Originally Posted By ssWEDguy New news! Passing underneath the "Welcome to Walt Disney World" arch on World Drive this morning -- I noticed that all the centermost flags on TOP of the arch are GONE! Now I'm guessing that they're going to put a new sign ABOVE the arch that says "Year of a Million Dreams" or "Where Dreams Come True" instead of below it where the previous "Happiest Celebration on Earth" sign was. Ya' think? I'll watch over the next few days...
Originally Posted By basas The gold flags? Maybe they're just replacing them with the multi-colored flags that were there before the HCOE.
Originally Posted By basas On another board, it was also reported that they were adding "where dreams come true" somewhere on the sign.
Originally Posted By CTXRover I've heard that one of the entrances already has replaced the HCOE sign with a "Where Dreams Come True" banner below the arch. They are likely removing the gold flags and replacing them with the traditional multicolored flags that were there before the HCOE started.
Originally Posted By -em I noticed on my way home tonight they were installing a banner on one of the entrance signs (Entrance off the I4 Epcot/DTD exit) It looked to be going under the arch and looked to be blue (it was dark and I was going 50 mph in the other direction) -em
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> I've heard that one of the entrances already has replaced the HCOE sign with a "Where Dreams Come True" banner below the arch. << This I've seen, and I figure it will be repeated at the other entrances as well, including the main World Drive entrance. Looks good. >> Maybe they're just replacing them with the multi-colored flags that were there before the HCOE << Maybe. But only the centermost set flags were gone. And since it's on the TOP of the arch I'm just guessing that that would be a great place for the new clouds and castle "Dreams" logo? I'll watch over the next mornings....
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy As of Tues morning, 9-19-2006 there was still not a "Where Dreams Come True" sign over the World Drive entrance to WDW. There is one over the east side 535 entrance for Epcot. The middle flags above the World Drive arch are still missing.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN They were still missing tonight Sept 22nd. See photo: <a href="http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=4334673&a=32307844&p=74809558" target="_blank">http://albums.photo.epson.com/ j/ViewPhoto?u=4334673&a=32307844&p=74809558</a> But I think this is the final look they went for, but I may be mistaken.
Originally Posted By kennect Sorry to be OT here but have say...TDL, those have to be the most lame Halloween decorations I have ever seen...I would do better in my front yard letting a bunch of six year olds do it...They are really pitiful looking...I would actually be embarassed to do such here at my home...Truly sad....The displays I saw in your photo's looked like they might have cost Disney about twenty five bucks, if even that, apiece....Cheap and more important...No creativity involved at all...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Wait until you see the TDL ones in my TDL's Halloween photos going later tonight... But I return you to this topic.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Sorry to be OT here but have say...TDL, those have to be the most lame Halloween decorations I have ever seen...I would do better in my front yard letting a bunch of six year olds do it...They are really pitiful looking...I would actually be embarassed to do such here at my home...Truly sad....The displays I saw in your photo's looked like they might have cost Disney about twenty five bucks, if even that, apiece....Cheap and more important...No creativity involved at all...>> And this is surprising because ... you just woke up after a 15-year nap and realized Disney isn't what it once was? ;-)
Originally Posted By kennect No Spirit that isn't the case at all...I am not up on their decor for Halloween...It has been about ten years since I was there during that season...I don't even remember any decor from that trip but they were doing the night time event...I might be off a few years in regards to my visit...What these photo's showed was not only cheap decor but truly uninspired ways to put it together...But trying to explain my feelings to you are worthless...I don't know what past decor has looked like...It is shame that the US parks can't look at their sister parks for some real inspiration when it comes to time of the year....
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Sad part is.. DLP, with all of it's troubled finances, put on a much better show for Halloween over what the MK does yearly. Even more shameful to WDW's MK, DLP pulled a magnificent light display for Xmas this past year (and probably again this year) while the MK continues to use the same garlands they have used since 1971 over Main Street USA.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Those workers putting up signs on Main Street in the MK during operating hours is quite remarkable. Was this a once-a-season type of thing, or is it something they do every night for the special hard-ticket Halloween event?
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I wonder if the "outsourced" workers putting up the signs still had to pay for a day pass? I often visit WDW during October. And those decorations look pitiful. Hopefully they will be adding on to them before October is here. Oh and by the way. Its officially fall today!!!! Come to think of it. I was staying at the WL once ( in Janaury ) while some "outsourced" workers came in and took down all the Christmas decorations one night. They were not being that careful. The knocked over one of the mission style table lamps in the main lobby. Its amazing how they got a crane through the front door of the lobby. The next day I was grateful not to be listening to Christmas music piped through the resort.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Those workers putting up signs on Main Street in the MK during operating hours is quite remarkable. Was this a once-a-season type of thing, or is it something they do every night for the special hard-ticket Halloween event?<< I believe it's done only every night they do they MSSHP, since the rest of the time, there is NOTHING for Halloween or Halloween related in the MK for day guests.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Yeah, but at least the pumpkins and hay in Town Square give the usually barren area some much-needed color. Apparently, Phil Holmes, Erin Wallace, Al Weiss and Meg Crofton believe TS looks fine with a couple of seedlings with wood chips as landscaping. <<Sad part is.. DLP, with all of it's troubled finances, put on a much better show for Halloween over what the MK does yearly. Even more shameful to WDW's MK, DLP pulled a magnificent light display for Xmas this past year (and probably again this year) while the MK continues to use the same garlands they have used since 1971 over Main Street USA.>> You're much too hard on them, TDLFAN. Don't you know that the MK is perfect just the way it is? ~the Spirit knows~
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I believe it's done only every night they do they MSSHP, since the rest of the time, there is NOTHING for Halloween or Halloween related in the MK for day guests. >>> Wow. So, every guest in the park on MNSSHP nights (whether they're attending the event or not) has to see the BAD SHOW of pushcarts and ladders adorned with sloppy workmen on Main Street? Maybe only us diehard fans would explicitly notice how out-of-place the workers in your pics on Main Street during operating hours are, but I do think that this sort of thing very much has a subtle effect on the way that the parks (and MK in particular) are perceived by the casual guest.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Wow. So, every guest in the park on MNSSHP nights (whether they're attending the event or not) has to see the BAD SHOW of pushcarts and ladders adorned with sloppy workmen on Main Street?<< Yup!
