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This may have been said a lot (I haven't read all the threads out there) but my primary concern with this attraction redo is that it's not yet clear what the primary emotional payload is supposed to be, and all these pr releases don't really help. Is this going to be a wild misadventure? A...

I like Disney Dish, Tomorrow Society Podcast, Retro Disney World, and Marty Called (language warning on the last one)

Wow! Those are some quality updates! With the intense blandification of stateside Disney over the last two decades, its nice to know Imagineering can still do creepy if they're allowed to!

Interesting debate! I do tend to prefer Indy, but that's almost entirely because of the queue. The buildup is more intense and dramatic, and the atmosphere is very effective. Dinosaur's museum entrance is fairly bland and doesn't really set up the attraction very well (a problem that's fairly...

Any time your primary creative goal is to make something that is "not X" (not scary, not offensive, not dated), it's going to be awful. You have to have some kind of positive emotional goal for your work, or you're going to wind up with a half-baked, muddled mess. This is how Stitch's Great...

Thanks for this - captures a lot of how I feel :D I compare Disney's approach to its parks to the way I feel trying to shop at the PC game aisle at Office Max - movie tie-ins and sequels as far as the eye can see - and being told that there's nothing else. That's it. Forever.

I loved Epcot as a kid, but I find myself curiously detached from all this now. The truth is that the Innoventions area hasn't really felt very exciting or futuristic or inspiring to me since they redid it with all the "festival" looking stuff back in the 90's, so it's kind of hard to miss it...

Sure, but if you do want to book one of those few popular rides, you're still likely to have to book pretty far in advance. Doesn't mean you can't have a good time or book other enjoyable rides, but sometimes your family really wants to do the cool, new stuff, even if it can be a challenge to...

I'm really not a fan of FastPass+ at WDW, but I loved MaxPass at Disneyland, in spite of the upcharge. This is because MaxPass feels like the traditional day-of, factor-in-the-cost-of-getting-the-fastpass, original paper-based system from before - not the "book 3 rides at 5 am 60 days in...

Oh man... the thought of getting rid of that chokepoint between Peter Pan and it's a small world... how wonderful would that be? Is there any chance that could actually happen? Hard to tell from satellite photos, but I wonder if they reconfigured Pinocchio Village Haus a bit, they could maybe...

I'm not really a parade person... but man did I love the brassy, anthemic Spectromagic theme song. It made trying to get across the crowded parade route in time to get to your Fastpass feel incredibly epic :P

Because if they gave it a themed name they would have to theme the resort.

I'm not sure that calling ip-filled parks akin to the Magic Kingdom is really fair to the Magic Kingdom's original vision. There has been (and still is) a lot of original stuff, historical stuff, and progressive stuff in that park. No, what Disney is transforming all their parks into is...

I wound up with Pirates, Mark Twain, Big Thunder, and Lincoln as my top 4. The California Adventure one is a LOT more challenging... yeesh...

Hmm I don't know. "We want to make our park more timeless" and "We are going to fill our park with franchises less than five years old" don't really mesh in my head, no matter how popular the franchises are at the moment.

I dunno. Maybe people thought Guardians of the Galaxy already violates the "timeless" bit so it could potentially violate the "family friendly" bit too.

I don't know. As much as empty space is... empty... and as much as the idea has downsides, I kind of like the idea of future world pavilions getting more visibility from the plaza. They can function better as weinies that way.

Oh man, I had forgotten about that quote. Maybe they really DO believe that franchises make an attraction's success more likely, although that genuinely feels delusional to me. Some of the parks' most spectacular failures - both in terms of guest rating and longevity - have been franchise...

I don't think people are averse to freshness and novelty - I just think it's MUCH harder to get right. People didn't fall in love with Hamilton hype because it brought back fond memories of their American History 101 class. They loved it for what it was, and it was new, and different, and...

Or, heck, they just need a twelve-year-old kid in there making decisions. Isn't that, according to the stories, how we got both the original Star Tours and Splash Mountain? Where's Eisner's son when you need him? On the topic of thematic cohesion, Passport2Dreams has Sunset Boulevard as the...