Originally Posted By familyguy It's not on the refurb schedule when I'm there the first week of November. I think that's too early. Anyone know?
Originally Posted By familyguy Actually it IS on the refurn schedule now. Weird. Anyway...when does it open?
Originally Posted By mele Yeah, I noticed that it was not on the refurb list on Disneyland's website. Weird. It was originally scheduled for Nov. 29. Darkbeer posted awhile back that they were planning on a soft opening sometime around the 21st.
Originally Posted By believe In the past, they had it open the week before Thanksgiving Saturday. So basing it on past years, it should be open on Nov 21 or 22.
Originally Posted By tapdancemom When are the Christmas decorations up for IASW? the lights are just beautiful at night.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 When we were on the train today, the conductor said the opening date was November 29th.
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 That's awesome!!! I will be there then!!! Just looked at the calendar on the Disney website and it's off the refurb list on the 21st actually... does this mean they'll possibly open a little early?
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 Okay yeah just read the earlier posts... and nevermind what I just said... It's 1 in the morning I'm not fully coherent
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 On a side note, noticed the water was back in the track and the door where the little people come out of on the outside of the castle was open and it looked like it was being worked on. Got me all excited!
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Disney has stated it will be open starting November 21st. And they are hoping for a few days of soft opening operation before that, so I would start checking around November 17th, you might get lucky.
Originally Posted By mele Woohoo! Thanks for the update, Darkbeer. Now I just have to pray that our brick is installed in the next few weeks and our trip will be perfect!
Originally Posted By cinderella143also How do soft openings work. Do I need to hang out at IASW? Is it a hit or miss thing? Is it something City Hall would know about and tell you about?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer City Hall never admits to soft openings. It is basically a Hit or Miss situation. The purpose of soft openings is that guests are not expecting the ride to be open, so if the ride has to be closed to fix something (which usually happens whenever a new attraction opens (and in this case, the ride system is brand new). If you walk by the attraction, you should find a CM in the attraction entrance if they are planning soft openings. They will never tell you anything but, "The ride will not be avasilable today" or "The ride might be open to guests sometime today", they won't give a time frame. So you can ask, but don't expect too much information. They will also ask you to not wait near the entrance, but you can always go sit down across the Parade Route and watch for the queue to open.
Originally Posted By SBSBelle22 YES!!! Nov 29th definitely puts me in the clear-though I bet the line is not going to be fun... Thanks Darkbeer!
Originally Posted By -PLP- Don't hold your breath for the Nov. opening of iasw....there is tons of activity every nite inside and outside but still ALOT to accomplish.
