Biggest Eyesore at WDW?

[Goofyernmost]

Those look like parade barricades. They are free standing and would hardly prevent injury is someone is sliding down the slope of Space Mountain!

Well, they could be bolted down I think. That's the problem with OSHA. They have no eye for aesthetics at all, just safety of other human beings. I hate to see it to, but, I'd also hate to hear about anyone getting killed doing maintenance work. Hopefully, they will attempt to design and put up a more eye pleasing thing there and that this is just temporary.

 

[jdmdisney99]

Those look like parade barricades. They are free standing and would hardly prevent injury is someone is sliding down the slope of Space Mountain!

http://micechat.com/55094-big-thunder-mountain-lights-up/

 

[Csmith041177]

Another vote for DinoLand. So dissappointing. I understand the folks who say it is themed to its backstory. However, I think they just came up with that backstory to justify not spending much money on a carnival section.

 

[Maryssa*]

For my family... we have always joked about how hideous the Dolphin is =( You can see that huge green triangle from almost everywhere in the resort! I think the Swan is pretty but that giant triangle uuuuggghhh!!

 

[JillC LI]

When I was skimming the thread topics, for a moment I thought this one said "Biggest Eeyore at WDW"! LOL
I was wondering where he might be!

 

[NormC]

Stroller parking. lol

 

[lazyboy97o]

Another vote for DinoLand. So dissappointing. I understand the folks who say it is themed to its backstory. However, I think they just came up with that backstory to justify not spending much money on a carnival section.

While Walt Disney Imagineering could do a lot to be more efficient with its spending, they do not dictate budgets. I'd rather have a cheap land that was given thought to somehow make it work than just a cheap land dropped in.

 

[miles1]

I know this will be controversial to some but my vote is for the Pop Century. I've never stayed there, but to me it just looks like a non-descript 70's concrete hotel building with some tacky fibeglass ornaments thrown on it. I'm sure it looks better when you're actually on the grounds, but from afar it just isn't in keeping with Disney's themeing standards. I always find it to be a visual shock when driving around the rest of the property, which is generally fairly natural.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I know this will be controversial to some but my vote is for the Pop Century. I've never stayed there, but to me it just looks like a non-descript 70's concrete hotel building with some tacky fibeglass ornaments thrown on it. I'm sure it looks better when you're actually on the grounds, but from afar it just isn't in keeping with Disney's themeing standards. I always find it to be a visual shock when driving around the rest of the property, which is generally fairly natural.

The value resorts are all pretty gaudy, but they are catering to mostly families with small children. They love the place.

 

[Funmeister's Delight]

Everything built after 1995.

 

[Wikkler]

Everything built after 1995.

Animal Kingdom is an eyesore?

 

[G00fyDad]

Animal Kingdom is an eyesore?

In its current state and imagining, yes. It had potential to be so much more. It was actually slated to be more, but they pulled back on the project.

 

[NeedMoreMickey]

I'm picking three - Leave a Legacy, stage around the Fountain of Nations and the stage in front of the castle

 

[Tom]

In its current state and imagining, yes. It had potential to be so much more. It was actually slated to be more, but they pulled back on the project.

The park itself is incredible, IMO. DinoLand is an eyesore, but the park as a whole is not. The term eyesore is used to describe something's visual appeal, not it's worthiness.

 

[xdan0920]

I'm picking three - Leave a Legacy, stage around the Fountain of Nations and the stage in front of the castle

Those stages are the worst. At least the Castle stage gets used. The fountain of nations stage is a wreck. It reeks of poor, cheap, lazy management and I hate it.

 

[Funmeister's Delight]

The park itself is incredible, IMO. DinoLand is an eyesore, but the park as a whole is not. The term eyesore is used to describe something's visual appeal, not it's worthiness.

Meh..

 

[Paul jr]

I posted a list earlier in the tread but I forgot Disney Quest. A big ciment block with zero theming... look cheap.

Someone mentioned the Swan and Dolphin. Were in hell is it supose to look like a dolphin??? DW and I call it the Gold Fish Resort!

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Someone mentioned the Swan and Dolphin. Were in hell is it supose to look like a dolphin??? DW and I call it the Gold Fish Resort!

They do look like fish! The dolphins of the Dolphin harken back to the renaissance dolphins of Bernini. It is a way dolphins used to be portrayed, before taxonomy and modern biology made dolphins better understood.


Rome, Triton statue by Bernini:

Luckily, you don't need to travel all the way to Europe to visit Italy because WDW features its vastly improved version. The Neptune statue in WS features these renaissance dolphins:

 

[wogwog]

The tacky Magic Minus bands.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]