They brought the stupid banner back, god.
Right!? Not very welcoming is it. Feels corporate.
I for one am glad they contracted with local professional banner-makers to create such a wonderful banner for this "tonight only" event; they were even considerate enough to go into perfect detail of what the event is. If I were a food co-op owner in 1927 throwing a one-night celebration, I would definitely not go to this much trouble.
Hmmm not very magical either.
Do you think they'll drop a sample of the song prior to the opening? "Leak" or blog post. Seems like it'd be a good way to hype it up.
It’s a princess ride. The ride is named after an official Disney princess.
the water tower bothers me that way as well
And they'll be sprinkling many references in the attraction to reinforce that "princess" branding as well. Be it directly referenced in character dialogue, a banner saying "Princess Tiana", the iconic dress finale... and there's possibly even a tiara-centric subplot that's yet to be revealed.
Umm, actually- Disney was done and fine with the bright yellow because they're stoopid and don't know how imagineer anymur. Its only because real Disney fans complained that Iger gave bigger budget and brought in Universel artists to fix. I'm hearing budgit for ride now over 800 million. If you don't believe me, I'll send youtube link with googly eye thumbnail.
The old exterior was only scary is how much of a mutilated and garish twin it was to it's charming predecessor in California. I'd also say that widening the flume (great idea for capacity) made the drop look much shorter by comparison. Anyway, while my dream was that the rock-work be completely re-worked, this solution by over-growth is still far better looking that what we had before.
Not in the sense that people mean here, i.e., something that will primarily appeal to little girls. It’s designed to have the same broad appeal as any other family attraction at Disney.
Setting aside whether this existing ride lends itself to a “Princess” attraction, many of the critiques (mine included) is that the new garb and iteration of Tiana is drawn from “synergy machine” efforts to tie her into a long-gestating Disney+ series which we may never see.
OK, but that’s a separate criticism from the one I was referring to.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say the last one. She’s probably going to appear in a different princess-ier outfit at the end of the ride anyways… so they can sell more dresses/dolls to children.
It started with the reveal of her adventurer costume last year:
And continued with the reveal of her animatronic this year:
