WDW Skating Arena

I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do you
think?

Wonderful idea!!! maybe located at WWoS


"Chambers" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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>I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do you
>think?

On Jul 8, 1:29 pm, "Chambers" <some...@somewhere.com> wrote:
> I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do you
> think?

I worked for the Girl Scouts for a few years, and one of the things I
did was help leaders process accident and injury claims through our
group activity insurance.

I'd say 3/4 of the claims were from roller skating and ice skating.
If I was a Disney Lawbot I'd stay far far away from putting guests on
wheels.

~Amanda

Many community skating rinks continue to do business - so why can't Disney?

"Princess Buttercup aka Ginny Favers Former Captive Princess of Chickapin
Hill" <GinnyFavers@> wrote in message
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> On Jul 8, 1:29 pm, "Chambers" <some...@somewhere.com> wrote:
>> I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do you
>> think?
>
> I worked for the Girl Scouts for a few years, and one of the things I
> did was help leaders process accident and injury claims through our
> group activity insurance.
>
> I'd say 3/4 of the claims were from roller skating and ice skating.
> If I was a Disney Lawbot I'd stay far far away from putting guests on
> wheels.
>
> ~Amanda
>

"Chambers" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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>I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do you
>think?

I think a Disney on Ice theater would be a good idea for professional
skaters. But I don't see Disney opening up a rink for everyone... as stated
in other post it would be too much of a risk for them with very little in
return. But being from a area without a venue for these type of
productions, it might be a feasible addition to DTD, or WWoS. And it would
definitely be nice if it was part of the WP&M option of the MYW tickets.




-
Keith
Only 66d:20h:34m:12s until our 12:30PM departure for Disneyworld on
09/14/2007.

I think an ice rink at WDW would be a great idea. It's a great
activity for a rainy day. We live in the Boston area and ice skating
is one of our favorite activities on rainy weekends.

If everyone has helmets on, I don't think ice skating is dangerous at
all. I don't know about roller blading but I know I've seen
surprisingly few injuries at hockey rinks. I have two kids who play
travel hockey so I go to about 100 games and about 200 practices a
year and in seven years, I've seen one kid get hurt badly (a broken
leg). I see a lot more injuries at playgrounds and on the ball
fields. A couple of years ago, USA Hockey dropped its insurance
policy for the youngest children, the Mites. USA Hockey self insures
for the youngest players and thats for kids who are playing hockey,
not just skating around.

An arena-type rink would be nice where you could see the Disney on Ice
shows, sort of like Cirque. It could be in Downtown Disney. Maybe
they could sell private time with a skater for lessons or something
like that (a behind the scenes type thing) where you would sign a
waiver for injuries incurred, etc.

Didn't there used to be an ice skating ring at the West Side? It
might have been seasonal, but I do remember something over there at
one time.

Mike

On Jul 11, 9:15 am, mcorbo <mco...@> wrote:
> Didn't there used to be an ice skating ring at the West Side? It
> might have been seasonal, but I do remember something over there at
> one time.
>
> Mike

I was thinking the same thing. A few December's ago, there was a
temporary ice rink set up at DTD West Side.

Carol

Funny you ask that, since a skating arena was originally part of Walt's
plan for the Magic Kingdom area of WDW. I believe it was planned for
the area where the 7 Seas Lagoon sits. Not sure if it was for ice
skating or roller skating though...

Chambers wrote:

> I think WDW needs an Ice Skating/Inline Roller Skating arena. What do
> you think?