News Round Up 2018

[rteetz]

News

PHOTOS: Coronado Springs Expansion Concept Art Shows New Concierge Lounge, Meeting Space

 

[rteetz]

Photo Update

PHOTOS: Dinoland U.S.A. Wilderness Explorers Meeting Location Relocates to The Dino Institute

 

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[amalone1013]

Would be a shame if they completely changed the storyteller's breakfast. I like different characters, not just the same Fab 5 + or - chip and Dale/Daisy.

They already watered down Goofy's.

Agree. Plus my first character breakfast ever would not have been the same without chasing Meeko down across the restaurant for a photo...

 

[MissGina5]

News

Land clearing begins in the Epcot area

http://blogmickey.com/2018/05/photos-land-clearing-begins-for-epcot-area-hotel-support-work/

woah that seems fast

 

[rteetz]

News

The Maleficent float caught on fire today....

 

[MissGina5]

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The Maleficent float caught on fire today....

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Good thing that float is meant to be terrifying

 

[rteetz]

 

[Violetspider]

Well there goes my favorite part of the afternoon at MK!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

News

The Maleficent float caught on fire today....

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Oh man that's no good!

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

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The Maleficent float caught on fire today....

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I hope the float will be back soon. That is if they decide not to run it for a couple days.

Did the parade just stop or did they try to continue the last section of the parade right after it?

 

[rteetz]

I hope the float will be back soon. That is if they decide not to run it for a couple days.

Did the parade just stop or did they try to continue the last section of the parade right after it?

I think the parade will continue to run but minus the Maleficent float for a while. The float will need some serious refurbishment work.

I do not know for sure but I would imagine the first half of the parade continued and the other floats behind probably headed back.

 

[dolewhipdreams]

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The Maleficent float caught on fire today....

Oh dang... Does anyone else have a strange fascination with when things go wrong at Disney? Like I would have loved to have been there to see how they handled it.

 

[rteetz]

Oh dang... Does anyone else have a strange fascination with when things go wrong at Disney? Like I would have loved to have been there to see how they handled it.

Sounds like it was put out quickly and the area was evacuated. No word on how they got the float out of there after.

 

[Keels]

I think the parade will continue to run but minus the Maleficent float for a while. The float will need some serious refurbishment work.

I do not know for sure but I would imagine the first half of the parade continued and the other floats behind probably headed back.

I don't know about these specific floats - the technology could've changed since the time that I worked around them - but they weren't really built to go in reverse. Also, the cameras and things to help the drivers navigate around the hub and over the bridge into Liberty Square were generally only for forward-moving guidance.

If I had to guess, the floats in front of the Dragon kept on moving as if things were normal, and the floats behind the dragon went into hold/loop. Usually, when a float breaks down, you try to tug it out as fast as possible to keep the parade moving. There's also a chance that any floats/units that hadn't stepped off at that point would've been held in staging and not sent out. I haven't seen this parade except for one time when it first opened, so I'm not sure where in the unit structure this float fell.

ETA: Something similar happened to Chernabog back when I worked Spectro - not to the level of catching fire, but the ground was too slick and it almost tipped over when the wings opened because of a slip, and it got off course - right before the Liberty Square bridge. After that, a tug was always stationed on the bridge and Chernabog never went out if the ground was remotely wet.

 

[rteetz]

I don't know about these specific floats - the technology could've changed since the time that I worked around them - but they weren't really built to go in reverse. Also, the cameras and things to help the drivers navigate around the hub and over the bridge into Liberty Square were generally only for forward-moving guidance.

If I had to guess, the floats in front of the Dragon kept on moving as if things were normal, and the floats behind the dragon went into hold/loop. Usually, when a float breaks down, you try to tug it out as fast as possible to keep the parade moving. There's also a chance that any floats/units that hadn't stepped off at that point would've been held in staging and not sent out. I haven't seen this parade except for one time when it first opened, so I'm not sure where in the unit structure this float fell.

There are two floats left behind this unit and they were in liberty square at this point so all of the floats would have been out at this point.

 

[skier_pete]

So many people were thinking when Maleficent caught on fire: "Is it supposed to do that?"

 

[Keels]

There are two floats left behind this unit and they were in liberty square at this point so all of the floats would have been out at this point.

Then I imagine the rest of the floats went on parade as normal and the last three were tugged back to the PAC, since that's right behind Splash.

 

[rteetz]

Then I imagine the rest of the floats went on parade as normal and the last three were tugged back to the PAC, since that's right behind Splash.

Looks like based on another tweet I saw they were able to clean it up a bit and drive it out. The dragon looks rather sad though.

 

[Keels]

Looks like based on another tweet I saw they were able to clean it up a bit and drive it out. The dragon looks rather sad though.

Poor broken dragon. I would be surprised if they sent it the rest of the Parade Route because that kinda falls under the banner of "Bad Show" to me, but