Originally Posted By bean "36 NEW! Spirit of 74 Fri 10/10/2008 1:39p As far as I know the Marineland site is empty ... a few years back I went to an Oscar Party as a CBS daytime producer's house and it overlooked the site or at least that's what he said to the dude who plays Stefano on Days (James Mascolo?) and myself. " a couple of the buildings were saved when marineland was demolished. If i remember correctly the builders could not get permits for a couple buildings they wanted close to the cliff area. They then decided to keep one or two of th eold ones since those were already built and permitted. Part of the land turned into a golf course if i remember correctly and another portion was suppose to be condos or something like that. not sure if those were built
Originally Posted By bean I just saw post number 39. thats interesting for some reason i remember part of the land turned into a golf course
Originally Posted By Nobody Just for fun, the L.A. Times has a concept sketch of the interior here... <a href="http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/blueskycellar_concept_sketch.jpg" target="_blank">http://travel.latimes.com/dail...etch.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By jmuboy Pretty cool looking "wine barrel" work stations. Like TSMM, I think this preview center will be an example of how well the people at WDI can do when given the money and time to create great things.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA A wine cellar... And a place to Imagineer new rides and attractions... I just don't get it. Talk about a theme shoe-horned into an existing building.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Talk about a theme shoe-horned into an existing building.<< I thought you said you DIDN'T get it? That sounds exactly right to me. I guess we should be happy it wasn't shoehorned into Frontierland as "Blue Sky Conestoga Wagon". ; )
Originally Posted By jmuboy I think we are being too picky to complain about the location of the preview center. At least we got it and it sounds well done.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney I still not sure why a preview center needs a THEME in the first place??
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Remember when Disneyland used to just HAVE a preview center on Main Street -- and they didn't have to make such a big deal out of it? That was awesome...
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I still not sure why a preview center needs a THEME in the first place??" I doesn't. But it is in a pre-existing themed building and people have complained that DCA lacks storytelling elements that are the hallmarks of Disney parks. So there you go: a detailed and well themed preview center.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros In case anybody's interested, it looks like Darkbeer has new pictures of the outside of the building up on his site. It has a couple new signs that basically look like the logo shown in the guide map. It looks like some really generic clip art with some magic sparkles for good measure. And if that wasn't enough, the catch phrase "It's just a dream away" was thrown in to get some more use of the word "dream", since they couldn't find a way to work in "fantasy," "magic," or "wonder." <a href="http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/6224121_v35zr#392841322_uz9wR" target="_blank">http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/ga...22_uz9wR</a>
Originally Posted By mstaft Newer concept photos at MiceChat.com Mark www.insightsandsounds.blogspot.com
Originally Posted By believe >>>>Remember when Disneyland used to just HAVE a preview center on Main Street -- and they didn't have to make such a big deal out of it? That was awesome...<<< Exactly. Come on Disney, don't spend so much on the preview - spend it on the rides itself! Or spend it on fixing the monorail, or maintenance or something. No need to waste money theming the displays.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Oh I don't know. There's not much else slated for "new" coming up anytime soon - other than pixie grotto. Come to think of it, Pixie Grotto is an even worse name than Blue Sky Cellar. I can see a lot of stymied parents trying to explain what grotto means, and that it's not as bad as it sounds.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig >>>A wine cellar... And a place to Imagineer new rides and attractions... I just don't get it.<<< It makes perfect sense, actually. I mean, how do you even THINK those creative types DREAM UP all their crazy ideas unless they first all get soused up on a few bottles of vintage (or even not so vintage) cabernet beforehand??
Originally Posted By bean I'm surprised that people are not discussing the huge pictures that were added to the outside of the building showing a bit more detail about Cars Land and other areas of the changes. One of those pictures include a stylized map of the park in 2012.
Originally Posted By oc_dean ^^^ Probably no one other than DCA CMs noticed .. since more than likely most of us are waiting to go Oct. 16th to go inside.
