Comments on: Cruise To Discovery Island http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/ Disney news, history, opinion and more - broadcasting from beautiful downtown Progress City, U.S.A.! Tue, 15 May 2012 05:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: philphoggs http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5438 philphoggs Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:23:35 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5438 So cost conciseness does have benefits; it kept the boogie man away from those islands. Cutting off my nose to spite my face, without success understood. Maybe I'll just grow a beard, shun zippers... rent Discovery Island and start a Disney Luddite colony there in 2010! ~ hey I'm serious :) So cost conciseness does have benefits; it kept the boogie man away from those islands. Cutting off my nose to spite my face, without success understood. Maybe I’ll just grow a beard, shun zippers… rent Discovery Island and start a Disney Luddite colony there in 2010! ~ hey I’m serious :)

]]> By: Another Voice http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5434 Another Voice Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:20:20 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5434 Around the time the Grand Floridian was going up, Disney did look into the idea of putting honeymoon and luxury cottages on the islands in the Seven Seas Lagoon. The idea was killed for costs - Disney didn't want to buy a fireboat and other emergency equipment. Corporate policy is now that any non-berm development must be outsourced (along the lines of shuttering Pleasure Island and trying to rent it out like a shopping mall). There's very little chance that any outside company would be interested in Discovery Island, so most likely it will just rot in the sun like River Country. As for DVC...they basically exist as part of the whole mortgage scam industry. Now that they can't bundle up their paper and get someone else to take a fall, many pixies are expecting them to be sold off sooner rather than later. Around the time the Grand Floridian was going up, Disney did look into the idea of putting honeymoon and luxury cottages on the islands in the Seven Seas Lagoon. The idea was killed for costs – Disney didn’t want to buy a fireboat and other emergency equipment.

Corporate policy is now that any non-berm development must be outsourced (along the lines of shuttering Pleasure Island and trying to rent it out like a shopping mall). There’s very little chance that any outside company would be interested in Discovery Island, so most likely it will just rot in the sun like River Country. As for DVC…they basically exist as part of the whole mortgage scam industry. Now that they can’t bundle up their paper and get someone else to take a fall, many pixies are expecting them to be sold off sooner rather than later.

]]> By: philphoggs http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5433 philphoggs Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:36:36 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5433 Hard to stop looking at the train wreck. All that 70s machoism reminds of older kids bent on kicking your butt, now thru the lens... a group of rambunctious puppies. I kinda wondered the same thing about the birds, thinking somewhere it's written that a number of the animals migrated from "Treasure Island." Next time I'll check their Cruise awareness level to be certain. A bunch a suits gripping financial studies, geological surveys, population charts, timelines, when our man says “thats where the treasure will be buried”. Classic. I would like to think it's out of respect that an uber DVC getaway's never been built on the hallowed ground. Instead maybe a real yarn of adventure will take shape there someday, that's the ring I'd toss my hat in. Hard to stop looking at the train wreck. All that 70s machoism reminds of older kids bent on kicking your butt, now thru the lens… a group of rambunctious puppies.
I kinda wondered the same thing about the birds, thinking somewhere it’s written that a number of the animals migrated from “Treasure Island.” Next time I’ll check their Cruise awareness level to be certain.
A bunch a suits gripping financial studies, geological surveys, population charts, timelines, when our man says “thats where the treasure will be buried”. Classic. I would like to think it’s out of respect that an uber DVC getaway’s never been built on the hallowed ground. Instead maybe a real yarn of adventure will take shape there someday, that’s the ring I’d toss my hat in.

]]> By: Brian Martsolf http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5429 Brian Martsolf Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:54:36 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5429 As for the parrots used in the video, as long-lived as these birds are it is very likely that some of the same Mc Caws you might photograph today at Disney's Animal Kingdom would be ones seen at WDW way back then, I know that they used to occasionally have parrots in Adventureland, in the space near Mexico on the World Showcase, and in the lobby of the Polynesian Village Resort, as the public's view of how to responsibly treat wildlife changed over the years, one by one these venues went away, I imagine thaty at first these creatures were kept on Discovery Island, whereas now they are liky to be seen on that newer Discovery island the one found at Disney's Animal Kingdom. As for the parrots used in the video, as long-lived as these birds are it is very likely that some of the same Mc Caws you might photograph today at Disney’s Animal Kingdom would be ones seen at WDW way back then, I know that they used to occasionally have parrots in Adventureland, in the space near Mexico on the World Showcase, and in the lobby of the Polynesian Village Resort, as the public’s view of how to responsibly treat wildlife changed over the years, one by one these venues went away, I imagine thaty at first these creatures were kept on Discovery Island, whereas now they are liky to be seen on that newer Discovery island the one found at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

]]> By: Michael http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5413 Michael Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:37:10 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5413 I'd heard that Walt had picked the spot but hadn't heard that detail. You're right - it sounds like him, and seems totally in character. He picked well! It's bizarre and criminal that Discovery Island continues to sit unused. I’d heard that Walt had picked the spot but hadn’t heard that detail. You’re right – it sounds like him, and seems totally in character. He picked well! It’s bizarre and criminal that Discovery Island continues to sit unused.

]]> By: Another Voice http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5410 Another Voice Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:17:45 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5410 There's a story that used to go around the company (back in the days when people actually spoke about The Dead Guy with respect). It says that 'Discovery Island' is the reason WDW is located where it is. In the story, Disney minons had found several areas that they thought would work. So one day, they took Walt up in an airplane to look at the sites. After buzzing swamp, orange groves and pastures for a while - Walt saw this lake with a big island in the middle. He is claimed to have said that it immediately sparked a childhood memory of seeing similar islands in lakes and rivers, and wanting to take a raft like Tom Sawyer and go adventuring. "That's the spot" it's claimed he said, "that's were the treasure is going to be buried". True or not, I don't know. But it sure seems like Walt, and it sure seems like a story Walt would want to be remembered by. There’s a story that used to go around the company (back in the days when people actually spoke about The Dead Guy with respect). It says that ‘Discovery Island’ is the reason WDW is located where it is.

In the story, Disney minons had found several areas that they thought would work. So one day, they took Walt up in an airplane to look at the sites. After buzzing swamp, orange groves and pastures for a while – Walt saw this lake with a big island in the middle. He is claimed to have said that it immediately sparked a childhood memory of seeing similar islands in lakes and rivers, and wanting to take a raft like Tom Sawyer and go adventuring. “That’s the spot” it’s claimed he said, “that’s were the treasure is going to be buried”.

True or not, I don’t know. But it sure seems like Walt, and it sure seems like a story Walt would want to be remembered by.

]]> By: Michael http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5408 Michael Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:42:54 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5408 Haha I'm just grateful for it introducing me to Pablo Cruise. They sure knew how to party, Disney-style! Haha I’m just grateful for it introducing me to Pablo Cruise. They sure knew how to party, Disney-style!

]]> By: philphoggs http://progresscityusa.com/2009/12/19/cruise-to-discovery-island/comment-page-1/#comment-5403 philphoggs Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:06:40 +0000 http://progresscityusa.com/?p=2733#comment-5403 Ha Ha Ha Pablo Cruise living large, still love it! I guess that prove something about nostalgia, don’t it? Ha Ha Ha Pablo Cruise living large, still love it! I guess that prove something about nostalgia, don’t it?

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