It may not be better, but its different. You've been on the old ride before. You know what happens and how it happens. Nothing to see there. Time to ride something new that you haven't been on before that's original. Open up the old memory bank if you want to experience the old stuff.
Drea up there may have experienced a particular old attraction, but I haven't. Lots of people today who would have liked to haven't, and at least I know that I would have really liked to and it makes me pretty sad. And even if Drea has experienced a particular attraction "the old memory bank" isn't the same as experiencing an attraction in person as it was meant to be presented. This form of art is intended to be seen and experienced with your own eyes, you're meant to be able to glance all around yourself and see things that are part of the show, appreciate the lighting and atmosphere as it is in ways that even videos can't really capture.
If, let's say for ease, Gone With the Wind was completely unable to be replicated and had to be destroyed to make way for new films, great or otherwise, that would really suck, wouldn't it? If all movies and, indeed, all pieces of art were like attractions, that would suck immensely, and of course people are gonna be upset. That's more or less how I think of attractions being destroyed and replaced. Even if the replacements are better on some level or another, art is still being destroyed, permanently. On some level, that's necessary, I know but man does it still suck a whole lot that a lot of people, me included, are just never going to have a chance to see so many old attractions for myself. For me, that's like if I were to never be able to watch shows and movies from the 60s, 70s, 80s, or even older books, radio shows. In a theoretical world, those all just went up in smoke because, well, they're old, we don't need those dumb old things anymore, there's no value in something if it's outdated. We saved a few frames from Gone With the Wind, isn't that enough? No, it's not, because it's not the piece of art as it was.
None of this to put down contemporary attractions and media, of course, but I think it's really reductive to just say "Well, you saw it and that's that, so just be happy that you experienced it at all and go ride the new stuff." Again, I understand that attractions are a very particular kind of art, and sometimes the old art has to be taken out of its place to put in new art. Still, like I've been saying this whole time, it really sucks when that happens, for people who experienced and those who haven't alike. I don't have a good solution really, it just makes me really sad thinking that these old attractions are just gone forever. Sure, there's footage of them, but footage removed the three dimensional aspect of the attraction, and it ain't the same.
