brenthodge

They aren’t messing around. Tons of security tonight and I’ve personally seen 3 groups of 2-3 kids each “held” be security (like sitting at a table while they “guard” them waiting on parents to show up (from ‘inside the park’ lol) and I’m overhearing chatter on security radios as I walk around describing what groups are wearing so they are coming out of the gate strong with a clear message. It feels less crazy tonight, but it might also be that it feels like Winterfest with no Christmas decorations LOL! It’s. COLD!

It’s going to scream “tropical” with all that lush vegetation filling all those planting areas in the ginormous sea of concrete. At least all the concrete will be hot to make it feel tropical. WTH is with that massive space with nothing to break it up?

Wow. Seeing those pics reinforced my belief that the park wasn’t really planning on this for this season. Maybe it was an idea that had been pitched, but wasn’t approved till late late in the year, or maybe this was a corporate initiative that they got dropped on them late in the game, but this sure seems a way off if it had really been “in the planning stages” when it should’ve been.

I thinks it’s future is it will stay where it is, be part of the Oktoberfest “mini land” off of international street and be just fine because that area can’t have any more “removed” from it and still be an “area”

Not impressed-the 50th is seeming less and less special now in hindsight. Maybe PTE I get, but the others seem like a total rehash. Oh well, at least they will taste good reheated.

That whole zone needs to be cleaned up a bit, but I actually don’t mind the flume being a “pivot ride” since the theming (except the old Snoopy at the end that looks pretty crappy) doesn’t alter the ride experience. If the whole area was softened a bit and the restrooms given a more “rustic” exterior I think it still works as a transition between the two areas. I’d still love to see the whole “camp Snoopy” retheme. That would really make it a non issue if that area just flowed (no pun intended) right into Rivertown with a more rustic look and feel.

Yeah, I think Aeronautica Landing is gonna blow right past this mini “retheme” but hopefully that project is a sign of the type of things they have planned for all parks in the coming years.

Disney does it all the time. I agree stamped and colored concrete would be better than pavers.

If AP path is closed, Action Zone can still have both paths (in front of and behind Festhaus) and it’s no more of a dead end than it always is, and the restroom and coney entrance are far enough to the right that if need be, the path could be open with the area to the left that is actually AP closed. I hope that area is closed so people aren’t walking through a half finished construction zone.

I agree that those options should be there, just not so prominently featured. When they r had special food items at Festhaus it’s almost impossible to find them on the menu or in the line. It’s pizza… they will seek it out like moths to a flame. No need to highlight it (unless it’s unique… and good)

And they are both there! Whew! All is still good with the world.

Thanks for quoting verbatim their press copy NOW when the teams come in to age and distress the bright colors into a sun-faded village through character paint, over washes and forced shadows it will be amazing. When the landscape crews come in with lots of “simulated tropical foliage” suited for a Midwest climate I’ll get on board with your argument. Until then it’s a bright, freshly painted building with a theme inconsistent room. Time will tell how it all wraps up.

I’m not pessimistic as much as hopeful. I’ve seen great things shaping up with Aeronautica and the Fiesta Village updates, and since they’ve proven they can do it as a company, I’m just holding them to the standards they’ve achieved other places (and even at KI) but then I see tattered and sun faded vines on the entrance to the “signature shed” on Mystic Timbers and I question their ability to deliver in the long run, and I see an old stained shingle roof on the center feature of the reimagined OktoberFest and I question how much funding is going into a total retheme. If holding the park, that I know can exectute to the standards that they’ve proven they can, get me an eye roll and a emoji then so be it.

Didn’t seem to be any real reason for that other than to make them “exclusive”. Maybe it was a production space issue, but not sure why they could run them all day long if they wanted.

No show updates yet. I don’t think anyone was expecting last years level, but the fact that they aren’t using that to create interest in pass sales seems to say there’s not a lot to talk about. Bring on the Kuntry Review in the German Food Hall with the Chinese mall food again LOL.

It was - no reason it couldn’t come back though.

Hopefully with this small of an area they are really layering on the details since it’s pretty dependent on that to see the story of a jungle outpost (that was my concern in even going with this in that it’s not ‘organic’ to the location.) but so far it’s looking like a cost-managed mild retheme. Hope I’m WAY surprised when it opens “later”

Roof is looking a bit stained in that shot - Maybe they are leaning into the funk and calling it "themed aging" LOL Interesting to see old signage is still up - leads me to peleive nothing happening with the existing roof as that would've been removed to do the work (unless its running behind as well)

Peopke need to spread their wings a bit. I’m glad those places seem to be on the way out. Personally d be fine with all franchise brands leaving, but sone people are scared of what they don’t know LOL

They need to update that “cool off inside” line unless there’s even more we don’t know yet LOL.

I’d venture the end result they came up with is neither Bellagio OR the Island.

Yeah - they definitely took a page out of the Disney World "How to renovate a Hub or Main Street for Optimum Show Efficiency" handbook LOL

And there are small trees, less landscaping close to the buildings, no gas lights, odd pavement layout (the black “road” is the narrowest with trees in the middle of it and there’s no “ implied curb” like at KD) so without people, yes… it oooks even more depressing. I’d personally take running the parade around the tower circle instead of down both sides of IStreet over the clear cut they did when they redid the area a few years ago. Always seemed odd to me anyway there are two show stops in the same area just on both side of the fountain.

Also you see that pic from the park and your realize what a bleak, blank slate they made of I street a few years ago. Ugh.

Ive been a good boy - I knew about this a week or so ago, but did what I was told and said nothing and shared nothing - CATS OUTTA THE BAG BUT I DIDNT RELEASE IT LOL