Let's start with some news updates from the Walt Disney World Resort. First the good news, a new video from Disney detailing what's coming in the New Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom:
Now, for the bad news: Disney's announced that it's cutting hours on monorail service at the resort, to one hour following regular park close at Epcot, effective this week, and one hour following park close at the Magic Kingdom, starting August 1. That means folks attending evening Extra Magic Hours are out of luck if they were planning to use the monorail to get back to their hotel or car. You'll have to use buses or boats instead.
Finally, the absurd news: Disney fans on Twitter have been having fun with the news that the "Balzac" balloon ball stands around the Disney World theme parks seem to have disappeared. Living away from Florida, I have no idea what these things are/were, but apparently some folks are thrilled to see them go. Feel free to discuss and enlighten the rest of us, Florida readers.
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1.Now I remember what the Ballzac is. Im glad its gone!
2.Robert, I hope your feeling better.
Now then......Balzac's balloons. Have to admit that I have no recollection of them at all. I MUST have seen them at some point but they obviously failed to make any impact on me. So for that reason I was going to say that " They're fired".
However I looked them up and think they're pretty good , that I have seen them before and actually remember dodging them under Innoventions as the guy bounced them to passers-by.
Robert, maybe the emergency room is better than MK's Tiki Room?
For those of you who don't know what a ballzac is, it's, more or less, a designed canvas that is inflated by an inner, rubber balloon.
I'm outraged at the monorail news as I can't see theme discontinuing it for Extra magic Hours. How about the people who stay at hotels on the resort line? You can walk to the contemporary, but the only other way is to boat to Grand Floridian and Polynesian and considering EMH keep the parks open to latest 3am its obviously SAFER to take a monorail back to your hotel than a small resort launch in open water. TTC uses larger ferrys' so it wouldn;t be as bad for them as the tiny resort launches(there only about 20ft long and seat around 25 ppl)
and last but not least feel better
Glad you're okay, Mr. N.
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