CaptinEO
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It's a stupid name. Not the worst Disney has done but following their trend of bad naming conventions.
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News Disneyland to give Tarzan’s Treehouse a new theme
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mickEblu
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Careful. This is how we get fiberglass statues hahah. I’m all for animals but they have to be AAs. Otherwise they take away from the treehouse feeling like a lived in place if it’s full of fiberglass statues or stiff taxidermy stuffed animals. To be honest I’m not even sure AAs work considering this is a walk through and the close proximity of the sets.
_caleb
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Fiberglass Statues at WDW
Question: When did Disney start installing fiberglass statues of characters? I've grown up going to the parks, and I remember a time when these were not common in the parks. In fact, they were stuff of Bob's Big Boy restaurants and McDonald's Playplaces. If you know, you know. Sometimes...
_caleb
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What would be a better name, particularly if they were trying to avoid direct comparisons to the OG attraction, the film, and the upcoming D+ series?
mickEblu
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The LatinX Swiss-Mix Family Robindaughter Treehouse is my vote. Lol.
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Consumer
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Trader Sam's elephant used to be part of the Tarzan Treehouse so animatronics could definitely be integrated.
mickEblu
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I never knew that. That’s look great. It’s also staged really well though and you aren’t too close up. I see what you mean now, you re not necessarily talking about the rooms where the fiberglass statues were in Tarzan. I’d be all for some birds in the tree branches.
_caleb
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SuddenStorm
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What do we think of the fiberglass animals along the Rivers of America?
They've never really bothered me- and as far as I can tell they've always been static for as long as the ROA has had animals. Though I could be wrong.
But I remember when the new ROA opened back in '17 a debate over at RatChat with people insisting the static figures represented the complete decline of modern WDI.
_caleb
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Not a fan of those
SuddenStorm
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I do think they worked far better when the Rivers was longer, and had far more foliage. The new ROA is kind of bare, and feels far more artificial because of it. The figures used to be far less obvious.
I'm probably in the minority but I really miss the longer Rivers, and believe that that loss + Big Thunder BBQ was not worth getting Galaxy's Edge for.
mickEblu
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I wouldn’t say they bother me but I’ve always wished they were AAs. They get a pass though because they re not right in front of your face and blend into the vistas along your trip on the ROA.
PiratesMansion
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As much as people are mad about Adventureland Treehouse (or Adventureland Treehouse Inspired By whatever, which I'm still not convinced is what the full name is truly going to be), just "treehouse" by itself would have people even more angry and proof that modern Disney has gone completely soulless, lazy, etc.
I can't speak for any decade prior to the tens, but the animals were certainly static from at least 2013 onward, when I started visiting the park as an adult. The lack of movement certainly wasn't new when they redid the river. I know that the figures of the other rivers tend to be less static than those at DLR, so part of me wonders if some of those people are just conflating what they remember from a random WDW visit with what they "remembered" from the old river setup.
The fiberglass animals are certainly of a higher class than the ones that used to be in Tarzan's Treehouse, but it's still a missed opportunity to not just fully upgrade those figures to AAs like they are elsewhere.
I definitely prefer the ROA as it is now. I think the shorter ride time and more dramatic presentation of, say, the Shaman and the whole back stretch give the ride some sense of payoff that didn't exist before, while keeping it from wearing out its welcome. I would probably agree that the original route felt more authentic as a river, but to me the current version has better scenery-and if I'm at a theme park on a boat ride, something to look at is always better than just endless trees (not that I'm against trees, but I've also never felt that the newer version is particularly sparse in the foliage department-just shorter). I do think the attraction peters out once you round the bend and you're just heading back to unload, but that's not really new to the updated version-it's always sort of been like that IMO. So while I can't say the new ROA is perfect, I wouldn't have said that of the old version either, and overall I'd consider the current version an improvement.
Florida and Tokyo still have longer rivers with more motion in their figures-and MK's in particular has a nice sense of remove from the rest of the park. Have you done MK's? I feel like at some point you were going to make it over to WDW but I may be misremembering.
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mickEblu
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I saw it a few weeks ago but it’s tucked a little further back. It’s not on that rock anymore.
D.Silentu
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Very poor showmanship and if memory serves at the time we had a rousing debate over it right here. There was a point when most of the animals along the river did move to some degree and effort was made to make them shades of realistic.
D.Silentu
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News - Disneyland to give Tarzan’s Treehouse a new theme
I'm saddened by the fact I have to explain that this was a joke given it's an outdoor attraction. I don't even know if what I circled is even an A/C. Wow, someone thinks I’m serious.