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And, as I'll always say, part of Maelstrom's beauty was that it was a short ride, sure, but the ride, the wait in the port town, and then the short (though painfully outdated, by the end) film at the end all totaled up to a 10-15 minute experience, the kind of thing that's painfully missing in...

I just don't know how much LARPing really is the future of themed entertainment, though. Not saying there's no place for it, there's obviously a market for people getting to live out something from a story they really like, but I think the video posted before makes a key point of how exhausting...

That last part is the point I've been making ever since Avatar and Star Wars were announced for WDW: Potter works for this medium precisely because it's literary in nature and thus has a lot of established features meant to appeal to all the senses (in universe food and drinks, described scents...

Love Jenny's videos, she's always fun and is great when she talks Disney, given both how clear her connection to the parks is and also that I think she was a CM for a little while at Disneyland. She often appears when Defunctland is doing his annual holiday charity drive, she rocks. But yeah...

I did find it interesting to see the reaction a friend of mine had at The Land when I was there a couple weeks ago; we went into Awesome Planet, then Living with the Land, and then our Soarin' fast pass kicked in, and he said "Woah, I think we've been in this building for around an hour...and...

I think that's what kind of hit me when thinking about some of the changes over the last decade or so - we've said everything on this topic a million times before, and one of the big things that comes up is that, no, IPs were there from the get-go in Disney parks, there's nothing inherently...

That "linear story" thing may be a factor, for sure; I don't think I watched a full ride through video before going on, but I'd seen pictures and heard descriptions of stuff. Still, I've watched full ride-throughs and Martin's entire tribute to a ride like, say, Phantom Manor, but I still have a...

Think this ride taught me that A - Don't risk rides like this on an empty stomach, and B - Motion sickness (especially when combined with hunger) gets worse as you start pushing 40 Ride kicked my butt, but it was really well done, and having it by Space Mountain to balance crowds somewhat ala...

Finally experiencing it, but I admittedly didn't get to spend a ton of time. Still, wasn't super enthused; I'm not the biggest fan of these "mini-lands" that are centered around IPs to begin with, but I think my lack of feelings for the sequel trilogy leave me feeling kind of cold with it. It's...

Said this in the Journey of Water thread, but seeing in person for the first time this week, I'm glad to see it's not just a big concrete space back there anymore, but the lack of a fountain was glaring, and ultimately it's hard to avoid the feeling of "Wait...we had walls up for years for this...

Seeing it for the first time this week (daytime only) and...yeah, it was cute, I imagine it's a godsend if you're there with kids during the summer, and it did a bit to discuss the water cycle while not feeling like it was completely shoving the IP in your face the whole time, so all in all not...

Ironically, I just got back from a trip yesterday; my brother got us a Lightning Lane for Rise, but it was actually shut down first thing when the park opened and didn't open up for a few hours. That was the first time I got to experience Rise, Smuggler's Run, and Galaxy's Edge as a whole...

I was lucky to go to the parks a lot as a very small child in the late 80s and through grade school in the 90s, and between classic EPCOT and a lot of early MGM attractions, it almost felt like stuff that went at least 12 minutes was the norm at times.

I've also long said that one of the things I miss about attractions like Maelstrom, imperfect though it was (Tony Baxter's critique that the short film should've come before the ride certainly holds up), was that when taken in its totality - ride, short wait in the darkened seaport town, short...

Really good video below on that very topic: "Everything is Content Now", by YouTuber Patrick Willems

Waiting to reenact Clark's reaction to the Jelly of the Month Club membership when it's revealed this is all to hype up a new line of Figment NFTs.

Yeah, to piggyback on this, it isn't like the original EPCOT Center was created in an era of mass positivity, either: for the local American audience, 1982 isn't very far removed from, or even overlapped with, Vietnam, Watergate, diminishing investment in American cities, the AIDS crisis...

Honestly, I think a lot of it is that we're in an era of "content overload", if that makes sense as a phrase for it. The IP mandate is bad enough; it holds back interesting or fresh attraction ideas, it makes so much more about the experience feel like a commercial for Disney+ rather than a...

Yep, that's a more succinct form of what I was trying to say: Star Wars is not about the actual settings, so even if they did try to recreate some places from the original trilogy...would you really want to spend a lot of time in them? It's "desert world", "ice world", "forest moon", "city...

Yeah, that’s on the nose about the food; a lot of people get so hyped for Potter because they want to taste a butterbeer, for example, or walk through a specific hallway in the school, and Star Wars doesn’t really have a parallel to that outside of the Cantina (Jabba’s palace wouldn’t be a...