If, as you say, this is merely clarifying what was already hinted at but not explicitly shown in the original artwork, then the end result is still the same: more water than many of us expected. It’s a win either way (unless they’re totally tricking us and merely exaggerating beyond recognition what we’ll actually get, which is perfectly possible).
It has nothing to do with who they’re of.
They've had almost a year to let it leak, to reassure people, that the water along the central corridor would remain. Why didn't anyone say something? People misreading concept art would have been an easy thing to remedy rather than let people simmer in angst unnecessarily.
When did you last ride the riverboat at Magic Kingdom?An American Disney castle park without a riverboat / ROA just feels wrong.. I guess you could also extend that to any castle park that was originally designed with a ROA/ riverboat.
The general public don't sit around wringing their hands over things like this.
But Disney knows the people who attend their big D23 Expo where this was announced *do*. If those people have enough value to hold a splashy event every 2 years, it would be nothing to feed Scott Gustin a "Relax, the water is still there," message.
That is not how they have ever operated or probably will ever operate with regard to D23 communication. Early concept art is typically left completely uncommented.
Another great example of not knowing the larger context.
And it’s hideous too.
Disagree. New Orleans was part of the “Wild West” historically, which is a big part of the inspiration for Frontierland. IMO there is certainly a way to incorporate NOLA and TBA into Frontierland that could work without being too historically inaccurate. They could start by moving some of the Western-style storefronts and CBJ closer to BTM. The jump from those to TBA to BTM needs to be resolved eventually
