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I haven't been to Magic Kingdom in a while but I watch POV videos regularly, and when I see Adventureland at Magic Kingdom I just get a swell of sadness. What a wasted land. As the camera walks from the 1970s Southern California shopping center aesthetic of the area around Pirates of the...

The AI artwork was very notable and on-topic, so it got a lot of coverage. But countless material/sourcing failures occurred throughout the project. Here's one that astounds me. Under that porch overhang there are various props hanging and they were hung from bright, shiny, zinc-coated...

Personally, my take is that everything at the parks is "by Imagineering." Maybe that's technically not true, but as customers, we shouldn't have to know, and we shouldn't have different standards of quality from one aspect of the park to another because of what group of people -- who all work...

As many commentators have pointed out, the building is detrimentally big and unfortunately it's bigger than necessary due to the extended roof overhangs at the front and side porch. It's inevitable that people will claim the roof overhangs, especially out front, are necessary or that the rehab...

For me, it's hard to know what thought or effort the people who designed it put into it. I actually think it's most likely -- and equally, or more, troubling -- that they probably did put thought into it but they lack the talent needed to perform as well as their Imagineering predecessors...

Exactly. They put an extended overhang at the front for absolutely no reason (what they did was architectural incorrect...it's not based on real Southern architectural vernacular). It just makes the building more massive than necessary. An overhang on a 19th century carriage house would have...

Yes, that's a possibility. I think they would need a cosmetic reskin toward a rustic 1920s look (rusty metal) and the addition of a caged fan at the back. But that's easy. The attraction area is a huge concrete pad with sculpted rocks, but in Bayou Country, sculpted concrete trees would be...

a futon up in the loft at Madame Leota gift shop?

It's hard to reconcile that the Madame Leota gift shop is a couple hundreds yards away from the Jungle Cruise queue building, a masterpiece of themed design and construction. What a stark difference. One is Tokyo DisneySea level and the other is Six Flags level...

Having Pooh in Bayou Country doesn't make a lot of sense. And I don't just mean thematically. What really doesn't make sense is that it's an attraction (and retail) for families with young children and once the sun goes down, it's very far from where parents with young children are in the park...

I do sometimes think the value of that revenue is over-stated. Even if they do $18k per night, booked 365 nights a year, it's $7 million gross. Then you have all the ops nuisance (it's a weird side-gig), chefs, servers, booking, food costs. So even less goes to the bottom line. I'm not sure it's...

It's hard to see the utility of using Port Royal Curios as extended queue for Pirates unless the Royal St. Veranda (in red) goes away to allow a connection to the existing queue...and to devote its outdoor seating as additional queue space. But even then, it's a modest amount of square footage...

With the opening of Epic, it's an interesting time to analyze Universal's attraction mix and target demographic... I think that Universal has largely been an "insurgent" brand (especially in So. Cal but also in Orlando). It focused on a demographic/psychographic it could most easily "peel...

Hello, I'm new to these forums but wanted to toss an idea out there as far as the Hollywood-to-Pandora transition. I can imagine putting a new building facade -- wherever this transition needs to happen -- that is themed as an Art Deco Science Museum / Planetarium, perhaps inspired by the...