Recent content by UNCgolf

Yes, the movie screen is quite cool (that's one of the exceptions) but as you mentioned, it just doesn't have enough use cases at the moment. That has to be overcome -- or they have to be so cheap that it's worth having even if you're only going to use it a few times a month -- for it to get...

I think that AR will eventually see regular, widespread use -- I'm less convinced that VR will ever be more than a niche (at least until technology has progressed far, far beyond anything we are remotely close to being able to make today). I've also used the Vision Pro, and while the tech is...

My only issue with the festivals is the booths themselves and how much they clutter everything up.

I assume he's talking about the Carl Sagan docuseries from the early 80s, which had two sequel docuseries with Neil DeGrasse Tyson in the past decade. The original series was on PBS, the first follow-up was on Fox, and the most recent one was on National Geographic, so Disney presumably would...

I think the Crescent Lake resorts are in the best location at WDW, so I'd pick Yacht Club. Plus, the Contemporary now has those awful Incredibles rooms that look like a value resort. Although maybe not at the Garden Wing?

This is one of the biggest benefits to using IP. A ride can be mediocre and still a draw because of the IP (Frozen Ever After another great example). A mediocre non-IP ride is probably dead in the water. The corresponding downside is that IP typically constrains what can be done and doesn't...

Last time we were there we ate dinner at DS almost every night -- we would often leave the parks around 7:30-8, then head to DS for a late dinner. There are several QS options at DS that are better than most of the TS restaurants in the parks.

Regal Eagle isn't even half as good as Polite Pig, and that's on Disney property! Not really a knock on Regal Eagle either, just that Polite Pig is much, much better BBQ than I ever expected to find at Disney (it even got a Bib Gourmand award from Michelin).

There aren't any dragons either.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I only meant translating it from a video game to a ride that didn't end up feeling like a lesser version of what you experienced in the video game, because you're actually in control of what happens in the game, as opposed to just in general.

I completely agree on Mario Kart -- Universal just made poor design decisions there. Mario Kart is one of the games that should be relatively easy to translate into a theme park attraction. How do you translate an epic fight into a ride, though? To me, at least, it seems like it would generally...

Warcraft would definitely work as a theme park -- it's kind of just generic high fantasy, but it does have a relatively unique visual style and it's very popular. Pokemon is kind of a middle ground, in that while it obviously has successful/popular games, I don't think video games are the...

While I haven't been on the Hollywood version, based on video I prefer the existing Orlando one to the updated version.

I actually feel like RPGs might be the hardest, because they tend to rely on interactive narratives where your choices actually affect what happens in the game much more than any other genre. This isn't true across the board for RPGs (especially JRPGs, and to a lesser extent action RPGs) but it...

Bay Lake Tower isn't great, but the Contemporary was never really a themed resort to begin with so it's not especially out of place there IMO. Regardless, I think you're being a bit disingenuous. There are a lot of people who have problems with this that do not hate everything Disney does. Both...