Recent content by RoysCabin

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...

Can't say I'm particularly excited, here, but I'm also nearing 40 and am clearly not a target audience member for Disney any longer at this stage. My kid nephew will be thrilled that Cars will be represented, he loves the franchise, so I'll be happy for him the way I was happy that he enjoyed...

I'll never, ever understand people disliking Luke's arc in Last Jedi; frankly, it's the only part of the movie that really clicked for me. Honestly, the best thing Johnson did was take all the "surprise boxes" Abrams left after episode 7, all those things they clearly had no thought-out plans...

I totally get where he's coming from, and you can tell people do enjoy stuff like that when it's done right...but man, I just can't help but feel like this is, in the long run, a losing battle. I get that the artistic medium of themed attractions isn't quite as old or developed as others, but...

The whole idea is "perpetual/infinite growth", something that is definitionally not possible to achieve, yet is constantly demanded today ("line must go up!"). The whole point of publicly trading companies is that it's a way to get money invested into the company, which should then be used to...