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  1. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

    They could always reskin it as a FNAF ride. Then they can neglect it as much as they want and it'll still be theme appropriate and attract children and Gen Zers. They can even sell broken merch and rotten food from the dumpsters.
  2. MerlinTheGoat

    Carousel of Progress refurb?

    I had sort of been wondering how much, if any, of the original World's Fair version was still present in the current iteration. I went and checked some of the old photos and video recordings of the original World's Fair CoP. There is definitely plenty that is clearly different of course, like...
  3. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

    I love the version at DLP, but Orlando still holds its own with the flooded town scene IMO.
  4. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

    The fake wood looks more realistic, which looks nice. Far less weathering on the front engine though, less than I'd like. I could be mistaken, but I think it's still a single lap bar as well?
  5. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

    It wasn't ever going to be as good, but the potential was there for it to get a heck of a lot closer than it did. I don't think the ride is terrible in the same vein as Imagination v2 and 3 (along with many other replacements), but I don't consider it to be a baseline of "good" either. It's...
  6. MerlinTheGoat

    News New EPCOT acts 'Max and Aydar' and 'Miss Information and Al Gorithm'

    I think it's an even older pun that goes pretty far back. South Park had their own take on a character named Miss Information too and no one gave them any legal grief over it.
  7. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Astro Orbiter closing for extended refurbishment in Mid-January 2025

    It was turned off and eventually removed because of a fire, right? Which probably also makes it unlikely to return sadly.
  8. MerlinTheGoat

    EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

    All versions of Test Track have awful "sets", if you can even call them that. I don't expect the third iteration to change my mind. They're not beating the likes of this, even if they tried-
  9. MerlinTheGoat

    Magic Kingdom Starlight Parade Brings New Annual Passholder Park Reservation Rule

    Apparently it has indeed seen success on D+. At least the premier. It was the third most-viewed streaming premier for a theatrical animated movie, behind only Encanto and Elemental. Whether it has sustained this success, I don't know...
  10. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

    Not unless they actually saved most of the animatronic endoskeletons. I'm unsure what became of them.
  11. MerlinTheGoat

    MK All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025

    Floats look great and the music (while still nowhere near as good as Spectromagic) sounds very pleasant and appropriate. The weakest link is going to be the small quantity of floats, and i'm dreading in advance how many will eventually be subtracted from the roster after a few years. Festival of...
  12. MerlinTheGoat

    Rumor MK Space Mountain REVISED in 2026? (One track? side-by-side seating?)

    I doubt it. Cosmic Rewind cost around the same as that Space Mountain figure, but I just don't think they would see any purpose in doing this as it makes no sense whatsoever. Even under Disney's logic. This isn't the OLC. If they want a new experience in there then they can just gut the inside...
  13. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

    That's what I thought as well when I saw those scenes. I don't know when they came up with the idea to shrink riders, but even ideas used there of Louis peeking through the log (via video screen) kind of feel like remnants of the looking for a lost trumpet story too. But then again, you've still...
  14. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Tiana's Bayou Adventure - latest details and construction progress

    That's old and very outdated information. He was a "consultant" back when it was first announced, but this was before a finalized plan was settled on. His ideas I believe were ignored. In a podcast he went on early on in Tiana's construction (mid 2023), it was abundantly clear that he hadn't...
  15. MerlinTheGoat

    News Disney Parks Chief Josh D'Amaro Says Pricing Model Aims to Keep Vacations Affordable for Families

    Partially incorrect. Not specifically because of their increasingly overpriced theme parks of ever dwindling quality. Though this still significantly feeds into the company's broader profits and funds a lot of their other business ventures. And Disney is indeed far far more than just theme parks...
  16. MerlinTheGoat

    News Disney Parks Chief Josh D'Amaro Says Pricing Model Aims to Keep Vacations Affordable for Families

    Income inequality has been rapidly on the rise since the 1970s. There have unfortunately always been people who have struggled financially to make ends meet. But during the middle parts of the 20th century (post-depression era), things were demonstrably improving for a lot of people in...
  17. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Astro Orbiter closing for extended refurbishment in Mid-January 2025

    No, the elevator was red when it opened with the park in 1971. It had a red, white and blue NASA/USA scheme. It remained that color until 1994 when they changed the land to the alien invasion theme. As mentioned, the red elevator was intended to resemble an actual NASA rocket elevator. There...
  18. MerlinTheGoat

    Tokyo Disneyland Resort Expansion

    My response to OLC if they do this to Adventureland/Westernland.
  19. MerlinTheGoat

    MK All-New Nighttime Parade Disney Starlight Set to Debut at Magic Kingdom in 2025

    The chandelier mini floats are nice and i'd like to see something like them. Spectromagic's ball floats were a lot more elegant than PtN's. PtN typically uses a more square grid pattern to its lights. It's capable of forming other patterns, but it often defaults to the more basic and modern...
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