New DL Update From AL

[Isaac]

One of the highlights from this update:

Spoiler:

Hello Main Street Electrical Parade
So what is Ed Grier's plan to counter this one-two-three punch of theme park misery? He's going to bring back the Electrical Parade to Disneyland!
Really.
At least that's the current plan, to create a marketing campaign to run from spring through Christmas of 2009 that focuses on the entertainment offered at Disneyland. The campaign would tout the new daytime "Wonder" parade that will debut at Disneyland in '09 once the Main Street paving is complete. And at the same time in the spring the Electrical Parade would move from DCA back over to Disneyland, where it was supposed to have "glowed away forever" 13 years earlier.

He also mentions the new Indy show that's going into Aladdin's Oasis, this summer.

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al040808a.htm

[BarTopDancer]

Oh man I hope he's right about MSEP

[innerSpaceman]

I found this update to be chock full of good and bad, but so much NEWS.


I understand they don't want another static, losing-steam-per-day show at DCA, but to leave the Carthay Circle Theater an empty shell when it's the new "Castle" of the park is going to be worse than two decades of empty Carousel of Progress taking up a third of Tomorrowland. And I daresay that, declining visitorship as may have happened, a supreme Walt Disney Story would remain better than Innoventions forever.


And much as I understand the rationale, I cringe at them destroying the Disneyland Hotel. The resulting New Disneyland Hotel will be nicer architecturaly, but will have GrandCal-style tiny rooms at bankbreak rates.


Well, PLEASE don't do the demolition before the 55th. I want to party in that cool BONITA (aka Wishes / Wonder / Magic / Dreamyear / Princess) Tower suite one more time before it all collapses away forever.

[Kevy Baby]

If they really want to bring back some top notch entertainment...

Spoiler:

[Disneyphile]

I pray he's right about MSEP returning.

Come on, Disney, grant some of us a TRUE dream in a million!

[Kevy Baby]

OK, THIS is going to be a cluster fornication:

Instead, the plan now is to use the same scenario but on the opposite side of the main entrance. The big utility gates adjacent to La Brea Bakery will now be used as the temporary entrance into DCA during parts of 2009 and 2010, with temporary turnstiles and support services installed on the road that leads along the east end of the Soarin' Over California hangar.

Hopefully they realize that the actual gates will need to be WAY inside and not right between WOD and La Brea Bakery

[Alex]

Especially once they put in the security checks that'll be needed.

[Chernabog]

Honestly, I don't understand most people's obsessions with MSEP at Disneyland. I wish they would change the music and update the floats and costumes -- I mean, keep the concept, just change all of the floats already. Pete's Dragon? Jesus.

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Jesus

He was never in the parade.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Pete's Dragon? Jesus.

LOL: That's my 2nd favorite float (behind the Calliope)