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I don't know if you are too picky or not, but I have the same problem. It's incoherent.

I don't think we know for sure what the projections are for. But my best guess is that they are being used to light up the foliage, not the mountains per se. Remember that the plants in Pandora-land are supposed to be bioluminescent, so the idea may be to use the projection maps so just the...

I have to figure there are loose plans to retheme/rework Star Tours and Indy down the road. The latter is showing its age, and the former would be a relatively easy retheme. With as much work and money as is being poured into Star Wars and Toy Story lands, I can't fault Disney for letting Star...

I should add that another potential cause of motion sickness is the difference in focal points. This is why first-person games can cause motion sickness, because the field of view of the rendered scene doesn't match what it would be if the screen were an actual window the gamer were viewing the...

This is exactly right. It's one of the potential problems with VR, which is why, in a lot of VR games, you jump or warp to locations instead of walking, so you have a series of static viewpoints instead of a dynamic one.

To be honest, I would say nearly zero. And that's because a huge project like this isn't designed to get ahead of schedule. The construction timetable is laid out to distribute when payments have to be made to contractors. It's like if you were building a house from scratch, you might plan to...

While I don't doubt the veracity of your experiences, I should point out that me and mine have rode SM several times during our trip last year (it's one of my daughter's favorites), and it didn't hurt us at all. I've been riding SM my whole life, and while I'm sure it's rougher than it once was...

As someone pointed out, yes, they did--although of course it was Disney-MGM then, not DHS. Plus a real, and large, costuming department, equipment rentals, studio office space, etc. It was never huge, but it might have grown if the idea had worked out.

Anything remotely as tall as a Swolphin building would completely change the character of the resort, though. They've pushed against such boundaries in the past (like the DVC at the Grand Floridian) but this would really take the idea to a whole 'nother level.

I get what you are saying. Pixar films are so diverse that putting Pixar attractions together doesn't necessarily result in coherence. To be honest, a Pixar Land could have fit in well with the original "working studio" concept of the back half of the park. With the shift away from that idea...

On the latter, I don't recall all the details, but it was originally going to be a different ride (with a different name, Sylvester Monkey McBean's Very Unusual Driving Machines). Think of it as a Tomorrowland Speedway type of attraction, where each party has their own car and the "driver" can...

Oh, come on, you know what he meant, and it's not that he has a problem with Disney selling candy. The original poster (Thebolt) was saying that TSL, even if it was as cheap-looking as some fear it will be, would be justified if Disney made a lot of money selling candy there. Rich T was...

As I said before, I think the parking decks died when Star Wars Land got moved to the back. Once they decided to go with a plan for these expansions that didn't require pushing into the current lots, they were never going to pay the coin to build the decks. And sadly I don't see the deck plan...

Ah, apologies. I had forgotten about the Fusebox of the Whills. :)

You are right about that in general. It's a Small World and Space Mountain are two different kinds of rides, for example, and while many people enjoy both, there will always be people who only like one or the other. I'm certainly cool with attractions that are geared towards a younger audience...

Right, I agree, that's what it looks like they will do, but what is actually going to be in that building? Some kind of post-show? I mean, Star Tours has a zig-zag ramp to get from the ride to the shop, too, but it's not themed.

Did I miss this, or do we know what's going to be happening in that building with the three ramps (south and adjacent to the retail building)? It appears to just be the access from the Flights O' Pandora ride to the shop, but it looks like it will be heavily themed (with the ramps bridging...

Books about computing and programming--probably not what you had in mind, but feel free to head to my site if you are curious!

I know it had a few capacity days soon after opening, but that was parking lot capacity, not necessarily park capacity. Imagine visiting a packed Studios that didn't even have Star Tours (or Muppets) yet! Whee!

I love Animal Kingdom, and love strolling around and taking in as much non-ride goodness as possible; it's certainly not a 1/2 day park for me. But Disney has only Disney to blame for what you (accurately!) call the Fastpass commandos. With the Fastpasses and now the whole FP+ program, they are...