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Is this just going to be in the load theater? I'm not sure how much space is even behind that curtain, but it'd make the most sense to put it there as an intro.

I don't think the Snow White story is that compelling to people. Or at least it doesn't have the Four Quadrant appeal necessary to be a major blockbuster the way Jungle Book, Aladdin, Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast did. Mirror Mirror (a very Disney-esque movie) had Julia Roberts and...

They tried to make a Snow White movie for the post-Frozen generation of girls. The target audience of the final product is very much still families with small children. Children have been watching "leadership stories" like Star Wars and The Lion King for generations. That aspect does not make...

Is it a hot take to say that the Snow White movie is going to lose money primarily because the original movie isn't that relevant to modern audiences? I mean, I know we nerds love it, but I imagine it's pretty low on the ladder of little kids' favorite princess movies. Of the pre-Renaissance...

Walt had to be convinced to even include a theme park component in his Florida plans. All he wanted was his neo-feudalist company town in EPCOT. If we're clutching pearls over the desecration of Magic Kingdom, it should be done on behalf of Roy, Joe Fowler, Marc Davis, John Hench, Marty Sklar...

The more I think about it, the more the food co-op backstory bothers me. I mean, it's clear they came up with it as an explanation for the outdoor portions and for why a Tiana ride would involve barns and a big mountain/salt dome. But it really amounts to nothing but overthinking. They really...

I imagine they did kick the tires on swapping out the Laughing Place scene for a trip to the dark part of the bayou with Friends on the Other Side playing as you go up the lift hill (It’s too obvious a choice for them to have not considered it), but I can only assume it was nixed when somebody...

I mean, the video has 5+ million views in a week. If that's not effective mass communication, I don't know what is. Compare that to the bizarre PlanDisney podcasts that the Mouse puts out themselves and averages 5k viewers. And that Jenny (rightfully) mocked. Honestly, I hope the final part...

I just wonder if the writing process of this movie was smoother than the last time Jennifer Lee penned a script herself...where they didn't even know what the emotional climax of Frozen 2 would be a mere few months before release date.

Really, if they change Mara into an angry animal spirit, Indiana Jones Adventure wouldn't be that different conceptually from Expedition: Everest.

I suppose you could split Dinoland in two. The Moana section could be included with the Nemo musical to be about animals of Oceania. Maybe the Boneyard could become an exhibit. The Zootopia ride could be part of a section about fables and the history of humans using animals as allegories for...

They did just add a long riverside path of nothingness to connect Africa to Pandora at DAK.

If Disney didn't have "Frontierland" as a literal copyrighted brand, I'd say just change the name of that quadrant of the park to "Riverfront of the Americas." Even if the Beyond Big Thunder expansion never happens, it would help make Tiana seem less out-of-place in an area otherwise themed to...

Changing the Rivers of America to Rivers of the Americas and segueing from the Southwestern United States to an animated/fantasy version of Mexico and then to one of Colombia and then to Fantasyland...that's actually a pretty good transition, thematically.

I'm genuinely curious how they plan to build up to the big drop with this story. None of the press materials so far mention it nor the thrill aspect at all, as opposed to the original Splash Mountain advertising which was ALL about the drop. It even looks like the scene in the final lift hill...