Its so funny to me that everyone is a stickler for Fronteirland's location all of the sudden when Adventureland is an amalgamation of several different whole countries that have nothing to do and are no where near each other.
The exterior of the building was carefully and thoughtfully crafted to blend between BTMRR and the Pecos Bill Facade.
By replacing it with a ride that will be even more expensive to maintain? Make that make sense. People act like they bulldozed it for a Tiana M&G.
It's the same way that the HM area blends into the HOP and then blends to Frontier land. It's done so gradually and with attention to the transition.
To be fair, our Frontierland has conflated the Deep South with the Old West since 1971. TBA makes as much sense as Splash and CB(M)J, although those attractions get external details that feel like the Old West even if the interior didn’t.
If it's been reported that this will be more expensive to maintain, that is news to me.
But will it be more expensive to maintain for the first 10 years? Splash had to have an extensive refurb done practically every other year to stay show ready. Likely the operating expense of a "new" attraction will be lower for the first several years of operation.
Isn’t our Mansion a 19th century Lower Hudson Valley manor next to 18th century New England and Philadelphia?
These AAs in a water ride will be very costly to maintain. And ride system maintenance will be the same.
They aren't "promoting" it? This detail about the offices comes from an article in which a reporter is literally just explaining what he saw while touring the queue / part of the ride. We've known for months that this is a food production facility housed in an abandoned salt mine. I agree, the PR for this attraction has been questionable at best but let's not pretend like the concept is that hard to grasp.
WDI taking "new" AA and making them less reliable and more expensive to maintain than their 30+ year old predecessors.
I think we often forget just how lush some parts of Frontierland actually are, especially along the Rivers of America. I mean you can make the argument that Big Thunder Mountain looks more out of place than Splash Mountain ever was considering all the foliage that surrounds it. Is this new look for TBA particularly distinct? Nope. But I wouldn't go as far to say that it's visually intrusive.
You may be right, but again, what would you expect from an article documenting a tour of what's being built? They're just straight up describing what's there. Should they have just not brought it up at all? Genuinely asking
The AA maintenance cost is going to depend on a few things-
The only thing the details of today revealed was the placements of the animatronics we already knew about it. Based on the account, they seem to be much further spaced apart than the Splash ones were (roughly one main one per scene). Not sure how this addresses any of the concerns?
He very carefully pointed out what they could show him and what they didn't.