Recent content by The Empress Lilly

Great pictures! And nothing hyperbolic about your BatB appreciation. For me too BatB is perhaps the best Tokyo attraction. I thankfully had the discipline not to read up on it, expecting to see it myself in the not too distant future. Speaking of, why do people try to know a new area / ride /...

Of course. 😀 But WDSP isn't much of a benchmark. When you ask 'will Disney Adventure World now rival DAK/DisneySea/EPCOT/DHS?', then, well....no, not quite. I'm very happy with the transformation and all the work, the whole resort will be even better than I hoped for in my wildest dreams as...

The problem with Frozen isn't age. It's that Disney feels that it can coast on the success of the IP, and doesn't need to go all in. EPCOT Frozen was shoehorned in, to quickly open something, anything, Frozen. The ride was nevertheless instantly popular. And so now they're still building it...

DCA. Despite everything, I consider all Disney parks absolutely gorgeous. All castle parks, and all second gates at WDW and Tokyo. Except for WDSP and DCA , they just don't have what it takes to make a beautiful Disney park. DCA is pretty in many areas, but not quite the pier, and it is this...

So they pretty much built a DCA Pier / Paradise Garden area, uplifting WDSP from the 'world's ugliest Disney Park' to 'tied for second place ugliest park'.... Still looking forward to LK though, more than Frozen - one so-so ride based on last generation's big thing - a killer flume ride could...

Yes, I think you get to the heart of the matter. DL's façade is iconic. And for some reason, every Disney fan can pinpoint and name Mary Blair. (But not, for example, the railroad guy). At DL the ride is presented as a major event rather than as one among several indoor Fantasyland rides. In...

For your viewing pleasure, DL top, MK bottom.

That still looks like the office area on the outskirts of every 50k/100k West European city. Which setting did you choose for your theme park? 'Slough, Tuesday morning in November'.

No sarcasm. My sincere opinion. I did deliberately use two older photos. The MK was the vastly improved version of DL. But time hasn't been kind on it. I struggle to name even a handful of aspects that have not been greatly reduced over time. Meanwhile, much of DL, despite also being ravaged in...

Everything in Tokyo is just better operated and presented. It's a good picture with nice saturated colours, but just look at the beautiful state of everything. Popping colours, train and balloon overhead, superb lighting, everything fresh and looking like the place opened two weeks ago.

You could stay 'off-site', especially if you stay within walking distance of station along the Keiyō Line. Last trip I stayed a short walk away from the Shin-Urayasu Station, one stop / four minutes from Maihama, TDL station. Lots of great value hotels in this area. It’s all very straightforward...

I very well named myself after a lost WDW paddle wheel steamboat, no false nostalgia here. For me the loss of the river and its boats and island, and above all its very feel, hits as hard as MS being transformed into Zootopia or San Fransokyo or something.

I like Bug, but I decry its loss mostly for the loss of DAK'd thematic cohesion and no more inclusion of bugs in an animal park. Creepy crawlers in the hidden spaces in the soil at a tree's roots are just a good fit. Zootopia doesn't belong in DAK whatsoever.

Indy and Dindy are as much the same thing as Small World and Pirates, or Mansion and Buzz.

Are they serious? I enjoyed the Muppets as much as anyone else, but for me they are the very epitome of an IP that can come and go when its time is up. Not sure what caused their sudden beatification in Orlando. I am also one of the few who thinks Dinosaur and Indy are very close. With just a...