Unpopular Disney world opinions

Agent H

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Hello everyone this is a place for everyone to post unpopular Disney world opinions I’ll start with mine 1. Galaxys edge and dinoland (minus Dino Rama) are in the top 10 best lands Disney has ever designed 2. Constance is the best version of the bride 3. Coconut is the best dole whip flavor 4. The Rivera is a well themed resort 5.runaway railway is better than the great movie ride
 

DisneyHead123

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Super unpopular opinion - Disney was worrying me post Covid, but they’ve steadily improved in a lot of ways since then. The era of Fast Passes, Magic Express, free Magic Bands, and Super Pixie Dusted customer service is a sort of Avalon era that will always be greatly missed. But I also don’t think the expectation at that time was new multi million dollar attractions opening every year lest the parks be declared “boring” with “nothing happening”. There wasn’t the selection of cruise ships, the viral merch, all the festivals, new resorts, and level of technology one sees today. Different eras, but I am optimistic about the park’s futures now.
 

ParadoxPortals

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Hello everyone this is a place for everyone to post unpopular Disney world opinions I’ll start with mine 1. Galaxys edge and dinoland (minus Dino Rama) are in the top 10 best lands Disney has ever designed 2. Constance is the best version of the bride 3. Coconut is the best dole whip flavor 4. The Rivera is a well themed resort 5.runaway railway is better than the great movie ride
I gotta hard disagree on the Great Movie Ride, apologies. I've ridden both, I think Runaway Railway is over-hated for being the Movie Ride's replacement, though I do agree with said haters that it should've been built elsewhere in HS. But comparing a like 5min (at most) projection-based gimmicky dark ride to a 15min all physically-propped, live actor-led, artistic ode to cinema's history that beautifully complimented it's home park, the Great Movie ride wins by miles for its impressive scale, artistic merit, and unique concept giving it value to come to the US to see.
My unpopular opinion is the young generation of Disney fans don't appreciate the nostalgia the parks have.
Honestly as a younger parks fan who's seen many other young parks fans, I gotta disagree here too. It's 100% true that modern influencers don't care at all and are just here for Instagram food photos and to meet movie characters, and there are kids who do just casually mess around the parks after school (but this has always been a thing), however there are many younger parks fans who have learned about theme park history from channels like Defunctland and Randomland and have come to love the parks for what they used to be, and yearn for more from current IP-crazed management (case in point me). I think us passionate younger fans are a very small but objectively relevant and present sect of the community. I see more young parks fans joining the fandom every single day.
 

Agent H

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I gotta hard disagree on the Great Movie Ride, apologies. I've ridden both, I think Runaway Railway is over-hated for being the Movie Ride's replacement, though I do agree with said haters that it should've been built elsewhere in HS. But comparing a like 5min (at most) projection-based gimmicky dark ride to a 15min all physically-propped, live actor-led, artistic ode to cinema's history that beautifully complimented it's home park, the Great Movie ride wins by miles for its impressive scale, artistic merit, and unique concept giving it value to come to the US to see.

Honestly as a younger parks fan who's seen many other young parks fans, I gotta disagree here too. It's 100% true that modern influencers don't care at all and are just here for Instagram food photos and to meet movie characters, and there are kids who do just casually mess around the parks after school (but this has always been a thing), however there are many younger parks fans who have learned about theme park history from channels like Defunctland and Randomland and have come to love the parks for what they used to be, and yearn for more from current IP-crazed management (case in point me). I think us passionate younger fans are a very small but objectively relevant and present sect of the community. I see more young parks fans joining the fandom every single day.
Yeah I’ll agree with that. if I had been in charge at that time I would have made runaway railway the centerpiece of a revitalized animation courtyard at least I think I would. Honestly I could probably come up a hundred different ideas for most spaces in the parks.
 

ParadoxPortals

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Here are my 5 most controversial opinions, ranked from least to most unhinged:

5th) Space 220 is a waste of money and just recycles gimmicks that used to be available to all park guests via the standard entry ticket (stellarvators = Living Seas hydrolators, space windows = ROTR in HS, ETC).

4th) WDW's Tron was outdated when it opened, using old projection effects (consider how OG Tron opened in Shanghai in 2016), and its lack of an intelligible storyline (pre-show grid upload, followed by on-ride second grid upload via the outside "upload conduit" track section) and little physical propping makes it an uninteresting ride overall. It's only 'saved' by its lighting and lightcycle ride vehicles (so it's a basic gimmick ride).

3rd) The Magic Kingdom is one of the messiest and weakest theme parks in the world, despite being the most attended. I have some sightline grievances like how Tomorrowland bleeds into Fantasyland by the Teacups, the Tron show building visible in Storybook Circus, some ugly building rooftops visible from TBA on-ride, TBA next to BTMR, ETC), many of the rides are IMO just OK, and dining quality is inconsistent across the park (this last one may be my weakest point though).

2nd) Disney Springs lacks a Disney vibe at all and its storyline and basic theming (Orange Bird mural on one wall, the 'springs' water feature, ETC) should be expanded more, even if it doesn't match the millennial / Gen Z generic modern aesthetic Disney is going for (basically differentiate Springs from Citywalk).

