Wouldn't it be nice if Disney had WDI come up with a totally new set of attractions that would fit the theme of the park? But why would we get anything that hasnt been built already or is being built at another park at the same time, thats too expensive.
I'd rather get two cloned attractions than one brandy new one, personally. VERY few people visit multiple Disney properties in their lives so there's no MAJOR need for uniqueness between coasts or especially internationally.
I don't think anything really fits into the concept of Pixar Place. There is nothing I see in the Pixar film that suggests that these stories all take place in the same universe. Yes, there are common Easter eggs, but I see nothing to indicate that Andy knows of Mr. incredible, was visited by Monsters Inc. or could hear the story of Merida. This is further complicated by the giant toys that populate what is supposedly the Pixar facility. Is this version of the Pixar campus just decorated with giant toys? Or is this a studio play set?
Part of the problem with a studio theme park is that anything could fit almost anywhere. It's part of how movies are made. They use and reuse what they have where they have the space. It's a cacophony of this and that. But when the studio is faked it essentially falls flat.
What you describe is Islands of Adventure, a park that follows the Disneyland format of separate lands without an overarching connection. That works because there is a delineation between each that makes this known. And this is the approach that has been taken up Universal. Universal Studios Singapore does have lands and Diagonal Alley and Springfield show how this idea is being brought to Florida. Universal Studios is more name than descriptor as the studio aspect gets removed from the park.
But that's been tried. It just doesn't seem to resonate when it's faked.
But wouldn't it just be better to be in ToonTown versus on a set or something?
Your just describing a different aesthetic for Pixar Place, a better looking studio intending to hide the lack of anything happening. How do you pretend that cartoon characters are filming the way they did in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
But then that leaves Epcot, Disney California Adventure, Toyko DisneySea and Disney's Animal Kingdom. Though, none of the Magic Kingdom clones are exactly the same, and that's a good things.
Exactly. It bothers me when people say that it's a bad thing that Islands of Adventure does not have a single theme tying the park together. Been to Magic Kingdom recently? Not saying that that's a bad thing, as I don't think that single park theme is all that necessary. Like you said, as long as a distinction between the lands is made, then there really isn't a problem.
Except this means totally ditching the studio concept. Despite its brief time named Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, the park never had a studio angle.
