It can and will be taken independently in the future. And where there are losses that are significant for some people (e.g. full animatronics swapped for limited motion figures), there are upgrades that will impress others, like the animated backgrounds or the much higher quality skins for the figures.
It was only important in the way that you're thinking to a small contingent of people who were likely never going to be satisfied.
I agree with you about MMRR. Though I do think Tiana looks great and I feel like it's an upgrade. The ride that I would say is a downgrade from before is FEA.
The tree trunks and rockwork is, but a lot of the setpieces were ripped out and replaced. I still very much prefer Splash's animal homes and such. There was a lot of unique stylized hand crafted scenery in that, where they replaced it with a lot of greenery and lighting effects. It's pretty on its own, but it doesn't compare at all.
Nah, Imagination 2 and 3 are still a million times worse. I also find what they did to GMR and all of the other classic Future World attractions (not including SSE) to be much worse as well. Maelstrom too.
This isn’t the worst reskin in Disney history but considering the magnitude of what it’s replacing its the most egregious.
I don't think the few screens in this ride are a big deal. It's the utter lack of tension and monotonous mood throughout the ride that hurts it.
I for one am glad they’ve taken a hard pause on any new development.
I don’t mind the firefly screens at all, but the others are just too much in my opinion.
Good point- imagine an unabridged ride through where the dead space isn’t edited out!
Maybe they should stop letting Charita Carter “plus up” existing attractions.
They actually stripped and built almost everything. Even the trees got new trunks.
I actually think a ride with a handheld camera will look better than this. A lot of this footage seems to be taken from a camera mounted on the front of the vehicle, which doesn't rotate to take in scenes for as long as a rider can. It only sometimes seems to switch to something handheld when necessary, perhaps with footage from a completely separate ridethrough.
They won't want this because the movie flopped in Japan, and they've pretty much refused to deal with it since then. But then again, it doesn't mean they wouldn't necessarily do something else foolish with the ride. They're doing a temporary Marvel Avengers overlay for their Small World...
The tree trunks are mostly intact from Splash, just repainted and given new foliage. But a lot of the setpieces were indeed ripped out. Such as all of the critter homes.