Swiss Family Treehouse closing for 10 week refurbishment in July 2016

[RobbinsDad]

Also kind of surprised this movie hasn't been given the remake treatment. God knows they're not averse to desecrating the classics.

 

[bork]

I was just thinking about how the night time work lights gives the tree an alien landing vibe. Then it occurred to me. A certain alien is going to be homeless soon, right? They're turning it into Stitch's treehouse!

 

[Matt_Black]

I was just thinking about how the night time work lights gives the tree an alien landing vibe. Then it occurred to me. A certain alien is going to be homeless soon, right? They're turning it into Stitch's treehouse!

Fantastic! Theme it to a good movie that's actually more relevant to people today.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

You're teasing, right?

 

[Matt_Black]

You're teasing, right?

No. Swiss Family Robinson was a mediocre family adventure film with no real message. Lilo & Stitch was a beautiful film about love making people better, and how families can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

 

[Hakunamatata]

No. Swiss Family Robinson was a mediocre family adventure film with no real message. Lilo & Stitch was a beautiful film about love making people better, and how families can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

I thought Lilo and the Abimination was about an alien that escaped to a mosquito sanctuary.

 

[wdwfan22]

No. Swiss Family Robinson was a mediocre family adventure film with no real message. Lilo & Stitch was a beautiful film about love making people better, and how families can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

I'll take Swiss Family Robinson any day over that horrible animated disaster called Lilo & Stitch.

 

[Matt_Black]

I thought Lilo and the Abimination was about an alien that escaped to a mosquito sanctuary.

That's technically true, much like saying the Little Mermaid is a about a low-level government official getting swept up in a plot to stage an attempted coup.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

No. Swiss Family Robinson was a mediocre family adventure film with no real message. Lilo & Stitch was a beautiful film about love making people better, and how families can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

So was Swiss Family Robinson about these same issues.

 

[Matt_Black]

So was Swiss Family Robinson about these same issues.

Not really. Everyone is pretty much the same character they were at the end of the movie, except the big lunkhead son gets a girlfriend.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

But as a family, they work through real issues, and they end up still a cohesive unit. Love made them better- as it does everyone when they live through change and hardship.

 

[Matt_Black]

But as a family, they work through real issues

Yeah, I suppose fighting pirates is a real issue relevant to today's youth.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Or talking aliens that seem like a dog.

 

[SpaceMountain75]

The waning areas of the Disney parks that don't have "modern" IP shoehorned in are treasures that should be protected, IMO. I love the Swiss Family Treehouse because it leaves room for the individual to imagine themselves in the middle of the adventure, not having the story already filled in for them. Dreaming of living in hammocks, gathering water from buckets, and surveying the jungle from the peaks of a fortress in the trees is still relevant to any person with a sense of imagination. That's pure Disney.

 

[Matt_Black]

The waning areas of the Disney parks that don't have "modern" IP shoehorned in are treasures that should be protected, IMO. I love the Swiss Family Treehouse because it leaves room for the individual to imagine themselves in the middle of the adventure, not having the story already filled in for them. Dreaming of living in hammocks, gathering water from buckets, and surveying the jungle from the peaks of a fortress in the trees is still relevant to any person with a sense of imagination. That's pure Disney.

That's also something you can do at home, without forking over the cash for a park ticket.

 

[SpaceMountain75]

That's also something you can do at home, without forking over the cash for a park ticket.

Fair enough...but my house doesn't have castle views from upstairs.

 

[Matt_Black]

Fair enough...but my house doesn't have castle views from upstairs.

You can imagine a castle view! Isn't that just as good?

 

[SpaceMountain75]

You can imagine a castle view! Isn't that just as good?

 

[Matt_Black]

All I'm saying is that when the best possible selling point is that you have a good look at something more interesting in the park, your attraction isn't that good.

 

[Herbie]

All I'm saying is that when the best possible selling point is that you have a good look at something more interesting in the park, your attraction isn't that good.

Good point, IF that was the best possible selling point, which it's not for those who aren't lazy and unimaginative/uninspired, and who have a respect for the creative output of Walt Disney himself.