Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Since I have no immediate plans to go to Disneyland Resort I must confess that I haven't been paying much attention to what was going on there. I have a friend, however, that is going that way in a few days. She told me yesterday that she was totally bummed out because she had (through her mother) heard that Small World was closed and that almost all of CA was shut down for revamping. Is any of that true? It sounded strange because I thought that I had read that Small World was open again and I hadn't really heard the CA was closed. It didn't make sense that they would shut down the entire park all at once, but stranger things have happened. Can someone give me the lowdown so I can inform my friend of the realities?
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Small World is only closed for the holiday change over - they do this every Jan to remove the Christmas overlay - Haunted Mansion is closed for the same reason. DCA has a few things closed - the SunWheel is being redone from sunwheel to Mickey's Silly Syphonies. The Golden Dreams is closed - it will eventually become the Little Mermaid Ride. The Lagoon is empty while they assemble the new light show that will be in the lagoon. And finally Burger Invasion is closed because McDonalds exited the parks and this will become the beer garden.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Over on the 'other' website are several photos of DCAs dry lagoon, walls around the 'golden dreams' area and PP, and scaffolding over the sun wheel. It's not too pretty right now.
Originally Posted By oc_dean 'it's a small world' NORMALLY is closed for some 2-3 weeks for "Christmas" overlay removal - following New Year's day. HOWEVER .... it won't reopen till mid or late February .. because they are in the process of adding the highly controversial "Disney characters" throughout the ride.
Originally Posted By oc_dean And as mentioned ... most of DCA's construction progress ... is only in the immediate area of the Paradise Pier lagoon. Areas of Grizzly Peek, Condor Flats, Hollywood Backlot, Bugs Land, Sunshine Plaza will remain construction-wall free for now. To the best of my knowledge.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost So just for clarification...Small World is Closed into February and Haunted Mansion is as well? That's one of the reasons that I hate overlays. It's great if you live close by but if you live on the other coast and only have certain times that you can get there and they correspond with the shut downs, it totally sucks. As far as you know...is Soarin' and ToT open in CA?
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains The Disneyland.com site says they are open - but Grizzly River will be closed for about a week or so mid Jan. For right now IASW is scheduled to reopen on 2/6 - but I guess that could change.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Most of DCA is still open. There are a couple select attractions (the boardwalk games and ferris wheel right now) that will be closed in phases to get the work done. The big lagoon is empty, so it's not the prettiest thing in the world, but the rest of the attractions should still be operating on a normal schedule (except apparently GRR will be down for a while).
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Also, Main Street Vehicles are down (The Street has refurb walls in areas) as is the Disneyland Parade. <a href="http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/in-the-parks/928-knotts-says-ride-2009-socal-military-discounts-much-more.html" target="_blank">http://micechat.com/forums/blo...ore.html</a> Much of the Route 66 area is also behind walls, basically the Amphitheater area... The Floral area at the entrance was also behind walls at DL Monday through Thursay, but has had the walls removed. Once Upon a Time in Fantasyland also has walls up, as does much of the Big Thunder Ranch area.... Lots of photos can be found here... <a href="http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/in-the-parks/928-knotts-says-ride-2009-socal-military-discounts-much-more.html" target="_blank">http://micechat.com/forums/blo...ore.html</a>
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Man, I feel awful for the people that are making their first trip and possibly last trip to DL. What a disappointing experience that is going to be. Didn't they just finish redoing DL a few years back for the 50th? I can understand wanting to get things out of the way, but must they do everything at the same time. I noticed that they haven't reduced the rate while everything is blocked off. I know that DL is more of a "locals" park and therefore can be visited anytime but geez, enough is enough. There are a few that spend mega bucks to travel to he Disney Mecca, you'd think they would count for something as well.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes I don't understand the complaints. Disneyland has always had multiple closures in the off season. If you want to visit DL with everything up and running, you have to go in the peak seasons (summer and Christmas). Doesn't anyone remember when DL closed all their attractions for two days a week? They closed all their resaraunts, too. Oh, they also closed all their shops.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really don't see what the big deal is. there are two attractions in DCA that are currently closed, and I wouldn't call either of them headliners. The Midway Games are hardly an attraction, and the ferris wheel is used more as a piece of scenery than an actual attraction. I will admit that it would kind of stink to miss out on GRR if you really wanted to do it, but in January, it's usually a little chilly for anyone to want to get that wet (I've done it a couple times that time of year, and it's not pleasant). So, yes, the park has some walls up, but considering the ammount of work that they're doing, pretty much everything is still operational and just as fun as it would be otherwise.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Union Pacific and BNSF aren't doing as much freight business right now due to the deteriorating economy, so they are doing maintenance on the tracks, resulting in slow orders and cancellations of some passenger trains. It's sort of the same thing for Disneyland.
Originally Posted By gadzuux DCA has the main entrance closure coming up as well, and that will probably be for at least a year. Last I heard it was going to be after the openings of 'mermaid' and 'world of color'. That seems like extra crazy planning, even for disney. NOW would have been a better time, before they significantly increase their daily gate admissions with gigantic new attractions. I'm sure they have their reasons for doing it later, but if you think people are complaining about DCA now, just wait til they close off the entrance.
Originally Posted By zekeayala <<<It's not too pretty right now. >>> it sure isnt... and i dont see why they had to take off the entire steel of the ferris wheel if all they were going to do was replace the sun face with mickey's... makes no sense..
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains They are doing more than putting a new face on it - the new theme is Mickey's silly symphanies. Somewhere in this section there is a thread with pix of the sketches of the new wheel
Originally Posted By monorailblue Mickey's Fun Wheel. Silly Symphony Swings, I believe, will be the re-themed Orange Stinger.
