Gran Fiesta is still a weird travelogue through Mexico, it just dumped the disjointed Aztec mythology dance segments and the stereotypical shopkeepers.I agree until you said about ruining the Mexico ride as is. Sorry that was ruined when they installed the 3 Cabs.
My point is I want the history, not all the character toss ins. If people want characters, go to MK.Gran Fiesta is still a weird travelogue through Mexico, it just dumped the disjointed Aztec mythology dance segments and the stereotypical shopkeepers.
Jim gets a lot more stuff right than people around here give him credit for. Most recently he had:A broken clock is right twice a day
Jim Hill has way to many rumors that never come to fruition for me to take him seriously.
You make him sound like a crazy old man.They aren't rumors, they are just his musings. He just sort of thinks out loud, strings together some "what ifs" into a paragraph, remembers the gossip he heard from a Poly bartender or Epcot loop bus driver, and then presents them as a thing that might happen at WDW.
In Mr. Hill's defense, I do the same thing. But usually it's when I'm sitting in traffic and I don't put those thoughts on a website.
Just rename it xDAladdin has no connection to Morocco, they just put the characters there because there was no Arabic pavilion at Epcot and they decided Morocco was close enough.
He isn't?You make him sound like a crazy old man.
They do. And aside from Martin Short they haven't been desecrated.
Meh to this rumor. I like the 3 Caballeros there, but I'm a sucker for anything Mary Blair.
The day they touch the VoL, I will do the same thing. But in the mean time. (Click the link) A few of the VoL got together to create this.The day they ever consider touching American Adventure, I will riot at Team Disney/Celebration/and I would even fly out to Anaheim
Ahh, the epitome of true quality in theme park concept and design...."it will get more people to ride that very boring ride". SmhI for one welcome the Coco overlay. It will get more people to ride that very boring ride that is nothing more than a travel log for Mexico.
No, this is the next nail in EPCOT's coffin. :'(this may be the start of good things to come!
They made no attempt to use the Frozen ride as a conduit to talk about Norwegian culture or history. What makes you think they would do something different in any other pavilion?I'm more comfortable using IPs if they're used as a sort of primer to a country's culture or history. If the Canada pavilion wanted to update their film to include the moose from Brother Bear, but used them as a way to talk about Canadian history or actual Canadian folklore or legends, it would be an entertaining way to do it...it would also be ironic because the moose are based on the Bob & Doug MacKenzie characters Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis created for SCTV, and they were created specifically as a rebuttal to criticism from the CBC that, by satirizing so much American culture, the show wasn't "Canadian" enough. The reaction was along the lines "most of the cast and production crew are Canadian and we shoot in Canada. What else do we need to do to make it Canadian - have two guys wearing toques and drinking beer in front of a giant map of Canada?" And boom, legends are born.
But back on topic, if Remy from Ratatouille was used as a conduit to talk about French culture or history, I wouldn't find that to be a bad thing (and anything that gives Patton Oswalt a smidge more work, I'm down with it, poor guy). If Mulan did a brief history of China, great, if it were real history (which is a bone of contention with the Frozen Ever After attraction). And use IPs in Future World much the same way, like the Nemo overlay in Living Seas, if it satisfies the original plan to educate AND entertain, even if the delivery method is not what WD himself preferred.
If they were to update it, they'd only fill it with Sidney Crosby Olympic highlights, that would make me vomit.I simply cannot watch the Canada film. Not because of Martin Short..... Because of Joe Carter.
If we have to go here in Epcot and it appears we do, we could do worse than Coco in Mexico and a non-Mulan Mt Fuji.The Epcot we long for is dead and it is clear with GotG, it will never be back. So might as well add Coco, Ratatouille, Hunchback, Tron, a Mt. Fuji based on Mulan (yes- that makes no sense, so why not, right?)- bring em' all on. At least it will have attractions instead of shells.
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