Posted Oct 21, 2016, 2:11 AM
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MiceAge Disneyland Rumor Update – A Force To Be Reckoned With
The construction scaffolding has been growing on the sides and back of Tower of Terror, and by Halloween it should be nearly fully shrouded in scaffolding and tarps. That’s about the time that the construction footprint will have to expand enough to shut down the DCA parade route through the remainder of the construction timeline until next May. Without the ability to perform a parade during construction DCA will still go full steam ahead on one of Christie’s pet projects, the food and merch “festivals” in DCA that will begin November 11th and continue through the spring in one form or another. And when the scaffolds come down, this is what will be seen from throughout DCA – as the video says, inspired by oil refineries:
During fiscal year ’17 DCA will continue to be the home of movie sneak peeks; Dr. Strange this Friday in the Sunset Showcase Theater, Moana on October 14th in the Bugs Life Theater, and then Beauty and the Beast and Cars III next spring. The big 400 seat Sunset Showcase Theater, formerly the Frozen and Muppets venue, has been refurbished and plussed up by WDI this fall. They’ve removed all the Frozen references, and slathered on new paint and carpet and trim to make it more like a Hollywood movie palace. WDI has also upgraded the 3-D projectors to allow for more impressive audience-surrounding visuals, in addition to the theater’s usual water, wind, lighting and projection effects.
It’s a big upgrade over the much smaller theater in WDW, where they will show Dr. Strange and other previews in simple 2-D and without any ability for in-theater special effects. WDI and the Studios just love doing these previews at Disneyland, as the SoCal demographics pulled in are in the sweet spot of affluent families who can help create proper buzz for the latest movie before it opens. Unfortunately, the WDW management team just hasn’t gotten it together to upgrade their preview theater and therefore show basic 2-D previews there.
While the creative vision for the two Star Wars rides are ground-breaking and overwhelmingly huge, the operational capacity is tiny. Each attraction is not expected to get more than 1,500 riders per hour, or roughly half the hourly capacity of Pirates of the Caribbean. Senior execs like Michael Colglazier and Bob Chapek are unfazed by that reality and never pushed WDI for higher capacity, as they have no real operational experience on a Disneyland scale. But there are some folks at Imagineering, who have worked in the industry for decades, who are worried that the low hourly capacity of these epic mega-rides will negatively impact the visitor experience due to frustration and disappointment for at least the first few years of operation. Especially if the showmanship for the lucky few is as impressive as WDI hopes it will be. So, happy new fiscal year to you and yours. After a half decade of solid growth, topped off by the wildly successful Diamond Celebration, the Anaheim property has never been more financially successful. The art and business of theme park operations might get very little respect from Burbank and Glendale bosses, but it will be interesting to see how the Anaheim team is backed up by those bosses when WDI creative execs challenge them to rethink the entire theme park experience for paying customers in Star Wars Land. The next few years should prove to be very, very interesting, at least for those who actually stick around in Anaheim long enough to see it. Well folks, that’s our Disneyland rumor update. Now, let’s hear from you.
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