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Stranger still is the standard those few snippets are being held to. To read some of the posts here, you'd think the script of Splash Mountain was a literary masterpiece!

Do you mean denouement?

OK, but this is far from the first attraction to take that feeling of apprehension and channel it into something that’s meant to be joyous and exhilarating. The mixture of sensations can work very well if effectively staged (which it may not be in this case, but it’s impossible to know that...

Perhaps you're referring to others' reactions, but as (I believe) the first person to respond to him on the matter, I can assure you that my annoyance was based entirely on his claim that mere "cartoons" can do without real voice acting (because you can't actually see the actor on screen!) and...

Because that was beside the point.

I can’t speak for others, but my objection to AI isn’t about people losing their jobs (unfortunate as that would be); it’s about the loss in quality that would inevitably result from ditching actual voice actors.

This is what I and others were responding to: Perhaps “just get AI to do it” doesn’t bother you, but it’s not a direction that I would ever want Disney to go in.

As I said, to me it sounds like dialogue from a Disney attraction. I’m genuinely baffled by the idea that it’s atypically or offputtingly infantile.

I understand not liking this approach, but I don’t see how it’s inherently infantile when, as you yourself acknowledge, it’s also used for Star Wars and Marvel attractions.

To me, it reads like the script of a Disney attraction.

Having watched The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes last night, I’ve finally seen Zegler in action. She’s a strong actor and great singer, and certainly qualified for the role of Snow White.

I’m well over 9, and I see nothing here that suggests the ride wouldn’t appeal to me (well, apart from the awful signage). These criticisms make little sense to me given that Disney is full of child-friendly rides that we as adults all go on and enjoy. Or are people really suggesting that...

Disney certainly has a number of rides aimed at very young guests (Barnstormer springs to mind). This really doesn’t seem like one of them. To me, it looks like the kind of family-friendly attraction that Disney is well know for (and that Splash Mountain itself was another example of).

The reaction he got (and, I suspect, wanted to get) wasn’t because he was suggesting that AI would gain increasing prominence—no-one is denying that—but because he seemed to be suggesting that Disney was somehow at fault for wasting money on human talent. Those of us who actually watch animated...

There are plenty of thrill rides that frame the experience as happy and joyous rather than scary. Whether the effect works or not is dependent on many factors; I don’t think one can speak of a single correct or “natural” experience.