GiveMeTheMusic
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No, you're right.
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ROA RETURNS SUMMER 2017
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No, you're right.
Stevek
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To be fair to the PR hacks, the "Exact Replica" comment has been part of the narration for decades.
Here's an article with a couple of artists renderings and while not exact, it's pretty darn close (colors are a bit off)
http://www.lewis-clark.org/article/578
SpaceMountain75
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Looks like Tom Sawyer's Island is getting a paint job. Photos and reporting from @MouseInfo on Twitter:
Old Mouseketeer
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I really hate to quibble, but in no way does DL's Columbia have a draft of 11'. Columbia is about as exact a replica of Columbia Rediviva as the dinos in Jurassic Park/World are of real dinosaurs.
Look, I love Columbia. I know CMs who love her, even as they call her "the frying pan" because working on deck is blistering hot in the summer. I love the sea chanties, including an extended version of "Blow ye winds westerly" that was featured in the 1967 Circlevision America, the Beautiful.
But I hate the PR overreach. I love the tribute to a great, historic American sailing vessel. As a theme park attraction, it's way above average.
Nland316
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It doesn't look look bad, but I think it might be primer. They have multi color primers so it may possibly return to its original look.
Disney Analyst
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They took all the scaffolding down though.
SpaceMountain75
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Here's a more detailed view, again from @MouseInfo's Twitter:
Curious Constance
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Are we looking at the building's colors or the brick's?
I think the bricks look a lot better. Am I the only one who thinks that?
I think the bricks look a lot better. Am I the only one who thinks that?
Disney Analyst
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I think it looks great!
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Deleted member 107043
It looks awesome (and strangely realistic). Hopefully the waterwheel will finally be repaired.
TP2000
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The new paint job on that house looks great! Livens the place up a bit. For the last 15 years it was all big blob of washed out brown and beige and tan and more beige, kind of like the 1800's version of an Irvine neighborhood.
Color is a good thing, the world should not be a sea of beige, with apologies to the Irvine City Council.
Color is a good thing, the world should not be a sea of beige, with apologies to the Irvine City Council.
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Deleted member 107043
Just for fun here's the Old Mill in 1966.
What's the word on the treehouse? Will it be returning? At the risk of having my DL Fan Card revoked I'll admit that I haven't been to TSI since they added the Pirates overlay, so I'm not even sure if the treehouse was still open before the river closed.
What's the word on the treehouse? Will it be returning? At the risk of having my DL Fan Card revoked I'll admit that I haven't been to TSI since they added the Pirates overlay, so I'm not even sure if the treehouse was still open before the river closed.
TP2000
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What's the word on the treehouse? Will it be returning? At the risk of having my DL Fan Card revoked I'll admit that I haven't been to TSI since they added the Pirates overlay, so I'm not even sure if the treehouse was still open before the river closed.
It's been closed for several years, after it failed to meet modern safety codes for fall protection. No clue what its future is, but in this current refurbishment it's behind scaffolding getting a full repaint and heavy work done. It may come back as just a decorative thing?
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Deleted member 107043
That's too bad. It would be nice to see the Island dump the Pirate's movie overlay, go back to the original storyline, get all the features functioning (including the Fort), and have some new elements added.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Just for fun here's the Old Mill in 1966.
It looks better in the past. Granted, it doesn't have a huge ugly area in the front of it for staging a ridiculous nighttime show. But the plants all along the shore seem to have been carefully chosen to capture the look of wetlands in Missouri or something. It looks kinda crappy these days by comparison.
TP2000
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Agreed. The new paint scheme helps, but it still pales in comparison to that 1966 photo Hans posted above.
In 1966 it looked real. In 2016 it looks fake, like "Imagineered Theme Park".
SpaceMountain75
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That's an amazing picture! Is there anything in the park that looks better today than it did in 1966?Just for fun here's the Old Mill in 1966.
What's the word on the treehouse? Will it be returning? At the risk of having my DL Fan Card revoked I'll admit that I haven't been to TSI since they added the Pirates overlay, so I'm not even sure if the treehouse was still open before the river closed.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Adventureland possibly looks better in terms of foliage since everything has grown in. I know in some old photos, it looks sparse by comparison and I think the buildings look mostly better these days, a major exception being the Tahitian Terrace.
Frontierland also looked better in recent years since the back portion of the park was developed, but now it's back to looking basically shoddy beyond the main entrance since they turned it into the Star Wars land construction zone. It's like de-evolved.
Fantasyland definitely looks better these days, even though some amazing things were lost such as Skull Rock and the pirate ship.
I know at various points in the past, Main Street has been redone and now looks less authentic, with comparatively gaudy colors on the buildings, for instance. However, it's not the kind of thing you notice when you're there, only when you compare.
See, I do know my Disneyland history to a certain extent.
Frontierland also looked better in recent years since the back portion of the park was developed, but now it's back to looking basically shoddy beyond the main entrance since they turned it into the Star Wars land construction zone. It's like de-evolved.
Fantasyland definitely looks better these days, even though some amazing things were lost such as Skull Rock and the pirate ship.
I know at various points in the past, Main Street has been redone and now looks less authentic, with comparatively gaudy colors on the buildings, for instance. However, it's not the kind of thing you notice when you're there, only when you compare.
See, I do know my Disneyland history to a certain extent.
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