News Round Up 2020

[BorderTenny]

Agree. They probably think calling it "The Swan Reserve" will allow them to charge more.

If attracting big spenders was the primary motive for the name change, they should have just called it The Whale.

 

[rteetz]

If anyone is in the Chicago area the Disney outlet at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago has the Disney masks in all sizes for $6 like the parks.

 

[Brianstl]

Just call it the mermaid and put a massive Daryl Hannah sculpture on top of it. That way you get a Disney/Touchstone IP into the project

 

[Tom_E_D]

Just call it the mermaid and put a massive Daryl Hannah sculpture on top of it. That way you get a Disney/Touchstone IP into the project

I'd bet Disney would require them to pay a royalty to do that. That's one way to make your landlord happy.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney+ Adds Episode Tracking Feature to Streaming App

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney Wins Bidding War for Untitled Adventure Film Set in a World of Movies

 

[tlmadden73]

News

Disney+ Adds Episode Tracking Feature to Streaming App

Wow .. finally. So surprised it never came with this (and it took this long)

 

[TheMaxRebo]

ABC to present a special evening honoring Chadwick Bosemam tonight

https://twitter.com/x/status/1300054516532998144

 

[OSUZorba]

News

Disney Wins Bidding War for Untitled Adventure Film Set in a World of Movies

A Last Action Hero remake, finally!

 

[FrankieWinthrop]

Anyone else get very old Test Track images this morning? At 5:16 AM, I got pics from one of the stations in the Test Track car room from June 20, 2019! I looked back in my photos for the exact date. It was easy to pinpoint bc we were kid-less that day.

 

[jpeterson]

Anyone else get very old Test Track images this morning? At 5:16 AM, I got pics from one of the stations in the Test Track car room from June 20, 2019! I looked back in my photos for the exact date. It was easy to pinpoint bc we were kid-less that day.

I know they had extended downtime yesterday. I wonder if they rebooted some systems and a few messages that were stuck in the queue got flushed out.

 

[rteetz]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2020/08/brea...ge-resort-to-remain-closed-until-summer-2021/

 

[Lsdolphin]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2020/08/brea...ge-resort-to-remain-closed-until-summer-2021/

Wow!! Sad to hear Poly won’t reopen until next Summer but nice to hear they will be refurbishing guest rooms...looking forward to my upcoming stay in the villas.

 

[CastAStone]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2020/08/brea...ge-resort-to-remain-closed-until-summer-2021/

Wow. It makes all the sense in the world to me - they will have the most heads in beds over the next 5 years if they do refurbs while they don't have the demand for the rooms.

I wonder if this means they'll sprint through the rest of the All Stars while they're closed too. Of the closed resorts with previously announced refurbs, we know the WL refurb has restarted, but we don't know anything about AoA (which was almost done) or All Star Music/Sports.

Of course the cash resort that everyone seems to agree needs a refurb the most is GF. I wonder if that resort's reopening will be delayed for a refresh as well.

I also have noticed that they're refurbing 3 SSR buildings at a time now vs the 2 they were doing pre-COVID. Again, until they need the rooms, it makes a ton of sense to me.

 

[dina444444]

Wow!! Sad to hear Poly won’t reopen until next Summer but nice to hear they will be refurbishing guest rooms...looking forward to my upcoming stay in the villas.

That won’t include the dvc rooms. Dvc refurbs on a completely separate schedule.

 

[Firebird060]

Lol they should expand Traders Sams if they are going to be closed for this long

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Just sharing this as I didn't realize this when the last update was posted but apparently the Swan Reserve will be mostly family suites for 6-8 people? Pretty cool!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1300427862810468352

 

[merry_nbright]

Lol they should expand Traders Sams if they are going to be closed for this long

My mind instantly went there!!! Rooms are in desperate need of an upgrade, though, so it’s gonna be awesome when it’s done! Fully planning on making that my big trip in fall 2021!

 

[rteetz]

Just sharing this as I didn't realize this when the last update was posted but apparently the Swan Reserve will be mostly family suites for 6-8 people? Pretty cool!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1300427862810468352

Interesting considering this was originally billed as an expansion for conventioneers.

 

[MMSM]

Wow!! Sad to hear Poly won’t reopen until next Summer but nice to hear they will be refurbishing guest rooms...looking forward to my upcoming stay in the villas.

Not sure what to do. I’m on the 4th rescheduled trip for End of March to beginning of April and we just changed our rented BLT reservation to Poly for four nights. If it’s only DVC that will be open, how likely will monorail still run? Will Ohana and restaurants be open if only DVC? And most important, will pool still be open? The pro- the pool of open should be less packed during our Easter stay- however will it be so construction based that I should try to move to a different stay? Please help.