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No chance. Knott's has not expanded its acreage since Camp Snoopy in the early 80's, basically around the time Walter Knott died. They have barely been able to keep up maintenance and theming in the areas they already have. It's basically Ghost Town placemaking is nice, and then theming falls...

The Simpsons is the only property from the Fox purchase that can be counted on to make money (the jury's still out on Avatar). They sell a ton of merchandise and their show reliably gets ratings, at least enough to justify its continued production. The show seems like it might outlive its...

Currently standing in the Haunted Mansion queue. As with everything WDI does nowadays, it’s over-scaled. The trellis awning height is too high. The covered canopy is too high. The elevator shaft is too high. The gift shop roofline is too high. I don’t understand the need to have these...

I like the armadillo with the umbrella. Why does he have an umbrella? What's his story? Who cares. It's a cool design and people can use their imaginations for the rest.

The bottom floor of the attraction is really, really empty. There used to be a lot of depth to the underground cavern: hopping fountains, bees, rodent families, vultures, turtles. Now all they have is three frog figures. The frog figures aren't even that advanced! They shake and bobble in...

No. It’s because they bought 20th Century Fox for $70 billion and Iger is one of those people who believes it when someone tells him a bridge is for sale.

These resemble the mid-century modern look about as much as Mickey Mouse resembles a real mouse.

It would never have worked in California. There is plenty of immersive experiences in SoCal (Halloween haunts, escape rooms, theatre, even residential and retail architecture) that uses the deep expertise of set and production design from the movie industry to create world-class immersive...

Why can’t they just build it as a new ride? These types of dark rides are what I’ve been wanting out of Disney for twenty years. Economical and charming.

Why not?

Why can't they build it here? Frontierland? Check. By the train station? Check. Mostly movable backstage infrastructure? Check. Good sightlines? Check. Increase guest front of house square footage (i.e. capacity increase)? Check. Can be built off of in the future? Check. Access to backstage...

Normally, I'd agree with you (I think everything Disney themes these days is over-scaled) except in this situation. Because, ironically, for here my math shows it might actually be the opposite. By my interpretation of the artwork, Magic Kingdom's Cars Land is about 4.25 acres and will have to...

It’s too labor-intensive. Even things that are 2D animated, like a lot of television shows, are not “hand-drawn” anymore, but are rigged and manipulated in the same way a 3d marionette is. It’s nearly unheard of to draw frame by frame in modern media, except for small niche projects done by...

It’s a pretty good projection effort with at least some effort in depth by projecting onto some 3-dimensional sets. And at least you can look around. The new Peter Pan ride in Tokyo is really dire. It’s moving from flat screen to flat screen and the ride vehicle forces you to only look...

Next year at the earliest. Likely to slip further.

Greetings from Disneyland Paris! On this third trip to Paris, I managed to sacrifice some time away from the other sights to hit Baxter’s baby. It is my first time here. I entered the park at 6pm (for an 11 closing). That’s right, I paid a full days price for only five hours in the park. It...

Skip Magic Kingdom, there's very little to recommend there. Unless a whole lot changes at Hollywood Studios, that's the next one you can cut, since most of it is available in California. Most of Universal Studios Florida can be missed as well, save for Diagon Alley, which can be bought with...

The model is very impressive and encouraging. The Dark Universe land looks to be one of the best designed themed areas I can remember in recent memory.

Gringotts is one of the worst e-ticket caliber attractions I've ever been on. A complete misfire on almost every level. I think the new Pan attraction at Fantasy Springs falls into the same category. The ride is literally nothing but onscreen characters coming to deliver university-style...

Actually, the problem is that the characters aren't actually doing anything, they are talking to us. As a number of other commenters have stated, the early Imagineers designed gags. The characters were going about their normal lives and happen to be caught up in a comical act or doing...