Recent content by Skywise

I dunno... it seems to me they could've easily done a "Woody's Roundup" dinner show here after all these years. Why do you even need to shut down a restaurant for a kid's activity center when you had a perfectly good one at Tom Sawyer island... oh wait...

Why not move the opening back to the train station? Yeah, it was initially moved because of security concerns but theyve expanded and moved out the security checkpoints as well as added them to the resorts since then. If people want to do bad things the crowds up front are still there...

Look man, photon poisoning is the risk of doing business and giving crowds great night time entertainment! (Gene Roddenberry wisely predicted this risk when he used photon torpedoes as weapons in the original Star Trek!) They've greatly reduced the dangers by going to LEDs which emit safer...

Appearance-wise, it looks good but agree with others here that compared to Spectro and ELP it looks very sparse. Content-wise? Meh. "Welcome to Iger's Electrical Light Parade". Where the majority of the floats are Iger's personal favorites from the last 15 years (at least Pixar gets Coco...

I thought the same thing. They had to go and make a completely new train "character" when they could've given Casey Jr. an actual float?!

lol - I went there to get warm when I was there for Christmas late at night :D

I'm guessing nothing about the show itself changed?

Progress and all, I suppose... but replacing a 30+ year old iconic ride for a 20+ year old IP? Seems backwards thinking to me. Where's the Wreck-it-ralph ride? Why not convert rockn' rollercoasters to the Soul ride (and do a simultaneous homage to Mr. toad's wild ride through death...). If...

Was just checking photos from a 2014 trip and the flag pole is still there in front of the tree then... so at least that far back?

Have the park Christmas Trees always just been giant… “cones”? (And Id really like to see the Mickey Wreath back on the Contemporary)

“Come see the excitement as the Frozen crew runs a video that pauses on the last frame and stays that way ALL NIGHT LONG” So magickal. I can see the bean counter in the boardroom “it’s just like the castle lighting without the lights! Guests will get the same experience and we save a couple...

WOW - any idea what the reason for the change was? (maybe re-engineering the head mechanics so they needed new faces?)

I've got 0 problem with "limited callbacks" to IP - singing "High Ho" for exit music or even a few quips to other IP in the shows (I vaguely recall MuppetVision having some to during the preshow but can't recall offhand). It's making the entire show about other Disney IP that's the issue.

Is it as great as its heyday? No. But there's still a baseball team in every state, still a league and still games. Just look at the NBA Experience at Disney Springs even with the NBA going strong they couldn't get that thing to fly. But the Country Bears... is art and still one of Walt's...

No kidding - I've got an album from the Firehouse Five Plus Two band that played at Disneyland (led by Ward Kimball and some of the other Disney Imagineers) that had several, great, inappropriate jokes. Even a mild curse... on a Disneyland record!!