Disney World's Reality Problems

[BigRedDad]

The princess statement was with WDW. There is no just 1 Cinderella, 1 Belle, 1 Snow White, and so on. There are MANY. I have pictures that can prove all of these people playing the characters are different.

As for SM, you said it. It is a "premise" not a reality.

 

[Matt_Black]

The princess statement was with WDW. There is no just 1 Cinderella, 1 Belle, 1 Snow White, and so on. There are MANY. I have pictures that can prove all of these people playing the characters are different.

Quantum fluctuations in the perception filter.

 

[216bruce]

As my parents were fond of saying, Morocco and Italy are terribly inaccurate because there isn't trash everywhere on the ground.

Yeah, very true. Just as Main Street is a fantasy version of small town America circa 1905 or so, World Showcase pavilions are the same fantasy re-imagining of those countries. If you've been to England, Italy, France, Mexico etc. they are really not anything like what exists in Epcot. Throwing in a couple of princesses, a snowman and a 'big summer blowout' in Norway really doesn't alter someones inaccurate vision of the current country any more than vikings and trolls does in Maelstrom.
The pavilions are there to entertain. If they inform, all the better. I don't think anyone in their right mind really expects a visitor to get an education in a country's culture by 'seeing' it in World Showcase. If someone really thinks so, just imagine you are a foreign visitor to the US and your view of the US is from how we are portrayed in World Showcase. Not very accurate at all....
(maybe hanging out at WS during Wine and Dine is more accurate)

 

[Matt_Black]

Yeah, very true. Just as Main Street is a fantasy version of small town America circa 1905 or so, World Showcase pavilions are the same fantasy re-imagining of those countries. If you've been to England, Italy, France, Mexico etc. they are really not anything like what exists in Epcot. Throwing in a couple of princesses, a snowman and a 'big summer blowout' in Norway really doesn't alter someones inaccurate vision of the current country any more than vikings and trolls does in Maelstrom.
The pavilions are there to entertain. If they inform, all the better. I don't think anyone in their right mind really expects a visitor to get an education in a country's culture by 'seeing' it in World Showcase. If someone really thinks so, just imagine you are a foreign visitor to the US and your view of the US is from how we are portrayed in World Showcase. Not very accurate at all....
(maybe hanging out at WS during Wine and Dine is more accurate)

Exactly. As I've said before, the pavilions were never meant to educate, but educate enough so that people would want to book a trip over to the country in question.

 

[216bruce]

Thus the 'lets run as fast as we can' exit from the original Maelstrom boat ride. No one wanted to see a more accurate version of modern Norwegian life in a travelogue film after seeing trolls on the ride. Folks bolted through that theater and avoided reality to get back to the 'escape'.
The coolest part of World Showcase for us is now, after seeing many of the countries, looking at the compressed architecture-of-a-whole-country-into-a-few acres and picking out where the buildings are really located- especially in Italy. Disney sure does the architecture of the European countries pretty well,