News Round Up 2019

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Soooo, any rumors of any other big refurbs coming, outside of Spaceship Earth? I wonder if now that Galaxy's Edge will be open, if they feel that will be a good time to close Everest for an extended refurb.

god I hope not.
 
JaxDad said:
Yeah. I never understood people who seem to think of the two companies like a couple idiot professional athletes having a Twitter war before the big game.
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At the beginning of Universal Orlando, there was a big rivalry due to the bad blood with Eisner "stealing" Universal's ideas. There may be some stuff that has still lingered, but I think it's mostly dissipated, especially with the creative talent going back and forth between the two. When Walt was looking to build Disneyland, he even talked with the heads of Universal at the time.
 
Just something interesting to me......just saw a Universal commercial, prime time on NBC. I wonder how many more of these commercials we will be seeing in the future?
 
ksromack said:
Just something interesting to me......just saw a Universal commercial, prime time on NBC. I wonder how many more of these commercials we will be seeing in the future?
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You mean the Universal commercials I've already been seeing over and over again for many many months? Same for Disney World.

I see both companies's commercials all the time.
 
soniam said:
At the beginning of Universal Orlando, there was a big rivalry due to the bad blood with Eisner "stealing" Universal's ideas. There may be some stuff that has still lingered, but I think it's mostly dissipated, especially with the creative talent going back and forth between the two. When Walt was looking to build Disneyland, he even talked with the heads of Universal at the time.
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Ohhh that's interesting tidbits of information. I don't think I knew that before.
 
Farro said:
Soooo, any rumors of any other big refurbs coming, outside of Spaceship Earth? I wonder if now that Galaxy's Edge will be open, if they feel that will be a good time to close Everest for an extended refurb.

god I hope not.
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Could see some more in MK prior to the 50th. Nothing too major but there will be refurbs.
 
soniam said:
At the beginning of Universal Orlando, there was a big rivalry due to the bad blood with Eisner "stealing" Universal's ideas. There may be some stuff that has still lingered, but I think it's mostly dissipated, especially with the creative talent going back and forth between the two. When Walt was looking to build Disneyland, he even talked with the heads of Universal at the time.
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Yep, Eisner with Paramount prior to Disney knew about Universal's plans to build a studio park in Orlando and when he got the CEO job at Disney fast tracked DHS. Currently Brian Roberts and Bob Iger have gone toe to toe so to speak and there is a rivalry still of sorts. Universal knows what Disney has in terms of market share and they want more of it.
 
NJlauren said:
The last few years (2?) food and wine started in August. I just doubt they will start it the same weekend Galaxy edge opens, so I’m thinking after Labor Day this year.
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I wonder if it possible that they will actually move up Food and Wine by a week or so?
 
Wow...we almost booked the week before Labor Day. Instead, decided to do early June for our WDW trip. The whole point of this trip is to go before SWGE craziness. Thank goodness we picked June!

In fall 2020 we might go... interested to see what the hard ticket events will be.

I also thought they'd announce an opening date for MMRR. And I definitely think the Skyliner will probably open end of July/beginning of August. Although I thought SWGE would open the first week of November, so what do I know :earboy2:
 
scrappinginontario said:
My understanding is they open 499 days in advance so it's a rolling window with 1 new day opening each day. I believe you need to call to get those dates though. So far online it's just until Dec 31, 2019.
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You can book resort/rooms 499 days in advance but they are only letting you book packages till 12/31 as of right now. I tried to book a January package this morning and was told the packages for 2020 probably won’t be released til April. I wish I could have booked the whole package but at this point I’m glad I’ve got a room.
 
skier_pete said:
Holy Cow - I have been unable to get to this thread for a few days and you guys go get the news of the year! (Well, until D23.)

I personally like these dates. We will be in DLR for D23 late-August, which means 2.5 months of SW:GE being open, which hopefully means MOST of the crowds will have died down and it's also should be after SoCal schools are back in session. We are planning Feb 2020 for WDW, which gives it nearly 6 months for that, which again means hopefully the crazy crowds have receded and certainly by then both rides are open even if they are not at DLR. I have never been one of the "I must be the first one to see it!" so I'm good. My worst fear was a delay to late summer at DLR and December at WDW.

(To those saying "maybe the crowds won't be bad at the other parks" - I think that's a pretty sizable "maybe". The draw of SW:GE will be partially from locals, which won't affect other parks, but will also be general die hard fans / vacationers / week-long stays. If there is truly a surge in the second category, the result is that though DHS entries could be massive, the overall attendance will also likely spike in those first few weeks after people spend an entire day waiting for one ride. I think there's a good chance that long term (after 1-2 months) the affect is more a "DHS only" surge, but the first month or so could see a rise across the entire resort.)
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Absolutely, it will be a madhouse at all the parks for the next year.
 
TheMaxRebo said:
In Captain Marvel news ...

Review bombers have driven the rotten tomato score down to the lowest in the MCU (18 points below Hulk)

Critics reviews overall very positive

Latest projection is $120m opening

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/02/23/captain-marvel-rotten-tomatoes-review-bombing/


I am seeing it tomorrow night and rather excited
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I saw it last night at the “sneak preview” and thought it was OK. Will probably never re-watch. Similar to the Thor movies (before Ragnarok of course which was amazing) or Doctor Strange.
 
TheMaxRebo said:
In Captain Marvel news ...

Review bombers have driven the rotten tomato score down to the lowest in the MCU (18 points below Hulk)

Critics reviews overall very positive

Latest projection is $120m opening

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2019/02/23/captain-marvel-rotten-tomatoes-review-bombing/


I am seeing it tomorrow night and rather excited
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This is why I always read the reviews and don't go off the percentages.

Is there a reason why people are review bombing it? Is it just that it has a woman lead or is there more to it than that?
 
osully said:
I saw it last night at the “sneak preview” and thought it was OK. Will probably never re-watch. Similar to the Thor movies (before Ragnarok of course which was amazing) or Doctor Strange.
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Yea same here. Filled some holes etc, worth going to as a fan of it all.
 
OSUZorba said:
This is why I always read the reviews and don't go off the percentages.

Is there a reason why people are review bombing it? Is it just that it has a woman lead or is there more to it than that?
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some people are viewing Brie Larson as a "Social Justice Warrior" and are more boycotting her and the fact Disney picked someone to lead the movie who is so outwardly political, etc. (she was mandating that the pres at her press junction was diverse, things like that) vs just sticking to focusing on the movie
 
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