Recent content by itasman

While Alladin is a middle eastern tale...it is almost certainly not of Moroccan origin. The first European publication derived from a Syrian source. One fact many here may not know...in this oldest existing version of story...the character Alladin is not Arab...he is Chinese. If there were...

Two big differences: 1) The ride in the video was about 4 minutes long. The DCA version will be 8 - 10 minutes long. 2) The ride in the video used a suspended "Peter-Pan" ride system. The DCA version will use an omnimover.

I hope so. It does seem to me that, with the notable exception of Animal Kingdom, that WDW has gotten the shorter end of the stick since after 1994.

Agree wholeheartedly. The suits at Marketing are so incredibly myopic. They have destroyed most of what made Main Street a unique "land" at MK and are now extending this philosophy to other places. I don't know about other people, but having a generic Disney shop in a place like Main Street...

^^ Well of course that's your choice, and it makes sense if you don't live close by and Space is that important to you...the problem is that the current short-sighted WDW management will use opinions like that as justification for not doing a complete refurb, causing a gradual decline in the...

^^ Thanks for the link...To be honest, that doesn't sound very convincing to me, but, we can always hope :)

So...you don't want the ride to close for a refurb and at the same time, you don't want it to be stale? Personally I wish they would give Space the full 18 mo refurb it needs...and restore the "wow" factor to this ride. The reputation of the ride will gradually diminish over time unless...

If you don't mind, could please say which site it was, so I could go read for myself.

Sacrilege! (:D)

^^ Al Lutz on Miceage has implied that the MK version will be somewhat watered down from the DCA one.

I detest the Hat for what it does to the great imagineering vista down Hollywood Blvd. As far as I'm concerned the Chinese Theater was the icon of the park...it was on brochures, advertisements, everything...more so than the Earfel Tower IMO Like many others I would advocate building a new...

My expectations regarding MK have sunk to rock bottom hearing that SM will only have an abbreviated refurb. After the wonderful HM refurb, and rumors of long SM refurb plus LM ride plus maybe even New Fantasyland, I was feeling that perhaps the long decline since 1994 was over. But now sounds...

In that case...please spare us the suspense :) ...what were you told different?

I am sure phase-1 will be a success too (I expect, once Little Mermaid and CarsLand are complete, that attendance will increase to the 9 million range), but DCA will never outdraw DL. DCA has several inherent flaws...such as an ill defined theme, awkward layout, plus the fact that an area like...

JII (the original one) was my favorite attraction at Epcot, and I would love nothing more than to see it restored to a semblance of its old self. However it's sad that the best we can hope for at Epcot these days is to bring back what should have been there all along. Disney can make...