Just recently found this page on TV Tropes, very comprehensive and quite an interesting read on categorizations and cliches present in Disney Parks:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisneyThemeParks
And the site is a wiki so feel free to contribute historians and fanboys/girls
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Some Examples:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisneyThemeParks
And the site is a wiki so feel free to contribute historians and fanboys/girls
:wave:
Some Examples:
- Everything's Better With Dinosaurs: Probably the only reason Epcot's Universe of Energy has a massive Dinosaur sequence, which itself was based on Disneyland's Primeval World diorama that serves as the finale for the Disneyland Railroad.
- Chaotic Good: Figment in the current version of ''Journey Into Imagination". The whole point of his mischief is trying to prove to Dr. Channing that imagination isn't something to keep controlled and confined, but to be set free.
- They Changed It Now It Sucks: Disney park fans (especially Disney World fans) have this attitude a lot, though it's sometimes justified. Take Journey Into Imagination's disastrous revamps at Epcot (and the ride's creators seem to agree with them!)
- Sometimes it even reaches Ruined FOREVER proportions. Visit any Disneyland message board and find the discussion about the 2009 changes to "it's a small world". You can't miss it — it will be dozens of pages long and dripping with so much acid that you'll need to put on a haz-mat suit before you click the link. And the thing is, as video of the refurbishments have surfaced
, it turns out that you probably wouldn't even notice most of the alterations unless you purposefully looked for them. (But look at the vitriol in the comments in the link...)- Another example involves the 2009 music for the Disney Electrical Parade. "Oh noes! They're using a different synthesizer! Even though the melody hasn't changed, Disney's greatest parade of all time is now Ruined Forever!"
- Part of the criticism behind some of the changes has to do with the thinly-veiled Product Placement they've brought to the rides.
- Doing away with classic attractions to accomodate more recent movies and tv shows.
- Stitch's Great Escape gets a lot of flack for not being the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.
- Davy Jones and Jack Sparrow's inclusion in the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride. See also: Ruined Forever
- Sometimes it even reaches Ruined FOREVER proportions. Visit any Disneyland message board and find the discussion about the 2009 changes to "it's a small world". You can't miss it — it will be dozens of pages long and dripping with so much acid that you'll need to put on a haz-mat suit before you click the link. And the thing is, as video of the refurbishments have surfaced
