Agree to disagree. I’m not going to turn this into pages upon pages on this topic by disputing your points, it’s all been discussed before. So will just say that you’ll have fans that want that experience while the majority I think don’t, opinions will vary of course so let’s move on.
Avatar coming to DCA is the topic of this thread is it not?
It was sort of implied in that statement that I was trying to get us back on topic, plus should have been more obvious when I said “let’s move on”.
DCA 1.0 was a disaster, you couldn’t get any closer to Disney making a Six Flags style park. The park was so bad its first couple of years that they basically gave you a BOGO deal with the purchase of a day at Disneyland. Buy a day at Disneyland, get a day at DCA free is what it was. You know things are bad when Disney and free are in the same sentence.
I actually get car sick on my way up to Giant Sequoia National Park three times of my life when my parent took a trip up there. For that reason-I have NO desire to back on my own terms. I absolutely hate camping too.
I think there's a variety of concerns from how close this out-of-this-world theme is to the entrance to the park; how much smaller this execution will be than at DAK; lack of clarity about the number of attractions (or anything else); why they're not calling it a "land" which is signaling lack of ambition (or as I call it, "DCA Disease"); and the fact that because Avatar has left no cultural footprint (despite the box office), there's nothing most people are specifically looking forward to seeing manifested there -- no particular characters, vehicles, weapons, props, landmarks, etc. -- or wanting to pretend to do there. There's a lot to be skeptical about, even if the IP was executed well at DAK. Hopefully at D23 they provide some more encouraging info.
Well, out West we only have two parks, and one has been under-everythinged for a quarter century. At WDW they can let any two parks go fallow and still be ahead. The stakes at DCA feel high and passions run high accordingly.
I would argue the average person knows as least the main character of Jake Sully, beyond that you may have a point, though many may still know a few of the others. But yes I agree its more a spectacle and that is what draws people into the theaters, and ultimately the land.
I hope it's great. I could get very excited as more info comes out.
For me, I kind of expect the high point of Coco is essentially going to be the finale scene of Tiana's with all the singing characters except they'll be skeletons. And maybe they'll deliver that scene a few times with different flavors. But what more are people expecting in this ride scene-wise? (As I said recently, I don't remember much of the movie, so it's not a rhetorical question). I want to be in the ride for 8 to 12 minutes or whatever, but I only have one scene/expectation. And that will satisfy me as long as the ride is long enough. But that's because I love the art direction and Day of the Dead theme and Mexican culture generally. And all that fits into the park beautifully, I think.
I don't know what the opposite of rose-tinted glass is, but this is it.
