EricsBiscuit
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You’d have to pay for them too! I’ll never forget leaving Notre Dame and then finding out I had to pay to use the restrooms haha.They should have installed these:
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News Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot
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UNCgolf
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Exactly. Disney would love to get some extra revenue by charging for toilet usage!
Although the paid toilets in Paris have mostly disappeared. The majority are now free to use.
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It wouldn't be the first time they've taken a page from RollerCoaster Tycoon.
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MrHappy
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Would you say that it would open only as Standby only? Or would there be a virtual queue (ie digital fastpass)? Or boarding groups? Or just keep walking because it would be a sea of humanity?
Last I heard VQ had been looked at and discounted. But that was when it was thought Covid would blow over. VQ/ boarding groups wouldn’t surprise me if safety dictated it.
Like a line that stretches to Canada?
castlecake2.0
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Random thought, but I’m wondering will this open with flag shirt costumes or will have its own costume different from cultural hosts usually wear?
DCLcruiser
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That would make it a French-Canadian experience. I'm part Quebecois, so I'm in! lol.
castlecake2.0
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I’m looking forward to hearing how guests are going to say ratatouille after years of working at Lay Cellular steakhouse
Are you thinking it will also get a bad reception?
rreading
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I feel like I apologize commonly for Disney, but have you been on the monorail at DL? The views there are still terrible. Something bad somewhere else doesn't excuse bad elsewhere; but I feel like if they were wanting the backstage side of the building to be less obvious then they would have gone with a beige to blend with the building facades.
My impression is that this backstage view is contrived and part of the show. I envision that were I on the Skyliner with my kids that we would discuss the way that the showbuilding is large and yet invisible from within the park and how they have the faded facades set back to look like they're at a distance. While it's clearly a backstage look at the set, it's not an unpleasant view to me.
Just my $.02. fwiw
edit to add: If we're worried about seeing behind the scenes, then the egregious one at Epcot is GotG
castlecake2.0
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I see what you’re saying, I’m still hoping for some trees behind France and also to hide the mess behind morroco or at least screen it a bit.
Yes I have, and yes they are. Wave to the cast having a snack with their feet up on the plastic patio furniture next to the parked vehicles.
But this one is brand new. Meticulously planned and built in the last few years.
The REAL Canada!
rreading
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But I truly don’t know how they could’ve done it differently. Honestly, what would you have preferred? The 2-d facades above over the ground floor buildings should look great from within the park, but couldn’t be wrapped around the backstage. Lowering the skyliner with an arcade of trees blocking the view for that stretch would probably be the only option.
Once the skyliner gets the behind-the-scenes view, it is what it is. I don’t try to focus on Everest or SW:GE or Pandora from the back but those views exist as well from within WDW.
lazyboy97o
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They could have built an expansion that worked with the existing spatial organization of the pavilion instead of around back along a walk with nothing to see.
The show building could have been angled differently.
Facades could have extended south past the show building. It would even be possible to keep the service road available.
Facades could have wrapped the building. This wouldn’t require full set dressing but at least a continuation of the tectonics of stone construction instead of an abrupt switch to metal panels. The party wall/backside of a stone building would be much less abrupt of a transition.
This is a multi hundred million dollar project by what is supposed to be the world’s premier themed design studio. Lousy planning and McMansion aesthetics don’t cut it.
yensidtlaw1969
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Notice that all these examples are from the last 15 years.
Disney has gotten worse at concealing backstage despite having more resources than ever accessible to them to do so. What really has changed, which money can't buy you out of, is what they prioritize.
A bit more old school planning? A better view from a 240 million dollar plus cable car? A better route for the cable car? A dog leg to the the knoll next to ESPN and a cable route between Resorts Blvd and the canal? A better transport solution? The originally planned canal system?
I mean I’m not an engineer but:
It has to be the worst arrival introduction to a Disney park to date. But cupcakes.
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castlecake2.0
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Tell us more about this canal system...