Recent content by The Empress Lilly

Everybody loves a long trip to Europe pretending (even to yourself) to do important stuff sipping on a coffee, staring at a building. For DAK, the research trip mentality got so dominant that the park ended up looking the 'Africa and Asia backpacking experience' park. They themed the park after...

I assume your Google-fu is strong, but here is their website regardless. No need to book a ticket in advance, I just walked up and entered without a wait this weekend. https://disney100exhibit.com/paris/?cb=1756773514194

These images are great on screen. Perhaps on ride. But they translate poorly into a 3d environment. Guest are walking in thick crowds in 100 degrees sun, not alone in a dark, cold, rainy forest at midnight. Black, oddly shaped leaveless fake vegetation as far as the eye can see is also neither...

Those guest walkway footprints they have are super interesting, thanks for sharing that!

I personally consider Art Nouveau very time-specific, and very limited in applicability. There's only so much you can do with it. Hence why it ended, and why it somewhat slipped into obscurity. It's popularity has been on rise for decades now though, to the point of near universal admiration...

I think there might be a preference to dissociate Disney Adventure World from WDSP and its poor reputation.

I assume the opening is marketing driven. They'd want to open everything at once, not piecemeal, to clearly convey the scale of the work, to send a clear message of this being an all but new park. Hence also the need for a name change. And then timed on time for summer holiday bookings.

There's currently a great exhibition in Paris, sadly it finishes next month already. 100 Years of Disney, featuring lots of goodies from the Disney Archives: Now there's a friend I hadn't seen in a long time!

It's wonderful. Around 2012/13, one of my hobbies was taking pictures of 'nature reclaiming the ruins of DLP'. Such was the absolute state of the place. Now only the Asian parks are as well maintained. What a remarkable turnaround, even more profound than Pressler Park into DL50. And yet...

I'm not sure why, but since about the end of last decade Art Nouveau is the go-to home style for Disney. Replacing the American Victorian style that previously dominated Disney resorts. Both styles are fairly contemporaneous, so that's not it. From the WDW skyliner in Florida to the Fantasy...

Who says that?

They undo the castle's 'Disney Store princess aisle pink' , add Walt to a preshow (admittedly both great news), but rip out the heart of the MK with the lake district.

Tsk, that's a most unfriendly way to describe that picture of Martin's right upper arm

Yes, another stroke of genius of ToT is that it is a rare example of the attraction not trying to hide its showbuilding, but making it an integral part of the show and of the park. Everest is another modern example. WDSP and DCA ToT (both before and after Guardian) try but don't really succeed.

If DCA gains the most from nighttime it's because it ceases to be ugly. Cars Land is superb at night, BVS too. The Pier I guess depends on who you ask. For me, it's not bad, but I'm not feeling the magic either. But overall, nah. Lighting only goes so far in creating rather than enhancing...