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The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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Tahu said:
And yet a whimsical steampunk blimp taking you into a world of abstract concepts or a shrinking ship taking you inside a human body aren't pseudoscience?
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The first, not at all, the second has no scientific pretensions. The fantastical is not pseudo. Although they do serve as good examples of using popular means to convey abstract (psychological/neurological?) medical/scientific concepts.
 
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Bairstow

Bairstow

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The_Jobu said:
You know these are dark times when I try to catch up on the news in this thread and I'm honestly losing the ability to tell if people's suggestions for changes are genuine, sarcastic or hoping to minimize damage.
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For me, mostly hoping to minimize damage. I'm holding out hope that even if the overall trend is towards a completely merchandise-driven approach to park design, at least some creative people will get to build some neat stuff worth seeing.
 
Bairstow

Bairstow

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The Empress Lilly said:
The first, not at all, the second has no scientific pretensions. The fantastical is not pseudo. Although they do serve as good examples of using popular means to convey abstract (psychological/neuroscientific?) medical/scientific concepts.
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That's a good distinction to make.
Assuming the rumors are true, and Disney ends up replacing Ellen's Energy Adventure with some sort of Rocket Raccoon... thing (another drop tower, so they can reuse the California assets?) I suppose it's possible that the resulting attraction might be in service of teaching some kind of useful scientific knowledge to the guest.

I just don't think it's likely they'd bother to design it like that.
 
Bairstow

Bairstow

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Nemo14 said:
Is nothing sacred?!!!!
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Disneyhead'71

Disneyhead'71

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ford91exploder said:
It's arguable that Disney is not investing in their core businesses, What 9 billion this year on stock buybacks, who knows how much on executive bonuses all the while cutting back at their flagship property.
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But after 15 years of drought, they are spending money at WDW like drunken frat boys.

And just as judiciously I might add.
 
FigmentJedi

FigmentJedi

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The Empress Lilly said:
How so? Walt made a 3 minute theme park ride about Snow. Why not a live-action movie.
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I'm saying that Bob Iger is one of those dopes that told Walt Snow White would flop because he doesn't think anybody would watch a 90 minute handdrawn animated film anymore and insists on remaking every single film in their back catalog in live-action/realistic CG.

Plus you know, Walt was never much of a fan of sequels and remakes.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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Disneyhead'71 said:
But after 15 years of drought, they are spending money at WDW like drunken frat boys.

And just as judiciously I might add.
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I would not call spending 300-500 million annually spending like a drunken sailor not when WDW throws off billions in profit annually. - I would agree they are not spending on the correct things however.
 
Bairstow

Bairstow

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Tahu said:
I'm saying that Bob Iger is one of those dopes that told Walt Snow White would flop because he doesn't think anybody would watch a 90 minute handdrawn animated film anymore and insists on remaking every single film in their back catalog in live-action/realistic CG.

Plus you know, Walt was never much of a fan of sequels and remakes.
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Didn't Disney actually make a live action Alice before the '51 cartoon?
 

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