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  1. MerlinTheGoat

    EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

    Unless this ride has been delayed by a massive amount and is undergoing major changes as it's being worked on right now, then they should have SOMETHING to show for it. If not installed within the building, then at least in the workshops. Last I heard, they were still targeting the latter half...
  2. MerlinTheGoat

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

    There are people who like it. I am not one of them. For the standards of other castle park parades I find it to have an obnoxious soundtrack, it's very short, many of the floats have an inorganic blocky design (including the overly straight grid patterns in which many of the the lights are laid...
  3. MerlinTheGoat

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

    1- Outside of the spoken narrative introduction, no night parade outside of Spectromagic has ever actually even included the title as part of the lyrics. In fact, as far as i'm aware Spectromagic was the only night parade that even had an original song with lyrics. Paint the Night just uses the...
  4. MerlinTheGoat

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

    More than ever, I wish they would use the Spectromagic soundtrack for this. The crazy part is that most if not all of the main lyrics wouldn't require any alterations since they already suit the theme/title of this parade astonishing well. Just look at the opening verse- On this magic night, A...
  5. MerlinTheGoat

    MK Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

    Spirit, AKA WDW1974, is/was an insider here. He doesn't really post anymore, but he had a very good track record and broke a lot of news about both Disney and Universal (like Tower of Terror at DCA being rethemed to GOTG and Diagon Alley having a train transport between parks). From what I...
  6. MerlinTheGoat

    News Report: Former Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser to Become Walt Disney Imagineering Offices

    No, I said exactly what it was going to be in that post as quoted- "The 'something' is backstage utility and office space." If you chose not to believe me at the time, then that's fine. But I did say in that post that it was NOT speculation. It came from multiple people in fact. Wasn't much of...
  7. MerlinTheGoat

    News Report: Former Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser to Become Walt Disney Imagineering Offices

    Um, try 2023 from yours truly (yes this was indeed the plan all the way back then)... https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/star-wars-galactic-starcruiser-permanently-closed-fall-2023.981053/post-10656065
  8. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    Given that she went on to say that she wants to replace the hangman in the stretching room, but that it was put off for "structural" reasons (whatever that means), I don't know if I buy that. Someone can correct me if i'm wrong, but I think she was also the lead imagineer on the Snow White's...
  9. MerlinTheGoat

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

    They've probably hit a sort of stagnation point of how far they can continue to advance the lighting tech. I assume it should at least hold up to Dreamlights and PtN in terms of raw tech. If anything, it's possible to go way too far with technology while neglecting other important elements...
  10. MerlinTheGoat

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

    If i'm not mistaken, there's probably little to nothing remaining of the original Dreamlights from when it first debuted. Not only are the new floats using the same kind of tech as PtN, but all of the originals have been either retrofitted or scrapped/replaced entirely with new iterations of the...
  11. MerlinTheGoat

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

    Silver lining- At least these lights won't be embedded into a surface that people walk over, or that gets rained on and pressure washed? Then again, given that there's a precedent of storing their parade floats improperly and in non-climate controlled locations...
  12. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    One thing about many of these classic "gag oriented" attractions, especially ones with Marc Davis designs, are that they often used exaggerated features to convey more outrageous and over the top personalities or reactions. An evil person would have much more extreme contortions to the eyebrows...
  13. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    The only things I have ever affirmed as facts in this topic are that the new bride has stylized and exaggerated features/proportions you would be rare if not unheard of in a real person. And that this is indeed the obvious intent. I also stated that most of the other classic figures in the ride...
  14. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    My honest assessment is that the new bride resembles a cross between one of Marc Davis' princess designs (specifically say Aurora or Anita who have fairly narrow features), but mixing in a bit of Maleficent's more exaggerated sharp lanky slender proportions (also a Marc Davis design). But...
  15. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    I fully understand what you and others are saying about the physical adaptations that were made to translate the art into physical figures. I never denied this. But my point is based on the fact that they weren't transformed completely into fully realistic looking people, they still had very...
  16. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    I said nothing about them not being "based" off of real people. It's the exaggerations that are what i'm referring to. You're exceptionally unlikely to find anyone IRL who has features as cartoonish and exaggerated as the ones in most of HM's characters- There are exceptions to this. Other...
  17. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    When I heard some vague descriptions of what they were doing with the bride, I thought they were just going to keep Constance and her face, but maybe improve the facial surface and make her float. I didn't realize they were outright creating a whole new design. So it caught me by surprise, in a...
  18. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    Whether it looks good is an opinion. Most of the rest of what I said is not. You and a few others are commenting on why her neck is so long and slender, and why her cheeks are so narrow and sharp among other things. I gave you the reason. You are 100% free and valid in not liking the execution...
  19. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    Constance was introduced in 2006 I believe, at least at Disneyland. I think WDW got theirs roughly around that same time, maybe within the same year. I can see why you'd mention Aunt Hilda though lol. To her credit, the actual face actress for Constance is much more normal looking and attractive...
  20. MerlinTheGoat

    News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

    To the comments about the bride's face and neck having "unnaturally" long and thin proportions. This is the intended design, she is no longer a replication of a true to life human anymore. Constance was already one of the very small handful of characters that used a video recording of a real...
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