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I have to think it kind of helps. Imagineering clearly went all in on the area, which is cool, but my lack of familiarity with the movie probably had me feeling kind of arms length from my surroundings, you know?

Rode it for the first time yesterday; pretty good, though I don't intend on spending over 100 minutes on line for it again. Hasn't replaced Everest as my favorite AK ride, but it's well worth checking out.

Ha, seeing people discuss Magic Journeys makes me think of the reaction I had when I watched the film in its entirety on Martin's channel, seeing it whole for the first time since I was a kid and it was still running in the Magic Kingdom. I was blown away by how many images from the movie stuck...

What kind of gets me the most is the feeling that we won't see that kind of seamlessly integrated pavilion experience again. When my family would go to WDW during my childhood my parents always knew that we could go to the Imagination pavilion and spend multiple hours in a place all of us could...

Dude, your posts have been really, really creepy. Please cut it out.

And initially, at least, they tried to stay true to that (see the original Aladdin posters), but it went way off the rails and played a huge role in the nasty breakup Williams had with Disney leadership, namely Katzenberg, before new leadership offered him an apology. Very awesome YouTube movie...

That's true; a lot of the common early complaints about many of the Fantasyland rides was "where's Snow White?", "where's Mr. Toad?", things along those lines, because people weren't catching on that the idea was that you, the guest, were assuming the role of the films' protagonists. And even...

Oh, absolutely, and even in the early 90s we had things like George C. Scott as the villain in The Rescuers Down Under, albeit near the end of his career. It's more that Williams redefined using a celebrity voice, to the point of entire animated films being built around celebrity presence or...

It's funny to consider, but a big culprit in creating that environment is, well...Disney. Namely, it was the use of Robin Williams in Aladdin that really kicked off this era of "everything animated requires celebrity voices"; not to say it didn't exist before, as it existed in older Disney...

Right: Jungle Cruise drew from the True Life Adventure series, Frontierland from Davy Crockett, etc., Pirates got some inspiration from various Disney works including Treasure Island, but each were allowed to become their own thing independent of the inspiration behind them, and each was...

Totally unscientific take here, but it's something that's been on my mind: I recently saw an article entitled "Why No One Watches Baseball Anymore"; as a huge fan of the game it was pretty heartbreaking stuff, but a lot came down to the league constantly chasing after the highest dollar totals...

I'll say that, for me, someone who grew up on the original trilogy as a grade school kid in the mid-90s, the turnoff of Last Jedi is that it kept hinting that it would do some really new, fresh things with the franchise, but ultimately it chickened out on nearly all of them. Force Awakens was a...

I think this touches on what will be most interesting to watch with Star Wars going forward: yes, it's proven itself an evergreen property thus far, but I think we have to distinguish between the Star Wars EU (for those who didn't follow it back in the day, talking about the Expanded Universe of...

Completely anecdotal on my part, but since 2013 I've been to the WDW Tiki Room twice (both times in mid-August, a "value" season) and the DL Tiki Room this past July; it wasn't full any of those times, but they were far from empty, each show had a nice bit of a queue outside for the preshow...

Indeed; I was recently watching a long form film review on the MovieBob YouTube channel, in which he analyzed why he felt the animated Transformers movie from 1986 was good in spite of the pretty cynical creative atmosphere that gave rise to the overall franchise and many of the toy/cartoon/etc...

It really is rough, isn't it? I want to see something new done, but the ideas being bandied about feel dispiriting, as if the cost involved in finally having something done at EPCOT feels too steep. When I saw discussions about the new direction vs. where the park has been for the past twenty or...

Very good point that can be applied around the resort, when you think about it. The original major attractions like Mansion or Pirates certainly had stories in them, but the narrative itself was very much secondary to the experience, so things were rarely spelled out explicitly for us. It's what...

It's pretty clear that Fantasyland is undeniably an "Americana" product, insofar as it's derived from a thoroughly mid-century Americanized take on European folk literature and fairy tales, just as Adventureland is a mid-century Americanized view of "exotic" locales and colonial spaces of the...

Good point on the tonal structure of the ride, given that different Imagineers worked on each half. I always took the attic scene as us "jumping out the window" to escape the frights from the first half (as you say, culminating in the bride and/or Hatbox) and landing in the cemetery for the...

This is a key point that I think doesn't get brought up enough. For starters, "Movie X, Movie Y, and Movie Z ALL deserve to be in a park" is not a conducive line of thinking in creating well-crafted theme parks; it's too much of a "stuff everything in" mentality that cares little for cohesion...