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Is this coaster another Vekoma Junior, the off-the-shelf ride used over and over by Disney & Universal (at DL, TDL, MK, TDS and all the Universal parks, eg Barnstormer, Flight of Hippogriff, etc.) with a mountain built around it? Or is it a custom design, like SDMT, but smaller/shorter?

The difference is in Walt's day (and for decades after) theme park structures that were supposed to be old were built of the actual, traditional, authentic materials (e.g., wood, brick). In recent decades WDI has moved away from using natural materials and methods to using long-lasting...

Here's the clearest art I've seen of the "flatride" (far right). Some kind of vehicles will go around a short, wavy track as the Plan shows:

Of my all-time favorite 10 WDW attractions, I think more than half are gone or heavily diminished. It's a peculiar thing for me. Among the Old Classics, the ones I'd be fine with losing are the ones DisCo tends to keep around: Small World, Jungle Cruise, Tiki Room, Country Bears, Carousel of...

So while the Shanghai's overall on-show size is comparable to the MK's (which in turn is in the same league as the slightly larger TDL & DLP), this video (of a sped-up foot race through an empty SDL) gives an idea of how its open, spread-out design make if feel much larger and yet more empty:

The Living Seas. The Pavilion and its redress most painfully underscore & illustrate the way Disney THEN thought of their audience, their product and their purpose versus the way Disney NOW approaches the same.

This was posted on Japanese twitter: This is leaked frozen village plan seen in the middle of the above:

Here's a ballpark apples-to-apples comparison of Shanghai and MK as far as the parks' comparative sizes that compose the Guest Experience today (i.e., no Zootopia pad for SDL, nor Tron for MK). MK has some "inner forests" that I've counted as part of the RR/Riverboat experience and SDL's...

The sizes of parks as determined by using Google Maps acreage calculator is usually much different than what you find published online (wikipedia) or even in official press releases: https://www.inchcalculator.com/acreage-calculator/ This may be because at different times, they're measuring...

Tough choice. Both trilogies are really bad and represent massive squandered opportunities. The Prequels win in the awful-acting category - with performances you'd expect out of a dreadful community theater troupe. The lines and acting by people like Portman (in all three) and the kid in...

I miss Jack Wagner. He was the king of monorails spiels and park announcements... only equaled by whomever this was: (I think he was a Hawaiian DJ). You left out the Creme de la Creme of Wagner Spiels... the 30-minute Audio Tour for the Blind: Shame WDW parks never got similar treatment...

Not only the historic precedent of styles, but I would argue there is a biological connection to traditional/pre Modern building practices that doesn't exist much afterwards. For example, newer buildings that are all precise, computer-measured angles and artificial materials have no connection...

Part of that may be the reliance on a computer/Sketchup for rendering, whereas Gen II (and I) had no such crutches. Even when you see new John Horn(ee)y or Christopher Smith art today (for other companies), you can see it is computer-made and doesn't feel quite as great as their old, actual...

#96 Greg Andrade: Gen II. Concept architect. Tokyo projects. Very nice illustrative style to plans. *** #97 Zofia Kostyrko-Edwards: Gen II. Began career creating art for Animal Kingdom. *** #98 Topper Helmers: Gen II. Storyboard and show scene art for WDI and numerous others over long...

It's telling that we mix actual historic places/buildings in with themed places in this discussion. When Architecture (capital A) was still an Artform, and buildings, villages, towns & cities were built according to principles & techniques (and with materials) that had developed & accumulated...

#91 Ben Tripp: Gen II. Began at WDI doing a lot of exciting key art for Animal Kingdom. *** #92 Helen McCarthy: Gen III. Was part of original Islands of Adventure concept design team. Worked on DisneySea, New Fantasylands in Orlando & Shanghai. *** #93 Michael Mojher: Gen III. Created...

#86 Ruben Viramontes: Gen II. Heavily involved in conceptualizing Paris Adventureland. Created the motifs for Animal Kingdom's Discovery Island ornamentation and animal display boards. *** #87 Jim Shull: Gen III. Long-time vet. Worked on DLP and Carsland. Alot of Pixar attraction work...

#81 Reggie Stanton: Gen II. Architectural illustrator and concept artist. Very polished hand-renderings. *** #82 Mark Matuszak: Gen III. Elite digital artist who has recently handled a lot of the very slick & flashy key art for the Marvel projects. *** #83 Doug(las) Rogers: Gen III...

#76 Michael 'Mike' Marquez: Gen II. Long-time player, from Baltimore Power Plant to Disneyland Paris to the earliest Harry Potter concepts and on. *** #77 Hani El-Masri: Gen II. Egyptian tapestry artisan who brought his skills to bear on Disneyland Paris, Blizzard Beach and the Tokyo Disney...

#71 Andrea Favilli: Gen II. Another former Imagineer with a boutique design studio. His drawings convey unique, often-grand ideas in a stylized way. *** #72 Maureen Johnston: Gen III. Specializing in architectural renderings (elevations mainly) and color. *** #73 Andrew Probert: Gen II...