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I have problems with the movies, but it wasn't with the characters. It was with Abrams tendencies as a writer. It was with the news that a collective of Imperial true believers from off the edge of known space somehow built a 2000x scale Death Star, even though the old Empire controlled most of...

While I agree about the amount of work the cast put into this, I think the belief here was that for people of more modest means the Starcruiser would be an "alternate vacation". You fly into Orlando, you do your three day Starcruiser adventure, you go home. You don't do the rest of WDW because...

To me I just see the cost as incentive to ignore the entire system and enjoy the parks as you did before FP was ever designed? If you're old enough to have experienced that, of course. Since the fewer people who pay up the faster the lines move with fewer "line skippers" I consider it okay that...

While I enjoy Star Wars for the model spaceships and good soundtracks, Lucas already produced some movies that replaced all the cool physical prop ships with digital graphics and dropped the dialogue to groan-inducing zingers. JJ Abrams was already well known as a "mystery box" writer by that...

They had that in 1997. Then they implemented a system where you're the disadvantaged 'loser' if you aren't holding onto a virtual ride ticket at all times, causing what was originally just a small number of "in the know" people to run around to rides they weren't going to actually ride for...

I never understood why they felt they needed two incorporated cities in RCID, which is something that goes back to Walt's plans but has seemed mostly ceremonial for 50 years. Although as far as I know the councils/mayorship of them is yet more CM Government.

I'm curious how the heck this is supposed to look from the outside? The concept art showed a metal structure going off the top of the image, but I assumed that was simply a metaphor for the location and not that they were going to build a 500ft lightning rod that looms over Epcot.

I wish people would stop treating this news like the Antifa Supersoldiers are pulling down Splash Mountain. Disney has probably had open discussions about the ride for a decade now. Bob seemed clearly tired of fielding the recurring neverending questions about SOTS at shareholder meetings, and...

While I'm sure there are people who think the castle should go all the way back to opening when every brick in the wall was the same colour, I actually liked the way it looked in recent decades. I'm not a fan of the new colors, wasn't a fan of it at Disneyland when they first rolled out this...

Oh okay. I've said before, many pages back, that I like the characters but wish Disney would hire some black writers to give them new stories outside of Harris's writing.

That's not a lot of depth yourself. The west side of the park, especially in California, has been subject to the shifting sands of context for decades. Before starring the Uncle Remus characters, Splash's corner of Disneyland was about CBJ. Before CBJ, it was an "Indian Village." That corner of...

There is a middle ground. Lots of people watch Shakespeare without agreeing with 17th century morals. I like the talking animals but gotta admit that the Uncle Remus book has enough uses of "the N-word" among other red flags that it shouldn't be celebrated with an E-ride. I think helping the...

I'm not gonna sign some rando's petition nobody at Disney will listen to about Splash Mountain. (And I certainly won't give that rando money. What are you doing? Please let me know because maybe I should make futile internet petitions for hot topics and make some cash.) However I did want to...

I would not be surprised if Zipadee is used to close out Fantasyland stage performances for some more years to come. Just like they continued using Hellfire, a song whose premise is a prayer to a very Catholic deity to give the villain the strength to resist passion before deciding he should...

I find it weird to call Splash an "old ride". It's WDW installation is a little older than Alien Encounter, a ride which involves a lot of looking at nothing. I wish people would stop talking past each other and misrepresenting other posters. We have these kinds of people who like this ride...

I have a few thoughts. Despite my handle here, I'm a Californian by birth and have spent probably more hours at Disneyland than Magic Kingdom (and I've only ever been on two trips to Orlando total.) I think this renovation could be very good in Disneyland. DL is a park that occasionally resorts...

The thing about the smaller parade floats, and particularly when it comes to Disneyland, is that they can be run multiple times. In my old guidebooks, the last of the big old heyday parades, Legend of the Lion King, ran once at 4PM and that's it. Magic Happens might be smaller, but it makes two...

Disneyland's Main Street still looks alright with floats that were height-limited to duck under the Skyway line. The World According to Goofy had some really tall mylar balloons, too. These floats are not as imposing when transplanted into MK but the problem isn't Main Street. The problem with...

I forgot to mention: The Frozen float is way too huge. The size and verticality of it makes it feel like a parade ending float. I get that using a snowy mountaintop as a metaphor for social isolation is a big part of the original movie, but how about bringing Elsa down where we don't have to...

I haven't posted on a Disney board in a long, long time. Apologies if I get things wrong. This parade is "okay" and I think Entertainment did the best they could with their Chapek-assigned budget. There are large gaps in the parade which make me think there's room for future budget to add more...