Exactly. The Pirates animatronics are older.
It's just amazing to me how non-Disney parks somehow maintain all of their attractions immaculately with a micro fraction of both resources and brand recognition.
I dont mind the remakes if they try something different. "The Jungle Book" remake was superior to the cartoon. "Cinderella" changed just enough. But these shot-for-shot remakes are pointless. I think the nadir was "The Lion King" 'live action' which was a cartoon remake of a cartoon
I feel like very much reconfigured to use less space than before, (walled off or blacked out) watch it become much more one sided (like frozen) instead of surrounding both sides. I doubt very little anything will be recognizable except the flume path. Would love to be wrong. Its going to be interesting to see how they handle the laughin place after the drop.....and especially at Disneyland doesn't that one have more rooms or tunnels than ours?Agree with all of that.
But aside from the showboat finale' scene, most of the Splash Mountain spaces are tight and confined and don't have room for big AA scenes like Pirate's Auction Scene, or the Haunted Mansion graveyard or ballroom, etc.
Which brings me to another thought on this remake. I really do wonder if the sets themselves will change in size and shape. Will it really just be the exact same flume through the exact same rooms and scenes just redressed into Tiana?
Or will they take this time to reconfigure existing rooms and sets to create all-new spaces that look nothing like what we know/remember from Splash Mountain?
I really hope its the latter. Or else YouTube is going to be full of videos doing Tiana ride-thrus with the old Splash Mountain audio overlaid onto those exact same places. And that will make TBA look really tacky and cheap.
Bingo.
It's that kind of stuff that concerns a lot of us about this current WDI generation.
Today's Imagineers seem to be really excited to talk about themselves and how brilliantly they approach their work and how important and meaningful it all is, but then when we see that actual work as paying customers.... er...
According to a claim from Splash Archive, they're repurposing the small boat currently/formerly occupied by a dog AA and the area itself for a new scene in Tiana. One of the previous pieces of art with Tiana and Naveen in a boat where she's holding a lantern. I expect the set dressing to go through a lot of changes, but the room structures i'm not sure about.
This seems revisionist. There was plenty of puffery about Disney in the past as well. What do you suppose the purpose of Walt Disney Presents and its many successor series was? You’re comparing folks in memoir mode to people actively employed by Disney who presumably want to retain their employment for years to come.Yep, this…
If ya’ hafta’ continually tell people how brilliant you are, chances are, you’re not.
I don’t remember the older Imagineers doing anything like this.
I’ve seen interviews with many of them over the years. They all seemed very modest, and also talked about how many failures they had before achieving success regarding story, designs, engineering, etc. I remember an interview with Bob Gurr regarding opening day at Disneyland (we all know how much of a near disaster that was), and he was talking about how the Autopia cars kept breaking down, etc.
Walt didn’t heap praise on his employees…he hired them to do a job, and expected it done.
I remember a story about a young Imagineer proudly approaching Walt and an associate (John Hench, IIRC) to show him his design option for a new project. Walt inspected it for a few moments and then replied something like… “Hmmm. That’s OK, but, it’s hard to choose between just one option.”…!!!!!
There were no participation trophies and “You are special…!!!” praise in that world.
You did the job you were paid to do, and went home at the end of the day with that satisfaction.
Quality and pace of the work notwithstanding, you can’t pretend they weren’t always intent on promoting the company and glorifying the creativity of Imagineering. There was always a mystique that was central to their image. You can argue whether or not it is warranted any longer, but you can’t expect them to get up on stage at a marketing event and denigrate themselves or act self-effacing when the content of a specific talk doesn’t call for that sort of tone.
