Ismael Flores
Well-Known Member
This reply is more WDW based. I was just there after a long absence and was literally gobsmacked by how beautiful and pristine Main Street was- it looked brand spanking new. I think Main Street can always be tweaked here and there, but I think it should stay crisp and clean. With that said, I found the some areas across property that I think could use not only more weathering, but the more layered history look that is the newer trend. Liberty Square I think could use a makeover (though honestly I sort of wish they'd just turn the whole area into Sleepy Hollow.) Most of all, it's the World Showcase pavilions that I feel need some of that faux history given to them. Now that I've been to some of the real countries, I find that overly clean and bright approach just too fake looking. Norway and Morocco (the two later pavilions) fare better, but I think it was the UK in particular that I felt suffered from appearing too trapped in a specific time and place.
I'm with you, having traveled all over the world and then seeing the world showcase areas in Epcot i feel really disappointed. They just seem out of place and fake. There seems to be no sense of reality or a feeling of being lived in. I think that is why i love DAK, the whole park is pristine just like a Disney park should be but the it also feels lived in and full of life. Certain areas at Disneyland give me the same feeling. Adventureland, new Orleans square, critter country and to a certain degree mainstreet give me the same feeling but the main section of frontierland and Tommorrowand feel static to me. The buildings in frontierland seem to perfect and lack stry due to the fact that they have little to no aged and lived in theming to them.