Recent content by Sir_Cliff

It seems strange to be debating dialogue when we've only heard a few snippets out of context.

Completely agree. This has been discussed before, but WDI needs to work on consistency and quality when it comes to its graphics department. Even on this project in the past few weeks we've had these banners and the signs on the barn that just look too modern alongside the Critter Co-Op sign...

I must say this is a curious episode. They outline quite an ambitious and possibly cool concept for RnRC that a group of Imagineers was working on involving a Hollywood Hills facade and being shot through the "O" in the Hollywood sign. Then Shull comes in to say that he independently came up...

Thanks for that! It does explain my initial impressions of what seems like such an odd account. He certainly seems fairly ungracious to current projects in between posting pictures of his work on stuff like RC Racer, which did have me scratching my head!

Now I'm really curious about what his deal is! I asked a few posts back about his thoughts on Imagineering as the few times I have looked through his X feed he's been talking about stuff like Toy Story Land or the Aladdin Dumbo ride that didn't exactly appear as peak Imagineering. It does seem...

If telling instead of showing is the problem with these few seconds of dialogue, then I can only imagine how much people dislike attractions like Indiana Jones Adventure, Tower of Terror, Dinosaur, etc. that literally stand you in front of a screen and tell you want the attraction is about. Of...

I don't know, is the dialogue on these things ever that sophisticated? Presumably this little snippet just exists to let guests know as they move quickly past that the point of the ride is that we're looking for critters and we're going to the bayou to try to find them. Seems a fair enough way...

Not a fan of theme parks?

Again, very interesting discussion from everyone on the evolution of DLRP and the studios. Thanks! I just briefly wanted to come back to this comment as I don't follow Shull on Twitter very closely and am interested to know his take on the Imagineering of WDSP. Honestly, whenever I have...

Thanks for this, and also to everyone who has added such great information about the history of DLRP over the past few posts! I'm glad you mention this, as my memory from the time is that this insistence from the French government was more something that appeared after the fact than the real...

Yes, it was honestly a little embarrassing how Eric Idle ended up getting hounded on Twitter back in the day for not recognising Figment.

I am always curious to know what the balance was between budget constraints and bad Imagineering with that park. Obviously, they were massively constrained in terms of budget. I am, though, curious about why it had to be quite so aggressively ugly. It is quite possible the Imagineers really had...

Yes, I feel like Coco is very much one of those films that was not only successful in its original release but has gone on to become quite beloved by a lot of people which is generally what makes a classic. I was always surprised that Disney was as coy as they were about promoting Zootopia in...

To be honest, none of the proposals for the carousel so far particularly offend me and I think they could all work ok. If the theme is a fair in a small Central American town, even a carousel with Disney animal characters strangely reads as "authentic". I think I prefer the ideas of a...

I also think I preferred the original version due to the fountain and the water. I'm glad we're at least comparing like with like finally and I will say that showing the original version at least provides some reasonable context for the current version. The slow decline of perhaps Disney's most...