Recent content by yensidtlaw1969

It's pretty extensive. At this point I wouldn't expect an opening before August, unless something changes.

Am I misremembering? I thought something was announced to be up there, with fireworks viewing of some sort - I haven't been following this closely so it's very possible I'm wrong, but if so that would be a HUGE miss.

It’s very strange. Some of their most popular and best people-eating attractions rely on methods they’ve now very largely rejected. How many classic attractions offer(ed) few or no significantly advanced animatronics? How many have managed to entertain and move guests for literal decades while...

Part of the issue is that Disney seems to have forgotten the art of the mid-range attraction - they have to start delivering quality attractions that land between Journey of Water and Flight of Passage in terms of scope. Right now we mostly get things towards the extremes and have mostly lost...

Moana is a different kind of boat ride. But nobody complained about Jungle, Pirates, and Splash all in a row for 30 years, so this probably wouldn’t change that anyway.

No, they're considering it for Magic Kingdom.

I feel like I agree that the new tower is not particularly harmonious with what came before, even if they're pulling influence from an early concept for Disney's Polynesian. That tower design may have been a valid approach on its own, but it does feel more generic and less evocative than what...

I believe it's meant to be the latter

Not exactly: Think of Shanghai Pirates as more like Cosmic Rewind, where the vehicle can be spun to face any direction, where Moana is more like Indiana Jones or Dinosaur!, where the vehicle can be made to feel like it's experiencing turbulence. (I suppose it's possible Moana may also be...

Yes

Tortuga Tavern will likely be the new Pirate Bar by then.

At the moment I’m not sure. The treatment they’re giving Indiana Jones makes me think they’ve got to be doing *something* to make more sense of Encanto in the park, if only because it’d be odd to make the effort for one attraction and not the other. So if I had to guess, probably? But that is...

Intrinsic Value of Nature: “Man, weren’t Dinosaurs amazing? It’s so sad that they’re extinct, and that our contemporary experience of these magnificent creatures amounts to THIS” Psychological Transformation through Adventure: “Now that I see this, wouldn’t it be better if these awesome beasts...

Some we've heard about, some I haven't seen chatter for yet.

You didn't realize that mischaracterizing someone's opinion in an attempt to undercut people's perception of their taste would be upsetting? Interesting. I'll tell you what, it'd be a lot less bothersome if the response was more like "I'm so sorry, I made a mistake, I won't do that again" and...