Just curious on your thoughts on Frozenstrom just as an attraction in a vacuum ignoring placement? I think personally that it is a pretty good attraction on its own, with nice effects, sets, and a simple but fun story.
What little story there is, is a complete mess with no flow. The entire attraction is an excuse to play the biggest hits from the soundtrack, with the most focus obviously being placed in "Let it Go." To try and avoid the narrative problems of The Little Mermaid, this best hits collection is reformatted to take place after
Frozen and
Frozen Fever. So instead of randomly jumping between the songs of the film without the film's narrative, the songs have been rewritten and negated of their original meaning and context while still requiring the viewer to be familiar with
Frozen to give the borrowed musical elements cache. The film does not present "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?," "For the First Time in Forever," and "Let it Go" as diegetic songs but somehow they are now all known to all of the characters. The context "For the First Time in Forever" and "Let it Go" also suggest soliloquy, meaning these two characters and their struggle which defines the main narrative of
Frozen has been reduced catchy "Welcome" tunes.
Outside of the queue and load area, the sets are almost non-existent. There is a lot of fake snow and walls, and rather bare walls at that. Many of those bare walls are, in practice, screens on which projects are shown. To call the projections projection mapping would be a big stretch as the surface and flat and bare, whereas projection mapping requires a three dimensional surface to which the projection conforms. These projections, along with some lighting effects, all show the same snow / ice / snowflake effects and imagery over and over and over and over and over. There is no development of them, they just repeat.
Then there are the animatronic figures. Olaf is a non-human figure. His motions have no comparative basis, so they immediately look appropriate. The human characters though have sticks for limbs and their spindly arms flail about as though there marionettes. This weird flailing is made worse by the fluidity of the projected faced, which themselves create an odd glow and seams along the sides of their faces as though all of the characters have all had the same botched face lift.
Your point about theme being tied to Walt Disney is definitely true, after all, we've seen many great thematic lands and attractions in the last 50 years. FEA shouldn't be completely counted out though. It's animatronics and effects are remarkable, although the attraction as a whole is lazy. It's still an improvement over maelstrom in my opinion.
See above.
I don't see Comcast filing suit and seeking an immediate removal, do you?
Comcast cannot file suit. They can only seek arbitration in New York.
