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This thread is like a fever dream that I purposely blocked out of my memory.

DisneyQuest wouldn't work now. Yes, it's "experiential," but it's specifically an experience based on a bygone era. It didn't exactly help that Disney completely failed to keep it updated, but at the end of the day there's only so much you can do when we live in a time where things like VR can...

The sort of people who would visit Chicago aren't going to NYC for hollow tourist traps like Times Square (likewise, the Bean is nothing more than a quick photo-op.) They're going for the historical landmarks, the performing arts, the fancy restaurants, the architecture & the museums. The sorts...

Chicago lacks attractions explicitly dedicated to tourists, but many tourists don't visit a large city to see such things. They go for the actual city experience and everything that entails. People visit NYC for the same reason.

I'm not saying they wanted the park to be poorly built. There's also no indication that they consider the park poorly built. This is a subjective take, after all. Do you think they considered IOA poorly built? Because it took them over a decade to add another indoor attraction, which would seem...

It was a purely creative decision to cut at least one of those attractions, because the concept was deemed unworthy to include in the finished product. And if the attraction truly wasn't going to be up to par, it's likely for the best, even if you're left with less indoor options for the time being.

Two indoor rides were canceled along with the show. I think the canceled rides fall outside the scope of my question though, since they have no bearing on what's actually there, and if anything does get built on those plots in the future they could still be indoors. My point was that the large...

Has anyone considered the possibility that creating more indoor attractions simply didn't align with their creative vision? It's easy to ask for more indoor attractions, but they can't just build something that's indoors for the sake of it.

I see monorails, but I don't see a recognizable connection to the PeopleMover. Anything can be transit if built for that purpose. As it stands, the PeopleMover is merely a theme park ride, no different to a rollercoaster. It isn't transit. It doesn't take you anywhere. You end up right back...

How is a rollercoaster a "retro futuristic transit solution?" Because I say it is. If Disney can tell you the PeopleMover is a "retro futuristic transit solution" and you just accept that at face value, I can do the same with a rollercoaster or any other ride system with moving vehicles. Do you...

Yes, I am. "Part of the theme" or not, merely having a couple dioramas along the ride path isn't going to cut it for me. It's a ride that would be commonly scrutinized to the high heavens if it weren't "classic Disney." You are purposely splitting hairs. In themed entertainment, "theming" and...

The ride is themed, albeit not up to Disney's usual standards. The track is not themed at all. It is an exposed track coaster, the same as any other. People will say it's supposed to look like a toy set or whatever, but it just looks like a rollercoaster. Because it's a rollercoaster.

It looks like a coaster track. 🤔

I'll be nice and just say "yes." Largely because I'm not sure there's a word in my vocabulary to properly express the degree to which one can answer this question in the affirmative, unless you're literally comparing each of these rides to the bar set by their respective lands and not to each...

I'm not confusing anything. The PeopleMover is objectively not a themed experience, while Yoshi is.

Only when it's not at Disney. I already got someone saying Slinky Dog's track is themed.

Both of the lands praised for their kinetics by the poster I was responding to have exposed rollercoasters, Tron being one of them. That same land also has a spinner and an unthemed predecessor to Epic's Yoshi ride.

It's not "minor stuff in the windows," it's a large chunk of the land's theming you're ignoring. The other lands you named have rides visibly moving around, if that's the sort of kinetics you're into, but they both lack the sort of smaller details that bring these more immersive lands to life...

Je ne pense pas.