Originally Posted By ssWEDguy There was a push on a few years back to build a walkway that would go completely around Seven Seas Lagoon. Many parts got built, a lot of them with personalized guest bricks. Somewhere along the line things stopped, due to higher priorities, I'm sure. What is the status of this walkway? And how were they planning to have the walkway get past the water channel between the Grand Floridian and MK? The monorail beam has to go up extra high there to go over that channel. (To be able to clear the light show barges as they come out for their nightly show)
Originally Posted By wahooskipper All good questions and I don't have answers. I don't thing the channel would be that big of a challenge. A cantilevered bridge or some other contraption would do the trick.
Originally Posted By RobinsonCrusoeEsq The Walk Around the World is finished. The stretch from the TTC to the Wedding Pavilion to the GF is what they meant by "around the lagoon."
Originally Posted By RobinsonCrusoeEsq Between the Polynesian and the Wedding Pavilion it was actually right along the water. It meanders a bit inland toward the GF, but still what I would call a walk along the logoon.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> The Walk Around the World is finished. The stretch from the TTC to the Wedding Pavilion to the GF is what they meant by "around the lagoon." << Maybe this is a "re-defined" definition for the walk around the world -- so they could declare it "complete," and a success. However, I recall way back when when the project was truly intended to be ENTIRELY around the lagoon. Not "almost." Somewhere, somebody had to be at least thinking about a bridge for a walkway that would connect the Grand Floridian and the MK.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper There would also have been the issue of the water bridge near the Contemporary. They would have had to route the walkway under the bridge with the vehicles or over the "water bridge". My guess is that they thought they would sell WAY more bricks than they ended up selling.
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney ^^^I think you are correct. The original idea was indeed to be a walk around the entirety of the SSL.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> There would also have been the issue of the water bridge near the Contemporary. << I'm guessing the original plan would have been to simply have the walkway go under the Contemporary water bridge. There's already a walkway there. But there would have to be a new solution for crossing the channel between MK and GF. I've never seen any sketches.
Originally Posted By RobinsonCrusoeEsq The Walk Around the World was never intended to entirely circle the lagoon. The sales pitch at the time made it sound like it though. The Walk starts at the TTC, and heads west to Polynesian, where it stops. It picks up again by Luau Cove, and makes its way to the GF, where it stops again. Over by the Magic Kingdom entrance, it stretches from around where the Water Ski Show stands used to be (near GF/Poly launch dock) to the traffic light on the Contemporary/MK walkway. That is about it. There is/was nothing in the way of a walkway from the Contemporary to the TTC. There are service paths, and it is actually possible to walk from the CR to the TTC, but it is more than a half-mile, and you wouldn't walk it. There were no plans to make the Walk Around the World traverse this area.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring No matter where it goes, there's nothing like walking among a couple a hundred other MK guests from the bus or ferry and having some of them stop and randomly read some of the bricks.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I still think it was a great idea. Disney should expand on some of their walkways.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring I like the sparkly walkways around Innoventions. How soon until the Mouse figures out some kind of walk-on video screen for promotional info?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> The Walk Around the World was never intended to entirely circle the lagoon. << Well -- ok -- I believe you. But I sure wish I still had a copy of the brochures from back then. I sure remember it being pitched as a complete circle. But then I don't ever remember seeing any sort of map.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Were those walkway bricks produced locally? Right out of Central Shops?
