A Spirited 15 Rounds ...

[Frankie The Beer]

This is completely unrelated to anything but I thought it was funny - Iger creepin’ on models’ Twitter pages View attachment 318733

Creeping? You mean like creeping models tweets to see who likes them? That's pretty creepy.

 

[Phineas]

Edgar from The Aristocats just made his first park appearance at the Disneyland Paris Event "Disney Loves Jazz".

Today I learned that Edgar has a surname.

Do they call him by his full name in the movie? I don’t recall.

 

[Astro Blaster]

Creeping? You mean like creeping models tweets to see who likes them? That's pretty creepy.

Actually no - I follow Iger so if he likes a post it can show up in my timeline, which is what happened here. But thanks for calling me creepy.

 

[brb1006]

Today I learned that Edgar has a surname.

Do they call him by his full name in the movie? I don’t recall.

Yeah Edgar has a surname, it's never said in the movie. But Edgar's full name is used in some promotional for the film.

 

[Phineas]

Yeah Edgar has a surname, it's never said in the movie. But Edgar's full name is used in some promotional for the film.

Thanks, I was searching my brain and couldn’t remember if Madame Bonfamille said it or if it was on the trunk he locks O’Malley in.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Karly Kloss has/had a show on Freeform. So, she's technically an Iger employee.

 

[solidyne]

Who’s creepin’ who here?

 

[SweetDuffy101]

So why is it that the Magic kingdoms version of Small World doesnt have that Mary Blair facade? i mean like the other parks have Hk, PAris Tokyo and Anaheim.

 

[fradz]

So why is it that the Magic kingdoms version of Small World doesnt have that Mary Blair facade? i mean like the other parks have Hk, PAris Tokyo and Anaheim.

Have you seen the rest of the Fantasyland façades in MK?
Although Tokyo could use an update to their Fantasyland façades too.. (Snow White tent...)

 

[geekza]

So why is it that the Magic kingdoms version of Small World doesnt have that Mary Blair facade? i mean like the other parks have Hk, PAris Tokyo and Anaheim.

At the time that the MK's version of Fantasyland was being designed, they were going with a medieval fair look for it. For consistency's sake, they didn't recreate Blair's facade. Instead, in the internal queue area, they had a colorful mural with some dimensional elements that still resembled Blair's art style. Over the years, they realized that people really loved the DL facade and were disappointed that MK's version didn't have it, so during IaSW's refurb back in the mid-2000's, they redid the interior queue area to more-closely resemble Blair's DL facade. Honestly, I liked the original, but I also like the new version. I'd love to see the original DL one in person someday, though.

 

[Mike S]

At the time that the MK's version of Fantasyland was being designed, they were going with a medieval fair look for it. For consistency's sake, they didn't recreate Blair's facade. Instead, in the internal queue area, they had a colorful mural with some dimensional elements that still resembled Blair's art style. Over the years, they realized that people really loved the DL facade and were disappointed that MK's version didn't have it, so during IaSW's refurb back in the mid-2000's, they redid the interior queue area to more-closely resemble Blair's DL facade. Honestly, I liked the original, but I also like the new version. I'd love to see the original DL one in person someday, though.

I’ve seen it twice

 

[Gitson Shiggles]

At the time that the MK's version of Fantasyland was being designed, they were going with a medieval fair look for it. For consistency's sake, they didn't recreate Blair's facade. Instead, in the internal queue area, they had a colorful mural with some dimensional elements that still resembled Blair's art style. Over the years, they realized that people really loved the DL facade and were disappointed that MK's version didn't have it, so during IaSW's refurb back in the mid-2000's, they redid the interior queue area to more-closely resemble Blair's DL facade. Honestly, I liked the original, but I also like the new version. I'd love to see the original DL one in person someday, though.

They have a whole area (or “land”, if it were built today) dedicated to the attraction. The exterior and surrounding area helps to forgive the sometimes not-so-subtle IP inclusion on the ride.

 

[SteamboatJoe]

Edgar from The Aristocats just made his first park appearance at the Disneyland Paris Event "Disney Loves Jazz".

Edgar is a jerk.

 

[SteamboatJoe]

At the time that the MK's version of Fantasyland was being designed, they were going with a medieval fair look for it. For consistency's sake, they didn't recreate Blair's facade. Instead, in the internal queue area, they had a colorful mural with some dimensional elements that still resembled Blair's art style. Over the years, they realized that people really loved the DL facade and were disappointed that MK's version didn't have it, so during IaSW's refurb back in the mid-2000's, they redid the interior queue area to more-closely resemble Blair's DL facade. Honestly, I liked the original, but I also like the new version. I'd love to see the original DL one in person someday, though.

