bshah365
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I genuinely feel bad for some of the generous insiders who have to read childish garbage like this.
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News Disneyland to give Snow White’s Scary Adventures dark ride a major facelift in 2020
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Californian Elitist
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It was a joke.
Stevek
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You pretty much have to take everything he says with a grain of salt...or as a joke.
Stevek
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It's very hard to tell how it will all mesh together to tell the story but the changes in and of themselves look fantastic. Not a big fan of the color scheme but it does fit with the less scary theme as Kim stated. As for the name...meh, I'll just call it Snow White like I always did. Color me cautiously optimistic on this one. Like anything else, will have to ride it myself before I overly praise or dump on it.
Sharon&Susan
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Hey it's Cher from Bobbleheads the movie directed by Beauty and the Beast director Kirk Wise!
Zorro
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Maybe we can bargain with Ms. Irvine? Here's my proposition - you can have the Barbie pink exterior with Snow White's dungeon bedroom if you restore access to the Court of the Angels for us plebians. Remove the Johnny Depps and Geoffrey Rush (reinstate the Paul Frees voiced captain) from POTC and we might even overlook the removal of the peek-a-boo queen.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Excuse me?
yensidtlaw1969
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Thinking about it, I'd at least have called it "Show White's Enchanting Wish" over "Echanted".
Hard to argue that Snow White's wish for a Prince was itself enchanted, but by the end of the ride you might say that seeing it unfold was enchanting.
But that's assuming I was working under the mandate of incorporating a more "magical" word - working from scratch I would probably have elected to simply return the name to "Snow White's Adventures".
Still, most will surely just call it "Snow White".
Hard to argue that Snow White's wish for a Prince was itself enchanted, but by the end of the ride you might say that seeing it unfold was enchanting.
But that's assuming I was working under the mandate of incorporating a more "magical" word - working from scratch I would probably have elected to simply return the name to "Snow White's Adventures".
Still, most will surely just call it "Snow White".
Wasn't her wish granted (for the one I love) because of a wishing well?
Seems like a text book definition of an enchanted wish.
Seems like a text book definition of an enchanted wish.
mickEblu
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So we know that everything is going to be ok going in? That would be like calling it Indiana Jones’ Successful Adventure: Don’t worry about Mara folks, everything is going to be Ok.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Indiana Jones and the Bright Chamber Without Skulls or Anything Scary: A Kim Irvine Adventure
mharrington
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Having seen the cottage scene now, I have to wonder why Snow White is still wearing her cape. Not only did she not have it on while dancing with the dwarfs in the movie, but I would bet that it will get caught in the Snow White figure and cause problems. I'm reminded of this classic moment from "The Incredibles":
Californian Elitist
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It doesn’t look like the cape will get caught.
The figure looks good with the cape. None of the dark rides in Fantasyland are exactly the films.
Californian Elitist
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Exactly and let’s be honest.... The well wasn’t magical. The prince was already in the area when she started singing and wishing into the well lol. That “wish” doesn’t stand out in the film. The wish that does stand out is the one that nearly gets her killed. They should have named it “Snow White and the Deathly Wish.”
yensidtlaw1969
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In fairness, it seems that the general premise of this refurb was to reassure timid riders that things would be fine. For better or for worse re: the actual ride experience.
Indeed, the Well had almost nothing to do with it. It's a backdrop against which the animators play the premise of what Snow White desires. The wish coming true has more to do with the Dwarfs building an incredibly awkward funeral repository, or the Witch assuming they'd have the sense to put her in the ground after her "death", than it does the Well.
Really the only elements in Snow White that appear to be actively enchanted are the Magic Mirror and the Queen's transformation. Even the Apple is more of a chemistry project than a spell. The Queen's story is more enchanted than Snow's, which is simply enchanting.
But really this is immaterial - the ride's new name isn't a smash either way.
Californian Elitist
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Couldn’t have said it better myself.
The name just doesn’t work, in my opinion, but it is what it is.
Stevek
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It would be like calling kidnapping and attempted murder of children "Peter Pan's Flight."
mickEblu
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May have been the goal of the refurb but doesn’t mean the name makes sense
BasiltheBatLord
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I’m reserving judgement on this until it’s done cause what we’ve seen so far is nowhere near enough to judge on. But I’ll just say it is really depressing to think of the possibility that once again, Tokyo will be left with the superior version of an originally American attraction solely because all of the other versions were changed beyond recognition.