Originally Posted By deephil We heard today from a cast member that they are currently building the set in HS BLT for a meet and greet with Tinkerbell. The first time you ever get to meet Tinkerbell in the flesh. Or was he just pulling my leg?
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains They are doing the same thing in Disneyland - Pixie Hollow I think is the name of the area and it is replacing the Ariel meet and greet.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: What's HS BLT mean? ORDDU: I haven't the foggiest, dear. But it doesn't matter, anyway, because until they also take the time and trouble to create a meet and greet area for Tarzan and Gaston, nothing else matters to me. I'd much rather kiss the two of them rather than a flock of frilly fairies... ORWEN: But I LOVE fairies!!! ORGOCH: So does Peter Pansy!!!
Originally Posted By deephil Ducklings I thought you would have used your crystal ball to work that one out. The answer is Hollywood Studios Back lot tour (HS BLT).
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Well, we might have used a crystal ball to determine such a thing, deephil, duckling, but it's a lot more fun getting our answers from sweetie pies such as you. Magic isn't always the best policy because the price a witch sometimes pays for using it isn't always worth it. Thank you very much for answering Orwen's question.
Originally Posted By deephil Today we also heard from another cast member that three new roller coasters are to be built in HS over the coming 5 years. No other detail was given but that does sound exciting, but were will they put them all?
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Well, we COULD look deep into our crystal ball for the answer. But that would simply take all the fun out of the anticipation.
Originally Posted By Ursula How can they do that? Tinker Bell is a small and tiny creature. Surely they are not going to make her human sized, right?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Actually, I heard that it was part of the cost-saving measures they are implementing. Instead of having to hire the real Tinkerbell (she can be quite tough to book much of the time), they will simply build a set, and let you take a picture with a speck of dust floating around. That way, they save on the booking fees through Tink's agent and the cleaning costs, since they want a little (pixie) dust.
Originally Posted By Dis-Philip <Tinker Bell is a small and tiny creature.> Well, so are Chip & Dale, Jiminy Cricket, etc. And NOBODY ever complains about them being "human-sized" in the parks, so why start griping about character sizes now?
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Griping is such a strong word, dear. I'm sure no one meant to do that. They were merely making observations. Of course you have a point that--in order be even be able to SEE certain characters--a bit of magic needs to be performed to make them 'grow'. Since Tinkerbell is a fairy, I'm sure she has the power--as well as the necessary approval from Disney management--to accomplish the task.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt Doesn't Tink lead off the Parade of Dreams at DL? She looked like a small (under 5'2") person to me!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros She's also higher up on the float than anybody else (she's on the roof of the train, while Peter Pan is driving, other faries are dancing in front of it), which helps give her a little bit of forced perspective. But if we want to get really techincal about it, we've all seen the thee faries from Sleeping Beauty (in fairy form, not the wing-less human version) as full-human-sized. In the Parade of Dreams, they are even dancing with the Fairy Godmother and the Blue Fairy, both of whom are supposed to be human-sized. I'm sure it will work out just fine, but it will be a little strange getting used to at first. (Heck, why are Mickey, Pluto, Baloo, and Dopey all the same size while we're on the subject?)
Originally Posted By MPierce I thought they were going to shrink the guest down to Fairey size for the meet and greet.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^^Then they'd better come up with more good stuff. This summer I didn't buy anywhere near what I normally do at WDW. I did try, but there just wasn't enough that I really wanted. Sad. Well there was that $37,500 castle in Germany, but I don't have the extra room that it would have needed! This was in June and the man told me they'd sold 4 of them already. Who'd buy something like that?
