lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
The Chinese Theatre is no less Disney than any of the non self-referential designs that occupy the Disneylands or EPCOT Center. Likewise the Disney-MGM Studios was about celebrating more than just Disney, its why Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd are images of Hollywood icons and not places like 2719 Hyperion.That scene in Fantasia is iconic and I feel a little bad for you if you don't see that. I just think that the replica of the chinese theater was not really a great icon for a Disney park considering it's not Disney. The hat works well because even if people don't know Fantasia that well, they usually know Sorcerer Mickey. It's something recognizable. For whatever reason when I think old hollywood in my mind, Fantasia fits in. Not knocking your opinion, just sharing mine.
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" may be iconic, but so are plenty of other films. The hat is also an image, not architecture. Large images are the sort of fake decorative "theming" that Disney fans so often decry as below Disney.
Maybe you will answer my hypothetical. Would the Carthay Circle Theater be a better choice than the Chinese Theatre? And if so, why?