Ever consider that maybe that's what's wrong with Disney today? They take a ride concept and slap theming on it, when in the days of yore, the Imagineers developed a ride concept, then designed a ride system to best showcase their concept...
Well, an attraction's footprint and appearance are -- rather, used to be -- key considerations in the ride experience. Some people are hung up over highly subjective concepts like "aesthetics."
What the glass pyramids symbolized for Imagination doesn’t get filtered down even in abstraction.
Yep, nothing in that quote even remotely works as a metaphor for the imagination. The mound from which all things are created, giving light, a cleansing and purifying filter, recharging, brightening, opening intuition . . . nothing like imagination at all.[/SARCASM]
Innovation not being reflected in the building was a choice that was made. It did not happen on its own. The experience of visiting a Disney park takes place just as much outdoors as indoors. It is far more than simply walking into a building that was built to strictly house that which it contains and nothing more.
not sure where you are getting your statistics, but every report I have seen shows eBook sales declining. eBooks hit a high in 2016 with number sold, but have been declining since. Moreover, revenue made on actual books is far greater (last stat I saw showed actual books making about 70% of the profit and eBooks 30%). Regular books are not going anywhere, and even if they did, e-books wouldn't survive as they are today. But off topics...
I would be happier if the pretense of an a themed concept is no longer pursued. Epcot would be more successful as a traditional theme park, then such theming of buildings make more sense. How many times do I have to say this as well?
Where did I use statistics? I was referencing libraries. Okay, so you don’t like I said ebooks are preferred. I’ll concede on this point only. Off topic.
Maybe guests used to be cleverer. Although admittedly the 1999 paint job doesn’t help.
Of course not.
This is a very good example and it’s fairly recent so not just the “old school”Disney doing things right. I brought this up earlier but it got buried in a series of back and forth posts. I am not telling anyone what to do, but I personally am holding out hope that there is some plan to “hide” at least part of the building and clean up some of the viewing issues from inside the park. They can’t just leave this thing as is. Well, they can but I don’t see why they would. If they went out of their way to hide a sliver of a show building from next to some restrooms they won’t just leave this exposed building. And I don’t buy this whole idea that the rules don’t apply to EPCOT. It would be poor show. If they want to leave the building visible it would have to be themed to fit the look of Future World...not a big blue box.Weren't you the one who was arguing that they had followed them?
In a themed environment -- even one that's themed in a unique way, like Future World -- such a large, looming, unthemed box is inexcusable. That's the crux of it. Whether it bothers you personally or not is basically immaterial, it's not good work.
Here's the real test -- as guests, do we want to see Disney build more bare, blank buildings like this, or less?
Remember when Disney went back and added rockwork to the corner of Enchanted Tales with Belle after New Fantasyland opened because they noticed guests could see a corner of the showbuilding?
(PS: This is a really good example of where Go-Away Green works, because it's trying to make a sliver of building blend into the space around it -- and even THEN they went to the trouble of adding more rockwork after the area had opened officially, because it didn't meet their standard.)
They could and should have done better.
Even this is more because the gravity building isn’t behind the existing pavilion. It is visable behind Wonders of Life, although East Future World is probably the place where it is best obscured [by trees]. The launch tunnel is also undermining any effectiveness of the blue panels.
I would definitely agree that Disney, and even the industry at large, has an issue with viewing “theming” as something that is just applied, I don’t think it entirely relates to the issue of show sets taking advantage of a fast-track process. It’s not that there isn’t a concept when an attraction starts construction, it is that there is a huge gap between having a concept and having construction documents and shop drawings. While a facility is being constructed, entire scene will be radically revised and even replaced. This is why so many attractions don’t match up to early descriptions. It also nothing new and occurring during the construction of every Disney park.
That's the hilarious part. It's taking 4 years to build this thing. Meanwhile up the road, they tore down two coasters (or count them as one) and are building a thematically fitting ride featuring a dual drop setup, changing directions, and AA show scenes. In half the time it's taking to build this. I'm hoping this feels like a 4 year project when it opens.
I thought the glass pyramids were a holdover from the previous design of the land pavilion which included even more ambitious glass structures that would have housed house biomes. The glass shapes were meant to evoke geodes I believe.
Evolution / developed upon as opposed to holdover.
