Saturday, December 17, 2016

DS Update: CIF III Coming

A change to the skies above Disney Springs is coming.  Characters In Flight operated by Aerophile is getting a new balloon next month!
The original CIF flight balloon began operating at Downtown Disney in March, 2009.  It operated until late June, 2012 when an incident to a similar model at a non-Disney theme park in Hong Kong resulted in the suspension of service here.
Within a few months it was replaced with what we call CIF II which has been operating ever since.
Beginning around January 9th, a new balloon will be brought-in along with a helium truck and work will begin to put CIF III into the sky.  It takes several days.  Volunteers to assist will be needed.  If you're interested, tune-in in early January and we'll provide more details.  Until then, the Disney characters which will appear on the CIF III remain secret!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully a new name as well. The name is pretty lame.

Anonymous said...

If only they could attach a balloon to a carrousel with seat belts...

Anonymous said...

Why should someone volunteer to help a company that makes a profit off of this? Shouldn't we be paid for our work?

Anonymous said...

^ Well that's just stupid. If you don't want to help, then don't go.

KingBob said...

As noted, the name is my name for the balloons. I don't know if they have real names but giving them numbers allows me to differentiate between them. And also as noted, volunteers are being sought to help with the project. If you have have no interest in providing some labor for free, then simply stay out of the matter.