Recent content by James Alucobond

… Are people actually making that argument? I certainly haven’t seen Disney make that claim. They just want to attach semi-current IP to everything because they feel that makes things a safer bet with regard to popularity and interest.

Sure, but we’re talking about how operations is coping with the hand they’re dealt, which is a separate issue from show design and the underbuilt nature of certain aspects of the park.

While I agree that the general restrictions on annual passes are senseless at this point, I do think there are reasons for caution with new parades and whatnot that weren’t a factor in the past. For instance, there are more guests than ever, and the newer firework shows encourage people to flood...

Also worth noting that entertainment like this (e.g. a new firework show, stage show, parade, etc.) is designed to be seen by pretty much everyone in the park who wants to do so in a given day, so the reasons for restrictions differ from rides and are, by their nature, more short-lived...

Why would anyone really even have an expectation? It’s been ages since there was a new night parade, so there’s not a contemporary frame of reference. It was intended to last as long as it took for ops to feel like it was okay to lift.

A ludicrous comparison.

The new channel will be quite clearly too narrow for the riverboat to navigate. It's about its scale relative to the body of water it resides in, even if they could carve out a singular section of it to barely house the Belle. Also, half the beauty of it is in the kinetics.

It's also possible the coaster box just sits back quite a bit farther from the domed queue section than the model suggested.

Pretty sure it’s always been like that, with the irregular polygon under the ship mister and the larger slot on the side for the refreshment stand.

They can just say that they’re adding things back from the original plans since we’re past the era of navigating pandemic cuts. They’re not going to bow deeply in shame, nor do we need them to do so.

It’s a byproduct of visualization, which is not always made with broad public consumption in mind. It was happening in both the past and present but is obviously done differently now from a technological perspective. What crept out in the past would probably still be way more visually appealing...

I said you’re comparing unlike things. I made no qualitative judgment of similar mood-based conceptual art of the past versus the present; I just said that what is being shown for Animation Courtyard is not that kind of artwork and isn’t trying to be.

That kind of concept art is fundamentally different from what we typically get now because the purpose is different. It’s less about mood and more about showing exactly what will be built where, because most of it is released as part of D23 presentations where that is the primary concern...

… He said Wonders of Life, not Imagination.

Whether I do or don’t like the plans is irrelevant and was not part of my response to you. I looked at the concept art of the renovation, noted that the only structural change to the buildings is to a single entrance overhang such that it includes the sorcerer’s hat, and made the factual...