TrainsOfDisney
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That wasn’t really a “view” everything I said was a fact. The visuals and reveal of the castle has significantly changed.
I’m not arguing for or against - although the hub in MK is very unpleasant now with no shade.
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I’m not arguing for or against - although the hub in MK is very unpleasant now with no shade.
LittleBuford
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It's not a fact that guests used to consider the castle a more mundane sight than they do now. That's very much your own opinion.
No-one is denying that the framing of the castle has changed. The alterations you're referring to have not, however, made the castle look more fantastical. If anything, the presence of more trees in the past only enhanced the storybook aesthetic.
TrainsOfDisney
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I never said that? Haha. Anyways!
LittleBuford
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You wrote that "the castle didn’t originally look surprising or fantastical at the end of Main Street". I'm not sure how else to interpret that.
haveyoumetmark
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I can’t explain to you why these two are different because of forum rules, but please be so for real….
TrainsOfDisney
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it didn’t look surprising or fantastical from Main Street - it did after you passed the hub and it was towering over you.
LittleBuford
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OK, thanks for clarifying; I misunderstood what you were saying. I still disagree with you. Cinderella Castle in particular is far too grand ever to have just blended in, and I don’t think Sleeping Beauty was sufficiently inconspicuous either.
WorldExplorer
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They should take a page from Epcot: Celebration Land.
What does it mean? What's the theme? Why, whatever the heck they currently feel like putting there of course!
TrainsOfDisney
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well not completely - you don’t build a 200’ structure and expect it to blend in… oh wait, at Epcot you do. Haha.
It was always the weenie drawing you into the park.
I believe it is apart of the construction walls in front of the former Frontierland Shootin' Arcade - it was added in the past few weeks.
SirLink
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Or take a page from Tokyo and don't call it Frontierland
Architectural Guinea Pig
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- In the Parks
- No
How dare you! Deadpool has chimichangas, not guns
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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"Westernland" is pretty much the same thing though, and it doesn't sound as nice as "Frontierland".
TrainsOfDisney
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Is there something wrong with the name Frontierland?
SirLink
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Westernland I think of Cowboys and Indians whereas Frontierland I think of more than Cowboys and Indians, but also the like of Lewis & Clark expeditions along with the Spanish, like Zorro. Call it Pioneer County ...
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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No, I think people are just thinking it's going to go because Frontierland isn't entirely about the "Frontier" anymore, as in wild west/pioneers/cowboys. Granted, it really hasn't ever been 100% that, but for whatever reason ever since Tiana's, people have thought the name was going to be changed. Given the continued use of "Frontierland" by Disney, even a joke that the Cars area will be "Front-Tire Land", I'm pretty sure it's sticking around. It's iconic, it's recognizable, and importantly- it can encompass pretty much anything related to the American Wilderness at this point, which I think works in preserving it as a theme.
That's why I think Frontierland is a better name- it's cowboys, it's native Americans, it's the south, it's the midwest, it's the wild west, it's the pacific northwest, etc etc. It can fit anything from an old fashioned saloon, to bears singing country songs, to Georgia, to New Orleans, to a southwest mine train, to a national park with mountains and waterfalls. It's pretty much anywhere in the US that isn't the original 13 colonies.
haveyoumetmark
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Not just Tokyo… but every single park built after the Magic Kingdom excluding DLP.
ETA I love the name Frontierland and hope it stays. It’s certainly broad enough to fit.
I personally don't. But I believe Disney over promises and under delivers plenty to where that is often the case. Lines are often blurred too when it comes to big properties and characters.
Front facing guest set pieces in the parks regardless.
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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Well, it helps that all of the castle parks after that were non-English parks that likely wouldn't know the word "Frontier." Though, I'm pretty sure Paris calls theirs "Frontierland".
SirLink
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Wat? DLP land is called Frontierland, which was built after TDL.