The Empress Lilly
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I'll see your Toontown and raise you my Critter Country. Which pushes the date back even further to just after Roy's passing.
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FigmentJedi
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What's happened to the Disneyland river's a crappy situation, but depending on how the river and railroad restructuring turns out next summer, I can probably learn to live with it. Like if they really are putting effort into keeping the spaceport out of site from the rivercraft and they deliver a good show experience (hopefully Nature's Wonderland inspired like the altered construction wall posters seem to tease) to try and compensate for the loss of the relaxing backwoods quality to the northern river, it could be a decent compromise.
But really, master planning on the California Star Wars project seems pretty poorly thought through/excessive if they're just putting two E-Tickets into a space that was once going to hold about eight rides between the Discovery Bay/Land of Legends concepts proposed for the northern riverbanks.
But really, master planning on the California Star Wars project seems pretty poorly thought through/excessive if they're just putting two E-Tickets into a space that was once going to hold about eight rides between the Discovery Bay/Land of Legends concepts proposed for the northern riverbanks.
KingOfEpicocity
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Have we dismantled the observation that Star Wars land looks very much like BTM?
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Joe Rohde unlike the rest of the REAL imagineers understands the corporate mentality, Do what the BOSS wants and you keep your job, The ONLY reason AK has maintained thematic integrity is because of Joe Rohde. If Joe Rohde was not watching over his creation AK would resemble DHS/EPCOT.
FigmentJedi
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And it's not like he fully believes in what the corporate overlords are making him do. Remember the anecdote where he enthusiastically quipped that it'd take about a week to dismantle Dinorama?
lazyboy97o
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Just look at all the eye rolling in the Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout video.
At the most.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Exactly my point, But he's not going to trash his career over it regardless of his personal feelings about the project.
prberk
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I am just very glad I got to experience the Big Thunder western themed show and restaurant at DL, with the little petting zoo, before they tore it down this year. I understand that with it also went the backstage horse stables where the Main Street, USA, horses were kept at night. Now, reports were, that they are put in horse trailers every evening and driven to an offsite stable.
I liked the simplicity and timelessness of the Western themes in Frontierland. It was nice and relaxing for all ages.
I was sad when I was there talking to the guitar player after the show at the restaurant, who was explaining to me that he had just been a part of the D23 Mouseketeer show, asked by the management to play Jimmy Dodd's classic "Mouseguitar" for the Mouseketeers, just a day before, but now was trying to be hopeful that the announcement made the same weekend would not actually include tearing down their show. He did not think so, he said; but he did not know. All he know was what had been announced at D23. But now his restaurant and show are closed. It seemed he got a career highlight (playing the original "Mouseguitar" for the original Mouketeers) at the same time that he found his job was in jeopardy.
I like the idea of a Star Wars land and fun attractions, but they do not belong in the theme of Disneyland Park.
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DisneyCane
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Just a quick comment...
If there is any thought of bringing GOTG (which I don't understand why they think is such a great franchise due to one over performing movie) to the Studios, why not overlay Rock n' Rollercoaster which fits with the soundtrack element of the movie instead of ruining the best themed thrill ride in Walt Disney World?
As great and classic as Aerosmith is, the band members are closing in on 70 years old and talking about a farewell tour in the next year or two.
If there is any thought of bringing GOTG (which I don't understand why they think is such a great franchise due to one over performing movie) to the Studios, why not overlay Rock n' Rollercoaster which fits with the soundtrack element of the movie instead of ruining the best themed thrill ride in Walt Disney World?
As great and classic as Aerosmith is, the band members are closing in on 70 years old and talking about a farewell tour in the next year or two.
Matt_Black
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Well, for it what it's worth, the animated series is doing very well too.
CanadianGordon
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All this talk about Guardians and nothing about Big Hero 6 or even Wreck it Ralph for the US parks. Sigh. A fan can dream....
Time will tell I suppose.
Time will tell I suppose.
Daveeeeed
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Imho Guardians was much better than both those movies.
CanadianGordon
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I'm just saying that it would be nice if Disney remembered they had other properties. Spread it out a bit. We are getting sequels to both of those movies. One is being written the other has been announced.
wdwfan4ver
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I didn't know that a Big Hero 6 sequel is being written. The only thing I knew that was coming out for Big Hero 6 was a Cartoon series for Disney XD in 2017.
CanadianGordon
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I forget when they announced it was being written, but I do know they're tying it in with the next Kingdom Hearts as well... I did not know they were doing a series too!
Love my furry baby t shirt. That gets me more excited to hear about the series.
lazyboy97o
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This whole idea of films "deserving" to be in the parks is exactly why they are not. Guardians of the Galaxy is the bigger franchise and pry of an even larger franchise. That is the only metric.
CanadianGordon
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Big Hero 6
The film was met with both critical and commercial success, grossing over $657 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing animated film of 2014.[9] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie.
Wreck It Ralph
The film has earned $471 million in worldwide box office revenue, $189 million of which was earned in the United States and Canada; it was met with critical and commercial success, winning the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
So tell me again why they aren't deserving of being part of the parks in some form?
The fact that both of them have merch that sells out quicker than it can be put down is very telling as well. But hey, let's keep jumping on the Marvel bandwagon. Disney needs to pay attention to the other IPs it has. Not just Marvel.
I won't go to the park if they bulldoze everything for Marvelland.
lazyboy97o
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You're just arguing against yourself. You're using the same unrelated metrics of film and merchandise performance that you are complaining about.
Matt_Black
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I hate to agree with him, but he's got a point. Aside from the plush Baymax, most BH6 merch didn't set the world on fire the way stuff for Frozen did.
On the other hand, though, I don't see nearly as much GotG merch as I do for other Marvel characters.
On the other hand, though, I don't see nearly as much GotG merch as I do for other Marvel characters.