1st) Cosmic Rewind is a giant piece of garbage, an ugly, stupid, nonsensical, basic ride that is completely incongruous in EPCOT and is only saved by being the longest indoor coaster in the world with a fun and family-friendly track layout. The ride's storyline is basically incomprehensible, especially when you get on-ride you have no idea what's happening during the coaster cuz you can't hear the audio and have no clue what the minimal propping is ever supposed to convey. The Conga song is IMO a terrible choice for the ride and if you get it (1/6 chance, that's terrible odds IMO for a ride that's so hard to get on consistently or at all), it'll ruin your ride experience. The Guardians are now frankly outdated characters that the MCU was moving on from when the ride opened, and I'm sure it will age terribly and demand a retheme in due course that management will absolutely be unwilling to budget. The only reason people glaze this ride so hard is because it's a thrilling coaster with music playing during it. It's a thematic and artistic mess and I'd much rather pay Six Flags ticket prices to see a completely-unthemed version of this very music coaster over there, because for a rumoured $500 million budget, it's maybe the single worst themed theme park ride I've ever ridden. Oh also all the pre-shows suck and waste my time in the queue when I just wanna get on the coaster again for a re-ride. Also Disney was gonna put 10 animatronics in this ride (rumour) and then Chapek did a Chapek and made sure the ride would be as cheap and terrible as possible. Thanks Chapek!
 
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Agent H

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Here are my 5 most controversial opinions, ranked from least to most unhinged:

5th) Space 220 is a waste of money and just recycles gimmicks that used to be available to all park guests via the standard entry ticket (stellarvators = Living Seas hydrolators, space windows = ROTR in HS, ETC).

4th) WDW's Tron was outdated when it opened, using old projection effects (consider how OG Tron opened in Shanghai in 2016), and its lack of an intelligible storyline (pre-show grid upload, followed by on-ride second grid upload via the outside "upload conduit" track section) and little physical propping makes it an uninteresting ride overall. It's only 'saved' by its lightning and light cycle ride vehicles (so it's simply an empty gimmick ride).

3rd) The Magic Kingdom is one of the messiest and weakest theme parks in the world, despite being the most attended. I have some sightline grievances like how Tomorrowland bleeds into Fantasyland by the Teacups, the Tron show building visible in Storybook Circus, some ugly building rooftops visible from TBA on-ride, TBA next to BTMR, ETC), many of the rides are IMO just OK, and dining quality is inconsistent across the park (this last one may be my weakest point though).

2nd) Disney Springs lacks a Disney vibe at all and its storyline and basic theming (Orange Bird mural on one wall, the 'springs' water feature, ETC) should be expanded more, even if it doesn't match the millennial / Gen Z generic modern aesthetic Disney is going for (basically differentiate Springs from Citywalk).

1st) Cosmic Rewind is a giant piece of garbage, an ugly, stupid, nonsensical, basic ride that is completely incongruous in EPCOT and is only saved by being the longest indoor coaster in the world with a fun and family-friendly track layout. The ride's storyline is basically incomprehensible, especially when you get on-ride you have no idea what's happening during the coaster cuz you can't hear the audio and have no clue what the minimal propping is ever supposed to convey. The Conga song is IMO a terrible choice for the ride and if you get it (1/6 chance, that's terrible odds IMO for a ride that's so hard to get on consistently or at all), it'll ruin your ride experience. The Guardians are now frankly outdated characters that the MCU was moving on from when the ride opened, and I'm sure it will age terribly and demand a retheme in due course that management will absolutely be unwilling to budget. The only reason people glaze this ride so hard is because it's a thrilling coaster with music playing during it. It's a thematic and artistic mess and I'd much rather pay Six Flags ticket prices to see a completely-unthemed version of this very music coaster over there, because for a rumoured $500 million budget, it's maybe the single worst themed theme park ride I've ever ridden. Oh also all the pre-shows suck and waste my time in the queue when I just wanna get on the coaster again for a re-ride. Also Disney was gonna put 10 animatronics in this ride (rumour) and then paycheck did a paycheck and made sure the ride would be as cheap and terrible as possible. Thanks paycheck!
Fixed it for you 😉
 

joanna71985

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Hello everyone this is a place for everyone to post unpopular Disney world opinions I’ll start with mine 1. Galaxys edge and dinoland (minus Dino Rama) are in the top 10 best lands Disney has ever designed 2. Constance is the best version of the bride 3. Coconut is the best dole whip flavor 4. The Rivera is a well themed resort 5.runaway railway is better than the great movie ride

Definitely don't agree with #5. Disney should have never gotten rid of GMR
 

esskay

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Space mountain sucks, its bumpy, uncomfortable and just a really mediocre ride thats only popular because the novelty of it being inside.

Oh and CBJ sucks too, and always has.

You can get the pitchforks now, I'll be over by the equally as sucky Swiss Family Robinson's waste of space sipping a dolewhip.
 

jloucks

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Space mountain sucks, its bumpy, uncomfortable and just a really mediocre ride thats only popular because the novelty of it being inside.

Oh and CBJ sucks too, and always has.

You can get the pitchforks now, I'll be over by the equally as sucky Swiss Family Robinson's waste of space sipping a dolewhip.
Dolewhips suck. ;)

...to me anyway.

SpaceMountain is like a masochistic pleasure. It hurts and stresses me out while violating me, but when I climb off, I feel so loose and relaxed. Is the endorphin kick mixed with nostalgia worth the pain? 🥳
 
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