Originally Posted By Manfried Seems we have another Disney cast member who has not read their employment agreement. Good for us, but as a former Disney cast member I would advise Westsider to not be so obvious. You could lose your job and would be unable to do anything about it. The mouse house is cracking down on all violators. It started at the top and is moving down through the ranks. Be careful, be careful.
Originally Posted By jmuboy I hope the new boat docks at least try and look like wood and not like concrete piers.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks like the keel boat will be a new one. I believe the older ones were bigger and had more than one window on each side. This one looks like it will have a better scale for the area, and would be more appropriate for one person to have if they live alone. Any guesses as to if it will float? <a href="http://www.disneygeek.com/updates/disneyland_update.php?page_id=44&update_dir=2010_03_26" target="_blank">http://www.disneygeek.com/upda...10_03_26</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros And while we're talking about things sitting backstage on the westside of the park, does anybody know what's going in the new building back there? It looked like a 2-story masonry building next to the tram route, around where the POTC show building is. It has a relatively small footprint, and didn't seem to have many windows on the bottom, but there were some upstairs. It really threw me off when I was riding past it yesterday...
Originally Posted By Westsider Manfried, if you have moral objections to reading it here from a CM, you could go for a trip on the Disneyland Railroad and see all this stuff yourself along with the 200 other people on the train. Every 7 minutes. ;-) But indignation can be fun, can't it?
Originally Posted By Westsider FerretAfros, that's the old keelboat. It was in horrible shape before they pulled it out of the river a year ago. It's been resealed along the hull and has a reworked top cabin that is made to look more like a real keelboat than to accomodate 12 tourists in three small cabins. But the hull and basic structure is the old keelboat, the Gullywhumper to be exact.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I swear I saw it sitting backstage from the tram yesterday, next to the rafts, still dressed like it was when it was plying the river. I could just be mixing up my memories though... Any guesses about the new building back there?
Originally Posted By Westsider Manfried, cover your eyes here... That new building is a new Cast Cafeteria. The one under Pirates was remodeled into an expanded kitchen for the Blue Bayou. Disneyland has two keelboats, the Bertha Mae and the Gullywhumper. I can go double check out which one is left, which should tell us which one is now parked in front of the cabin. But I'm pretty sure it was the Gully.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That makes sense. I thought that the only had one left, but now that I think about it, I feel like both were still out on display (one by the moose and the other just past the Hungry Bear). On the one hand it's kind of sad to see the old boats just sitting there with no passengers, but on the other hand, it's nice to see that they're doing what they can to keep them in good shape so they will last a long time. I never got a chance to ride them (I honestly don't ever remember seeing them running), so it would be nice if they wanted to bring them back for me... : ) A cafeteria makes sense for that building. It's always seemed strange to me that the old one was in the basement, which just sounded cramped. Hopefully the new one will be nice, but it doesn't look very big. Maybe the upper level will have additional seating.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <There's some new Indians coming to the banks near the rapids. But I don't know anything about a Mike Fink animatronic going in at the cabin. > Okay - that's how I read Al's update though: " A pair of animatronic bobcats up on a ridge, some new Indian Scouts staring down passing Davy Crockett Canoes along the rocky rapids, and Mike Fink parking his keelboat out front and moving in to the old non-burning settlers cabin are some of the changes..." The way he words it, it sounds like he means those are all AA's. So is it just we're to THINK it's Mike Fink parking his keelboat there and living in the cabin? Or the boat spiels will say so?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not really familiar with backstage, but it's just across the tram route from the House of Blues loading area. It's just before the trams go under the Monorail beam, right along the fence.
Originally Posted By Westsider You get a great view of the new Cast cafeteria under construction from the Monorail. I'm sure Darkbeer has pictures of it on smugmug.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt <a href="http://www.disneygeek.net/updates/disneyland_image.php?update_dir=2010_03_26&page_id=42&num_image=2" target="_blank">http://www.disneygeek.net/upda..._image=2</a>
Originally Posted By mousermerf It reminds of the one behind the Odyssey at Epcot. I wonder if it will serve those yummy cold german potato salad sandwiches on crusty french with italian dressing.. those were good.. and it has a Subway. Eat fresh.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i wish our cafeterias had subways! heck just something better than what we got would be better!
