reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

someone is skywriting something about jesus.

And now the Snow White ride is temporarily kaput. What is going on today?

We are literally stuck in the Carousel of Progress.

fortunately i could listen to "there's a great big beautiful tomorrow" on loop forever, it is the most ominous song in the world

I think I'd lose my mind if I were stuck in carousel

Of progress!

kind of a strange oxymoron innit

Like the new fantasyland stuff! Great design. Also, found $100!

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that should cover about 2% of your visit!

Honestly, we had them put it in an envelope to leave at guest services. If it is not claimed at the end of the day, I think we get to keep it.otherwise, I have a feeling Disney will be making another hundred dollars profit from us.

My nieces will wear princess dresses during my December visit. Leave the $100 for me, Josh.

I should try that next time.

"Anyone leave a $100 bill up here? Where did I lose it? Well, if I remembered that, I probably wouldn't have lost it in the first place!"

It was a 50, two 20s and some ones, FYI.

The rides kept turfing out when we were at WDW this spring, too. I think everything at Animal Kingdom was on the fritz. And my girlfriend was freaked out enough about her first ride ever on Space Mountain without having to ponder what was causing the queue to stall for twenty minutes.

Hollywood Studios today, where I will be reminded that Disney owns everything but the Smurfs.

Fast pass was essential yesterday, as was the system that allows one parent to wait with a reticence kid, then ride immediately when the other parent returns.also, starting early is key.

Why does stupid Aerosmith get a ride?

Saw a kid freak the hell out at tower of terror, so badly he wouldn't take the exit elevator out!

I've heard rumors for years that they're going to replace Aerosmith with a more contemporary band. I look forward to the 2025 opening of Green Day's Rock N' Roller Coaster.

I am enjoying the play-by-play here, I'm so jealous! We used to get a condo at Lake Buena Vista regularly as a kid. I loved that place!

xp a ride wherein you walk a lonely road. and with each step, it only becomes clearer that you are, in fact, alone. then animatronic billie joe armstrong says your name at the end: "keep walking that lonely road, Darrel. it's the only one you've ever known, Darrel."

Maybe during "Knowledge," they'll bring up members of the crowd and let them operate the roller coaster.

I remember seeing the press conference for the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster (because of course there was a press conference for the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster), and someone asked Steven Tyler if this constituted a sellout move on Aerosmith's part. Tyler naturally got pretty defensive and said something like, "This ain't no corporate slick-dealin' Hollywood showbiz thing. [dramatic pause] This is the Aerosmith Rock 'n' Roller Coaster."

Got it. One of those underground counterculture amusement park rides.

TBF, it's the best thing they've had their name attached to in 30+ years.

It's presented by Hanes.

If someone offers your band it's own rollercoaster I say you take it critics be damned.

Beautiful day. About to get phineas and ferb autographs.

Yeah, Florida has had heart-stopping weather the last 48 hours.

Christmas decorations going up.

Star tours now.

The new Star Tours is awesome. I think it might've honestly been my girlfriend's favorite ride from any of the parks. And I think I read that there's something insane like 50 different movies for the ride now? We rode it 3 or 4 times and it was different every time.

Uncle Tim at 50s Prime Time Cafe kind of freaking out the kids.

their routine is noxious. I like the Tune-In Lounge though.

i'm totally living vicariously through these posts!

also the new star tours is very cool, but I s2g i've ridden it 10 times over 2 visits and got the jar-jar sequence 8 times.

My deepest condolences.

Getting so full we're starting to skip meals.

One daughter's birthday here, cast is super about it.

Yo, if you get hungry again, the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater is the jam

Also, the engineer working with Aerosmith in the opening hologram skit is the State's Dan Marino

Really?didn't look like him. Biggest concession I have seen to frozen, by the way, has been a giant gift shop and a little play a lot filled with fake snow.

I bet Christmas will be all frozen, all the time.

Is the Haunted Mansion decked out holiday style?

Yeah, I was honestly baffled by the complete dearth of Frozen merchandise at WDW this spring. It felt like the memo about the film's massive success hadn't trickled down to the parks division yet.

They are redoing maelstrom at Epcot into a frozen ride.

I heard about that. Pretty disappointing, honestly. I love the Maelstrom, as lame as it is.

i'm pretty sure the frozen meet and greet at disneyland has the longest line out of either park.

a bit off topic but there were a ton of elsas trick-or-treating on halloween. I complimented one little girl on her elsa costume and she gave me the dirtiest look and said "I'm CINDERELLA!" it's a tough year for other blonde princesses in blue dresses.

yo, when i went on my disney trip earlier this year, the line to meet the frozen princesses at EPCOT was, i was told, six hours long

thanks for the confidence, guys

Frozen meet and greets I think the most popular fast pass.

Hollywood Studios is kind of aimless and reduntant, but it's a nice day anyway.

some person or animal took a crap in the street, and then someone or something smeared at for about 10 feet. They had to block the area.

I'm staying in Wilderness Lodge in December: four nights and four days, including tea party, early morning magic hour, princesses, and pixie dust.

I'll let my niece lend you some of her costumes.

oh i see we've covered this above

I really want to stay at Ft. Wilderness Lodge for at least part of our next trip. I've been treating the lodging as an incidental (and inexpensive as possible) afterthought but everything feels kinda anticlimactic once the day is over.

I really enjoy these 15 minute live distillations of Disney movies. Beauty and the Beast was sweet, my younger one loved Mermaid.