That's only since the nineties. The entire MK looks like a barren wasteland compared to the lush, green kingdom (with lots of shade!) it once was.
I love that one! The Prologue and the Promise! It was in the exit of Horizons.This reminds me of futurist Bob Mc Call. He did some great inspirational EPCOT and NASA design. This is paradisiac with futurism on the horizon. I think this mega piece was in the attraction.
It went "missing" after the pavilion closed...
That's only since the nineties. The entire MK looks like a barren wasteland compared to the lush, green kingdom (with lots of shade!) it once was.
In a twist of some irony, so many trees and planters and fountains were removed from the MK, that the new FL forest was partly designed the way it is to bring some green into the MK. I think it had become forgotten just how green the whole of the MK once was.
TL had lots of trees all over:
Look at the setback to Tomorrowland, it was really generous..a moat to a different "castle".I think the intent has always been to create more of an urban feel to the main portion of Tomorrowland. The original Tomorrowland used to have a bit more landscaping but for some reason once you put space rocks around that seems to be thematically incompatible with trees. Everyone knows that retro spaceports don't have trees.
Btw, I always thought that WDW's Tomorrowland had an unusual configuration on the backside of the central plaza. There just seems to be this awkward, poorly-utilized space back there that the Peoplemover track cuts off. The placement of the Skyway station didn't help maters much. I suspect that it has to do with the developing plans for Space Mountain -- that it was originally intended to go in that location but the expanding scope and size of the building made more sense to put it outside the railroad tracks. I'm sure that others might have a lot better insight on this matter.
Classic TL was beautiful. I feel very alone in thinking this.
...did a designer of M:S, who shall remain anonymous, secretly sneak it out to hang it in his own home...?
Could be...but since we all have clutter and it's where we happily spend our time, that must say something.
I'll admit that I was obsessed with Autopia when I was a kid so my opinion may be biased -- I even still have drawings I did trying to figure out how the track was laid-out around all those cloverleafs. But there was something cool about the earlier versions of the attraction that this latest one somehow lost with the overblown retro-future-queue remake. To me, it has been changed enough where I just don't care. And that in actuality is pretty sad for I feel there is still a strong place for such attractions in the parks. I have yet to visit a theme park where the car ride is not one of the most busy. People like to go on excursions. It's kinetic and you get to see the park from a different vantage point. The beginning of Radator Springs Racers is an excursion up through the hills and is one of the highlights of that attraction. Perhaps if Autopia had ditched the smog-spewing engines and gone high-tech electric then it may have remained more relevant -- especially if they had done something more interesting with the track, (the off-road portion was perhaps the most inspired). But it had lost it's connection with the cool past and didn't really move forward and so it was doomed.
Even though I have many misgivings about the Star Wars theme, I'm glad they may be keeping the open space for that area. It's important for Disneyland to have some breathing room. If they want to recreate Endor then they better get those redwood trees planted fast!!
