Recent content by shortstop

I sometimes find it funny that current Disney wants to “pay tribute” to past Imagineers by... changing the final design decisions of those very same imagineers. Boundless Realm discusses this. If Marc Davis (or Claude Coats, or X. Atencio, or whomever else from WED) had felt strongly about a...

I thought all you needed was Diet Coke?

When I spend the day at DLR, I have all three meals at Captain Kidd’s.

Therefore, we should petition Disney to change the name back to Frontierland Station.

Ah, but they did!

@SuddenStorm thanks for the description of the immersive new bridge. It almost feels like you’re actually on a real pedestrian bridge. Any progress on the Mickey pants statue?

Interesting. If this is the case, I can’t see why they would have any problems with a December 5 opening? Surely there’s some tweaking remaining, but 3 months isn’t enough time? I’m not sure I buy that.

Taking the bait... but listen to anything Rubber Soul onwards and try to say that again with a straight face.

Do you know if people have been riding it at all on either coast? Execs, WDI folks, etc.

They should make Smugglers Run part of Toontown and retheme it to Goofy’s Sky School.

I hope you detail some of this research in the aforementioned video 😊 I agree that it seems to have a pretty deep bag of tricks!

You’re a fan of Rat, correct? I thought it was just alright, but still enjoyable. However, I hope ROTR doesn’t park you in front of screen after screen in this same manner, and that any screens are supplemental to physical sets, rather than the primary focus.

Even better...

Anybody else miss Rockin’ Space Mountain?

This is true, but they also must have some sense of budget when entering the early design/programming phases. They at least need a ballpark figure to base their ideas around.