I wasn’t referencing you specifically but an overall common narrative on here.
Whether it's upgrades or were always in the plans, I hope there is a lot of moving parts in this land. Like Berk and the Potter lands. I want to see Monsters in the high windows, things in the low shop windows. It needs to feel alive and like a city once you walk in under that arch.
I agree.
It is to me, mostly because it never occurs to me to look for it. Same with the sourin' building.
I just think it’s such a letdown to market a new land and then not have a really good attraction for people to experience until a year later.
As big as it is, I notice it way less than Tron or backside of Galaxies Edge.
It just bothers me a little because I realize that Disney always wanted to hide the show buildings, I get that, but with everyone clambering for new, bigger, better, more thrilling rides, unless they built them underground it is necessary to have those visible buildings. We cannot have everything. We want high flying thrills we need to have higher show buildings that cannot be completely hidden.
This isn’t known. The released art just ignores the large gravity building shown in the model.
Hiding buildings below grade would be one way to hide/minimize the intrusion of show buildings, but there are lots of ways. Camouflage, forced perspective, themed facades, barrier landscaping, etc., are all employed across the parks.
Oh @BrianLo - I listened to their perspective. Come on man…
My memory isn’t faultless, but I don’t recall saying that. Looking back, the closest thing I see is my stating an expectation that the theater would be closed for “three or four” years, which doesn’t seem like a wild claim . I’m happy to be corrected if I spoke more directly to phasing.
Bless your heart Casper, I never claimed it would open as soon as humanly possible. I just said if it did, if would further validate my thesis made above.
Yes, I know they pioneered the "hide the show building" set up. Please remember that the show buildings were usually never more than two stories high. In most of the land in WDW has a very high water table so going down just a few feet can be problematic. Remember Magic Kingdom is on the second floor. When things like Tron, a coaster that requires more height then the original parks dealt with, what does everyone expect is going to happen. They demanded and they got, but with what they got they have to deal with some of the realities of life. There is just so much they can do to hide large buildings required to house those attractions. It's getting to the point that those buildings would require a few hundred Giant Sequoias to hide them. Something has got to give or people have to accept the idea that the real world will, on occasion rear it's ugly head and make the best of it. For me, I don't even think about it and I seldom notice it. When I do notice I see it for a few seconds and then continue to enjoy the attractions in the park. In the meantime we can use reason and logic to understand that for every action there is a reaction and the bigger and higher the thrill requirement the harder it is to hide it. Not everything can be called a mountain. Wherever they could they made a mountain or the building wasn't detached in anyway from the entrance and therefore wasn't really standing out.
Also pretty awesome to see the development of 4 different lands at once across the property. So much to look forward to