The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
You know, at least Horizons and WoM were replaced by something different. Much as I may be displeased by it, at least it has some sort of internal logic that if you want to change your adult park into a run-of-the-mill thrill park, you swap immerisve dark rides for quick thrills. But Imagination was merely replaced by The Stupid Version of Imagination. So frustrating.
If I may vent a bit, the travesty is not even limited to ripping out the great ride and the lovely Imageworks:
- The exterior colour scheme of the Imagination pavilion was blue and purple. The colours of...Dreamfinder and Figment. Such was the artistic unity of the pavilion. Now, the colour palete is random bright colours outside, random colours inside.
- Those are not pyramids. They are crystals. Not geometric, but organic. An natural shape, like everything else in FW west from the Land to the Seas, with which it forms an artistic unity.
The pavilion isn't shaped as 'two pyramids atop an indefined structure'. No, the entire pavilion is a whole, an organic structure, crystallike in all of the exterior shapes and forms of the Imagination pavilion. Not the Egyptian pyramids, but something like this amethyst crystal is the inspiration for Imagination:
- This was more apparant when the plexiglass structure on the fountain had a clear natural shape too, echoing the pyramidal crystals. Sadly, they changed it for a structure of rigid pyramidal shape. Which much less echoes the form of the pavilion.
- What's with the large bolt/screw name sign? Like the one at CoP, it makes neither thematic not artistic sense. Just a silly, oversized object that is meant to evoke modernity and progress or some such. The original sign was made in the same style as the crystal pyramid. So much nicer.
If I may vent a bit, the travesty is not even limited to ripping out the great ride and the lovely Imageworks:
- The exterior colour scheme of the Imagination pavilion was blue and purple. The colours of...Dreamfinder and Figment. Such was the artistic unity of the pavilion. Now, the colour palete is random bright colours outside, random colours inside.
- Those are not pyramids. They are crystals. Not geometric, but organic. An natural shape, like everything else in FW west from the Land to the Seas, with which it forms an artistic unity.
The pavilion isn't shaped as 'two pyramids atop an indefined structure'. No, the entire pavilion is a whole, an organic structure, crystallike in all of the exterior shapes and forms of the Imagination pavilion. Not the Egyptian pyramids, but something like this amethyst crystal is the inspiration for Imagination:
- This was more apparant when the plexiglass structure on the fountain had a clear natural shape too, echoing the pyramidal crystals. Sadly, they changed it for a structure of rigid pyramidal shape. Which much less echoes the form of the pavilion.
- What's with the large bolt/screw name sign? Like the one at CoP, it makes neither thematic not artistic sense. Just a silly, oversized object that is meant to evoke modernity and progress or some such. The original sign was made in the same style as the crystal pyramid. So much nicer.
