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Triton Installed on Ariel's Undersea Adventure at Disney California Adventure...

Cmdr_Crimson

Cmdr_Crimson

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Looks similar to the one that use to be in the meet & greet area at MK...I wonder if both statues of Ariel & Triton will be re-used for the outside of MK's Version.
 
Brian_WDW74

Brian_WDW74

Member
Is this the Triton statue that used to be in Disneyland's Little Mermaid meet and greet area, before it became Pixie Hollow? If it's being repurposed for DCA, then perhaps the same thing will happen at MK.
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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Perhaps this was mentioned somewhere, but I missed it. However, I read near daily updates from the west coast and am yet to understand how the theme of Little Mermaid will work there. How is this going to be part of the California theme that they have tried to pull off for 10 years. I understand it in Fantasyland...anything story related can go there. But I don't see how converting the theater makes this ride thematically appropriate.
 
Lee

Lee

Adventurer
DisneyInsider said:
Perhaps this was mentioned somewhere, but I missed it. However, I read near daily updates from the west coast and am yet to understand how the theme of Little Mermaid will work there. How is this going to be part of the California theme that they have tried to pull off for 10 years. I understand it in Fantasyland...anything story related can go there. But I don't see how converting the theater makes this ride thematically appropriate.
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The building is themed as a early 20th centry California sea-side aquarium. (Apparently they have those out there...)
The building fits well there with the San Francisco street area and merging with the boardwalk.
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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Brian_WDW74 said:
Is this the Triton statue that used to be in Disneyland's Little Mermaid meet and greet area, before it became Pixie Hollow? If it's being repurposed for DCA, then perhaps the same thing will happen at MK.
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There has been an extensive debate about this over on the Micechat discussion board, but no one has come to a conslusion. It is VERY similar to the on that was at the meet and greet so it might be a same one or cast from the same molds.

Dan
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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Lee said:
The building is themed as a early 20th centry California sea-side aquarium. (Apparently they have those out there...)
The building fits well there with the San Francisco street area and merging with the boardwalk.
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The building does fit, but that isn't what I am referencing here. The ride itself doesn't seem to fit to the area. It's like having Monsters Inc in Tomorrowland... or even worse putting Monsters Inc in Frontierland as long as it is in a Log Cabin.
 
B

Bonemachine

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I haven't seen any of these posted on this board yet. Hipster Ariel is one of my favorites. http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleybaccam/a-collection-of-the-best-hipster-disney-memes

(Pitchfork is an indie music publication for those who didn't get the joke)
 
sponono88

sponono88

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DisneyInsider said:
The building does fit, but that isn't what I am referencing here. The ride itself doesn't seem to fit to the area. It's like having Monsters Inc in Tomorrowland... or even worse putting Monsters Inc in Frontierland as long as it is in a Log Cabin.
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The Little Mermaid has long been part of the pier even before the ride arrived. There's King Triton's Carousel, Ariel's Grotto restaurant, and Jumpin' Jellyfish. The land is meant to be a seaside pier, so the new sea-themed ride was built in this area of the park.
 
WereMagicLives

WereMagicLives

Member
Brian_WDW74 said:
Is this the Triton statue that used to be in Disneyland's Little Mermaid meet and greet area, before it became Pixie Hollow? If it's being repurposed for DCA, then perhaps the same thing will happen at MK.
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the triton that was in the lagoon near Ariel grotto:brick: in MK was gold and ugly if i remember correctly :brick:
 
Pioneer Hall

Pioneer Hall

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sponono88 said:
The Little Mermaid has long been part of the pier even before the ride arrived. There's King Triton's Carousel, Ariel's Grotto restaurant, and Jumpin' Jellyfish. The land is meant to be a seaside pier, so the new sea-themed ride was built in this area of the park.
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Understandable, but those mermaid items were there as part of a Boardwalk themed area. I see restaurants and carousels fitting, but not immersive dark rides. I also understand that this is DCA (sorry Mary Niven) and that some of what they have to do is going to be squeezed in to get the most out of it. Perhaps, it is just me, but it just doesn't fit to the theme of the San Fran area.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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And here is King Triton in his lagoon before he got kicked out of Triton's Gardens by the Pixies a few years ago.

