News D23 Expo 2022

[CaptainAmerica]

Grow up. It’s a log flume in a theme park. You’ll be okay.

If you want to be the one person left defending this crap sandwich, more power to you.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Really quite impressive. I’m sick of Disney’s six years for a coaster that’s already been made before nonsense.

I give them two years of free pass for COVID. But still.

 

[mightynine]

Wait, I thought this board didn’t like it when a theme park was built using IP?

Not when the company’s shown it can do it and some of those attractions are still packing them in 50 years later.

 

[scottb411]

Wait, I thought this board didn’t like it when a theme park was built using IP?

I think that is really for Epcot and Animal Kingdom. In those cases, I think it is about the right IP. In the case of Epcot, I think Finding Nemo works for the Living Seas but Frozen should have been a Magic Kingdom Fantasyland ride. The same with Animal Kingdom. Disney painstakingly built a theme park around animals but it made sense to have Lion King and Jungle Book characters as well. It is the right IP for the park and, with Epcot, very little IP. It existed great on it's own even if it was a little boring to little kids. All of the other theme parks in Orlando cater to kids. Epcot had always been a little more for the adults and educational in a good way that it is losing. The biggest issue is that Disney keeps replacing attractions instead of adding attractions. Universal is adding attractions and catching up to Disney slowly but surely in the overall entertainment options that will be a lot more visible after 2025.

 

[CentralFLlife]

If you want to be the one person left defending this crap sandwich, more power to you.

I’m not defending it. I just don’t understand what is being “desecrated”, can you please explain? At the end of the day they’re swapping out one shoehorned IP for another.

 

[fgmnt]

I’m not defending it. I just don’t understand what is being “desecrated”, can you please explain? At the end of the day they’re swapping out one shoehorned IP for another.

For what it's worth, the attraction was built from the ground up in Florida to feature the intellectual property it currently has. I would not call it shoehorned.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Start at basement level disappointment so the emotional elevator has nowhere to go but up. Smart.

Boy was I wrong. Apparently there's a sub basement.

 

[James Alucobond]

For what it's worth, the attraction was built from the ground up in Florida to feature the intellectual property it currently has. I would not call it shoehorned.

I think the poster’s point was that it was always a more southern property in a western-oriented land.

 

[SoFloMagic]

I think the poster’s point was that it was always a more southern property in a western-oriented land.

Louisiana purchase was the beginning of westward expansion.

New Orleans is in LA

Boom. Tiana is western.

 

[CentralFLlife]

For what it's worth, the attraction was built from the ground up in Florida to feature the intellectual property it currently has. I would not call it shoehorned.

Frontierland is supposed to be the American West, right?

So How does an attraction based on stories from the reconstruction era south, themed to a river in Georgia, and uses the name and logo from a 1984 movie that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the above, thematically fit into Frontierland?

 

[CentralFLlife]

Louisiana purchase was the beginning of westward expansion.

New Orleans is in LA

Boom. Tiana is western.

NOLA is more west than Georgia! We’re directionally correct at least!

 

[brettf22]

How ironic that they named this presentation “Boundless Future,” and then spent two hours showing how they bound the future of the parks to such a narrow range of IP.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Frontierland is supposed to be the American West, right?

So How does an attraction based on stories from the reconstruction era south, themed to a river in Georgia, and uses the name and logo from a 1984 movie that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the above, thematically fit into Frontierland?

I care much less about thematic fit than I do quality. This is replacing something exceptional with something that sucks.

 

[CentralFLlife]

I care much less about thematic fit than I do quality. This is replacing something exceptional with something that sucks.

I bet you’re one of those “Walt would be rolling over in his grave” kind of people, aren’t you?

 

[Tha Realest]

I care much less about thematic fit than I do quality. This is replacing something exceptional with something that sucks.

To be fair, we don’t know that it sucks. Yet. It seems uninspired as of now, but the end product may wow us. That said, the narrative contortions seem silly and unnecessary.

 

[jpinkc]

Don't worry, he will be accompanied by Dr Nigel Channing, who you've been wanting to meet since 1999. Think something along the lines of how Grogu accompanied The Mandalorian at D23.

Now if Disney sets up a meet and greet with Eric Idle, I might be impressed. LOL

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I'll be curious to see where the announcements fall amongst the usual categories:

The Obvious One

The Pleasant Surprise

The Unpleasant Surprise

The Worst-Kept Secret

The Out-of-Left-Field

The Snooze

The "I Already Forgot About It"

The "Never Gonna Happen"

The Big Swing

And of course, The New Cruise Ship

Okay so, it looks like all the categories were well represented today:


The Obvious One - Tiana's Bayou Adventure

The Pleasant Surprise - The Hatbox Ghost at WDW

The Unpleasant Surprise - Journey of Water and TRON Opening dates - What is taking so long??

The Worst-Kept Secret - Avengers E-Ticket - a secret so poorly kept that Disney had already announced it

The Out-of-Left-Field - San Fransokyo at DCA

The Snooze - Assorted New Meet and Greets

The "I Already Forgot About It" - Pixar Show at Disney Studios Paris

The "Never Gonna Happen" - Moana and Zootopia in Dinoland/"Beyond Frontierland"

The Big Swing - New EPCOT Fireworks

And of course, The New Cruise Ship - The Disney Treasure


. . . Sounds like a D23!

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I care much less about thematic fit than I do quality. This is replacing something exceptional with something that sucks.

Come off it. We barely even know what the ride will be like on the inside.

If we knew as much about Splash Mountain as we currently do about Tiana's you would probably expect Splash to suck too. A look at the exterior and a broad premise only tells so much of the story of what the thing will be.

 

[Buried20KLeague]

I'm all for creativity, but I can't be the only person who is kinda tired of the "immersive lands" approach to attractions? Sure, it is great when you have a iconic environments like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Avatar. In those cases the environments are appealing to potential visitors, and add are a main reason to visit a park (besides the actual rides within the lands).

But not environments/worlds for (insert-latest-female/male lead animated movie). These are all better left for stand-alone rides, in my opinion.

But then where would one put the merch, the food cart, the counter service place, etc….

A gift shop at the exit of the ride ain’t gonna pay the bills!!

 

[James Alucobond]

The Unpleasant Surprise - Journey of Water and TRON Opening dates - What is taking so long??

This is also really, really puzzling to me. With the rate at which work is being completed, these dates just make no sense.