Recent content by Ponderer

I don‘t know if star power is all that big a deal now. I mean, people came for Iron Man, they came for Guardians - they didn’t come for RDJ and REALLY didn’t come for Chris Pratt. And look at this string of horror films with, at best, talented character actors in the leads. I can’t think of a...

Yeah, it’s kind of astonishing that they try in the first place. All my first jobs were in food service, and you’ll never go broke underestimating the American food palate, especially in a high turnover spot. It’s kind of a miracle to me that Satu’li Canteen maintained both its selection and...

Yes, because it makes you more money inventing new untried ones and implementing them than simply opening the doors on the old lucrative ones. Makes sense to me! Because Disney ALWAYS leaves easy cash on the table. 🙄

COVID messed up things for everyone. Good grief. I’m sure they’re keeping All-Star Sports and all sorts of cash cows closed for funsies.

I don’t have an opinion on Harmonious (other than seeing decades of hostile reactions to other shows - I mean, I remember when Spectromagic was a flop to a lot of Disney fans, so I always take reactions with a grain of salt). But honestly, I do warn against chalking misfires up to executive...

I could get behind dimming them a bit during non-show times. I don’t think I’d like them always twinkling, though - I think it’d be distracting (and also make it harder to get a good picture). The great thing about these lights is that they’re almost infinitely programmable, so I’m sure we’ll...

I certainly agree with you on the cake. And hey, it’s what I got for my first trip to WDW!

They made it even more magnificent, is what they did. I can’t believe anyone sees this is as anything as the most EPCOT-type thing imaginable. We literally had a weird laser globe in the middle of the lagoon that people couldn’t get enough of, and now somehow people think this is…tacky? Wowee...

I’m going to say this: what they did with Spaceship Earth and the Beacon show is more interesting to me than Harmonious OR ROE. It is *delightful.* It’s the most EPCOT-y thing that’s happened in years.

It looks like one in the daytime too, if we’re going down that route.

And what I remember is Disney fans on CompuServe and AOL calling for Eisner‘s head after he got rid of the classical music in the original Illuminations, calling it, and I quote, “the debacle of the millennium to come.” :cool:

Yeah, like I said, I like the sense of it, but it’s too much and it makes the window look small. That sort of arch works for a much wider window.

Brad Bird is trying to capture theme of Disney modernist-futurism in every design choice he made in The Incredibles (and for that matter, Tomorrowland). I get that you don’t like The Incredibles and that’s fine, but the same design sensibility of original Tomorrowland, Disney’s 50s science...

Not a problem. Preserving nuance and clarity is not the strong suit of online forums. :)

Ha! I mean, that’s fine, that’s valid, but that’s not exactly something that, you know, guides Disney decisions. I think castles are terrifying, classist and otherwise dreadful edifices, but I don’t think they’re gonna go tear down Cinderella’s castle based on my taste. :P