Originally Posted By dresswhites According to Mouseplanet the Liberty Bell is now coming back in September! WDW's River will be boatless all summer long. Thoughts?
Originally Posted By mouse of the south I sure was hoping it would be running during our stay. One year they let our daughter steer the boat, she loved it!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Thoughts?>> Yeah. Plenty. Where do you want to begin? Oh, yeah, the big boat. The Rivers of America look much better and more realistic with no boat traffic. And why take a slow boat ride when you can go play at Pooh's Amazing Lack of Creativity Playground? I wonder how neglected it must have been to need such a long makeover. Maybe Ty and crew can come and film an Extreme Makeover Disney Edition? Anything to get that MK spic and span instead of dirty and ghetto.
Originally Posted By Labuda Spirit of 74 - could it be? Dare I dream? Is it YOU?????? Oh, and this stinks for summer crowds!
Originally Posted By dresswhites WDW's magic kingdom is decreasing its already small attraction roster. Gone Skyway, Subs, Timekeeper, Keelboats, Canoes, Disney Story, Swan boats, possibly Carrousel of Progress. Gone for a while is Riverboat. Very few things have been added. Without the Riverboat that whole River area really loses alot.
Originally Posted By dresswhites i remember after the Columbia incident and both the Twain, Columbia, and Canoes were down for a long time, it was such a wonderful sight to see them come back. To hear the twain whistle after its long absense was a sweet sound. The whistle and the Columbia cannon just are such magical sounds.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The Rivers of America look much better and more realistic with no boat traffic. And why take a slow boat ride when you can go play at Pooh's Amazing Lack of Creativity Playground? < Compadre -- you hit upon my number one complaint for the last year -- if I am known for anything on this board-- it is for my campaign against that e ticket replacing Home Depot playground, right on some of the most expensive property dq ft wise in the world. Would rather of had them keep the ound and flowers, would have ticked me off less
Originally Posted By dresswhites i agree. i wouldn't mind the playground, but it should of been put in Toon Town, or what ever they call it at WDW. The playground at Disneyland just replaced an equally insipid attraction. so no loss. WDW should of done the same. The way WDW is being run they will drain the Rivers of America and put a playground there too.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Actually, Toon Town already HAS another child's playground--and so does Tom Sawyer Island. That's a total of 3, so let's not let them get away with installing yet another. ORWEN: As for the big white boat that usually goes around the river--didn't they used to have two of them--so that when one was out of service--the other one could still be used? ORDDU: This is something that has been discussed before. A cast member once told us that the other boat had been destroyed--accidentally--when it was picked up by a crane during refurbishment. Then it was never replaced and only one boat remained. We can't vouch for the validity of this claim, though. ORGOCH: But we CAIN vouch fer the fact they's got the best bull frogs along them there river banks of any river in the U S of A!!!!!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Spirit of 74 - could it be? Dare I dream? Is it YOU??????>> Dream you must, dearest Labuda. For in those dreams, is a special magic that can make the impossible seem real. A beautiful princess came to me the other night, from a realm far, far away, and told me the Spirit was needed. And since she wished on a star, her dream came true. Just don't wish upon a star when the Spirit is checking out DLP because it may take a while (and an express mail package) before your dream comes true!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<WDW's magic kingdom is decreasing its already small attraction roster. Gone Skyway, Subs, Timekeeper, Keelboats, Canoes, Disney Story, Swan boats, possibly Carrousel of Progress. Gone for a while is Riverboat. Very few things have been added. Without the Riverboat that whole River area really loses alot.>> Pretty soon the MK will resemble HKDL ... just not nearly as nice or as clean.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I'd also add regular shows at the Tomorrowland Stage (now Galaxy Palace Theatre) and the old Fantasy Faire stage (replaced in a sense by character shows in Mickey's Starland, those shows now also gone).
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo Anyone else like to do the riverboat right before it closes at Dusk? It's so relaxing and seeing MK from the deck as the sun goes down is pretty neat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our cast is picked! <a href="http://www.newlineagefilms.com" target="_blank">http://www.newlineagefilms.com</a>
Originally Posted By dresswhites maybe they drain the river and work on it, while the riverboat is down. Or bring back the Keelboat and the canoes, so at least there is some boat going around the island.
Originally Posted By disney pete Thats got to be the longest overhaul in history, the ship i work on has just had her annual overhaul and we where in and out of drydock in 15 days!!
