Carousel of Progress New Laptop

[sgtmgd]

It's a Great big Beautiful tomorrow.......

 

[Christian Fronckowiak]

Now is the Time! Now is the Best Time
To refurbish the Carousel of Progress!

 

[Chef Mickey]

Why on earth do you people like an attraction from a worlds fair 60 years ago?

Whole thing should be sent to a museum.

Because it's a great concept and you can almost feel Walt's presence.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Why on earth do you people like an attraction from a worlds fair 60 years ago?

Whole thing should be sent to a museum.

 

[Bender123]

Why on earth do you people like an attraction from a worlds fair 60 years ago?

Whole thing should be sent to a museum.

Because it basically is a museum? Its great because its a tribute to Walts vision.

 

[Chef Mickey]

Pretty sure Walt said he wasn't building a museum???? Doubt he would like the fact that CoP is still around.

Given decisions made since he has been gone, I think the fact his COP is still around would be pretty far down his list of problems.

 

[AndrewsJ]

That's true. My high school students are wearing it ( and they think they "discovered" it like it's new).

Those who were in our prime in the 80s prayed it would never come back but things are starting to look a lot like things did in 80s. I thought it was my imagination glad to know others are noticing it too!

 

[Captain Barbossa]

I don't know. People dressing like it's the 80s/90s seems to becoming a trend again.

Yeah that's a trend that needs to stop.

 

[POLY LOVER]

What I see as the approach, is they let the rides slowly self destruct then shut them down and replace them. For example the great movie ride, if you look at how it functioned when it opened and now its sad. This ride with some updates could function for another twenty years. I have been yelling about this for a year or more. Please fix things, Walt is spinning in his grave.

 

[ShoalFox]

So they finally got rid of the PowerBook? Amazing.

 

[larryz]

Pretty sure Walt said he wasn't building a museum???? Doubt he would like the fact that CoP is still around.

Well, it wouldn't make any sense at all if it wasn't round.

 

[Surfin' Tuna]

It is new(ish), although I do not know when the switch was made. This was from Wednesday night.

 

[Andsome]

It is new(ish), although I do not know when the switch was made. This was from Wednesday night.

Swanky! I'm a bit disappointed that the display isn't on, hopefully they plan on getting that running.

On the topic of this ride getting TLC, are there plans to replace any of the skins on the AAs? Dad in the 4th act could really use it, matters are made even worse knowing that figure has been glitchy as of late (I thought they had a spare one around when those kind of things happen).

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Was the computer/laptop ever on throughout the show's history in MK? I only remember seeing a blacked out screen

 

[Andsome]

Was the computer/laptop ever on throughout the show's history in MK? I only remember seeing a blacked out screen

It worked up until the ride was operating seasonally. From what I heard, it displayed a transcript of the scene amongst other things.

 

[Chef Mickey]

It is new(ish), although I do not know when the switch was made. This was from Wednesday night.

Thank you! MUCH better than even the first week of this June...they probably used some old company laptop they had lying around, but still better than before.

Now if they could start replacing the wardrobe, we'd be getting somewhere.

The "car phone" reference needs to be removed and maybe a few other things, but it's not THAT dated. Virtual reality is still a thing and hasn't even really been produced yet on a mass scale. Give them some iPhones and a few new references and we are set.

Technically, nothing from a home/family perspective has really changed since the 80s except everyone is looking at their phone all the time.

 

[larryz]

Technically, nothing from a home/family perspective has really changed since the 80s except everyone is looking at their phone all the time.

I don't know about you, but I couldn't throw content from my phone/laptop/computer to my TV back in the '80's...

 

[Surfin' Tuna]

Heading home last night I was thinking how great it is they threw the lap-top in there. It's such a minor thing, but it shows some sort of minor initiative. Despite what some said in this thread, that is truly a great attraction and really does "feel" like Walt. His near obsession with progress and family entertainment is really evident.

 

[Tomi-Rocket]

They should do a major refurb and keep the scene as it is but add another truly UP-TO-DATE one, lol.

 

[WhatJaneSays]

I heard they may be adding a Zune to the final scene to really bring it to the modern age.

I know it's a joke but ... my Zune is 6+ years old and still working great, the iPods I've had ... not so much.