Hope you are fortunate enough to get out there someday. It's lovely.

 

[brb1006]

Disney TV Animation News uploaded the "Disney Digital Network Original ID" and the description mentions Legend of The Three Caballeros and Monsters Inc The Series.

 

[AEfx]

They have a whole area (or “land”, if it were built today) dedicated to the attraction. The exterior and surrounding area helps to forgive the sometimes not-so-subtle IP inclusion on the ride.

Oh, don't be hard on the California inclusion of the characters. It is so well done, I found it really delightful. I wish they would do the same here.

 

[smile]

I mean...he did like her post. I assume it’s because they know each other.

he's a notoriously epic morning person - there's my money

Seems legit.

honestly - and it wasn't even tagged...
hardly a surprise bob is the type paying attention to the tweets of a young model

 

[Gitson Shiggles]

Oh, don't be hard on the California inclusion of the characters. It is so well done, I found it really delightful. I wish they would do the same here.

WDW’s version is already inferior (sans the last room), so it couldn’t hurt. While most of the characters do blend in*, the Pixar characters are stylistically jarring and borderline obnoxious.

*Most people won’t notice most of the characters, if they’re not looking for them.

 

[AEfx]

WDW’s version is already inferior (sans the last room), so it couldn’t hurt. While most of the characters do blend in*, the Pixar characters are stylistically jarring and borderline obnoxious.

*Most people won’t notice most of the characters, if they’re not looking for them.

I can agree on the Pixar ones, when I think more about it I think about Jasmine and Aladdin, etc.

You did point out what I like a lot about it - while some are more obvious than others, I really enjoy the "easter egg" factor. I mean, IASW is a "cute" ride but it isn't a terribly deep experience. It made me pay more active attention and notice the little details all around while looking for the characters.

I also find that a lot of folks when they hear about it don't realize how well done most of them are, and how they fit in so beautifully with the existing designs (for the most part - again, Pixar, not so much).

 

[Dunston]

Eh... this thread has become a catch all so I'll just take a swing here.
I visited the parks about two weeks ago.
Avatar looked nice but, honestly, who has the gumption to trade 160minutes of their time for less than 10minutes of their time? I don't understand WDI's reasoning for making such low capacity attractions for the last 20+ years... or maybe the over use of fastpass killed enjoyment?
Everywhere else in the park was about at a (realistic) 15min wait or less. I feel bad for people who paid to get in and who were subjected to spending most of their day waiting in line for the Avatar rides. And that's just a small taste of the living h*llscape that SWGE is going to be.

We bopped over to the Magic Kingdom and got in around 8pm (this being one of the only nonparty nights, the park was open until 10pm)... and what a mess. I've never seen the park look worse.
Pirates is a wreck. And not because there's a lady pirate now. The outside of the building has huge stage like lights on top of it. Being BLINDED by the flash for a picture that NO ONE WANTS OR ASKED FOR stinks. The lighting in the ride was AWFUL. Just terrible. I've never seen it look so bad. And one of the pirates in the burning city was falling over to the point where you could see the metal beams that anchor him to the floor.
Mansion was about just as bad. After being cattle herded in, the ride was overly dark in some areas and overly bright in other areas. The Graveyard looked like a community theatre production... the scrim was tired and falling apart (and very visible). The pop up ghost in the graveyard where all coming up too fast to the point where the fabric was blowing up over their heads and you could see the metal pole the heads were attached to. Two of WDW's most iconic rides, horrific show.

It's about 9:50 at this point. We decide to head over to Mine Train (which is posted at 55min) so we can wait for it, ride it, and hopefully wait out the crowds. We get off Mine Train about 10:45.... and we didn't see the car until almost 12:30.
The misery of trying to get back to the TTC will stop me from visiting MK from now on, I'll just get my kicks at Disneyland. We waited in the much shorter line for the Resort monorail and it still took about two hours to get to our car. MISERABLE. It's pig headed and turning a blind eye to a huge problem that TDO refuses to look for ways to fix the massive problem of the TTC. It might have been a nice 1970's ideal that the Magic Kingdom needs to be rEvEaLeD but, in modern reality, it is nothing more than a misery. All the enjoyment of the day was sucked away due to the two hour wait just to get back to our car. The monorails aren't modern and fun anymore, they're cumbersome and a pain. The ferry boat is, i'm pretty sure, one of the circles in that book Dante wrote. This will never really be addressed or fixed and it's a shame... because the magic kingdom has turned into a chore and a burden.

Don't worry, it's over now, you're okay.