Curious Constance
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May 27, but whose counting?
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Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout announced for Disney California Adventure
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Disney Irish
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2 months exactly today and the days are counting down...
Disney Irish
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The premiere as I can find it right now is Monday May 1st. The location hasn't been announced, publicly anyways, that I'm aware of.
DCA isn't scheduled to close early that day, so I suspect its not happening at DCA.
GiveMeTheMusic
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The film premiere is not happening at DCA.
They had the chance to fix this building, which has been an eyesore since 2004, and they didn't. They somehow managed to make it worse.
They had the chance to fix this building, which has been an eyesore since 2004, and they didn't. They somehow managed to make it worse.
SSG
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It just needs more pipe.
GiveMeTheMusic
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GiveMeTheMusic
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Are you sure?
TOT was truly hideous. Someone said it looked like a bombed Syrian skyscraper, and that's the best description of it I ever heard. The new building isn't just passively ugly like TOT - so blandly ugly your eye could just ignore its beigeness - it's actively ugly in primary colors with spikes and satellite dishes and heaps of garbage glued onto it.
SSG
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Attractions 360° @SoCal360 posted a side by side shot for comparison.Are you sure?
mickEblu
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Passively ugly that's a great way to describe TOT. Which would make GOTG:MB Actively ugly.
ght
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Yes, but I think a big complaint is what it does to the sight lines, particularly from this angle. While the old building looked terrible it didn't quite draw your eye to its terribleness the way the new facade's bright colors do. Now that said, I haven't been to the parks in a couple of years so I am having a hard time remembering exactly how prominent this particular sight line is (i.e. is this only a problem standing at one exact spot looking at exactly the right angle).
Travel Junkie
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That is the main difference. TOT was bad but blended in and didn't draw attention to itself. MB is awful and you can't help but notice it's awfulness.
GiveMeTheMusic
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GOTG is an assault on the eyes. The ride better be effing amazing because the facade is amateur hour.
nevol
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This is what I mean about the color harmony... Thematically its out of place in DCA and it obviously intrudes on Main Street, which is oddly not too bothersome to me because Disneyland is an amalgamated excursion park with contradicting land themes instead of just one, but the COLORS are oddly compatible with those of Mickey Fun Wheel, Oswalds, and now, shockingly, even Main Street. The banners are seasonal in main street but even in this crop, we see that the signage next to the train station matches the facade. super strange.
Curious Constance
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I think the old TOT looked like an old, run down prison that had a malignant cancer spreading through its core.
SSG
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Now that would be a great attraction.
britain
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I like GotG behind the Carthay better.
I still think it looks cheap up close, and needs more piping, more machinery, more stuff on it. It looks like half of the macaroni wasn't quite glued on well enough.
BUT, it still looks better than ToT behind the Carthay.
The scale of ToT always seemed to ruin the Carthay for me. When you look at the tippy-top of the Carthay, the scale implies that a person could stand under the arches up there. But the scale of the ToT being behind the Carthay breaks that. Because they do fit together time-period-wise, I could believe that they are supposed to exist relatively close to each other in some LA of yesteryear... and they don't look good together. I don't mind GotG being behind the Carthay as simply a different area of the theme park in the background. Like seeing Space Mt behind Main Street.
It just needs more stuff!!!
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I wonder if people would be so bothered if this was 2004, back when DCA was still finding its footing, and this was what they built instead of TOT. Or if this were being built from the ground up as an addition to Shanghai or Hong Kong. I feel like it's impossible for DL regulars to look at this project objectively because they have such an attachment to what was there before.