ImperfectPixie
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Yeah. But a slight decline is one thing...this blue box goes completely against the standards they'd set for themselves. It's not even a slight deviation...it's a 180 degree turn.
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News Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction confirmed for Epcot
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ppete1975
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they still could have disguised it as having nothing to do with the building... pretending a building is invisible is lazy.
EPCOTCenterLover
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Yes, and EPCOT in particular is all the worse for it. Big Dolphin and Swan followed by big blue curved box for Soarin', then big blue box for Guardians- and ultimately, big huge barges for World Showcase lagoon. On the last one, were they just trying to take our eyes off the Guardians box? You have to wonder.
412
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Once they decided to build a 14-story gravity building, painting it "go-away-blue" was the best option. There's just no way to theme a building that big without totally overshadowing Spaceship Earth.
The decision to build a 14-story gravity building may have been a bad one. But once that decision was made, Disney's best worst option was to make it as invisible as possible.
We need to come up with a phrase for when Disney takes so long to build a new attraction, the online discussion cycles around to the same topics over and over again.
Or maybe do some analysis to create a mathematical expression for the average number of thread pages it will take for the discussion to cycle.
Or maybe do some analysis to create a mathematical expression for the average number of thread pages it will take for the discussion to cycle.
October82
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Disney has been building similarly tall, and well themed, buildings for decades. They made a cost-cutting choice to leave the building un-themed. It's as simple as that.
A giant warehouse does overshadow Spaceship Earth. A competently designed gravity building would have complemented it and the rest of the park. Just as the other pavilions have done.
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October82
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I don't have such a low opinion of people.
Vegas Disney Fan
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The only other building that’s comparable to this in scale is RnRs show building, and it’s not exactly hidden either. Tron is a smaller building and they still have complaints about the big ugly box.
Disney really only has three choices… 1) don’t build big coasters, 2) give up the indoor aspect and make something visible like Velocicoaster, or 3) build big ugly boxes and try to make them disappear with blue paint. No matter which they pick people will be unhappy.
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lazyboy97o
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Building an aesthetically pleasing building is an option.
Vegas Disney Fan
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I agree but it’s still going to be a huge visible building. I don’t mind how RnR looks, it’s very visible though… if you look.
Just like the Soarin building it blends into the background and most people probably never notice it unless they look for it.
But an aesthetically pleasing building is an opinion.
No matter what they build, someone will be unhappy about it.
Vegas Disney Fan
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Which has to make Disney wonder if it’s worth the added expense.
Velocicoaster is being praised as the best ride in Florida… all while being a very visible coaster with no attempt to hide any of the supports or track, and ironically with the huge blue Harry Potter show building visible behind it. I find it hard to believe that hasn’t been brought up in the board room meetings at Disney. They are spending tens of millions trying to hide things and being crucified for it while the competition is being praised for not spending money trying to hide anything.
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UNCgolf
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RNRs building basically is themed, though -- they were lucky because the park was already designed to have giant soundstage warehouse buildings as part of the overall theme. It would be more noticeable/unsightly if it wasn't a previously established part of the park aesthetic.
checks thread to see if there are any important developments on the project... nope. Just rehashing the blue box again.
Or, you know, they could have just built this in the proper park instead of shoehorning it into Epcot where it sticks out like a sore thumb. But then again, look at WSL. It’s visually obvious that they have thrown “show” out the window as a design consideration.
UNCgolf
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That's already established at Universal, though. No one expects their parks to have hidden rides for the most part because they've had huge, unhidden coasters for a long time and have generally not been into fully theming areas from top to bottom. I think some people would complain if there was a huge coaster overhead at Diagon Alley, because that's a heavily themed area and the coaster would detract from the theming.
I personally think Velocicoaster is a bit of a disaster -- the JP area was probably the second best in the park outside of the two HP ones and Velocicoaster really detracts from it.
People have different expectations for Disney than they do for Universal. Of course there are people who couldn't care less about (or would even welcome) Disney building huge, unhidden coasters, but there are also a lot more people who would be upset about it than there are at Universal.
There is an undeniable double standard between Disney and everyone else which, to a point, is fine. Disney should be held to a higher standard, but some people take it too far.
On a lighter note...I got to ride the Velocicoaster last week and it is one hell of a ride. It is themed as well as it can be, but nowhere near what I would expect if Disney had done it. (of course, it would have cost 10 times as much and taken 27 years to build, but I digress
)Now Hagrid's on the other hand is an incredibly fun coaster and seriously well-themed. I doubt Disney could do better.
UNCgolf
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I basically touched on it in my above post, but I don't think I'd call it a double standard as much as people expecting Disney to maintain their own standards. It's not like people have no reason to expect more from Disney than from Universal (or other parks); Disney trained them to expect it. Double standard (at least to me) implies that people just want Disney to be different without any legitimate grounds for that expectation.