Originally Posted By dagobert Currently the Lion King stage at Videopolis is being reworked and now I wonder if a new show is coming to DLP?
Originally Posted By u k fan Coming soon: "Duffy's Discovery" Duffy travels by airship to the various lands of Disneyland. After meeting Mickey, Minnie and Mary Poppins in Main Street, Baloo and Timon in Adventureland, Goofy and Chip and Dale in Frontierland and various Princesses and Pinocchio in Fantasyland he returns to Discoveryland where Buzz Lightyear welcomes him back with a chorus of You've Got a Friend in Me, which is reprised as everyone comes back on stage for the finale. Arcade Beta will be transformed into a Duffy store and will sell exclusive costumes from the show. Opens Spring 2014!!! P.S. I'm joking (I hope)!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert Ukfan, I hope so as well. I hate that bear und I wish he would vanish as soon as possible, but I guess he is too popular now.
Originally Posted By dagobert According to the official DLP Twitter account, the remodeling of the Sequoia Lodge rooms, increased guest satisfaction a lot. So now they are improving Santa Fe and afterwards they will start with Newport Bay Club. <a href="http://twitter.com/Disney_ParisEN/status/295839821182689280/photo/1" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Disney_Pari.../photo/1</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/Disney_ParisEN/status/295839821182689280/photo/1" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Disney_Pari.../photo/1</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I know that they think that adding characters to the rooms will bring in more guests (they're doing in in WDW too, with the Royal Rooms at Port Orleans Riverside and the new Art of Animation resort), but I always liked how Disney's hotels were based on universal themes that really didn't have anything to do with their movies (the notable exceptions being All Star Movies and HKDL Hollywood Hotel). It allows you to remain in a Disney-quality environment, without being hit over the head with constant Disney-branded reminders. As far as I can tell, this new way of thinking is quite popular, so it will probably be expanded, but I would prefer to keep the hotel themes 'plain' (like the majority of the lands within the parks used to be).
Originally Posted By tonyanton I agree, though from the outside looking in, it appears that the Nick-branded motel in Orlando got raves from quite a few folks online...I'm guessing this was what spurred Disney in this direction. As long as the deluxes remain (fairly) neutral, I'm good.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I know that they think that adding characters to the rooms will bring in more guests (they're doing in in WDW too, with the Royal Rooms at Port Orleans Riverside and the new Art of Animation resort), but I always liked how Disney's hotels were based on universal themes that really didn't have anything to do with their movies (the notable exceptions being All Star Movies and HKDL Hollywood Hotel).<<< I totally agree, but it seems that's the future of Disney hotels. And guests may also like it, at least on European Disney Boards. The DLH at DLP had already integrated some Disney characters, but in a more subtle way. At least one of the two SDL hotels will have a classic Victorian theme.
Originally Posted By u k fan As dagobert says, the precedent was kind of there anyway with the DL hotel having subtle characters in the rooms already. I don't mind this in the cheaper hotels and I actually think it's an improvement in the Santa Fe, but I'd rather they did a handful of rooms in each hotel and charged extra for them!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I don't mind this in the cheaper hotels and I actually think it's an improvement in the Santa Fe, but I'd rather they did a handful of rooms in each hotel and charged extra for them!!!<<< That's a good idea. They should have done it only with rooms near to the Cantina.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>I don't mind this in the cheaper hotels and I actually think it's an improvement in the Santa Fe, but I'd rather they did a handful of rooms in each hotel and charged extra for them!!!<< That's exactly what they've done at Port Orleans Riverside in WDW. About 3/4 of the rooms were redone in the 'normal' style, with the remaining 1/4 done in the princess style (which is really gaudy and tacky, IMO). But that's not to say that the 'normal' rooms don't have any Disney fun to them. They all have pictures of steamboats on the walls, as painted by Imagineers at various points during park concept development. If you weren't paying attention, or didn't know the picture already, you could easily miss that it was a Disney picture. Also, the headboards include small paintings (about the size of a serving platter) of a southern plantation that looks supsiciously like POR. If you look closely, you'll see that the people in the scenes are all characters from The Princess and the Frog. Despite spending a lot of time in the room on our trip, it took me until our 5th night there to realize the PATF details. This type of stuff I'm totally fine with, and actually think is fun. It's the over-the-top in-your-face stuff (like all of the Art of Animation rooms) that I really can't stand.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Here's what the standard rooms in the Magnolia Bend section of POR look like: <a href="http://www.portorleans.org/images/gallery/POR-Room-MBrefurb-85xxA-2011-3552_large.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.portorleans.org/ima...arge.jpg</a> Headboard detail: <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6888326501_d1021d96d3_z.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm8.staticflickr.com/...d3_z.jpg</a> And the princess rooms: <a href="http://0.tqn.com/d/goflorida/1/0/H/n/wdw_resorts_port_orleans_riverside_princess.jpg" target="_blank">http://0.tqn.com/d/goflorida/1...cess.jpg</a> <a href="http://mousetalestravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Royal-Guest-Rooms-2.jpg" target="_blank">http://mousetalestravel.com/wp...ms-2.jpg</a> An example of the awful artwork hanging on the walls in the princess rooms: <a href="http://blog.touringplans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/POR07-1.jpg" target="_blank">http://blog.touringplans.com/w...07-1.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By u k fan Yeah, that Princess room is ugly! I quite like the carpet from Aladdin. I wish they'd left it to subtle touches like that, using props and locations from the movies rather than hammering it home. I stayed at All-Star Movies the year it opened in the Toy Story area. It was well done and fun for the kids, but this definitely fits better in the cheaper hotels because they have less to spend and it keeps the theming lighter. When they have the budget to add extra bells and whistles they can go too far as shown in the images above!!!
Originally Posted By dagobert Not really a refurbishment, but US actor Kevin Costner visited DLP: By the way he will also visit Austria next week and he will sing with his band at the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship. <a href="http://twitter.com/Disney_ParisEN/status/298726312472887296/photo/1" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Disney_Pari.../photo/1</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I didn't know he had a band/sang, but I now have a great mental image of Kevin Costner dressed like one of the Trapp Family Singers. Thank you for that! : )
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I didn't know he had a band/sang, but I now have a great mental image of Kevin Costner dressed like one of the Trapp Family Singers. Thank you for that! : )<<< <a href="http://www.schladming2013.at/en/program/side-events/" target="_blank">http://www.schladming2013.at/e...-events/</a> >>>The absolute sensation Hollywood-star Kevin Costner and his band Modern West are giving a live concert in Schladming. He who has seen the Oscar winner live, knows: it will be solid, mainstream rock that will see the crowds dancing, singing and rocking. Costner and his band will be performing almost exclusively from their own repertoire, which stylistically lie somewhere between Spingsteen, Mellencamp or Garth Brooks – and gives a taste of freedom and adventure.<<<
Originally Posted By dagobert Here's another update of DLP by the French Disney Gazette site: <a href="http://www.disneygazette.fr/gazette-ratatouille-affiche-potc-buzz-videopolis-iasw-dreams-news-news-1167.html" target="_blank">http://www.disneygazette.fr/ga...167.html</a> It just shows the Ratatouille construction and other small refurbs.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't know any French, but it looks like Dreams has been given an extended run (not at all surprising, given its success), and will now include scenes from Brave and The Lion King. Like World of Color in DCA, the lack of much of a real storyline makes it easy to update it with new scenes, so that's a nice bonus. Hopefully the new additions will be at least as good as what they replace (unlike DCA's long-term revisions)
