TP2000
Well-Known Member
The current formula consisting of one or more of the following: singe IP, trackless ride, large land with few rides, lack of kinetic energy is getting old.
I couldn't agree more! It's charmless and static. And when they invariably cut the walk-around characters and the little street shows the land was designed with (sometimes even before the land opens like Chapek did with Star Wars), the land goes completely sterile. Like Star Wars Land is; it's somehow visually impressive yet feels flat and lifeless at the same time.
And thus we'll get some IP Driven Land with one hulking E Ticket locked away behind a Genie+ paywall, and then be told that Ky'le From Tustin working his snack bar shift will immerse us in the story.
That's what also worries me about the unfunded blue sky concepts without names that Sidekick Tightpants keeps showing at fan events. The stuff they are proposing now are all from that same mold you described; devoid of movement, life, and action. The new land concepts are all just one giant E Ticket behind a vague themed facade with a gaggle of gift shops and Mobile Order food windows around them. Don't forget to download the App!
Yet 60 years ago they were doing stuff like this with a fraction of the staff and without a single Ritz-Carlton research trip.
But at least the smog went away over those past 60 years! So there's that, I guess...
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