Recent content by RoysCabin

Yep, I've said it a bunch of times, but Disney management saw the Potter land and thought "oh, just get a popular IP and recreate it in a theme park", stripping away all other context about what makes those areas work versus a lot of other "IP Lands". While I'm not particularly keen on Potter...

Yeah, I'm not about to profess any real affection for Bob Iger and his crew, but if you're drawing from YouTube channels with thumbnails like that one, you shouldn't anticipate much in the way of legitimate or well thought-out analysis or criticism.

Speaking for myself: I've learned in the last couple of years that I get motion sickness a lot more easily on rides than I used to, so moving away from 3D suits me just fine. Never used Dramamine before 2024, but that trip was a wake-up call for my head and guts. That said, Remy was a one and...

I've done a few trips to SoCal now (could around LA, once to San Diego), and yeah, there's plenty to see and do; got one Disneyland visit in, yes, but between the multiple trips I've gotten out to ballgames for the Dodgers, Angels, and Padres, visited LaBrea Tar Pits (little kid me was a big...

Man, a million things that could be said about all of this... I grew up getting to go to WDW almost every year, first with my family and then as part of the class trips my parents would chaperone for the high school they worked at. I get to do that latter thing now, and it means getting to go...

Finally got to ride this last week; it's definitely a good time, though it's in a weird in-between place where I feel the use of the IP both helps and hurts the experience a bit - like, the whole "Wonders of Xandar" thing is kind of lame, the story doesn't feel at all important once you're on...

I had a pretty big hit of that when I went back for the first time in a few years this past February, chaperoning a school trip: we walked down Main Street, started at Adventureland, and promptly hit up the Tiki Room, Pirates, walked around to Haunted Mansion, got to Space Mountain and the...

Poseidon Entertainment just did a video on Disney resorts, really lauding the best it has to offer but ending with disappointment at the current trend of blander looking ones they're making, or the choices to do things like slap The Incredibles everywhere on the Contemporary, that sort of thing...

This is honestly a key point right now: Disney has been in a very reactive stance for a long, long time now with regards to the parks, rather than a proactive one. Upfront, let's acknowledge that this isn't the first time that's been the case! The late 80s saw the announcement of Universal...

You can still have lightsaber fights and space dogfights, but I just wanted to see a galaxy changed in some way after the events of the original trilogy, which admittedly is how I experienced things as a kid who read the extended universe books - the heroes would still get into trouble, there...

Eh, I don't agree with this framing; it's one thing for tastes and fashions to evolve and for a company to respond to such trends, it's another for a company to decide "we're going to dictate what works and what doesn't", and it's yet another thing when the execution of their plan to do so is...

Oh, absolutely, none of us were present for most of the moments we study, but there are massive gaps between different levels of research out there. People deciding that, say, changing the redhead in Pirates is "changing history" are pretty much wasting everyone's time. If they really wanted...

You've provided a decent idea.

Plus, speaking for myself here, I'm just tired of being expected to know all of these properties at this point. Like, I have some Pixar films I like; over the years they've made some absolutely wonderful stuff, after all! But part of what creates a connection with a themed attraction is...

You'd have to actually know that history, first, not just a version of it that you've decided is the "right" history. Disney has never been about a proper showcase of history, it's always been sanitized or altered for comedy's or exoticism's sake from the get-go, so I suppose there should've...