Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Wouldn't you want that reversed though? Have a building with many floors that appears small? If that is even possible. >>> Many of the large hotel/casino resorts in Las Vegas use this technique (such as Treasure Island and Bellagio). If you look closely at the outside, what looks like one storey is actually two storeys. So, the building is actually twice as tall as it looks. This also is how people get suckered into walking to things that appear to be "not too far away" - since these buildings are twice as tall and big as they appear, they are also twice as far away as they appear.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> SS= Saratoga Springs << Thanks -- I should have figured it out. I was confused by thinking may the "SS" had something to do with me. >> Have a building with many floors that appears small? << The American Adventure at Epcot does a similar trick. It's a 5-story building that looks like it has only 3. The architectural details on the lower levels are oversized. Take a look at the size of the doorways and the windows. The story for this is that the building needs to be physically large to accommodate all of the Golden Dream show technology. (and also to be seen well from across the lagoon) But Colonial buildings of that era typically had 3 stories max.
Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct <<News Flash TDLFan last seen running through River Country from Mouse Police with the bluprints of a new DVC Resort >> LOL! BRilliant
Originally Posted By Labuda "<Honestly, I don't believe for a minute that that tower will EVER be built.< If the open date is 2008 - that money has alread been allotted..." Honestly - in less than 18 months they'd be able to build something on that scale? I ask because I remember our house taking 9 months to be built when I was a kid, and it qas great. Newer houses that are thrown up in very little time (i.e., 3-4 months) are not as high in quality IMO, and I'd never want one. But, back to my point - how can you build and finish a quality product that FAST on the scale that the new tower appears to be? Wouldn't we be seeing ground-breaking and an official announcement by this time if it was a go?
Originally Posted By Lake Nona >>Honestly - in less than 18 months they'd be able to build something on that scale?<< The folks in Dubai are building all the buildings in less than a year. Dubai, the crane capitol of the world...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Well, Dennis has always been terribly amused by horrendously bad jokes so, no surprise there.
Originally Posted By dixielandings I think Disney has swept the net clean of the Contepoairy DVC I did here on the Inside the Magic pod cast that AKL was the next DVC target
Originally Posted By dixielandings WOW I forgot to spell check that one Contepoairy = Contemporary here = hear
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Nope. Sorry to say, Contemporary is next on the list to be infected by the DVC bug. Followed by AKL, Poly and -- yes -- GF!
Originally Posted By RandySavage Does anyone else think this is an extraordinarily terrible move by WDW. Building a hideous, tall Disney Village-style hotel right on top of the MK, the Contemporary, and the relatively unspoiled Bay Lake is a disastrous idea. I am incensed that this is going foward. If the building were 5 stories and took up the same amount of space as the Garden Wings, that would be one thing, but this abomination will (i)loom beside the Contemporary - destroying its uniqueness; (ii) is a charmless, cookie cutter design taken directly from downtown Orlando, Stamford, or any ordinary mid-size U.S. city; (iii) will destroy the relatively unspoiled shores of Bay Lake; (iv) destroy the views of the Contemporary from the MK, GF, Polynesian and WL; (v) continues to cheapen the entire resort - making it ever more common and less special. I really hate Disney for doing this.
Originally Posted By jmuboy As a DVC member, let me say I agree Randy Savage. This high ride belongs in an urbn setting....not WDW.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I find that highly unlikely. Disney has not choice any further DVC need to be HUGE. I think a better choice for a location would have been where Walt planned to build the Asia hotel on the Seven Seas Lagoon over by TTC opposite the Polynesian ( where the toparies use to be ). This building is bland. And where its being placed is totally wrong for the WDW. Put it somewhere else.
