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I was just hoping some of the CMs would wish her a happy birthday -- I wasn't looking for anything free or for some pre-planned interaction that I found online. Didn't the CMs used to wish people happy birthday? They just mainly seemed frazzled and busy. I'm not blaming them personally, and...

The last time I went, it was my young daughter's birthday. I plastered her from head to foot in birthday stuff so that she'd get a lot of attention from the CMs, but to my surprise, almost no one said anything. I found myself prodding people -- hey, it's her birthday today! -- and then they'd...

Well....I meant I would give Moana a pass for being an old story, not for being an ideal fit into Epcot, which deals with other issues (innovation, future, etc.). And while I take your point about video games and superheroes, if we're going to that level of abstraction, we could probably make...

Moana's just as much a part of Disney's tradition of adapting/remixing human folklore as the classics. Fair enough and a reasonable point! So I'll give Moana a pass. But let's just say that much of the IP that is getting shoved around does not meet this standard. (Unless someone knows of a...

This could feasibly be done nicely, but I really have to comment on the notion that Moana IP is parallel to the types of IP that were used early on in the parks. Most of what was included in the MK and particularly Epcot was based on public domain/classic works. MK included centuries-old fairy...

Another poster raised this issue a while back, but I wonder if one of the things that makes this land somewhat problematic is the lack of "whimsy." It's one thing that Harry Potter land got right: there are magical chomping monster books and silly effects and butterbeer and just a lot of stuff...

It's mood setting, all right.... "Guardians" stuff puts me in a bad mood because I remember that it's in Epcot. Grrr. :)

I think part of the problem for me is that wraps are generally used as ads now. That's actually how wrapping companies suggest they be used (as one company puts it, "a 45-foot long traveling billboard"). So if you're going to use a wrap for a resort, it's a good idea to distinguish it from the...

I'm quite sure SW:GE will be a financial success, but you really get the feeling now that management has tunnel vision. They see movie IP as the main factor that drives people to the parks. Therefore, big movie IP (such as Star Wars) = big draw / big sales. And of course to some extent that's...

We've waited for a while for the golf courses, but....geez. A reservation? I'd love to just do this spontaneously, rather than have to get online and book something. I am probably an anomaly because I have never had a smartphone and avoid this kind of stuff, but isn't there anything left...

I'd like to note that it's not just theme park obsessives/Disneyphiles/etc. who find the placement of GotG really jarring in Epcot. I was a member of the great unwashed public until I saw an announcement somewhere that GotG was coming to Epcot and said, "whhhaaat?" That's actually what brought...

I'm not sure where this idea comes from that because of the Internet, there's no use in having attractions that are educational (and of course also hopefully entertaining). It's not like having the Internet gives you instant understanding of historical trends and possible future innovations...

I think it's exactly because GotG is a bad fit for Epcot that it was put in there. Probably the idea was to try to give every age/gender/interest group a reason to visit each of the four parks. So now Epcot is a must-see for people with grade school girls because of the Frozen ride. And it...

Yes--it's hard to articulate what makes a park really special to be in. Obviously great rides are a big part of the parks, but there's a feeling you get from being immersed in a truly unique and beautiful environment. So much of the world we live is pretty aesthetically ugly, filled with...

I think we all agree that great rides will have staying power no matter what, but certain IPs can give a park a dated feel. Isn't Woody Woodpecker in Universal? That feels dated. Fast and Furious will feel even more dated (although it doesn't help that it's a pretty lousy ride). Splash...

I still keep coming back to these statements that keep getting tossed out: "A land based on an existing IP (i.e. a box office hit movie series) is more likely to bring in first time visitors and cause occasional visitors to return" "People today are just more interested in IP. It is what it...

I think what many of us would like to see is IP moving in the opposite direction. What if, for instance, Disney had created a whole new land in Animal Kingdom with imaginary creatures, wild landscapes, colors, etc., and then made a film out of it? Now you've got a land that is tailor made to...

I think you're missing my point. (As for the fairy tales, yes, they were translated and made gentler--but that happened before Disney, when they were translated into English. Obviously the movies also made adaptations of course.) But my argument is not that people didn't come to see Mickey...

The early IPs (Snow White, Peter Pan, Mr. Toad, etc.) were also very different than IPs such as Guardians or Toy Story. They were based on public domain classic literature/fairy tales and broad ideas that focused on games that children play. I don't doubt that some notion of "synergy" was part...

We talk about these issues like we really know whether most movie IP draws people in, but do we really know whether it does or not? And does Bob Iger, for that matter? It's not clear to me that Avatar is drawing people in because it's Avatar, or that people really want to be immersed in Remy's...