MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[Brer Oswald]

Kind of like with the SM mountain changeover, I love the revisionist back flips being done now to rationalize these changes, suddenly saying a quality, well built part of MK fabric and history just wasn’t that good.

Change “SM wasn’t that great of an attraction and needed repairs anyway”

To-

“Frontierland in WDW wasn’t that great the others are better. And nobody visited TSI it was outdated and not popular. So who cares”.

The revisionism is actually INSANE.

 

[lazyboy97o]

You can remove as much or as little as you want. The idea that a small piece of water isn’t worth saving is odd to me, not sure why it’s all or nothing.

Because it’s part of the water management system and not just a pool. Removing any of the River means you have to make up for it somewhere else. Just leaving the little bit along the walkways means either cutting off the remnant from the system, which means it’s all being replaced, or doing the extra work to keep the little bit connected to the system.

People focus on Iger (and even Chapek!) too much. He apparently both doesn’t care about the parks but also cares about his legacy inside of them. I don’t think it’s ever been that deep (and I lean that he doesn’t care that much)

Again, go look at Epcot. The whole central spine project was a cluster because Iger wanted to play patron like Mike. The wonder table project never actually made any sense. It was about hiring a starchitect to do a big flashy project.

 

[Moth]

The revisionism is actually INSANE.

Splash revisionism was crazy enough, now we have to deal with the RoA being called "a dingy ugly canal", which ???? did we go to the same park and see the same thing????

 

[Streetway Again]

Splash revisionism was crazy enough, now we have to deal with the RoA being called "a dingy ugly canal", which ???? did we go to the same park and see the same thing????

I think this fandom has a hard time with things that aren’t perfectly black and white. Hard time with things that are in a “grey” area of Good or Bad and such.

Please do not start a Tiana war here.

 

[Agent H]

Please do not start a Tiana war here.

Agreed!

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

 

[Agent H]

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Nice pictures but is there a reason for this?

 

[JackCH]

Kind of like with the SM mountain changeover, I love the revisionist back flips being done now to rationalize these changes, suddenly saying a quality, well built part of MK fabric and history just wasn’t that good.

Change “SM wasn’t that great of an attraction and needed repairs anyway”

To-

“Frontierland in WDW wasn’t that great the others are better. And nobody visited TSI it was outdated and not popular. So who cares”.

I can only speak for myself, but I promise you I felt this way before the announcements. Maybe many in the community here didn’t, but I never had a strong attachment to the river and viewed the other waterfront areas aa superior. And that is a common sentiment in my circles of friendships.

I deeply loved Splash Mountain so to me the two are not the same thing at all.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Nice pictures but is there a reason for this?

Just a reminder of what we are losing.

 

[Jedi14]

Just a reminder of what we are losing.

Thunder Mountain and Haunted Mansion are staying.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Thunder Mountain and Haunted Mansion are staying.

Not from those angles they aren’t! Haha

 

[Agent H]

Just a reminder of what we are losing.

Maybe save the photos for when it goes away

 

[JoeCamel]

Nice pictures but is there a reason for this?

Do you notice how they preserved the view of the mansion by variegating the canopy and blending the fence to hide the horde of people waiting in line?
Maybe the fences hiding the few people near the mesa?
Yeah, they used to think about those things......

 

[Grantwil93]

I mean, if we had no other beautiful water vistas with different landscapes and views and unique looking boats at WDW then id be more upset.

But like,

World showcase
Coronado Springs
Disney Springs
Saratoga Springs(lotta Springs)
Port Orleans
Old Key West
Monorail Resorts
Wilderness Lodge
Fort Wilderness
Epcot Resorts
Caribbean Beach and Riviera
Animal Kingdom's discovery river and lagoon

And i probably didn't even hit them all.

There is SO MUCH beautiful stuff tied directly to rivers and lakes at WDW. The MK river isn't the only source of it like in DL( the Pixar pier area notwithstanding)

Ill miss the river, but i still have so much. I personally find nothing better than sitting on the beach at beach club watching the friendship boats with the boardwalk as a backdrop at night.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I mean, if we had no other beautiful water vistas with different landscapes and views and unique looking boats at WDW then id be more upset.

But like,

World showcase
Coronado Springs
Disney Springs
Saratoga Springs(lotta Springs)
Port Orleans
Old Key West
Monorail Resorts
Wilderness Lodge
Fort Wilderness
Epcot Resorts
Caribbean Beach and Riviera
Animal Kingdom's discovery river and lagoon

And i probably didn't even hit them all.

There is SO MUCH beautiful stuff tied directly to rivers and lakes at WDW. The MK river isn't the only source of it like in DL( the Pixar pier area notwithstanding)

Ill miss the river, but i still have so much. I personally find nothing better than sitting on the beach at beach club watching the friendship boats with the boardwalk as a backdrop at night.

This isn’t how design works. The spatial organization of Frontierland doesn’t know or care that World Showcase exists.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

Again, go look at Epcot. The whole central spine project was a cluster because Iger wanted to play patron like Mike. The wonder table project never actually made any sense. It was about hiring a starchitect to do a big flashy project.

This is just bolstering an assumption with another assumption though. Besides, wouldn’t tying Iger to the table have made it more likely that the table would have actually happened? CEOs are pretty good at getting their pet projects done.

 

[Grantwil93]

Here's my compromise: Put this behind Big Thunder and please all of your guests.
Matter of fact put the real Carsland with Radiator Springs back there rather than this thing that's Cars but not really Cars.

So how do people get there? Or leave? I'd rather it go there too, but how do you achieve that without affecting the river?

 

[lazyboy97o]

This is just bolstering an assumption with another assumption though. Besides, wouldn’t tying Iger to the table have made it more likely that the table would have actually happened? CEOs are pretty good at getting their pet projects done.

It’s not. And maybe go check the timeline.

 

[Grantwil93]

This isn’t how design works. The spatial organization of Frontierland doesn’t know or care that World Showcase exists.

Im more saying that regardless of this leaving, it's not as if it's the only place to get this on property. I don't really believe they will pull off Cars land fitting well and I don't want the river gone.

Im just open to why it arguably has to go to do anything of substance in the area or beyond.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

It’s not. And maybe go check the timeline.

Oop you’re totally right about the timeline. I purge that era from memory.

But it still is lol