Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerer Mickey Hat icon at the Studios? YES!

FettFan

FettFan

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Tahu said:
"Dinosaurs are just for kids?" How do I hit you through the computer screen?

That said, there's nothing wrong with the backstory elements brought in with Dinorama, the problem is the execution. By all means, an homage to cheesy roadside dinosaur attractions should be featured in Dinoland USA: Roadside goofiness is as American as a Bald Eagle carrying a machine gun and a cheeseburger in it's talons while wearing an American flag as a bandana.

But it just rings kinda hollow when it's applied to carnival rides that you almost never find at these sorts of things and the dinosaurs are clearly designed by Disney professionals and not having the crude wacky charm you find at those sort of places. Dinorama fails at being a good Disney attraction and a good homage to roadside attractions. And if Dinorama is meant to be for the kids, wouldn't it have been better if they had a family dark ride instead of Primeval Whirl?
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My problem with Dinorama is that it's a complete antithesis of Dinoland USA's signature attraction: Dinosaur.
Cheesy roadside attractions can be a great amusement park theme (see: Carsland at DCA), but there's a jarring disconnect between the more scholarly Dinosaur Institute that has a real "Welcome To Jurassic Park" aura about it, and then the traveling sideshow a short distance away.

It's like trying to go to the Field Museum, but having to make your way through an arts and crafts fair set up in the parking lot to get to it.
 
FigmentFan3

FigmentFan3

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FettFan said:
My problem with Dinorama is that it's a complete antithesis of Dinoland USA's signature attraction: Dinosaur.
Cheesy roadside attractions can be a great amusement park theme (see: Carsland at DCA), but there's a jarring disconnect between the more scholarly Dinosaur Institute that has a real "Welcome To Jurassic Park" aura about it, and then the traveling sideshow a short distance away.

It's like trying to go to the Field Museum, but having to make your way through an arts and crafts fair set up in the parking lot to get to it.
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You know, I seem to recal a certain guy we all think a lot of who was dissatisfied that his grand illusion of fantasy was disrupted by neon signs and motels on nearby Harbor Blvd. Perhaps dinoland and the dinorama are a subtle homage to Walt's struggle to maintain the integrity of Disneyland with the nearby hokey roadside attractions. I for one appreciate the celebration of the American capitalist infatuation with dinosaurs that is the Dinorama, but of course that's just my two cents.
 
G00fyDad

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FettFan said:
My problem with Dinorama is that it's a complete antithesis of Dinoland USA's signature attraction: Dinosaur.
Cheesy roadside attractions can be a great amusement park theme (see: Carsland at DCA), but there's a jarring disconnect between the more scholarly Dinosaur Institute that has a real "Welcome To Jurassic Park" aura about it, and then the traveling sideshow a short distance away.

It's like trying to go to the Field Museum, but having to make your way through an arts and crafts fair set up in the parking lot to get to it.
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I totally understand what you're saying, but how could they (Disney) have made that area a dinosaur area and not looked like they were ripping off Jurassic Park in Uni? Keep in mind, I am in no way saying that it could not be done. Just asking.
 
Matt_Black

Matt_Black

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G00fyDad said:
I totally understand what you're saying, but how could they (Disney) have made that area a dinosaur area and not looked like they were ripping off Jurassic Park in Uni? Keep in mind, I am in no way saying that it could not be done. Just asking.
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Yeah, there's only so much you can do with dinosaurs before you're ripping off JP or The Flintstones.
 
Mike S

Mike S

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G00fyDad said:
I totally understand what you're saying, but how could they (Disney) have made that area a dinosaur area and not looked like they were ripping off Jurassic Park in Uni? Keep in mind, I am in no way saying that it could not be done. Just asking.
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By doing what was planned.
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They could also do what Universal never did and make the land about extinct animals in general and include Ice Age mammals. DinoRama is just a cheap way of not doing better.
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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TheOtherBryceM said:
You know, I seem to recal a certain guy we all think a lot of who was dissatisfied that his grand illusion of fantasy was disrupted by neon signs and motels on nearby Harbor Blvd. Perhaps dinoland and the dinorama are a subtle homage to Walt's struggle to maintain the integrity of Disneyland with the nearby hokey roadside attractions. I for one appreciate the celebration of the American capitalist infatuation with dinosaurs that is the Dinorama, but of course that's just my two cents.
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Instead of an homage, would Dinorama not be a mockery then of Walt's wish to keep cheap, garish entertainment out of sight of any park bearing his name?
 
FettFan

FettFan

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G00fyDad said:
I totally understand what you're saying, but how could they (Disney) have made that area a dinosaur area and not looked like they were ripping off Jurassic Park in Uni? Keep in mind, I am in no way saying that it could not be done. Just asking.
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Go back to the original prospectus: the Dinosaur Institute is established on a newfound fossil bed, and a college town forms around it.
 
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doctornick

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I think we'd all be happy if Dinorama went away and was replaced with The Excavator. Hopefully, that will happen some day.

However, I will continue to argue that no matter how incongruous Dinorama is with the rest of DAK, it makes no sense to spend money to replace an area with some of the few rides in the park when there is so much undeveloped land available. Finish Pandora, fill in with some other rides in Africa or Asia (or create a new land in between Africa and Pandora), or building on the giant plot above Asia. Do that, filling out the park, then absolutely spend money "fixing" Dinorama and bringing it up to snuff.
 
Clamman73

Clamman73

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jrh1985 said:
BREAKING: First look at New DHS Guidemap from LP on Twitter(It's the Japanese Guidemap): https://twitter.com/laughing_place/status/551861872379838464

No hat.

No flower bed that was there before the hat, oh well. Will DHS continue to have stages there? That might explain why the flower bed is not returning.
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Tweeter pics started circulating on Friday. Unless it's like a Back to the Future thing where stuff on the map starts disappearing and it's related to something that doesn't happen as it's supposed to in the future, which changes the present/past.
 
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jrh1985

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Clamman73 said:
Tweeter pics started circulating on Friday. Unless it's like a Back to the Future thing where stuff on the map starts disappearing and it's related to something that doesn't happen as it's supposed to in the future, which changes the present/past.
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LP's was the first Tweet pic I saw so I reported it here. Had no idea the pics started on Friday. Sorry about that.

Was hoping the flower bed would come back but guess not.
 

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