Fantasyland Expansion

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » Apr Wed 07, 2010 8:02 pm

Len90 wrote:
MadEye wrote:Update: Pooh's Playful Spot and Ariel's Grotto will close on April 11th. Walls will go from Ariel's Grotto to Toon Town Fair.
Any word on the closing date for Toon Town fair? Will it last through the summer?

No word on Toon Town Fair, yet. Don't know how long it has but I have been hearing sometime after summer.

disneylizzy · Post by **disneylizzy** » May Fri 07, 2010 4:18 pm

Has anyone been to wdw recently?

I went today and there are signs up on the construction walls like a preview of what's to come. There's info about the Ariel ride, Be Our Guest restaurant & the Enchanted castle from Beauty & the Beast.

Also saw that the tree from Piglets Playful Spot has been moved just to the left of the Pooh ride entrance.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » May Fri 07, 2010 5:27 pm

disneylizzy wrote:Has anyone been to wdw recently?

I went today and there are signs up on the construction walls like a preview of what's to come. There's info about the Ariel ride, Be Our Guest restaurant & the Enchanted castle from Beauty & the Beast.

Also saw that the tree from Piglets Playful Spot has been moved just to the left of the Pooh ride entrance.

Is Disney changing the Castle??

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » May Fri 07, 2010 6:25 pm

Jacca5660 wrote:Is Disney changing the Castle??

Nope. But they are creating Beast's castle for the Beauty and The Beast area.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » May Fri 07, 2010 6:27 pm

There's video on youtube of the construction from the train. You can't see much, just a lot of equipment and some clearing of brush.

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » May Fri 07, 2010 6:28 pm

kcarts wrote:There's video on youtube of the construction from the train. You can't see much, just a lot of equipment and some clearing of brush.

The train is nowhere near where the construction is going to take place. What you can see is most likely a staging area for building materials and construction vehicles.

disneylizzy · Post by **disneylizzy** » May Sun 09, 2010 8:12 am

MadEye wrote: The train is nowhere near where the construction is going to take place. What you can see is most likely a staging area for building materials and construction vehicles.

The train route butts right up against Mickey's Toontown Fair...isn't that where they're going to do construction?

I think I read somewhere that the train will not be operating for some stages of the construction b/c of this.

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » May Sun 09, 2010 8:48 am

disneylizzy wrote:The train route butts right up against Mickey's Toontown Fair...isn't that where they're going to do construction?

I think I read somewhere that the train will not be operating for some stages of the construction b/c of this.

I'm talking about right at this very second. All the work being done is backstage where no guests can see it, either from the current Fantasyland or the Trains. The demolition/construction for Mickey's Toontown Fair is several months down the line. I've even heard rumblings that Pixie Hollow might not happen at all.

So, like I said, you can't see anything from the trains.

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » May Sun 09, 2010 10:03 am

Really? No Pixie Hollow? I know Disney has long-term plans to keep pumping out those Pixie Hollow/Tinkerbell DVD's - or is all the Pixie Hollow merchandising & marketing not going over as well as Disney had expected? If so, maybe they're planning a switch-out while they're still is the design phase and havent' started construction?

MadEye · Post by **MadEye** » May Sun 09, 2010 10:20 am

mindflipper wrote:Really? No Pixie Hollow? I know Disney has long-term plans to keep pumping out those Pixie Hollow/Tinkerbell DVD's - or is all the Pixie Hollow merchandising & marketing not going over as well as Disney had expected? If so, maybe they're planning a switch-out while they're still is the design phase and havent' started construction?

Nope. TDO (Team Disney Orlando) just doesn't want to spend the money needed for some things their higher ups want to do at WDW.

Budget cuts. Thanks TDO!!!

Amy · Post by **Amy** » May Sun 09, 2010 10:47 am

MadEye wrote:
mindflipper wrote:Really? No Pixie Hollow? I know Disney has long-term plans to keep pumping out those Pixie Hollow/Tinkerbell DVD's - or is all the Pixie Hollow merchandising & marketing not going over as well as Disney had expected? If so, maybe they're planning a switch-out while they're still is the design phase and havent' started construction?
Nope. TDO (Team Disney Orlando) just doesn't want to spend the money needed for some things their higher ups want to do at WDW.

Budget cuts. Thanks TDO!!!

That stinks! I've seen some youtube videos of Pixie Hollow out in DL and it looks pretty awesome at night with the lights and things...nice music too

disneylizzy · Post by **disneylizzy** » May Sun 09, 2010 1:46 pm

I hope they still do Pixie Hollow....but come to think of it, I saw a presentation about the expansion about a month ago & they didn't say anything about Pixie Hollow.

This would be a major misstep IMO, the fairies are hot right now & much newer characters than some of the princesses.

kcarts · Post by **kcarts** » May Sun 09, 2010 2:20 pm

Here's a video of the wall. Gives you an idea of what is walled off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0a0jwK ... eature=sub

This is from the same guy who took the video from the train that Mad Eye says you can't see anything from.

Amy · Post by **Amy** » May Sun 09, 2010 3:36 pm

kcarts wrote:Here's a video of the wall. Gives you an idea of what is walled off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED0a0jwK ... eature=sub

This is from the same guy who took the video from the train that Mad Eye says you can't see anything from.

Beautiful artwork ~ does anyone know if the Little Mermaid is simply going to be moved from DHS to Fantasyland or are they planning something entirely new?

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » May Mon 10, 2010 10:03 am

They have "re-routed" the train before...when they were building Splash Mountain. Back then the train ran back and forth between Main Street Station to Mickey's Star Land (Toontown Fair). It ran forwards and then in reverse. This was because of how close Splash Mountain was to the Frontierland Station. Check out the WEDway Radio podcast that talks about it: http://wedwayradio.squarespace.com/show ... -year.html