Recent content by prberk

Hey Steve @wdwmagic, the link for the article about the parade floats on the WDW Magic app is closing the app instead of going to the article, at least on iPhone.

I cannot agree more. The atmosphere was so beautiful, and it played a perfect balance to Space Mountain and crowds everywhere. It kept the park in Theme Park… and Tom Sawyer’s world was so thoroughly Americana. The vegetation, the slow pace, the big wheel on the river boat. Something that is...

Love the Muppets, but the HoP is still a great show and something Walt wanted. It is still inspirational and actually adds some perspective to the current myopic view that pervades politics.

Absolutely not. It is more de-theming. As Disney used to be known for, it can be meticulously themed and also squeaky clean. It does not have to look sanitary to be sanitary. (Think Adventureland.) Be it does have to be themed to be a theme park. The Emporium on Main Street, USA, should...

Sorry, I think I misread what you were saying. Thanks for catching that. I just wish the current management understood what made the company so successful and led to real growth over time.

Have you seen the stock price over that time? Stagnant and lower, depending on the year of comparison.

Umm. Have you seen the “comfortable chairs”? They are plush modern, not period.

This is just saddening to me. Tears down a beautifully themed riverboat experience for a loud, outdoor “dirt-track” car experience in hot, rainy Florida in a park that already has a raceway ride? And tearing down more trees and waterways to do it? Sad. Well, this is the company that...

I completely agree. It’s obvious modern Disney has no idea what made Fort Wilderness special — despite the name. They just don’t get the “wilderness” idea and the unique opportunity — and great detail by “pioneering” original imagineers — they had there.

I literally came here to make sure you knew about this!

I cannot agree more. WDW used to be a true resort, with beautiful things to visit across the property.

Why is the Christmas Parade being shown at 5 a.m. on the West Coast?

All of this used to be available to day guests during the holiday period — not to mention regular evening hours — before the parties put a paywall before us. Not to mention free Fastpass and gate prices being the same year-round (no surge pricing). Sad.

What you are both describing is what made the difference in the past: attention to detail and understanding what made the genre work to be entertaining, especially in the “old west/traveling medicine show” aesthetic of the jamboree. I recommend everyone at least support the Hoop Dee Doo...

I agree about the curtain details and similar things. What they were mimicking in the original was old Western and traveling medicine shows like that described as “The Royal Nonesuch” in Huckleberry Finn, which fits Frontierland. I can say, though, that for now at least you can find that kind...