CoasterCowboy67
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Just talking about one park (DCA) and one land (Bugs Life) and what it was replaced withHUH? Are you using a Bugs land and multiple parks to make your point?
Just talking about one park (DCA) and one land (Bugs Life) and what it was replaced withHUH? Are you using a Bugs land and multiple parks to make your point?
I don't know. I would be pretty excited to be getting 2 Avengers E tickets, Major Pandora Ride, and Coco.Just talking about one park (DCA) and one land (Bugs Life) and what it was replaced with
They still do. That's why the wealthy still visit exotic places (even if takes slightly less wealth today than it once did). The jet engine may have made world smaller than it once was, but it's still a big and interesting place. It's a pretty impoverished view to think otherwise.Adventureland was created at a time that far off jungle locales were still considered exotic, dangerous, and different enough to solicit wonder.
People in the 1950s and 1960s also had access to information about these places in 30 minutes or less. We now have information about those places in 3 seconds or less. This logic applies to anything - why go to the Disney Parks if I have Cars at home? Why go on Toy Story Midway Mania if it was literally available for a video game console?It's not necessarily that YouTube videos replace the experience of going to these places, but that the idea of a far off place being dangerous and exotic ... isn't the case anymore. They are easily accessible in that you can get a fair amount of real information about them in 30 minutes or less.
So why go see a fake version at a Disney park?
That's not even touching on the idea that calling someone else's home exotic for entertainment value isn't really something the kids today will accept at a social level.
I agree. I’m using the example to highlight how losing a riverboat and an island walkthrough attraction also isn’t a big deal if we’re getting 2 Cars attractions, one with a brand new ride system, and 2 “major” attractions in Villains. After already getting TronI don't know. I would be pretty excited to be getting 2 Avengers E tickets, Major Pandora Ride, and Coco.
Seems like you are focusing on what you lost. To be honest what you lost was minimal in the scheme of things. I think Disney knocked it out of the park for DCA and WDW. Its kind of odd what people are complaining about especially for DCA. Are you really going to miss a Bugs Life. lololol.
I didn’t say that and nobody else did (that I know of). I brought up Bugs Land to dispel the myth that DLR is exclusively making net new adds with no replacement or sacrifice of existing attractions. It clearly isn’t, and the red trolley is another casualtyToday I learned:
It is going backwards to replace 4 flats, a show, and a splash pad with an E and 2 D rides.
So, let's look around the parks to see where there's an E and 2 Ds, and then tear them down and replace them with 4 flats, a show, and a splash pad. That will make the parks better!!
Nobody is happy about another’s sadness. They’re happy that major new attractions are coming to MK with little sacrifice to the existing lineup (which we all have varying opinions on, as we’ve learned here)What really confuses me is the number of posters who seem happy that people like me are sad about this loss. It’s weird.
I saw it in the splash thread too but it was hidden behind the “moral” reasons that splash mountain can’t possibly exist anymore. Haha
That’s not a fair or accurate characterisation of the Splash thread. Even those of us who understood the need for the retheme were for the most part sad to see an old favourite go.What really confuses me is the number of posters who seem happy that people like me are sad about this loss. It’s weird.
I saw it in the splash thread too but it was hidden behind the “moral” reasons that splash mountain can’t possibly exist anymore. Haha
With a major sacrifice to the history and design of the park. When we could have both.They’re happy that major new attractions are coming to MK with little sacrifice to the existing lineup (which we all have varying opinions on, as we’ve learned here)
Tearing out RoA, the heart and soul of Frontierland, isn’t little sacrifice.Nobody is happy about another’s sadness. They’re happy that major new attractions are coming to MK with little sacrifice to the existing lineup (which we all have varying opinions on, as we’ve learned here)
My thoughts exactly. Splash Mountain was my favorite ride at Disney World, but I totally understand why it's inappropriate to have a ride based on Song of the South operating in 2024.That’s not a fair or accurate characterisation of the Splash thread. Even those of us who understood the need for the retheme were for the most part sad to see an old favourite go.
No it is not.And getting rid of the rivers is a necessary sacrifice to improve access to the Villains land
If they were to remove Splash Mountain there are plenty of alternative adventures they could of done.Are African Americans represented in any attractions aside from tiana?
Now people have access to 4K videos, travel blogs and all assortment of entertainment options that allow them to imagine being in the unexplored Jungle (not to mention accessible travel options) which defeats the purpose of the original Jungle Cruise.
By that logic, I guess we should tear out Journey of the Little Mermaid, Frozen Ever After, and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure too. I can just watch The Little Mermaid, Frozen, and Ratatouille at home, I don't have to go to a theme park to see the characters.Yeah. If you want to see Norway or England or France ... you can go to those places. Disney is the only place you can see Frozen, Mary Poppins or Remy.
The only reason we got The Princess and the Frog as the retheme of Splash Mountain is because people online demanded it.I'm just surprised of all things Princess and The Frog or Tiana got selected for Splash Mountain. Many say Cars is not a popular Pixar IP but it's definitely more well known nowadays than say Princess and the Frog for a hit..just my opinion.
Yes. That is correct.This logic applies to anything - why go to the Disney Parks if I have Cars at home? Why go on Toy Story Midway Mania if it was literally available for a video game console?
This is also correct.The answer isn't the world is less full of adventure and wonder than it used to be, or that people today are enlightened by the existence of Youtube in a way that the people of the 1950s weren't, but that theme parks are a fundamentally different kind of experience from a virtual experience, reading a book, or watching a movie. Going to a theme park isn't, and wasn't, a substitute for going on a real African jungle cruise, visiting a "real" haunted house, or exploring the frontier. And it isn't the same as reading about those things in a book or watching it on a laptop screen either. None of these are substitutes for each other.
Frontierland lost its heart and soul when they built Splash Mountain, which never made any sense in that land.Tearing out RoA, the heart and soul of Frontierland, isn’t little sacrifice.
not at all - from a time perspective nothing had a set time period until Tiana which is still 1920’s correct? Now we are plopping modern cars into the same land.Frontierland lost its heart and soul when they built Splash Mountain, which never made any sense in that land.
Now they’re diversifying it a bit more which, in an odd way, arguably makes it more cohesive than it was post-Splash.
Country Bears says a 20th century "Howdy!"not at all - from a time perspective nothing had a set time period until Tiana which is still 1920’s correct? Now we are plopping modern cars into the same land.
It depends really how you go, why you go. I go to Disney for only what Disney has! To be more specific like only has in FloridaYeah. If you want to see Norway or England or France ... you can go to those places. Disney is the only place you can see Frozen, Mary Poppins or Remy
An enormous sacrifice to the aesthetics of the park is about to happen.Nobody is happy about another’s sadness. They’re happy that major new attractions are coming to MK with little sacrifice to the existing lineup (which we all have varying opinions on, as we’ve learned here)
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