Gemini Cricket
08-06-2008, 04:28 AM
Graveyard Coming Back to Life
There does seem to be one bright spot, on Tom Sawyer Island. Although Fort Wilderness is never to reopen to guests, the area behind it soon will, for the first time since the island became Pirates Lair.
New gates at the rear of the fort have been installed, and the ground behind has been filled and leveled for bringing back the old cemetery. The surviving tombstones are in the Sign Shop being restored, and new ones fashioned for the wooden ones that rotted away. Guests should be able to lie in the open grave of Fort Wilderness's cemetery again by the end of this year.
But will the graveyard be “pirated up”?
Unlikely, says a source. “The cemetery will have the same headstones as in the past… unless something changes between now and Christmas. The pirates craze on the island has died down. Hopefully, the area from the fort and beyond will be left as is in the world of Tom and Huck”
Source (http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=mt080801dk)
A Disneyland tombstone, featuring the username of our EH1812, might be coming back. Here's to hoping.
:cheers:
There does seem to be one bright spot, on Tom Sawyer Island. Although Fort Wilderness is never to reopen to guests, the area behind it soon will, for the first time since the island became Pirates Lair.
New gates at the rear of the fort have been installed, and the ground behind has been filled and leveled for bringing back the old cemetery. The surviving tombstones are in the Sign Shop being restored, and new ones fashioned for the wooden ones that rotted away. Guests should be able to lie in the open grave of Fort Wilderness's cemetery again by the end of this year.
But will the graveyard be “pirated up”?
Unlikely, says a source. “The cemetery will have the same headstones as in the past… unless something changes between now and Christmas. The pirates craze on the island has died down. Hopefully, the area from the fort and beyond will be left as is in the world of Tom and Huck”
Source (http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=mt080801dk)
A Disneyland tombstone, featuring the username of our EH1812, might be coming back. Here's to hoping.
:cheers: