wdwtopten
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This is so true. The ride should be twice as long, with two rooms to slow down in.
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Disney to Reveal Ambitious Star Wars Plans
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This is so true. The ride should be twice as long, with two rooms to slow down in.
erasure fan1
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It was never meant to be "nice". Disney billed it as a major expansion through media, in park advertising, every channel they could. When you describe it by saying "the biggest expansion in magic kingdom history." that adds a certain expectation in my eyes. This should be exactly why everyone should have a wait and see attitude about anything in the pipeline. While from what has been shown of Avatar it looks very cool, so did NFL, so there is no way I can go all in at this point.
lebeau
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Look at it this way. If New Fantasyland wasn't supposed to be a big deal, then what was? New Fantasyland is the ONLY thing WDW has had since Expedition Everest that even pretended to be a big deal. That's nearly a decade during which Disney was supposedly setting its sites on "nice".
I really don't know which is worse. If NFL was supposed to be great and fell short or the idea that Disney doesn't even attempt to be great anymore. I'm thinking the latter is worse and probably more accurate.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Why should they when WDW in its current condition is a license to print money, It's why american business is tanking with rare exceptions no one even tries any longer just make a pile of cash for the occupants of the E-Suite and to h--- with the customers and employees.
I dont understand the comparison between Snow White and Beast Castle? One is an attraction you ride while the other is a forced perspective object you can only look at. Storytime with Belle is an attraction seriously aimed at children. The only enjoyment I would get from it is watching grown adults put a cheap cardboard cut out over their face while convincing themselves that Disney really did a good job with this. 7DMT? Nice, but short, definitely not worth the 4 years it took to design and build it. Mermaid? Clone, nothing new. Increased capacity? Yes, they added that. Dont get me wrong, we enjoy NFL, but I get more excited for so many other things at MK before NFL even crosses my mind.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
You forgot NFL being the worlds largest stroller parking lot...
Bocabear
Well-Known Member
This exactly... Disney in the last decade has been over promising and under delivering... Watch the Disney World preview channel next time you stay at the resort...they show Rock and Rollercoaster having full dimensional sets (DRIVE THROUGH DONUT) when it is actually just flats...and settings from Phantom Manor as if they are in Disney World's Haunted Mansion... I guess no one notices...
DisneyJayL
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
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By the way, when are they going to annouce this?
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Sometime in the next 24 months...
lebeau
Well-Known Member
However, Iger will hint at it every time there's a headline he doesn't want fans to read.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Yep so true..., The new Paramount Star Trek/Dr Who park in Kent UK will probably be open before this land is announced
ItlngrlBella
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I'm sure something will be at D23 or on May 4th and/or perhaps Star Wars weekends.
PhotoDave219
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Likely at Star Wars Celebration or D23.
DisDan
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My prediction is, whatever Disney does with Star Wars, it will not be as good as anything Uni does to at least one person. Also, at least one person will absolutely say it is the best thing since sliced bread. Furthermore, at least one person will be on the fence about it.
Well there you have it....
Well there you have it....
PhotoDave219
Well-Known Member
Oh not the May the Fourth rumors again.....
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
It will be announced when the TEA numbers show the 'other' park having more admissions than DHS and AK, Otherwise just a catnip ball dangled in front of the fanbois
ABQ
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1023
Provocateur, Rancanteur, Plaisanter, du Jour
Again....
Net gain 1. (although it's a M&G)
Mermaid = 20,000 leagues under the sea. (closed in 1994 for refurbishment lagoon removed 10 years later.)
Skyway to Tomorrowland = "Tangled" bathrooms...(Not an attraction just a location.There were bathrooms there before.)
Beast Castle = Restaurant
Snow White = Seven Dwarves Line Train (fewer AAs to repair and minimal show scenes to dust.)
Storytime with Belle = "The" net gain attraction although it's really a dressed up meet and greet.
Double Dumbo = Dumbo with 1 more spinner for increased carnival fun.
Meet/Greets, Bathrooms, and Restaurants are not attractions. FastPass+ kiosk queues, ATMs, and charging stations are not attractions. In the not so old days, there were far more walk around characters to meet and greet. If we start calling M&Gs attractions, then Disney owes us many more attractions to make up for fewer characters in the parks.
NFL was a let down and wasted opportunity. Disney (WDI) can do amazing things. (Mystic Manor on YouTube to see it.) I am hoping for Mystic Manor/ Carsland for Avatar/StarWarsLand but I am expecting to be disappointed. We need to stop propping up a "good enough" product with undeserved praise. I will be thrilled to be overwhelmed by the greatness of StarWarsLand and will happily eat my words if I am wrong at expecting an underwhelming performance.
*1023*
yensidtlaw1969
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I'm constantly amazed when I see photos like this with a person in it for scale - the castle looks larger WITH a person next to it than it does without. Somehow, through all the work they did in designing Be Our Guest, the achieved effect is that the Beast's Castle is made to look SMALLER than it is in reality. Forced perspective, when used properly, can amplify minimal resources in an amazing way, and yet here the impact of this apparently large structure is totally diminished. What a bizarre mishandling of an effect Disney's been using for decades.When this guy pretended to be King Kong attacking it?
It looks like they know it, too - the drawing of Tokyo Disney's forthcoming New Fantasyland seems to indicate they've reconsidered the design in it's next incarnation. I'd love to see them rework the Florida version one day. It has the potential to be magnificent and just completely misses the mark.