Walt Disney Imagineering Files New Notice for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Theming Work

DCBaker7 hours ago

It appears there is a ride envelope testing vehicle on the track - photos from today: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54524658582_be06138817_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525876960_174dd078b9_k.jpg Here are a few more photos: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525720449_91a160f4fa_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525532476_65ea52429d_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525878550_b1be95669e_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525774723_f52c17e2c1_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525531351_551354910d_k.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/2r5eBje]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525532981_3860be9786_k.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/2r5fzaF]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525720869_d2c2bed6b1_k.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/2r5gnEF]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525877295_53b34c1e1c_k.jpg [url=https://flic.kr/p/2r5fyLu]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54525719524_dd0c7d08cb_k.jpg

Mr. Sullivan10 days ago

It’s quite interesting to follow along with, yes. These retrack/overhaul projects always are.

Delta-710 days ago

Is this for third lift hill stuff or could they be adding new scenery elsewhere on the ride?

Goofyernmost10 days ago

The comparison good or bad with the 3 year time for Epcot. Yes, they built an entire park in 3 years, but that means that at least one of the attractions took the full 3 years to build and if many have been only two, but it doesn't matter. If it took 3 years to build a complete land when they were basically working on all the attractions at the same time, what makes one think that building one would take any less time if the per attraction work staff was comparable. You know 6 or 7 attractions being built by 6 or 7 crews all at the same time and one crew building one. And also the old one about how Disneyland was only 1 year. We all seem to forget two very important things. First the degree of sophistication between the 1955 D'land and the requirement of technology used in the shows today is not even worthy of comment. DL was basically a few buildings (very low tech) and second, a few more advanced, simple and extremely problematic engineering designs that for the first few weeks broke down as much as they operated. That is what happens when you rush production and don't test what has been built. You don't find the flaws until a whole group of people have to find out about it right in the middle of the experience. Also a number of those being talked about like "Rise of the Resistance" and Tron and even Galaxy, crossed over in the time of Covid. Not much of anything was built during a lot of that time. I'm sure they could do it faster if it wasn't for that pesky thing like hiring extra help, training said help in all sorts of possible scenario's and just getting the bug out of things before the public was involved. I'm sure that Epic Universal was built the same way all the other Disney parks were built with massive numbers of overlapping construction with a large workforce of hundreds of workers all at the same time. There are just so many that can be present on a singular jobsite before they all just get in each others way and cannot accomplish anything. Also, when they are building a whole park they can do that in the daytime whereas something built in an existing land is usually done at night. Highly skilled people needed to build these high tech attractions of today are in high demand and it's hard to put together a highly skilled group of people that are willing to work at night and those that do are very well paid explaining some of the ridicules cost of building an attraction..

Goofyernmost10 days ago

OMG, they have hidden much bigger things than that. Have you ever seen the overhead view of the Haunted Mansion?

DCBaker11 days ago

A new Notice of Commencement from Walt Disney Imagineering was recorded today for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: 4485 CARIBBEAN WY (BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN) - Mecca Productions, Inc. - Install set elements

larryz16 days ago

Around here, that IS philosophy.

larryz16 days ago

FTFY

Sir_Cliff16 days ago

Sounds like someone was very excited to be watching the progress on Big Thunder.

Drew the Disney Dude16 days ago

There it is!

wdwmagic16 days ago

New track installed today

Drew the Disney Dude16 days ago

Just drove past Magic Kingdom and Craney is in action! Potential new track going in today.

gerarar19 days ago

Goofyernmost23 days ago

Cool! It will happen just in time for my 93 birthday. Something to look forward too.