See my post #5756 which you already replied to.
Disney/Pixar Cars has a book, short and toys based on "off-road" Cars characters.
I didn't know that.
Yes, but that's not what Rallye Racers are.
Country Bear was a meta humor tribute to the time. About the time. Like many famous tributes to the time. Not really the same.
I'd have preferred Radiator Springs.
Honestly, I didn't either. When I was researching the concept I noticed all the related products. Makes me wonder if they weren't planning this a decade ago.
Theme Park Art and Design is wasting and has always wasted a lot of time and resources then.
Where are you getting this from? And why does Disney’s website clearly make it seem like we are riding these eerie trains in the 1850s “soon after” their discovery, and not this supposed 40 years later?
Except it’s not settled. The vast majority of land in the American west today is very much undeveloped. We can thank National Parks for part of that.
There's a map in the queue that is clearly labeled as 1880 (google search "big thunder mountain queue map" for pics).
Pirates are long dead… hence the skeletons. The drop takes us back in time to see them.
It’s been advertised Tianas takes place one year after the movie - so 1920s is the established time for that attraction.
The trains are not “discovered”. They were built as part of the mining operation in the 1850s and began sometimes mysteriously operating autonomously soon thereafter. The miners apparently ignored this to the extent that they could, but the flood that destroyed the town drove everyone out. During the ride, which was established as an exploratory attraction long after the disaster, the town is abandoned and decayed, many structures still half flooded. As others said, queue details give hints of this background and clues to the actual timeline, and I think other elements have been fleshed out in interviews over the years.
I really don't think that raising prices to lower attendance is a strategy that Disney would use. They have continually raised prices over the last decade, as attendance has either stayed the same, or increased. What they want is full parks with guests that will pay more and more with each visit. They would have to raise the prices of park admission, resort rates, food prices and merch prices to an exorbitant amount if they still wanted to continue making more money with less people in the parks, to the point that the majority of their loyal customer base would stop coming.
