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If I was Disney, I would want future generations to think of The Simpsons (some of the most culturally relevant animation ever) as a Disney product, just like they managed to do with Marvel. Building up the Simpsons in the parks would be part of the long term plan, even though it would likely...

Disney will likely use it for internal data centers. An underrated aspect of the Orlando campus looking back on it would have been all that space to build massive server warehouses with only one or two employees to siphon the power grid of an "up and coming" community and do nothing but track...

I'm usually very positive, but the pictures inside of the hall are depressing. This feels like a new low in terms of effort and care. That communicore hall thing is not even a nice looking banquet hall, it looks like a high school, and high schools here use the same paint as prisons.

It's looking like both the Harry Potter ride and Monsters could surpass it. I'm trying to keep my expectations lower for Monsters though. If you want to hear more about the rides and don't mind potential spoilers, Parkstop from Alicia Stella (YouTube or Podcast) has been detailing Epic Universe...

I don't know, as someone who has spent his whole life watching Transformers cartoons and reading Transformers comics I would argue the ride is a horrible representation of the IP. A worse version of Spider-Man featuring forgettable music and visuals that are hard to decipher isn't what I want in...

This is a good point, but the example I can think of is, ironically, Cars Land. Animal Kingdom is beautiful. Islands of Adventure is beautiful. Rivers of America is nothing special, outside of its historical ties and nostalgia. I totally get that, but this isn't like bulldozing Haunted Mansion...

Anyone who thinks we are losing a massive source of theme park beauty needs to go to Disneysea to see what actually beautiful theme park water features look like. The concept art, if executed, is significantly more beautiful than what was there before. The rides are a net positive and add...

Concept art looks really fun, and the rock work will likely be gorgeous. It will be good. They did accelerate something I thought would take another ten years or so. My thoughts on Tiana's last year can be easily copy and pasted for this: They should pull the band aid off. I just came back...

Yep, where Pirates failed, Cars succeeded. Cars has generally light theming that visually matches BTMRR and is very popular with kids. It's way more of a draw in America with their weird obsession with personal motor vehicles than a lot of other franchises discussed. I don't really want it (I...

The idea that Disney is pivoting a year before EU opens to "more effectively" counter it is really funny. Maybe they should have thought about that like six years ago when it was clear Mario was coming to Orlando.

Yeah, I lived there and witnessed the love first hand. I completely understand why they love that movie, from a cultural standpoint. A sequel will probably make its budget back in China alone. Setting the "villain" as a species not really seen in the first film doesn't seem to signal that they...

Zootopia has aged incredibly poorly, and a sequel ten years later is an interesting choice. Must be raking in tons of cash on Officer Judy plush.

Just watched the video. As someone who has and will defend the decision to retheme the ride, I will say that what they made is just meh. The finale scene is great but that level of detail, movement, and texture is noticeably missing from everything else. It is wild to me that we see nearly as...

The main issue is that Disney's output this year mostly sucked. They have boardrooms that hold back creators from going all in on their ideas, and now they're being smashed by other studios who are actually trying. TMNT was better than any Disney animated film in years and that is another...

I like what they're doing with the ride so far after seeing more finished work. It seems like a nice way to bring in more voices that have been mostly absent from the planning and design of Disney Parks. The backstory is still convoluted and weird, but that backstory likely has little to do with...

I'm going to Disneyland with my wife for our first trip this July. She was sad that Splash will be closed since it is her favourite ride. She is Japanese and only has experience with TDL, but she thinks Splash is the cutest ride and really loves it. I told her it was going to become a Tiana...

No, you missed the part that leaves room for "this isn't for me and that's fine," which is a completely reasonable and understandable response for anything.

I should really stop, because this is driving me insane, but "mansplaining" doesn't refer simply to aggressive arguing (which every gender can easily do, by the way). It primarily is about completely ignoring the perspectives of non-male voices while making an argument, or shutting the door to...

Outside of comparing sentient beings to a car... If you don't want to drive a car because you don't like the colour, you are making a personal choice based on likes and interests. If you don't like a film because of its diverse elements, you are also making a personal choice based on likes and...

I find the idea that Lightyear is some sort of transgressive diverse film completely insane. It is a movie about a white masculine male learning to take responsibility for himself by trusting others and sharing the burden. He is incredibly heroic and celebrated throughout. If people's ideas of...