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I know I'm late to the party commenting on this, but this whole situation really does feel like another chapter in Disney just not learning the right lessons from Potter's success at Universal. I have no doubt that the actual experience in the Starcruiser was really well done; the performers...

The whole situation is beyond disappointing. I remember visiting Disney for the first time in a while back in 2012 and 2013 and still feeling a strong attachment to it, and especially being happy to get back to EPCOT since it's pretty much always been my favorite. But what I pretty quickly came...

I get what you mean. I think for me the issue is that since themed spaces are meant to appeal to all five senses, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do a full IP land unless said IP has that integrated into the experience, as well, which is why IPs with "literary DNA" work best - e.g. Potter...

I think for me I'm just very much over the whole idea of "Movie - The Land" in theme parks. Worked for Potter, feels really lazy otherwise, though I'd give a shot to one themed after a world as literary and fully developed for all five senses as something based on Tolkien's works. Leave the...

Yep, I picked that book up as research for my History MA thesis. It's academic and thus fairly dry, but it's incredibly well researched.

That's fair, and I actually meant to make mention of that, how Disney's safety codes and whatnot tend to actually be much better than the rest of Florida's. Nevertheless, the "special district" method of governance is something that just doesn't really warrant use anymore, but in a fight...

That's true, the turntable was a hassle when it came to maintenance, I'm sure. The sad part, though, is that Disney is now so many times larger than it was when Imagination was first constructed, it can practically operate as its own small country, yet they're utterly uninterested in putting...

I think it has to be Imagination. A great case can be made for Horizons being the superior attraction in many ways, but the original Imagination was the kind of attraction that deserved to be held up alongside Pirates and Mansion as an all-timer, the kind of attraction that would be replicated...

I'm sure it'll all be another excuse to not invest in actual physical attractions and live entertainment, and allow them to just throw NFTs at people because big companies are just giving up on any pretense and are all in on outright pyramid schemes now. ...Sorry, I just watched a video on...

I have to imagine the loss of a lot of live entertainment is doing a number on WS, but yeah, seems like a super blunt question for them to be asking, I remember taking a survey from them circa 2013 or something like that and there was absolutely nothing like that on it.

Eh, there were rumors before the pandemic, so I held out some hope. Also holding onto that tiny hope of "maybe management will change some day and do something with all those spaces...", but that's a tough one to stay optimistic about.

I'm curious if we're going to hit that point sooner than some expect (though still not for awhile). I just watched some stuff on the new Secret Lives of Pets ride at Universal Hollywood, and it struck me how "classic Disney" it was in its approach: yes, it's based on an IP, one that isn't all...

My only question on this ride, which I'm sure was answered earlier but I can't remember for the life of me, is whether it filled in one of the World Showcase expansion pads. If so, I admit that's disappointing; I realize there's little likelihood of new countries being added any time soon, but...

Good point, and yeah, it was likely the heart of why so many classic EPCOT rides focused on the past for awhile, since updating to reflect new historical studies would always be simpler than having to update to suit the "new future". EPCOT did suffer from being built just as the era of "the...

Just watched some of this and...yikes. The last few years have been painful to watch, especially as an EPCOT Center nerd, but this might have been the thing to really break me. I don't know, man; I'm in my mid-30s, born a few years after EPCOT Center opened. I grew up right on the cusp of the...

Reading a lot of this stuff is making my head spin. My trips to WDW over the past ten years have happened in 2012 (May), 2013, 2015, and 2019 (those three all closer to August). The only one of those trips where I had to use the FP+ system was 2019, and I can safely say that was the trip where...

Not quite sure what you're saying; the Declaration of Independence was a non-governing document and more of a statement of what was already apparent: that the war was not going to result in reconciliation between the two sides, and American victory would mean separation. Jefferson's prose in it...

That's actually why they didn't want to do it, at first: they made Pirates and Mansion at Disneyland because they figured the West Coast crowd would be interested in the fantastical and adventurous folklore or mythology of the East Coast, and planned Western River Expedition for Florida because...

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, and it may just be my background as a civics teacher talking, but the reality is that everything is inherently political: every public action, ever decision, every artistic choice has an element of the political to it. When we don't notice the politics...

I'm pretty sure this was brought up earlier, but while those particular scenes in those movies get called out plenty, the core of the narratives of the entire films aren't build around them. If you ask someone to provide a basic plot synopsis and setting of Dumbo or Peter Pan, the crow and tribe...