Originally Posted By FerretAfros If you look at the way the construction went on the swings, the building of the actual ride mechanism went up quite quickly. It's the rest of the theming that's been taking forever. Seriously, they closed this attraction early in the fall, and it has simply sat there for months on end without any real progress being made. Yah, they took the orange down and repainted the ride's fiberglass shell, but up until the point they added the beginnings of the new decorations a few weeks ago, there had been nothing done. They also haven't seemed to made any progress since the initial additions a couple weeks ago. It will take them a while to add in the new boardwalk, redecorate the elevator tower, and add in all the fancy railings, but they don't seem to be pushing to get it done any time soon. I thought they were trying to keep DCA's attraction capacity up while they filled the park with construction walls, not close rides down for 2-3 times as long as nessecary.
Originally Posted By oc_dean And what we mean by Jewel .. umm .. err ... ahh .. IT'S A JEWEL! DO YOU HEAR ME??? IT'S A J.E.W.E.L. !!!!!!!
Originally Posted By Daannzzz Here is a jewel that seems a bit faster. <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2111/2029764358_ebcdf67d68.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm3.static.flickr.com...7d68.jpg</a> This one is pretty too. <a href="http://www.huvipuisto.net/huvipuis/tykki/big_wave.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.huvipuisto.net/huvi...wave.jpg</a> This one is sort of Jewel like. <a href="http://www.scfair.com/sc/fair/images/WaveSwingerBright.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.scfair.com/sc/fair/...ight.jpg</a> This one is not jewelish. <a href="http://www.yesterland.com/images-caladventure/orange_navypier2009kw.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.yesterland.com/imag...09kw.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt The Disney Parks Blog posted a little video today of the Mickey Topper's installation: <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/03/a-look-at-silly-symphony-swings/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...-swings/</a> It's interesting to me that Disney calls this a "new" attraction. Does anyone know if it is indeed new, or is just a Mickey Mouse overlay of the original Orange Stinger?
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Well what would qualify as new? I think it's all new material if that's what you mean.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The actual ride mechanism is the same as before. The main column sat on the platform for many months while work was being done around it, before being installed again a few weeks ago. The outer shell seems to have been replaced for the canopy, and either replaced or repainted for the column. I have no idea if the swings will be the same ones as before, but the design looks the same, so I don't know why they would pay to replace them with the same thing.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Well, what I'm wondering is am I looking at the same ride with a new paint job and a Mickey statue on top, or is it a brand new contraption from top to bottom and the old Orange Stinger has been shipped to some other park somewhere?
Originally Posted By mickeymorris1234 No the whole thing was torn down and was restarted from top to bottom. Here is what it looked like around November after everything was torn down. http://www.mouseplanet.info/gallery/d/96125-1/OrangeStinger1-010210-AVP.jpg Not even the ride was left. The only thing they didn't tear down was the elevator. Those things take so long to get approved and are built very carefully that it went untouched. To this day it still has the bee boxes around it until they finish the que then they will finally redecorate it. In the end it will have gone from this - <a href="http://disney.rocket9.net/images/CA_Orange_Stinger.800.jpg" target="_blank">http://disney.rocket9.net/imag....800.jpg</a> to this - <a href="http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/silly_symphony_swings500.jpg" target="_blank">http://travel.latimes.com/dail...s500.jpg</a>. I don't know what they did with the interior things. I would think they would recycle everything they could and then only build new what had to be. It seems the top is the only thing I can see that needed to be fully redone.
Originally Posted By mousermerf *squints at the ParksBlog* Since they're obviously talking about me and my talking about the poor color choices... Sculptor dude, you're obviously not in Disney look and that annoys me, but neither neither is Joe Rhode, so I can't really blame you, and you're doing a decent job and *squint* your reference photos have the right color for Mickey's coat. So sculptor dude you're ok, unless you actually painted it. Then you're on my crap list. Notice how the blog does not show anyone actually painting the thing.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance You think that Disney would ever show anyone painting that Mickey Mouse after the posts you've written about it? The poor painter has probably already threatened to sue if their identity is ever revealed.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I bet that Walt is spinning in his grave over the color of Mickey's coat atop the Swings.
Originally Posted By Ohana youre right Hans AND he's spinning the opposite way over the entrance to DCA not being inside the Grand Californian lobby
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Just to throw fat on the fire, watch the video and pause it at between 32-36 seconds: <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/03/a-look-at-silly-symphony-swings/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...-swings/</a> Then open another window and look at these colors mousemerf posted, with the ones on the left being the ones in The Band Concert short: <a href="http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-5/1179349/mickey1.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.villagephotos.com/p...key1.jpg</a> When I compare the two, the colors on the topper look much more like the color patches on the left than the right.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I know for a FACT that Walt would have hated that green color on Mickey's hat.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance And I'm really disappointed that they didn't make the entrance to DCA at the bottom of one of the swimming pools on the grounds at the GCH. I think they missed the boat on that one, quite honestly.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Someday my children's children are going to be discussing Mousermerf's ridiculous reaction the green color on Mickey.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Note too that when they zoom out (i.e. get closer to the distance that most people will view it from), it gets harder to distinguish the coat color from the sleeve color. If the sleeves were still that dark green, they would really meld together at a distance, especially after dark.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "youre right Hans AND he's spinning the opposite way over the entrance to DCA not being inside the Grand Californian lobby" LOL.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Just to throw fat on the fire, watch the video and pause it at between 32-36 seconds:" Interesting how different that green looks in that shot compared to some of the static images I've seen online.
