Originally Posted By WOWOregon Someone said the lagoon was drained at DCA by Ariels Grotto. Is this true? And if so.....anyone know when it will be filled again? We are reserving our seats for the Princess Lunch and will not sit outside if there is no water in the lagoon
Originally Posted By di-tard4life UMM dear.. there is no lagoon anymore.. there still is water near the warf..but over my ariels grotto there is no more water.. tney drained it and are putting in the workings for the world of color.. have u not been over there? sorry i had to be the breaker of bad news!
Originally Posted By WOWOregon Haven't been there because we live out of State. We were planning on visiting in the fall though
Originally Posted By Westsider Miceage has fantastic weekly photo updates, and the work in the lagoon is usually featured. Check it out.
Originally Posted By WOWOregon Someone said it was not going to be refilled? I hope it is. How do you have ariels grotto with no water?
Originally Posted By danyoung Someone lied. How do you have a water show with no water? No, it'll be filled and look just as beautiful as it used to.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I am assuming that due to the equipment featured, there will no longer be any waves. Does anyone know if that is confirmed, or just speculation on my part?
Originally Posted By danyoung I saw something just this past weekend, I think on Miceage, where someone took a pic of the wave machines being reinstalled.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo If that is true, how awesome would this be? Waves by day and WWC at night. Now that would be the Disney magic that hooked us in the 1st place.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "No, it'll be filled and look just as beautiful as it used to." I keep wondering if the spigots for the WOC show will be visible during the day. I certainly hope not, as it will ruin the look of the simulated "bay". Since this show is essentially the same kind of installation as the fountains at The Bellagio, I'm guessing that the spigots will be visible just as they are in Las Vegas.
Originally Posted By di-tard4life actually the whole thing wont be done till next spring in 2010.. therefore they will not refill it till then probally..as they are still working on it..
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not sure if I'm just looking at the equipment the wrong way or not, but it kind of looks like that entire platform is built on a series of scissor lifts that will be able to submerge the equipment during the day, and then raise up enought that it can be used at night. The same kind of thing is used (on a much much smaller scale) for Fantasmic!, so I don't know why they wouldn't try to repeat that for WOC.
Originally Posted By WOWOregon It will be awesome when done! Guess we have to go back in a year to check it out
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Hey FerretAfros, I haven't looked closely at the pictures, but if what you suggest turns out to be true I'll be quite impressed. Submerging the fountain spigots below the surface of the water and then raise them up for the show would certainly be a very "Disney" thing to do.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I just looked at some of the pictures again, and it doesn't look like the whole platform will move. There was something that they were installing early on that definately looked like some sort of lift. There were probably 10-15 of them scattered around the lagoon. When they built the platform, I lost track of where they were, but I'm assuming they will be used to raise some sort of special effects up.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Here's a picture that sort of shows what I was talking about. I'm sure there's a better picture of them somewhere else. It is the black platforms that are scattered around the lagoon. They are the skinny rectangular platforms, like the one in the bottom right corner, just above the vehicle. Looking at the various pictures of them when they were being installed, it appears that they are able to move up and down as needed. The majority of the platform is built on solid columns, so I don't think they will do much for that. It also looks like they're covered up by the platform, so it will be really interesting to see how they end up being used (if we can even tell). <a href="http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/7584992_VRDfq#490349354_Z7WmX-A-LB" target="_blank">http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/ga...WmX-A-LB</a>
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Yes, the platform is designed to keep all the jets at the same level, as the lake itself is not flat. The platform is level, and designed for it and the water devices to "hide" just under the water line.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...as the lake itself is not flat.< I'm assuming you meant that the lake bed was not flat. If Disney has figgered out a way to make an uneven lake, now THAT would be an E ticket attraction! So if all the nozzles live just under the surface, do they need to come up to work, or will they work from under water? If I remember correctly, the big fountain in the center of Epcot's Futureworld uses the just under the surface type, and they do an incredible job.
