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  1. RoysCabin

    News The Seas pavilion new color scheme

    I did find it interesting to see the reaction a friend of mine had at The Land when I was there a couple weeks ago; we went into Awesome Planet, then Living with the Land, and then our Soarin' fast pass kicked in, and he said "Woah, I think we've been in this building for around an hour...and...
  2. RoysCabin

    Rumor Spaceship Earth Redo Shelved Indefinitely

    I think that's what kind of hit me when thinking about some of the changes over the last decade or so - we've said everything on this topic a million times before, and one of the big things that comes up is that, no, IPs were there from the get-go in Disney parks, there's nothing inherently...
  3. RoysCabin

    Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

    That "linear story" thing may be a factor, for sure; I don't think I watched a full ride through video before going on, but I'd seen pictures and heard descriptions of stuff. Still, I've watched full ride-throughs and Martin's entire tribute to a ride like, say, Phantom Manor, but I still have a...
  4. RoysCabin

    News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

    Think this ride taught me that A - Don't risk rides like this on an empty stomach, and B - Motion sickness (especially when combined with hunger) gets worse as you start pushing 40 Ride kicked my butt, but it was really well done, and having it by Space Mountain to balance crowds somewhat ala...
  5. RoysCabin

    Star Wars Land announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

    Finally experiencing it, but I admittedly didn't get to spend a ton of time. Still, wasn't super enthused; I'm not the biggest fan of these "mini-lands" that are centered around IPs to begin with, but I think my lack of feelings for the sequel trilogy leave me feeling kind of cold with it. It's...
  6. RoysCabin

    News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

    Said this in the Journey of Water thread, but seeing in person for the first time this week, I'm glad to see it's not just a big concrete space back there anymore, but the lack of a fountain was glaring, and ultimately it's hard to avoid the feeling of "Wait...we had walls up for years for this...
  7. RoysCabin

    Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

    Seeing it for the first time this week (daytime only) and...yeah, it was cute, I imagine it's a godsend if you're there with kids during the summer, and it did a bit to discuss the water cycle while not feeling like it was completely shoving the IP in your face the whole time, so all in all not...
  8. RoysCabin

    Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

    Ironically, I just got back from a trip yesterday; my brother got us a Lightning Lane for Rise, but it was actually shut down first thing when the park opened and didn't open up for a few hours. That was the first time I got to experience Rise, Smuggler's Run, and Galaxy's Edge as a whole...
  9. RoysCabin

    News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

    I was lucky to go to the parks a lot as a very small child in the late 80s and through grade school in the 90s, and between classic EPCOT and a lot of early MGM attractions, it almost felt like stuff that went at least 12 minutes was the norm at times.
  10. RoysCabin

    News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

    I've also long said that one of the things I miss about attractions like Maelstrom, imperfect though it was (Tony Baxter's critique that the short film should've come before the ride certainly holds up), was that when taken in its totality - ride, short wait in the darkened seaport town, short...
  11. RoysCabin

    News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

    Really good video below on that very topic: "Everything is Content Now", by YouTuber Patrick Willems
  12. RoysCabin

    Rumor Figment, well, to be replaced by Figment

    Waiting to reenact Clark's reaction to the Jelly of the Month Club membership when it's revealed this is all to hype up a new line of Figment NFTs.
  13. RoysCabin

    News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

    Yeah, to piggyback on this, it isn't like the original EPCOT Center was created in an era of mass positivity, either: for the local American audience, 1982 isn't very far removed from, or even overlapped with, Vietnam, Watergate, diminishing investment in American cities, the AIDS crisis...
  14. RoysCabin

    News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

    Honestly, I think a lot of it is that we're in an era of "content overload", if that makes sense as a phrase for it. The IP mandate is bad enough; it holds back interesting or fresh attraction ideas, it makes so much more about the experience feel like a commercial for Disney+ rather than a...
  15. RoysCabin

    News Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser to permanently close this fall

    Yep, that's a more succinct form of what I was trying to say: Star Wars is not about the actual settings, so even if they did try to recreate some places from the original trilogy...would you really want to spend a lot of time in them? It's "desert world", "ice world", "forest moon", "city...
  16. RoysCabin

    News Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser to permanently close this fall

    Yeah, that’s on the nose about the food; a lot of people get so hyped for Potter because they want to taste a butterbeer, for example, or walk through a specific hallway in the school, and Star Wars doesn’t really have a parallel to that outside of the Cantina (Jabba’s palace wouldn’t be a...
  17. RoysCabin

    News Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser to permanently close this fall

    I know I'm late to the party commenting on this, but this whole situation really does feel like another chapter in Disney just not learning the right lessons from Potter's success at Universal. I have no doubt that the actual experience in the Starcruiser was really well done; the performers...
  18. RoysCabin

    What's next for Epcot 2024 and Beyond

    The whole situation is beyond disappointing. I remember visiting Disney for the first time in a while back in 2012 and 2013 and still feeling a strong attachment to it, and especially being happy to get back to EPCOT since it's pretty much always been my favorite. But what I pretty quickly came...
  19. RoysCabin

    News Zootopia and Moana Blue Sky concepts for Disney's Animal Kingdom

    I get what you mean. I think for me the issue is that since themed spaces are meant to appeal to all five senses, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do a full IP land unless said IP has that integrated into the experience, as well, which is why IPs with "literary DNA" work best - e.g. Potter...
  20. RoysCabin

    News Zootopia and Moana Blue Sky concepts for Disney's Animal Kingdom

    I think for me I'm just very much over the whole idea of "Movie - The Land" in theme parks. Worked for Potter, feels really lazy otherwise, though I'd give a shot to one themed after a world as literary and fully developed for all five senses as something based on Tolkien's works. Leave the...
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