possibly the Trolly/Starbucks? But don't know if park Starbucks even sell WDW unique snacks. Understand that HS is wracked with change & renos right now but for goodness sake.

Obviously, that cookie is cursed.

 

[samsteele]

Obviously, that cookie is cursed.

After Writer's Stop was gutted for the bar, it's like the carrot cake cookie will never find it's forever home. And it is one great cookie. Deserves better.

 

[rteetz]

Photo Update

Caravan Theater update

http://blogmickey.com/2018/04/photos-caravan-theater-refurbishment-for-up-a-great-bird-adventure/

 

[rteetz]

News

Little Green Alien Refillable Popcorn Bucket Coming for Disneyland Passholders

 

[a4matte]

News

Little Green Alien Refillable Popcorn Bucket Coming for Disneyland Passholders

They had these at Tokyo Disneyland at one point. It looks like the same bucket but with a different ribbon.
It's nice to see they're bringing them state side. The Tokyo popcorn buckets tend to be pretty cool.

 

[a4matte]

I agree. I don’t even really have an affinity to sweet spells but it doesn’t make sense to remove it when you could geographically put the store in a better place. Makes me think sweet spells wasn’t very profitable.

Speaking of the land and merchandise is there going to be stores in the new toy story land? I haven’t heard anything notable advertised

I don't feel like Sweet Spells has really made sense since they killed off Villains En Vogue. It kinda killed the theme (not to mention Villains En Vogue was like 90% Nightmare Before Christmas for a while and very little actual villains).

On a side note - I'm surprised Disney hasn't made more of a push for unique healthy snacks, not just carrot sticks and bananas. You can make brownies out of spinach and stuff and there are tons of other "secretly healthy" snacks they could make. They're not as healthy as straight up carrots and stuff, but I could see parents buying those types of things up to trick their kids into eating something that has some good-for-you stuff in it while they think it's just a straight up brownie or something.

 

[awilliams4]

Likely they are closing the last bits of a controversial loophole that some guests were abusing. It was a big stink on Disboards, what, last spring?

During that stink, several INSISTED that using the CPFP+ loop hole would also get you locked out of your MDE. 'Others' said it wouldn't....I suspect the 'others' were correct then.

 

[rteetz]

During that stink, several INSISTED that using the CPFP+ loop hole would also get you locked out of your MDE. 'Others' said it wouldn't....I suspect the 'others' were correct then.

The others were very much correct.

 

[keishashadow]

Nothing really changes much except for when you have a FP and you want to change the individuals who have it. So say my mom and I have Soarin FPs but then my mom doesn't want to ride anymore. You could move that FP to someone else in your party. Now you can't do that you can only try to add another person if their is availability.

I may be missing something here but..

Easy enough to hand mom’s MB or ticket to ‘someone else in your party’ to utilize the existing FP. I’ve done it several times, last in February, when my aching back just wasn’t up to riding Space Mt.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I may be missing something here but..

Easy enough to hand mom’s MB or ticket to ‘someone else in your party’ to utilize the existing FP. I’ve done it several times, last in February, when my aching back just wasn’t up to riding Space Mt.

That's not a problem. You were in the park, having used your fingerscan to do so. Disney doesn't have a problem with giving your MB to someone else in your traveling party..provided you are in the park.

 

[keishashadow]

That's not a problem. You were in the park, having used your fingerscan to do so. Disney doesn't have a problem with giving your MB to someone else in your traveling party..provided you are in the park.

Exactly, that’s why i was puzzled re the poster’s statement which sounded like her mom just tuckered out in the park & they were unable to utilize her existing FP as booked.

Btw, i am well aware of the loophole being closed.

 

[dina444444]

I may be missing something here but..

Easy enough to hand mom’s MB or ticket to ‘someone else in your party’ to utilize the existing FP. I’ve done it several times, last in February, when my aching back just wasn’t up to riding Space Mt.

This was more for someone using someone's ticket that wasn't in the park that day. You could book Fps with that ticket/AP and then transfer them to someone that was in the parks.

 

[keishashadow]

This was more for someone using someone's ticket that wasn't in the park that day. You could book Fps with that ticket/AP and then transfer them to someone that was in the parks.

Yes, but that is long-closed as I understand it