Search results

They should retroactively pay me back for making it through Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

LOL. I hope this movie loses half a billion.

Having been on Tokyo’s Pan not seven days ago, that is a dog of a ride that I can’t believe got off the drawing board. With its dodgy resolution, stutter inherent to 3d projections, limited vehicle base movement, minimal flight choreography, and visually impaired field of vision, there is never...

I’m in Japan right now and it is slammed with tourists. I’ve seen more tourists than I’ve seen Japanese people.

Nobody inside Burbank wants to make these stupid live-action remakes. No one making these remakes wants to make these remakes, that’s why they are so terrible. Everybody is just collecting a paycheck without putting a single ounce of passion or care into it. If Iger were so smart, he would...

The 80’s sucked. I don’t know why anyone would want anything locked to any time period, but choosing to lock it into a year from the 80’s is especially egregious.

The How To Train You Dragon trilogy is better than the Toy Story trilogy. There, I said it.

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...