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The statues look awfully similar. I wonder if his pitchfork will still have a water effect from on top of the building? :D
 
TP2000

TP2000

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DisneyInsider said:
The building does fit, but that isn't what I am referencing here. The ride itself doesn't seem to fit to the area. It's like having Monsters Inc in Tomorrowland... or even worse putting Monsters Inc in Frontierland as long as it is in a Log Cabin.
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I think sometimes as Disney fans we over-analyze stuff in the parks. The DCA version of Mermaid is set in a fancy seaside boardwalk aquarium pavilion, of the type that were found on the boardwalks in the early 1900's.

The latest Mermaid exhibit in the Blue Sky Cellar explains how they took inspiration from actual ride buildings (yes, they had big dark rides even back then) and pavilions that existed on boardwalks in SoCal 100 years ago. You'll go inside the pavilion and instead of visiting an aquarium, you'll board a clamshell and go under the sea to see Ariel. End of story.

Why does a Mississippi paddle wheeler stop right next to a Mansion from the Hudson River Valley of New York? Why is there a Deep South mountain with wildly-fictional singing animals right next door to another mountain from the Desert Southwest with non-fictional animals who don't sing? Why is there a giant Swiss mountain peak at the end of Main Street USA? Stuff just happens in Disney theme parks. A Disney theme park isn't Colonial Williamsburg where a very literal recreation of a specific time and place is being created, you have to just kind of go with it at times.

I walked around Paradise Pier last Sunday, and sat on a bench and looked at the Mermaid building for a long time. It looks fantastic with the details being applied, and it fits the area beautifully. It's already changed the dynamic of the area by adding this big physical structure there.
 
K

Krack

Active Member
DisneyInsider said:
Perhaps this was mentioned somewhere, but I missed it. However, I read near daily updates from the west coast and am yet to understand how the theme of Little Mermaid will work there. How is this going to be part of the California theme that they have tried to pull off for 10 years. I understand it in Fantasyland...anything story related can go there. But I don't see how converting the theater makes this ride thematically appropriate.
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You have to think of DCA's "lands" as being themed to "places we don't want you to visit while you're in California (and take your tourist dollars with you)". You have Hollywood, the Santa Monica Pier, the National Parks, Cannery Row and San Diego/Miramar. None of these lands are particularly well themed, but that's been one of the park's major issues since it was built (and presumably since it was designed). They are currently in the middle of adding one new land (focused on one single property, and vaguely modeled on in-land California - not really a tourist area - that I would argue will only acerbate the problem) and changing another to 1920s/30s Los Angeles (I don't really have an opinion either way on whether this is a good idea or not).

Regardless, the park lands are a mess and you're right, the Little Mermaid doesn't really fit other than to say "Cannery Row is on the water, Santa Monica Pier is on the water and the Little Mermaid takes place near water, so it's a perfect fit!!!!!!" It's not perfect theming (nobody is going to say "Oh, there's a Little Mermaid Ride, this is just like Santa Monica Pier") but frankly, Disney rarely achieves (what I would consider to be) "perfect" theming anymore. It would fit better, imo, if the park was called Pixar's California Adventure.

All of that said, the Cannery Row area is arguably the worst land in the history of Disney Parks, and this is exactly the type of ride DCA needs - extravagant omni-mover dark ride (it could use a couple of them), so I'm willing to cut them slack on the appropriateness of the theming just because they are finally making effort to give someone like myself an excuse to want to visit the park.
 
Mansion Butler

Mansion Butler

Active Member
DisneyInsider said:
The building does fit, but that isn't what I am referencing here. The ride itself doesn't seem to fit to the area. It's like having Monsters Inc in Tomorrowland... or even worse putting Monsters Inc in Frontierland as long as it is in a Log Cabin.
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The interior doesn't have to fit, it's the exterior that has to. Song of the South doesn't fit in Frontierland, but the exterior of Splash Mountain does, and the interior attraction is close enough to the exterior that it works fine.

The interior corridors of the Haunted Mansion don't match an antebellum mansion, and the graveyard doesn't match New England.

The exterior is an aquarium that fits just fine where it is. When you step in to that aquarium, you're transported to the sea. When you exit, you're back out in to San Francisco. It should work just fine.
 

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