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Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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The Empress Lilly said:
Very much this.

It's astonishing with how much careless abandon WDW is ran. The Disney flagship resort has no respect for its beauty and greatness. EPCOT/FW all but gone. Random hotel high rises and add-ons everywhere that all but destroy carefully crafted environments. The mad assault on the MK right now. Entertainment, maintenance and water and theme park opening times are the bare minumum.
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A lot of this is a matter of opinion, not fact.

I went with both a first timer and a legacy visitor back in January and both were infinitely charmed by the entire resort. The legacy goer was more excited for the future of MK than she ever has been (she's been going since she was a child and she is in her 50s now), and the new goer found EPCOT to be, in his words, one of the most charming places he has ever visited.

Do not mistake your personal dissatisfaction with how things are going as some undeniable fact of the state of things. What you see as destruction others see as new beauty. What you see as an assault others see as welcome evolution.

And the same can be said for Paris. It's easy to look at the grass on the other side and think that it's greener, but that isn't always the case. Paris has plenty of it's own issues that need to be sorted, just like every single park with Disney's name on it does. Not a one of them is perfect, not a one of them isn't in need of something, and not a one of them is in a perfect state of being.

It's fine to celebrate the work that goes into keeping DLP in good shape, but it also ignores the elephant in the room that it's a park overall lacking in needed evolution and development. It's a place trapped in another time and another place, and while for some that's a dream, for others it is a detriment. And I would go so far as to say for the locals, the people who make more use of DLP than anyone, it is a detriment. They want the park to evolve, but Disney has not let it.

It was a wonderful piece of art when it opened and it still is in many ways. But it's also been allowed to stagnate. It is the ignored older child whose parents are pouring all of their resources into it's younger sibling next door, and Paris has suffered for it. What is there is wonderful, but it's easy for the park to feel like it's lacking something as a result of it being a gigantic time capsule of the period of time it opened in.
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

Well-Known Member
Mr. Sullivan said:
A lot of this is a matter of opinion, not fact.

I went with both a first timer and a legacy visitor back in January and both were infinitely charmed by the entire resort. The legacy goer was more excited for the future of MK than she ever has been (she's been going since she was a child and she is in her 50s now), and the new goer found EPCOT to be, in his words, one of the most charming places he has ever visited.

Do not mistake your personal dissatisfaction with how things are going as some undeniable fact of the state of things. What you see as destruction others see as new beauty. What you see as an assault others see as welcome evolution.

And the same can be said for Paris. It's easy to look at the grass on the other side and think that it's greener, but that isn't always the case. Paris has plenty of it's own issues that need to be sorted, just like every single park with Disney's name on it does. Not a one of them is perfect, not a one of them isn't in need of something, and not a one of them is in a perfect state of being.

It's fine to celebrate the work that goes into keeping DLP in good shape, but it also ignores the elephant in the room that it's a park overall lacking in needed evolution and development. It's a place trapped in another time and another place, and while for some that's a dream, for others it is a detriment. And I would go so far as to say for the locals, the people who make more use of DLP than anyone, it is a detriment. They want the park to evolve, but Disney has not let it.

It was a wonderful piece of art when it opened and it still is in many ways. But it's also been allowed to stagnate. It is the ignored older child whose parents are pouring all of their resources into it's younger sibling next door, and Paris has suffered for it. What is there is wonderful, but it's easy for the park to feel like it's lacking something as a result of it being a gigantic time capsule of the period of time it opened in.
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In a perfect world, DLP would have been built out in its near 35 years with twelve or so great attractions. But that’s not what would have happened, in reality Adventure Isle would have been transformed into a lame ‘Up Yours - Journey into YOUR Up Adventure’, the MS arcades would have been converted into extra shopping space, and the castle dragon replaced with an upcharge m&g dessert party with Elsa.

At WDW there is now not a single park where I don’t permanently wish I were visiting it at a different time. An unpleasant feeling that I barely ever experience at any other worldwide park.
 
Bernswss

Bernswss

Active Member
The Empress Lilly said:
In a perfect world, DLP would have been built out in its near 35 years with twelve or so great attractions. But that’s not what would have happened, in reality Adventure Isle would have been transformed into a lame ‘Up Yours - Journey into YOUR Up Adventure’, the MS arcades would have been converted into extra shopping space, and the castle dragon replaced with an upcharge m&g dessert party with Elsa.

At WDW there is now not a single park where I don’t permanently wish I were visiting it at a different time. An unpleasant feeling that I barely ever experience at any other worldwide park.
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It's like that at DLP too to be frank, the best year to visit the Disneyland Park was probably 1995 or 96, today you have cheap replacements or worse versions of the rides back then from Space Mountain to Phantom Manor, not to speak of rides that aren't there anymore like the canoes, the Mark Twain, the Keelboats, the Fantasyland buckets, half the train stations. The only reason Walt Disney Studios doesn't feel like that is because it opened as a parking lot with 3 rides, one of which the carpets!
 
Gusey

Gusey

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The Disney Village map has updated, no Planet Hollywood, addition of Petite Rosalie and the new shop facades
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J4546

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if they got rid of the mickey meet n greet in fron of FL station and gave that park the alice in wonderland darkride thatd be chill
 

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