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I'm not bothered by the fact that they are taking research trips, in and of itself. What bothers me is that they are spending money flying around the world taking photos, coining fancy new impressive terms, etc., acting super committed to excellence, and then not spending $15 to buy a...

I have to go back and watch some of these movies, it seems like there were more interesting locations associated with the villains than what you've listed here -- or maybe I'm just imagining their worlds beyond what's shown on screen based on what is shown. But you could be right. However, your...

On the surface, Villains Land is about the juiciest Imagineering project I can imagine. They get to play with some of the company's most popular and "cool" IP without having to do a "take-what's-on-the-screen-and-just-build-it" approach...which means they can be creative. But like SWGE, the...

That alternate plan by Perry Becker looks like a great compromise. A fun water ride potentially with indoor dark ride scenes that preserves a river and a substantial presence of water, plus trees and bridges. This was probably done before Splash Mountain became Tiana's Bayou Adventure, so...

I'm guessing they're scaffolding counter weights to keep things from blowing away. and/or to keep the construction wall they put on top of the scaffolding secure.

Which one of us is going to tell this guy about the weather forecast?

Restaurants and bars used to have carpeted floors, until about the 1990s. And boy how disgusting the carpet in those places got! But hospitality went to hard floors, including concrete, and things got loud. The popcorn ceiling going away didn't help, haha. But overall, restaurants are a lot...

I have a lot of qualms about the authenticity of graphic design and graphic art direction in Disney Parks. In my mind, if you are in that role at Imagineering, you should be an absolute geek -- not just about historic design and illustration styles, but the materials, mediums, methods, and...

Well put. The issue I expressed, when Disney released its video highlighting the back bar, and still have today is the "spoon-feeding" nature of this sort of design. It's a back bar shaped (not deftly, but rather overtly and too-obviously) like a giant skull...and it has another small skull on...

Yeah, I'm baffled if they're planning to leave the cement and just put dirt on it, then build mountains and buildings and geysers and plant trees...all without the cement being a hinderance. But maybe the old cement is so leaky and crumbly it's just the same as having rocky dirt, geologically...

Rumor is that they've been building Lakeshore Lodge right on top of the ruins of River Country -- didn't bother to tear out the old slides, just covered them in dirt. They did drain the pools first though -- no iPhones of course. But so many pagers! 🤣

If they are just burying everything in dirt, I do wonder why they're bothering to pump every last bit of water out of the river. Why not just start bringing in dirt and compacting it down?

Good info, thanks. You may be right about the cement river bed (it doesn't say anything about the steel track), it will be interesting to see. I notice it also says: And they immediately ripped out some railroad track. So I take the docs with a grain of salt in terms of how broadly the notes...

First, what information are you, or anyone that thinks they will simply bury the tracks or concrete, referring to? Is it this: Or this? Or someone else's interpretation, like this from Blog Mickey on Jan. 23, 2025? "In the original permit, it was implied, but not explicitly stated that Walt...

Agreed. They will almost certainly be removing the riverboat tracks next, and then breaking up and removing any concrete footings for the track and concrete in the riverbed. It would astonish me if anything were left as-is, and just buried. That would seem extraordinary for a professional...

After Avatar goes into the Hollywood Backlot, what's left of Hollywood Land could use a make-over to give it a Disney-specific theme. The park could also use two other things: more ties to classic Disney IP to provide heart and nostalgia, and more themes and areas that are kid-friendly...

I remember being a bit taken aback in the late 1980s with the ride script on Star Tours. Not only was the droid pilot totally out of character with the Star Wars movies, but overall -- up to that point -- I associated Disneyland narrators and hosts as competent authority figures, delivering deep...

Yes this is true. Overall, as I see it, there's four established ways for Disney to lay out the land, including the "village" of shops, restaurants, general placemaking), the large show buildings (perhaps two), and the railroad passing through. 1. "TUNNELS UNDER RAILROAD INTO LAND"...

I absolutely get your point, and that's what they may do. But I'm not sure the genre approach (Fantasyland, Tomorrowland) is where modern era theme parks and theme park designers are. For one thing, building theme parks is a much more corporate project than it was in earlier eras. When a company...

The Disneyland railroad, with four stations, has a station on average every 500 meters of track. At Magic Kingdom, which has three stations, it's on average every 800 meters. And Disneyland is already a smaller park to cross on foot. It seems like a no-brainer to put a station in Villains Land...