Recent content by el_super

Claiming this is a lie is pretty low. Sure Davy Crockett wasn't a cultural phenomenon in the 1950s. Sure. But I know that refuting this as a lie is really the only thing you can do. Otherwise you would see that most of these arguments about IP versus non-IP are really based in nothing but...

Westerns, Fairy-Tales, pirates and ghosts stories... these are all things people were very very familiar with and just followed the pop-culture trends of the time. They were building a whole IP around Davy Crockett and the True Life Adventures. Not just Fantasyland. The leveraging of their IP...

For some. The real reason Disney mandates IP inclusion is simple: the audience responds to it, quite favorably. What makes the parks great are the connections to the films and properties people already love. That wasn't different in Walt's time. The media was just a different flavor of...

They could have just wrapped the whole thing around as Adventureland and it still would have fit. Or they could have gone with another more generic name like Western Land or Wild Wilderness.

Is that a bad thing? Really? This group went from "Disney doesn't build enough attractions" to "Actually... new attractions are the worst thing they could ever do" so quickly.

They absolutely should have ditched the theme for Frontierland but it seems they wanted to try to preserve some of their history. They do sometimes make mistakes.

Yeah. I think that just proves the river was a bigger drain on resources and a bigger problem that needed to be prioritized.

Not every area of the park needs to be an attraction. Yes that is true. But then why can't I point to the unkempt wilderness beyond the railroad as part of the quiet park experience that is still there and available? You like quiet areas and trees.. it's all still out there. All of the price...

They didn't. That's why they were closed. They could have been used to sell LL, if they were pulling near 80-90% of their capacity. If they were in demand. They weren't.

LOL. Closing underutilized attractions is the only reasonable solution. That's why they keep doing it.

Those spaces looked empty because people couldn't utilize them. By opening up space that couldn't be utilized for people to walk and rest in, people will be more spread out and the park will feel less crowded.

Ah I couldn't help it. At Disneyland though, at least for the last few years when the Mark Twain was running alone, they've been leaving on the half-hour instead of doing continuous trips. That means, even with the shorter route, the boat is still spending a lot of time ( maybe half the time?)...

Well since July 7th... yeah.

But at the same time, you keep advocating for keeping rides and attractions in the park operating, and maintained, when guests don't want to ride them and don't want to pay for them. What's the point of keeping an attraction that only a small group of fans want? I'm saying it will make more...

I don't really disagree that other areas need more attention... even areas in MK like the speedway. But I do still think that the river and island as a theme park concept is just done in general. In that regard I think the alternative would have been to just close the river and let it rot for...