Rumor Disney Characters Being Added to IASW

[lazyboy97o]

I’m on record as saying not wanting IP characters at all is a valid argument. Arguing over the size of those characters is just silly.

I don’t care one way or the other. IP characters might be nice plussing. If they do get added, who decides whether “subtle” or “not subtle”. It’s ridiculous. They’re added. If you want it classic IASW just say so. I’m fine either way.

The issue of subtlety is not brought up by those who don’t want the characters. It is an argument for adding the characters.

 

[Brer Panther]

the now head of Pixar Animation

Pete Docter spoke out against the Disney characters in Disneyland's version?

Huh... between this and his rejecting the Inside Out in Imagination pitch and making surveys to show the higher-ups that people still love Figment, maybe we should make HIM the head of Imagineering. He clearly knows what he's doing (though he's probably got his hands full being the head of Pixar already).

 

[OG Runner]

Pete Docter spoke out against the Disney characters in Disneyland's version?

Huh... between this and his rejecting the Inside Out in Imagination pitch and making surveys to show the higher-ups that people still love Figment, maybe we should make HIM the head of Imagineering. He clearly knows what he's doing (though he's probably got his hands full being the head of Pixar already).

Or maybe that is just his opinion. The addition of the IP characters has not changed the ride and has not caused some big uproar.
Just because he voiced two opinions you agreed with doesn't qualify him to be the Head of Imagineering. If so, we have a lot of
people on these boards that should be the Head of Imagineering.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Or maybe that is just his opinion. The addition of the IP characters has not changed the ride and has not caused some big uproar.
Just because he voiced two opinions you agreed with doesn't qualify him to be the Head of Imagineering. If so, we have a lot of
people on these boards that should be the Head of Imagineering.

The characters did change the ride, into a game of hide and seek, and Disney started lying about the change in response to the public uproar.

 

[pdude81]

I just don't get the benefit. Better I guess to put them in there in a "Where's Waldo?" sense where they blend in rather than something more jarring... but it just seems like a waste of time and money for what I expect will be no appreciable increase in ridership. That is, after the first 2 months where they trick people into riding it because Stich is in there somewhere not destroying the place.

 

[Spash007]

The characters did change the ride, into a game of hide and seek, and Disney started lying about the change in response to the public uproar.

Whether it changes the ride is really up to each person's opinion. Nobody is mandating that what you have to play hide and seek. Sure, Disney may add that as a marketing strategy for the refurbishment but it's still to each their own. I could even see the argument that having the characters there makes the "one world" concept more relatable to a lot of kids, by bringing together all of the Disney characters they know in their cultural sources.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Whether it changes the ride is really up to each person's opinion. Nobody is mandating that what you have to play hide and seek. Sure, Disney may add that as a marketing strategy for the refurbishment but it's still to each their own. I could even see the argument that having the characters there makes the "one world" concept more relatable to a lot of kids, by bringing together all of the Disney characters they know in their cultural sources.

The entire game of hide and seek was the whole purpose. Kids trying to find different characters in their different settings is a game of hide and seek. People who like the changes almost all describe liking the aspect of trying to find all of the characters. If they don’t change the attraction then there is no point in spending the money on them.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

The entire game of hide and seek was the whole purpose. Kids trying to find different characters in their different settings is a game of hide and seek. People who like the changes almost all describe liking the aspect of trying to find all of the characters. If they don’t change the attraction then there is no point in spending the money on them.

I imagine there's something to be said for kids bugging their parents to re-ride so they can find all the characters, too.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

I actually really don't mind the characters. I've always taken them as "oh yeah the kids dressed up as a character from that country". Because art is open to interpretation and that one makes sense with the idea of the ride.

 

[Spash007]

The entire game of hide and seek was the whole purpose. Kids trying to find different characters in their different settings is a game of hide and seek. People who like the changes almost all describe liking the aspect of trying to find all of the characters. If they don’t change the attraction then there is no point in spending the money on them.

Right, so if those kids/guests like the change and see it as that, good for them. Doesn't mean that everyone has to see it as a game of hide and seek.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Right, so if those kids/guests like the change and see it as that, good for them. Doesn't mean that everyone has to see it as a game of hide and seek.

If they’re looking around for the characters then how is that not the game of hide and seek? How is that not focus being redirected to the characters? Why are people so unwilling to just admit that there is a change?

 

[Spash007]

If they’re looking around for the characters then how is that not the game of hide and seek? How is that not focus being redirected to the characters? Why are people so unwilling to just admit that there is a change?

I'm saying it is a change for those who want it to be. If you don't want to do hide and seek yourself, you don't have to.

 

[OG Runner]

The characters did change the ride, into a game of hide and seek, and Disney started lying about the change in response to the public uproar.

When & how did Disney lie about the changes? What public uproar? I actually think it is pretty cool that Disney has now produced
enough movies that they have content to add to most of the lands on the ride.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm saying it is a change for those who want it to be. If you don't want to do hide and seek yourself, you don't have to.

That’s like saying Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters is not a shooter ride because you don’t have to use the guns. Pretending a change has not been made does not undo the change.

 

[lazyboy97o]

When & how did Disney lie about the changes? What public uproar? I actually think it is pretty cool that Disney has now produced
enough movies that they have content to add to most of the lands on the ride.

The uproar was over the changes to Disneyland and included public comments from the likes of the Blair family and Pete Docter. When people started pointing out that the characters change the attraction’s focus and into a game of hide and seek, and that this is exactly how the character additions were being described for the then upcoming Hong Kong Disneyland, Disney said the attraction would not be a game of hide and seek, and scrubbed the Hong Kong Disneyland website of such references. Marty Sklar also wrote a deceitful letter on behalf of the company in response to the public outcry.

 

[Spash007]

That’s like saying Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters is not a shooter ride because you don’t have to use the guns. Pretending a change has not been made does not undo the change.

Again, not saying there isn't a change, There is a change. But IASW is about perception since it's a passive ride, and each person is going to take it differently. If they are adding characters, and not taking anything thematically away, then I don't see how that actually takes away any prior meaning. Instead adds another dimension that can be enjoyed.

The purpose of Buzz is different since you're an active participant. But even then, I'm sure some people don't do it as a shooter ride. Young kids for example I know can't reach it, and they enjoy seeing the different scenes.

 

[disneyC97]

Not a fan of the characters in the ride though the DL version IMHO is the most subtle of the three versions that include characters (for example, Cindy and her Prince with dramatic castle backdrop in Hong Kong versus Cindy in her rags outfit with two mice in DL). Would hope if they feel the need to do this to Florida, it will follow the DL model and not the over-the-top Hong Kong and now Tokyo versions.

 

[easyrowrdw]

I actually really don't mind the characters. I've always taken them as "oh yeah the kids dressed up as a character from that country". Because art is open to interpretation and that one makes sense with the idea of the ride.

That makes sense to me too. I've only seen the pictures posted here, but I thought they were cute.

 

[Ravenclaw78]

There are gaping holes in the doll lineups in Florida's IASW. I think I read that the missing dolls were sent to DL to replace dolls destroyed in the 2015 fire? Those gaps are *really* distracting. I'd much rather see replicas of the originals put back in their place, but I think interspersing IP characters would at least be an improvement over what we have now.

 

[pdude81]

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