Recent content by Sir_Cliff

One of my favourite little touches in Disneyland Paris is a random 'rock' in a clearing beside the path next to the river in Adventureland that has been designed so most people would miss it, but you can just sit for a little bit as if in a clearing in the jungle if you spot it and are in the...

Ugh, you are describing everything I don't like about WDW these days. Give me a few relaxing days in Disneyland Paris over this any time! As people are saying, life often doesn't work the way Disney is setting up their system to suggest it should and I personally don't think this justifies...

Fingers crossed it's because someone brings up Splash Mountain and SotS!

Maybe if you hop high enough you will be assigned the part you really want to act out by the wardrobe/CM and it will be a completely different experience? If at first you don't succeed...

Very much agree with all of this. Another observation I remember from the time was that Disneyland Paris was still going through a rough period and the exteriors often did look in bad shape compared to WDW. In terms of the maintenance of the attractions themselves, though, it seemed pretty line...

It is interesting to see how little was replaced wholesale and, in fairness, Walt may have been referring more to being able to plus and change attractions rather than ripping them out wholesale. That said, your last point is a salient one and highlights how unfortunately brief his time was...

I missed a comma in that article and read a reference to "Anthony Henry, Cotino community general manager" as though there was a person called "Anthony Henry Cotino". Seeing as Disney is so fond of backstory these days, maybe Anthony Henry Cotino could be the Jedediah Springfield of Cotino...

I don't agree with this decision to destroy Rivers of America and particularly not with the idea of sticking Cars in the middle of Frontierland. Must say, though, I was watching an old (2006) interview of Diane Disney Miller by Leonard Maltin a few days ago that made me think about a lot of...

This is a late and perhaps not-so-relevant response, but I remember returning to WDW in 2013 after a long break following a string of trips from 1994-99. I was very struck by how much the resort seemed stuck in a time warp. Very little new had opened and everything just looked like it was stuck...

Trust me, I am not saying Norway to justify its placement at Epcot! Looking at the land, though, does make me think of a little stylised version of Bergen and other places I've been in Norway. I am pretty sure most visitors from Europe will read it that way, though the signs do kind of suggest...

I'm thinking a Three Caballeros land?

Yes, there seems to be the implication is that a denial of service attack like this is pretty standard and if Disney just had decent IT they would have been prepared and able to swat it away pretty easily. I don't know enough about these things to know if that's true or not or if it is indeed...

That is an interesting question! There's something about the jump from Norwegian to English that doesn't seem too great, but I don't know if that just comes from being a native English speaker who has been to Norway a bunch of times! Kind of wonder whether it seems a bit strange to French...

I used Comcast specifically rather than Universal precisely because you wouldn't realise they were the company behind Universal based on the way they are compared to Disney on here, whose CEO is frequently literally depicted in creepily altered graphics with various references to money. In a...

Very good points. It does all add to the mystique of the parks and Imagineering that has been central to setting Disney's parks apart from their competitors. People seem to go back and forth between arguing that Disney shouldn't be giving any details until everything is set in stone and being...