Recent content by The Empress Lilly

You had me even before you mentioned snacks! Some genuinely great attractions have been build in recent years, phenomenal tech, wild ideas. But in my heart, I'm just old school WDW, classic Disney.

I meant to say that DAW Frozen might end up appearing larger than HK, owing to possible grand vistas from around the lake. I don’t know at what point in the approach you start to feel you're in Frozen, this aspect more than anything needs to experienced in situ. Possibly quite early when coming...

Why would Star Wars Land have to be a place? If your IP lacks a good locale that can be translated into an IP land, then don't. There are other ways to bring a massive SW presence into a park besides a single locale land.

Sure. But yet, HK Frozen does a reasonably good job of making the land feel large. Mountain, fjord, castle, village. Disney parks everywhere make twenty second walks feel like you've visited a world. Some WS pavilions too have surprisingly small walkable footprints. What I find nigh impossible...

Well it's one of only a handful of rides that has actually killed people...

Well an optimist would say that DAW will have a larger footprint than Disney-MGM Studios without the tram tour. And that has been one of the best parks ever. They are second gates, they dont have to pull an entire resort. HKDL does, and yes that one's too small. But that's also its charm, part...

Surely between filling in the space around the lake, the stunt show area, the huge Cars plot, and - wishful thinking - replacing the hideous Toy Story carnival land the park has space for decades to come?

Well it self-identifies as a patio, therefore uncovered. With just a veranda structure. Rainy days are often light crowd days, from memory and a quick look the switchbacks can be organised so the queue moves only underneath covered areas. On sunny days perhaps with more umbrellas out. I am...

That's a really neat way to look at TDS, never thought about it that way. Just goes to show once more just what a genius sense of what works Walt had. Half a century later you could follow his park's thematic organisation halfway across the world and it vies for best park in the world.

Yes, I do DLP all year round, even if I prefer 30°. That includes Thunder and outdoor boat rides. Coldest I've ever been in a Disney Park: Tokyo end if May with a freezing evening ocean wind, sunburned from 27° sun all day. Wow, their climate is fickle. Tokyo must have the most difficult...

In the castle park Small World and LPdCdF (Contes des fées) sit next to each other. Both gentle slow moving flat boat rides, more identical than a log flume and dark ride. It's not overkill, these rides will feel part of a larger attraction roster. Which is only getting more varied at Adventure...

Getting too serious for a Disney gà board! Good for a healthy sense of perspective though. If I'm traumatised, well into my twenties, by my favourite theme park being changed, then I grew up sheltered and protected. First World problems. But dammit, EPCOT meant something in my life, my secret...

That's worthy of a thread. Or a Disney book. Of the six non-castle parks, four within fifteen or so years of opening had a complete make-over and rebranding. Three even being renamed and rethemed. Why?

I for one think this is a swell idea. If it could be monetised I'm sure they'd find a way to split the queue three-ways. There never seems to be a problem adding paid lines everywhere.

I couldn't believe it, back then. The Epcotalypse, that period from '94 to '99, when one hammerblow after another EPCOT was destroyed. WoM, Horizons, Imagination, Universe of Energy. 😲😱😢 To think they thought EPCOT needed a DCA / WDSP style complete makeover. And to add insult to injury...