Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-78292.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: No WDW Fantasmic January 5 - February 12</b></a> <p>StudiosCentral.org reports it's official - Fantasmic! at Disney's Hollywood Studios will be down for refurbishment from January 5 - February 12th returning on the 13th.</p>
Originally Posted By TP2000 That doesn't sound like enough time to do even a quarter of the stuff Disneyland has done to their Fantasmic! over the last few years. DHS Fantasmic! needs a six month rehab to get it into the 21st century. What can they get done in just 5 weeks? Install some new LED lighting and new speakers? Maybe some new sequins sewn on the costumes?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Depending how they stage the work, they could do a lot of the technical upgrades from DL in that time. The lighting and projectors could realistically be updated in a month, especially because they can work during the day time. When DL's show was down, they were still limited by park hours since the River wasn't drained at that time (ironically, about 8 months after the addition of the dragon, they did their big draining for the next 5-8 years). If they had new barges for the princess/monkey scenes ready to go, they could probably do the upgrades to those pretty easily as well. I'm not sure if a month is long enough by itself to install the new lights and get everything worked out. It figures that they finally decided to run it nightly for the summer, so they needed to cut back somewhere else. I just hope that they take advantage of this downtime to give it some of the technical updating that it needs.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer It's widely rumored that D23 will announce a new Fantasmic for WDW in a few weeks. Perhaps this is it? Terribly short, unless there are some easy things to instal.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Do you know what they are doing there, yet? Don't jump the gun. >> Disney can get about as much done in a month as Congress.
Originally Posted By 3disneylocations They could easily do all new set pieces and upgrades off site and bring them in for install when the current show does dark. I've been involved in theatre where the night before opening was an utter mess and the next day everything went off w/o a hitch-almost magical (heh-heh). The Disney Theatrical Dept could install a new show in 30 days.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Disney can get about as much done in a month as Congress.<<< HAH. How long did it take to get Tiki open? 8 months?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<The Disney Theatrical Dept could install a new show in 30 days.>> Like they did with Pixar Pals countdown to Fun? Yea, that'll turn out well.
Originally Posted By Boardwalkbum >>Depending how they stage the work, they could do a lot of the technical upgrades from DL in that time. The lighting and projectors could realistically be updated in a month, especially because they can work during the day time<< Absolutely. I've seen entire television studios changed ofer to HD in less time...and that's soup to nuts....changing over multiple control rooms(and i mean gutting and rebuilding), wiring throughout the facility, upgrading of sets,switching audio booths from analog to digital, all new equipment which technicians (such as myself) would have to come up to speed on post haste and all of this while the facility was still hosting production. I'm not even talking about Network type resources here either. It's a matter of commitment to the project and allocating the resources. They've known this show has been badly in need for a long time now. Overdue? Yes. Doable? Most certainly.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Like they did with Pixar Pals countdown to Fun?<<< HAH. Though, they could have done some work already, behind the scenes...
