EPCOTCenterLover
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Art of Animation? Personally, I found Camp Minnie-Mickey very disappointing. Certainly seen as the placeholder it is/was.
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Camp Minnie-Mickey to close in 2014
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Pocahontas
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It won't be missed.
jdmdisney99
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Figures could possibly fit in at Wilderness (Lodge or Fort).
mharrington
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The Art of Animation's emphasis is on contemporary animated films (by contemporary, I mean, after "The Little Mermaid"), some of which aren't even ink and paint. I would think that Mickey and the gang, especially looking like how they do at CMM, would be pretty jarring.
myhappyplace
Crazy Cat Lady
This seems fitting to me.
I will miss the background music, but since FotLK (which never fit there anyway) is safe/moving, all's well for me.
mharrington
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They would seem pretty jarring there, too, at least at Wilderness Lodge. Besides, unless I'm mistaken, they already have appropriate figures of Mickey and the gang in there:
networkpro
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Couldn't happen too soon! I don't think that camp wander down a paved path was anything else but a stopgap to assuage kids too young to even care about animals except as something tasty to eat.
Yes, outdoor figures at a resort invoking the wilderness would be jarring.....
mharrington
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Yes, outdoor figures at a resort invoking the wilderness would be jarring.....
Well, at least Mickey, Goofy and Pluto would look jarring, as they are dressed in fishing outfits, while they have more appropriate-looking costumes on in that picture I posted above.
Then they could be placed down by the water.....
mharrington
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Where's that?
At Wilderness Lodge?
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
The picture you posted is an indoor picture of the characters in a totempole design. Hardly the "theme" of the whole resort....or else it would be called TotemPole Resort.
jdmdisney99
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mharrington
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Yeah, but I would think that those figures would probably clash with the natural-looking beauty of the scenery here.
Yes, outdoor figures at a resort invoking the wilderness would be jarring.....
Based on that face in the quote, which represents boredom, was that supposed to be sarcasm?
The figures would be fine there or at Ft. Wilderness. They don't clash any more than the totem....
That, or I was bored enough to respond in the first place.
Bairstow
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I never actually bothered to go to Camp Minnie-Mickey until last month, since I knew it was going to be destroyed.
Gotta say, for a placeholder area they actually did a reasonably clever job with the theming.
The best part, I thought, was how they kind of made the incongruity of having the Festival of the Lion King there work. The theater they present the show in really does look like the kind of simple auditoriums I've seen at larger scout/summer camps, albeit on a massive scale and with better lighting. I also liked the cast member "camp counselor" outfits and the way they referred to guests as "campers."
Sure, the whole thing was done on the cheap, but you've got to hand it to the leads there for trying to make it work.
Gotta say, for a placeholder area they actually did a reasonably clever job with the theming.
The best part, I thought, was how they kind of made the incongruity of having the Festival of the Lion King there work. The theater they present the show in really does look like the kind of simple auditoriums I've seen at larger scout/summer camps, albeit on a massive scale and with better lighting. I also liked the cast member "camp counselor" outfits and the way they referred to guests as "campers."
Sure, the whole thing was done on the cheap, but you've got to hand it to the leads there for trying to make it work.
The Empress Lilly
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I like this showscene. It's simple, yet quite atmospheric.I wonder if those figures are going to reused in any way. Like that one in the quote or in the picture below?
With the days of CMM numbered, will they be destroyed or spared in any way?
You know, a handful of visuals like this one could've saved that ill-fated DAK boatride. They could've been presented as some sort of Swan Boats, presented as nothing more than a pleasant boatride around the river and lake, across some fun visuals such as the Fab Five, a rock-dragon with some smoke effects, and an Iguanadon AA.
The CMM Fab Five figures also make me think that a Mickey and Donald ride could really work. They look good in 3D! Anything from a darkride to an outdoor slow boat or log flume ride would totally work.
Me, I' d move the figures to the boring stretch above Fantasyland on the MK railroad. Get some Duck family back in the MK.
The Empress Lilly
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Exactly my thoughts!
Of course CMM is a placeholder and all that, and I'm delighted to see it go for anything more substantial. But it strangely succeeded in doing what it does, in a very modest way.
I wonder, does CMM succeed precisely because it is so modest, because of the low budget? Because of the absense of convulated backstories and themes that are too clever for their own good and 'infinite prop diarrhea', all of which plague so much of DAK?
Unpretentiousness ftw!
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Bairstow
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I think what the land has going for it is the human factor.
The "attractions" there aren't based on thrills, animatronics, scenic design, or even animals, but on guest/cast member interactions, be it the characters, their wranglers, the "counselors" handling guest flow in the show, or the dozens of dancers and performers in the show itself. Assuming all of these people are giving it their best, it's hard to be too disappointed with their little "camp."