Originally Posted By dresswhites i am sorry i am no good at adding links, but his article was interesting. it seems the redo of TSI is barreling through. if his descritpion of the redo is accurate, it doesn't sound half bad. i agree with his point that the island looks a little worn right now. i went in the treehouse, it is rather drab. Does anyone remember if the treehouse was a little more entertaining years ago. or is is the same? Al mentions the grist mill that is closed, i am thinking he is talking about the building with the water wheel. however it is not closed. plus it rather small to have bands and things in it.
Originally Posted By Diztwins Actually, I am now more pleased. The Caves will stay and the fort will stay and they are incorperating Tom and Huck into it. It looks like their getting their stuff together. I sorta like how their moving some of the things from NOS onto the island
Originally Posted By Nobody <a href="http://www.miceage.com/allutz/al112806a.htm" target="_blank">http://www.miceage.com/allutz/ al112806a.htm</a>
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^I think the plan for the "shows" are to have them perform on the Fantasmic! Stage area, and allow the sound to be heard in the normal main Fantasmic! seating area. This way, folks can enjoy the "atmosphere" perfomances without going on the island.
Originally Posted By BrnardM It does seem like a respectful happy medium has been found. Pirates may be the flavor of the week, but I've been a huge fan even before the craze of the past three years. That said, it's about time the island was good for something besides fantasmic. Come on pirates island and welcome...
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That would be really cool. I just hope that the pirate sets on the front of the island keep with the river pirate feel and not the Caribbean pirate feel. Also, I hope that the sound is not broadcast across the entire area, as I'm sure there are poeple who don't want to hear it. If they do it all along the edge of the water (except near the POTC entrance due to the traffic nightmare), the it wouldn't be too bad. I always thought that the placement of the current show was horrible, as it blocks one of the main paths through the area, adding to the already oversided crowds there. Hopefully this will help solve that problem a little.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Also, something that really threw me off from the article was mentioning the construction of a show building about the size of Roger Rabbit for caves. Although caves are fine and dandy, why on earth would you need that many? The RR building is about the same size as the building that holds Peter Pan, Mr Toad, Alice, the Mad Hatter, and the Hearldry Shop. Although all of those are very small, clearly a lot can be put in a space that size. The building could fit on the island, but it would really ruin sightlines, as it would pretty much be touching the river on both sides. Even if they burried it, it would take many years to get the trees to grow back to the size that they are now. I think additional caves would be great, but limit them to a realistic size.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins And now for something completely different... I REALLY like the idea of un-parking DCA. It seemed to me that DCA was mostly restaurants with outside commercial interests when it opened anyway. And I love DTD. It has atmosphere that DCA doesn't have. A DTD with attractions could be the thing to make Disneyland Resort complete. I'd like something really new and different. And it could be the beginning of a revolutionary new entertainment form.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins Oops, my above post should be in the DCA board. I'll copy it there and perhaps an admin can get rid of the copy here. Sorry.
Originally Posted By DlandJB None of the photos worked -- did anyone else have that problem? I am already bored with the pirates around the park. I hate the idea that they want to expand them. Talk about beating a clever idea to death.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>None of the photos worked -- did anyone else have that problem?<< They are not working in Mozila FireFox, Netscape, or Explorer .. but they are in AOL.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Maybe they would disguise that show building on the back of the island as a mountain? That would be a good way to expand it to the banks while still making it "theme" to the river.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The pictures worked for me in Explorer. I haven't checked since about this time yesterday, but I didn't have any problems.
Originally Posted By CoasterKrayzie I'm happy with the way they merged pirates with Tom and Huck, sounds great. Pictures arent wokring for me either
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I am already bored with the pirates around the park. I hate the idea that they want to expand them. Talk about beating a clever idea to death." I second that opinion. Why can't they re-do the island without adding a Pirates overlay? Oh, silly me. I know why. WDI is creatively dead.
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland I third that.. And I did learn from Al that apparently my department is "reeling from a 125% turnover rate."
Originally Posted By TP2000 >>"I am already bored with the pirates around the park. I hate the idea that they want to expand them."<< The live pirate characters aren't being "expanded" they are being "moved" over to the island. Everything currently going on with the pirates in the walkways and alleys of NOS will be moved to the island. Re-read the third page of the Miceage article and you'll see where that is repeatedly mentioned.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt ^^^I think what was meant by the comment is that the whole pirates thing as a general concept has worn out it's welcome for some of us. When I was at DLR in September it was pretty much inescapable.
