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Yes it is the hess station and you can buy water, beer, soda and all that alot cheaper than by the bottle! I have done this many many times, just as OP took bus to DTD or the PI stop and crossed the street and purchased what I needed and took bus right back to hotel.
As far as the hispanic driver I am sure his name was Jose and it was the same driver we had in May, he was funny did alot of trivia and told us the same story about Disney and Universal merge. I wonder sometimes too as my DH pointed out they are all givcen some sort of script to use and do just that to make the trip even at the end enjoyable and rememorable even if it is "rumor". IMHO
I don't think that it will affect the Universal rides at all. They will just be paying their royalties to Disney now, how smart is that. Disney makes money if you go to WDW or Universal lol.
Not sure how much truth there is to this. However, My dad just returned from a trip to WDW and a bus driver told him that disney was working on a 5th park which would be located near AKL. It would only be open at night and would only allow a low number of guests in at a time. It would be a park in which you can get night vision devices and see the animals at night among other things. Again, not sure how much to believe but I thought it was worth sharing!
The Fifth Theme Park Rumour has gone around so many times that I'm surprised it's still standing unaided! I was told this by a Cast Member 3 visits' ago (2006). The version they told me was that it was to be purely a 'thrill-ride' park. He also told me where the new track for the extended Monorail would be. At the time I was secretly quite pleased to be given special information. Now I know that there's so much special information circulating around, that it's nothing special at all. The only thing I've ever been told (in confidence, shhhh) was that the soon-to-be-at-the-time Bay Lake Towers would be a DVC property. Let's hear it for the obvious !!!!
Not sure how much truth there is to this. However, My dad just returned from a trip to WDW and a bus driver told him that disney was working on a 5th park which would be located near AKL. It would only be open at night and would only allow a low number of guests in at a time. It would be a park in which you can get night vision devices and see the animals at night among other things. Again, not sure how much to believe but I thought it was worth sharing!
This was heavily rumored about a year or so ago, but I think the plans for this one was squashed, probably due to the economy.
I think they are given a script by Disney with all this stuff just to get people to keep talking about it and then keep coming back to see if anything has changed yet! Welp gotta say it works for me! LOL not really I just keep going back because I love DISNEY!!!!!
I think that the Night Kingdom/Jungle Trek rumor was mainly pushed by Jim Hill. I sometimes wonder if his Disney contacts gave him some misinformation to throw the press off of what they are really working on. From what I've read, the idea of Night Kingdom/Jungle Trek was tested as a poll. This reportedly came back very negative. I personally hate the idea. It seemed like they were nickel and diming a park that the rich would pay top dollar for zip lines and climbing rocks, etc. - yawn. Those who could afford a $300 park would prefer visiting other countries and having real adventures. This would never bring in millions of new guests like a well done traditional theme park. It seems that it would go the way of the Disney Institute.
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