New WDW Resort To Be Built At Old River Country Site

Finally, Disney will build something at the long-neglected site of the former water park River Country.

Walt Disney World Resort is building a new hotel with more than 900 beds on Bay Lake where the former River Country water park was once located, the company said Thursday.

The unnamed deluxe resort, set to open in 2022, will be in between Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, Disney said in a news release.

My question is, what was taking them so long? The site has been abandoned for such a long time, one starts to wonder if there was something inherently wrong with the location.

It will be interesting to see if it will have a "wilderness" theme to match the two resorts that bookend the location. I hope that it will be distinct enough from those two to make it interesting and unique.

Zz.

"Nightmare Before Christmas" Turns 25 Today

25 years ago, "Nightmare Before Christmas" premiered, on Oct. 13, 1993. And now, all these years later, it has become a cult classic.

This is an interview with animator Henry Selick, who directed the movie.

Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment on the 25th anniversary of Nightmare Before Christmas, Selick went in-depth about the process of creating his characters, his disagreements with Disney (the studio wanted Jack to have eyeballs) and Burton (who hated one of Selick’s favorite scenes), the twist ending that didn’t get made, and whether the glorious, laborious art of stop-motion animation will survive this century. 

You gotta read it.

Zz.