A Spirited Valentine ...

Sue_Vongello

Sue_Vongello

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WDW1974 said:
Kablam!

Yes, Joe Rohde, I think that ugly word is apt for what your overlords are forcing you to do in Anaheim, Hong Kong and all points in between where Disney has outposts:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-disney-marvel-20170302-story.html
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Excerpt from interview;

"Mr. Rohde, how will you explain a space industrial warehouse in the middle of a park that is specifically themed around different eras in California history?"

"Kaboom!"

"Uh ... okay ... how will the sight lines be changed since the tower can be seen from virtually every land?"

"Kaboom!"

"Are these answers?"

"Kablam?"
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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TalkingHead said:
That got me thinking...

How awkward would it be for the President to leave the office early in a fury of controversy, only to be replaced by the VP, which would force Disney to shut down the show, update it with an AA of the VP, now POTUS, while the current President who left the office in disgrace would still be acknowledged on the stage during the roll call...

Really, what an even bigger mess that attraction could become.
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When the Hall of Presidents opened, the sitting President was Richard Nixon who would resign just under three years later in 1974. The year before his resignation, Nixon also gave his infamous "I'm not a crook" speech at the Contemporary Resort.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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Sue_Vongello said:
Excerpt from interview;

"Mr. Rohde, how will you explain a space industrial warehouse in the middle of a park that is specifically themed around different eras in California history?"

"Kaboom!"

"Uh ... okay ... how will the sight lines be changed since the tower can be seen from virtually every land?"

"Kaboom!"

"Are these answers?"

"Kablam?"
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Joe did a masterful job of tap dancing around how he really felt about that abomination
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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WDW1974 said:
Kablam!

Yes, Joe Rohde, I think that ugly word is apt for what your overlords are forcing you to do in Anaheim, Hong Kong and all points in between where Disney has outposts:

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Ted Robledo, the Imagineer who was the creative lead of Iron Man Experience in Hong Kong, grappled with such issues. At that park, the Iron Man attraction sits in Tomorrowland, a part of Disney parks initially dreamed up by Walt Disney.

“How do you represent [Iron Man] in a park that has a castle at the center of it and typically focuses on stories and characters from our animated classics to original [attractions] like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion?” he said. “How do you bring in a superhero into a setting like that and make it believable, make it feel acceptable, if you will?

“I think what we keyed into early on, and it became our save, really, was the fact that what makes the Marvel universe and its heroes very unique is the fact they live in our world. They don't live in fictional cities. They don't live in an alternate version of the United States.”
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That's just sad. The designers are, even openly, not discussing how their work furthers the park in a beautiful, organic way. No, they explain how they are trying to make their work 'acceptable'.

It's all just risible. Modern TWDC is a gang of thugs, barbarians, who took control over one of America's finest and most cherished institutions and defile it for insatiable lu st for monetary gain.
 
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ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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The Empress Lilly said:
Ted Robledo, the Imagineer who was the creative lead of Iron Man Experience in Hong Kong, grappled with such issues. At that park, the Iron Man attraction sits in Tomorrowland, a part of Disney parks initially dreamed up by Walt Disney.

“How do you represent [Iron Man] in a park that has a castle at the center of it and typically focuses on stories and characters from our animated classics to original [attractions] like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion?” he said. “How do you bring in a superhero into a setting like that and make it believable, make it feel acceptable, if you will?

“I think what we keyed into early on, and it became our save, really, was the fact that what makes the Marvel universe and its heroes very unique is the fact they live in our world. They don't live in fictional cities. They don't live in an alternate version of the United States.”
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That's just sad. The designers are, even openly, not discussing how their work furthers the park in a beautiful, organic way. No, they explain how they are trying to make their work 'acceptable'.

It's all just risible. Modern TWDC is a gang of thugs, barbarians, who took control over one of America's finest and most cherished institutions and defile it for insatiable lu st for monetary gain.
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Short Term monetary gain that damages the long term viability of the parks you mean.
 
NearTheEars

NearTheEars

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Sue_Vongello said:
Excerpt from interview;

"Mr. Rohde, how will you explain a space industrial warehouse in the middle of a park that is specifically themed around different eras in California history?"

"Kaboom!"

"Uh ... okay ... how will the sight lines be changed since the tower can be seen from virtually every land?"

"Kaboom!"

"Are these answers?"

"Kablam?"
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That's fantastic lol.
 
ChrisFL

ChrisFL

Premium Member
The Empress Lilly said:
Ted Robledo, the Imagineer who was the creative lead of Iron Man Experience in Hong Kong, grappled with such issues. At that park, the Iron Man attraction sits in Tomorrowland, a part of Disney parks initially dreamed up by Walt Disney.

“How do you represent [Iron Man] in a park that has a castle at the center of it and typically focuses on stories and characters from our animated classics to original [attractions] like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion?” he said. “How do you bring in a superhero into a setting like that and make it believable, make it feel acceptable, if you will?

“I think what we keyed into early on, and it became our save, really, was the fact that what makes the Marvel universe and its heroes very unique is the fact they live in our world. They don't live in fictional cities. They don't live in an alternate version of the United States.”
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That's just sad. The designers are, even openly, not discussing how their work furthers the park in a beautiful, organic way. No, they explain how they are trying to make their work 'acceptable'.

It's all just risible. Modern TWDC is a gang of thugs, barbarians, who took control over one of America's finest and most cherished institutions and defile it for insatiable lu st for monetary gain.
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Honestly though, the same argument he made could be made for Star Tours at Disneyland in 1987...they were taking an outside IP and unrelated to anything really that Disneyland stood for (and even technically if you consider Star Wars was not set in the future)
 
Phil12

Phil12

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yeti said:
Thank you, Phil.
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You're very welcome. I think that some people tend to forget that GotG can fit anywhere in a Disney park. That's the beauty of fiction and as Disney has proven for many years, with good writing even dirty rodents can be made into role models. It should be easy to make a hero out of a native American animal such as a racoon.
 
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nor'easter

Well-Known Member
Phil12 said:
You're very welcome. I think that some people tend to forget that GotG can fit anywhere in a Disney park. That's the beauty of fiction and as Disney has proven for many years, with good writing even dirty rodents can be made into role models. It should be easy to make a hero out of a native American animal such as a racoon.
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Was it Lucy in one of the Charlie Brown cartoons that said "Some people don't recognize sarcasm when they see it."
 

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