Gee, I'm sorry that you don't see the significance of the Carousel of Progress and I understand that you are probably one of the generation(s) that are basically new to Disney and, of course, it's history.If there going to create a walt animatronic, why not add it in here, i still enjoy this attraction, and when my wife appears in the same room as i around our house, i sometimes say ''there's no privacy around here '', good ole uncle Orval
If preserving Carousel of Progress is so important, they need to do massive work to extend the attraction to add 2 or more scenes so that the transition from the past to the future is less jarring.Gee, I'm sorry that you don't see the significance of the Carousel of Progress and I understand that you are probably one of the generation(s) that are basically new to Disney and, of course, it's history.
There is an old saying that goes... "How do you know how far you have come, if you don't know where you have been". I first saw that show in 1983 at WDW and I was amazed how much happened even before I was born and I was 35 years old at the time. Young people today don't know about anything society had to offer before cell phones, flat TV's, the Internet and the transportation that came before. They tried to update CoP at the beginning of the century, but the gap between the scene before and the present was wide even then. With losing the turn of the 19th century a whole lot of important information is missed. There is nothing that can be taken out that would cause an every more glaring gap in the story. It fits anywhere in WDW except Fantasyland and we need to save that amazing bit of Disney's past. We need to appreciate the past and the best they can do is do a scene about the present and we know what the present is because we live in it. We don't need to know what exists now. So no matter what the last scene is it will always seem outdated, but as a history attraction, like Hall of Presidents, and one of the last big things that Walt himself had a hand in creating, it is important in order to trace the path of our existence.
However, there is no reason why we can't still have a historic show that not only represents the beginning of audio-animatics but also provides a contrast to todays world so the it is possible to imagine what vast possibilities that the future brings. Plus it preserves an important part of Disney history and how the success of the 1964 Worlds Fair, Disneyland and WDW was connected to CoP and Walt Disney directly. To me if one doesn't see that contribution than a lot of what a Disney Park embodies just goes over their head. There is plenty of room at WDW for MK to have a strong grip on that history and it's meaning. Also it saves parents from trying to explain how their grand parents and great grandparents lived without them thinking that you are just making that all up so they will eat their broccoli.
Again, we are forgetting that WDW or Disney Parks, in general, are for whole families. Those families include children. It's not a necessity, of course, but it does make it sound less weird to say, I'm taking the kids instead of I want to go. (Honeymoons were acceptable too) My children are now circling 50 years old and I asked them when this topic came up before what they remember most about WDW when we visited in 1983. Their answers both reflect the same top three. Those were Pirates, The submarines and the Speedway.They should have put their Cars land in the space behind Carousel, and left the Rivers of America alone; then got rid of the Speedway
It can't hold more scenes because of how load and unload works. It is important to many people that are progressive but also like to look into the past. There is room for it, without any change, where it is. It is something that if one cannot see the value they can just walk on by. It is still popular and important enough that they have redone the seats just this year.If preserving Carousel of Progress is so important, they need to do massive work to extend the attraction to add 2 or more scenes so that the transition from the past to the future is less jarring.
Because the attraction can't remain unaltered forever when the entire point of Tomorrowland is looking forward.
I mean the entire building needs to be knocked down and restructured so it can fit in more scenes. If that's impossible, I don't expect this ride to last 10 more years, even though I'm quite fond of it.It can't hold more scenes because of how load and unload works. It is important to many people that are progressive but also like to look into the past. There is room for it, without any change, where it is. It is something that if one cannot see the value they can just walk on by. It is still popular and important enough that they have redone the seats just this year.
Then it wouldn't be as historic. That building is an Icon and since they repainted it, with care and design, just a few years ago, they seem to intend to keep it.I mean the entire building needs to be knocked down and restructured so it can fit in more scenes. If that's impossible, I don't expect this ride to last 10 more years, even though I'm quite fond of it.
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