Originally Posted By seafairy1622 Anyone know when it will open next year? Planning on going in April or August next year. Really hope they open it by April.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Another June opening makes sense. It is, however, going to be DCA's tenth anniversary in February. So there may be an attempt to tie in with that.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt At the rate that the construction is going it looks like a January opening could be possible, but it seems like a spring opening is more likely.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: You may be right, Manfried, duckling. But I always thought most of the interior things were being constructed in large warehouses while the the attraction buildings were being built and then they were quickly installed as soon as the building was finished. At least I had read that's what's happening for Hong Kong Disneyland's Mytic Manor. A lot of the interior things for THAT are already being put together, now, even though the manor house hasn't been built yet.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Tomorrowland '67 was done in less than a year I believe, and it contained several structures that were built from the ground up. From what I recall the Fantasyland makeover in '83 was done in about a year and a half. Given that the Golden Dreams building was razed a year ago this month it seems reasonable that the The Little Mermaid could be built and ready to open after 18 months (Jan or Feb 2011) of work. Of course, it takes Disney forever to build things nowadays.
Originally Posted By believe When you look at how fast Magic Mt and Knott's builds things, Disney's pace is absolutely glacial. When MM and Knott's build roller coasters for example, they seem to put them up in 3 to 6 months. And look at the water park that Legoland just opened - I think that only took 6 months!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Of course, it takes Disney forever to build things nowadays." Obviously, some of that is Disney, but there are also additional building codes and regulations that they have now that they simply didn't have to worry about when they were building other parts of the park. The opening day portion of the park was completed in exactly one year, but the exact same thing today would take at least 24 months, no matter how involved Disney was with the process. Yah, they do make it take longer than most projects, but it's not entirely their fault.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I'll take your word for it, but I've seen 40 story high rises go up and be completed in recent years in the same amount of time that it's taking to build The Little Mermaid attraction.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: I think it only took about a week for us to build our little cottage in Morva. And that was without magic! The hardest part was waiting until our neighbors were away from their own homes so we could borrow doors, windows, chimneys and the like without them knowing about it.
Originally Posted By Hista98 It is, however, going to be DCA's tenth anniversary in February. So there may be an attempt to tie in with that. But how often has DCA celbrated its birthday? 0 I think this time wil lbe the same
Originally Posted By RogRabbit I don't know Hista, DCA has a few new things to boast about this coming birthday. Plus it'd be a great time to remind us of the stuff coming in the next 2 years.
Originally Posted By DlandDug There was a celebration at DCA for the first anniversary. At that time Cynthia Harriss anounced Bug's Land and Tower of Terror. <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID505430.asp" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplace.com/N...5430.asp</a> For the fifth anniversary there was a rather limited pin release. That's all I can recall.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo To be honest, Disney seem to do very little when it comes to celebrating 2nd gates (unless you are in Tokyo). I understand Epcot's 25th birthday only had a special conference day because of fan pressure.
Originally Posted By TP2000 DlandDug, thank you for that link to Cynthia's 2nd birthday party for DCA. Yet another hilarious romp through yesteryear with that woman, and she never ceases to entertain with both her scripted comments and her unscripted emotion. A few of my favorites from that February, 2002 birthday ceremony; Cynthia Harriss: "Well we're tremendously excited about these new creative offerings that we'll be able to add to our fabulous Disney's California Adventure. Sharing in our excitement is that man who has been spearheading the creative development of the original Disney's California Adventure and is with us today as we continue to build upon that great foundation. It is that wonderful creativity that is behind this park. He is the visionary whose talents and dreams truly shine through the spirit of Disney's California Adventure. Please welcome the Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of Walt Disney Imagineering, Barry Braverman!" OH....MY....GAWD. Did she really just say that? Yes, she did. And she was sober when she did it. Amazing willpower that woman has. And then there's the unscripted asides and comments that were thankfully added in to the transript of the event, like; Cynthia Harriss: "Well good morning everyone! How y'all today? This is a good day. (cheers throughout the crowd, Cynthia acknowledges them with an enthusiastic, "hi!")" "As we've brought here that Tony award winning production The Power of Blast! (The audience begins to cheer and Cynthia responds with "you've seen it!")" "And of course as we all know we had the return of the beloved Disney's Electrical Parade right here to Disney's California Adventure. (Cynthia remarks to an enthusiastic guest in the crowd: Thank you for being our fan, yeah!)" Oh, why did that woman have to be taken from us so soon?!? I sure hope the Metropark office up in East LA knows how good they have it now, and I can only imagine the motivational speeches she is giving to Metropark managers about selling more bro shirts. FABULOUS!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt TP2000 you totally nailed it. Poor Cynthia. It's clear that she meant well, but she was so out of her element as President of DLR.
