Originally Posted By tinkerbell227 Does anyone know when the new Little Mermaid ride is set to open? We are going mid May and I am really hoping it will be running by then The last time we were at Disneyland in 2007, we missed the opening of the new Nemo ride by like 3 or 4 days! Hoping that doesn't happen this time, as my daughter was so disappointed then and will be even more disappointed of Mermaid isn't open lol.
Originally Posted By avatarmickey115 I think it might be May 24th :/ But I'm NOT sure about that....but I think that's when Goofy's Sky School and the new dining area is set to open, but, im still not sure about that...
Originally Posted By seafairy1622 When I called disneyland resort to make my Aug. reservation I asked them when the Little Mermaid ride would be open and they said spring. They didn't tell me a date. Ariel is my favorite charactor so I am really excited!
Originally Posted By ni_teach May is going to be a very busy month at the resort. They have the Little Mermaid ride, Star Tours 2 and now Pirates 4 movie premiere also at the park.
Originally Posted By Roger Rabbit The original date for Soundsational was Friday, April 1st. (No joke either.) Now, it's looking like a late May/early June debut.
Originally Posted By ni_teach I had not heard that Soundsational Parade date had moved. May... the perfect storm.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If it does get pushed back to late May or early June, will there be any sort of interim parade? It seems strange that they would go that long without anything, but if it's due to the paving projects (I seem to recall Celebrate! getting pushed back a couple weeks because of that), I guess there's not much that could be done. On the other hand, the themed weekend events in the Festival Arena are nice, though I'm sure the park is pretty dead during the weekdays. It is interesting to see the parade CMs showing off a different set of skills, while they learn new mini-shows for each weekend. From what I hear, these things are costing Disney a pretty penny (though they have been very well executed thus far), so I would be a little surprised if they keep them instead of a parade or calvacade of sorts.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Isn't Main St. Being repaved right now? I assumed that is why there are no parades scheduled right now.
Originally Posted By Sparrow Hans, I don't know if they're repaving it but yes there are walls up all along the middle of Main Street and several around the Hub.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 If Soundsational has indeed been pushed to a May opening rather than earlier, once the Main Street work is done I'm sure they could throw together some kind of cavalcade to run.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Or will there be more work to be done? The work done before C!ASP opened was in a couple phases, and only covered about a third of the pavement. Right now, there's only about a third of the pavement covered, leaving another third that has not been repaved in a decade or more. I remember that C!ASP opened in mid-March, so if they pushed Soundsational back to May, they would have enough time to let the current project get finished, move the walls, and start and finish the remaining areas. The only other way to get that done any time soon would be to stop running the parade for 8-10 weeks. That seems unlikely, since they would have a tough time closing it and bringing it back without changes. Knowing how much they don't like making new parades, I don't see that happening any time soon...
