Recent content by RandySavage

The little grass symbols mean "landscape area": Whenever a rumor comes around and I think "that's bad," it's almost guaranteed to get greenlit, and vice-versa. My hope with this was that everything Marvel would get moved to a new Avengers Campus land and the coaster would be highly-themed and...

If you weren't excited enough for Epic Universe, Themeparx posted a collection of Nathaniel West's unreleased art for Celestial Park. It is gorgeous work and very interesting in how it shows the design evolution. It does make me wish they had stuck with the earlier, more theatrical version of...

Before Iger was made CEO, the MK Resort Area - Bay Lake & Seven Seas Lagoon - was the most sublime man-made area yet built in the Post-War era, anywhere on the planet. If anyone knows of anything that compares, I'd be interesting in learning about it. Actually-well-themed, beautiful...

Of the elite level artists capable of gorgeously hand-rendering entire parks or lands... e.g. Tom Gilleon, John , Herb Ryman, Bryan Jowers, Collin Campbell, Greg Pro, Chuck Ballew and a handful of others... I put Dan Goozee atop that list of greats. I strained my eyes as a kid looking at...

As a fan of the Syberia style, I'd be interested in seeing this. When I went to the site, all I could see was an abridged version of the released flyover, then it goes to white. At the bottom there were the Portal concept art stills. Maybe my browser is incompatible or they took what your are...

The theme is "French Riviera", which is a great theme for what could have a been a gorgeous resort if the Old Guard were still at Disney. The French Riviera at its peak (1880s-1914) was studded with scores of big, beautiful hotels in places like Nice, Cannes, Antibes, Menton & Monte Carlo...

Interesting. My reaction at the moment is 'somewhat disappointed' regarding the hotel - it has reminded me of Gran Destino since the first finished elements (massing, window treatment & siding) have been photographed by Bioreconstruct, but that's not a good thing (Destino is I-4 worthy). I...

Ah.. I rewatched and you can hear a train whistle. Makes more sense. I have no idea what's going on with the harem stripper(?) elephant & hippo, but the 2nd videorecording (above) has a spotlight which spoils the surprise. In the first video, the rider gasped when the naked elephant & hippo...

That was also my question: when the vehicles are still and the moving alongside the snowmobiles, is the rider supposed to be in a train? Why are they moving at parallel speeds? Couldn't tell.

Regarding the naked, steel Spiderman Vekoma rumor, that's always been a head scratcher... Why would they consider putting something like that in that location, which would negate the Treasure Cove, Fantasyland, Zootopia vistas/placemaking. A heavily-themed mountain coaster of some sort always...

Interesting to see the design evolution of the park with a side by side of birdseye found and posted at themeparx.com.

IMO, only a complete razing and the construction of a totally new design (bring Wing Chao & Ahmad Jafari out of retirement), one worthy of the DisneySea standard, could perk this disaster up. It is the worst example of Deluxe-level hotel architecture Disney or Universal has ever built, and...

In contrast to how the non-hotel parts of the land are coming along, the horridness of that hotel design/execution is (almost) beyond words. As every construction photo/video update has been confirming, the hotel is completely inept in terms of its application & understanding of historic...