Polkadotdress
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There a "Design book" which lays out paint colors, roof single styles, fences, etc.Let me guess, there is only a limited number of approved paint colors?
There a "Design book" which lays out paint colors, roof single styles, fences, etc.Let me guess, there is only a limited number of approved paint colors?
Correct. Having to meet with the "committee" regarding violations is like being called to the principal's office in high school.That is aesthetically nice if not over done, but I feel that Celebration stepped way over the line. I don't think that Disney has any control over the local government directly anymore, but the rules established to make it a magical place were direct from the Disney brain bank. Here you have a grouping of somewhat wealthy people (by local standards anyway) and they can't pass gas without permission. That would be way to stifling for me, especially if I had enough money to be anyplace I wanted to be.
Well, that is just wrong.No, It's Disney cutting high paid employees so that they can "save money" in this time of pandemic. The fact that it's right before the 50th is just a sad happenstance.
But isn't that a masterstroke? DAK was severely underfunded. So the designers cleverly tried to divert the limits from 5 to 3.5 lands. Quality over quantity. Asia, Dinoland, Camp Mickey Minnie were left blank or got cheap filler, to be filled in in due course.
The 3.5 lands too were financially underfunded, but over-endowed with creative and intellectual prowess.
DCA, WDSP, DAK Three undrrfunded parks that opened within a few years. Two of them a failure, two of them corrected at enormous expense. One of them a gorgeous succes. This feat stands as one of the greatest successes in all of WDI history.
That’s a sugarcoated oversimplification.
Ron Miller and his team made the successes of Eisner/Wells possible because they set up Home Video, the Disney Channel, and Touchstone Pictures. Had the company not been greenmailed, they could have stayed in power and taken credit for their hard work. EPCOT Center was expensive, but thanks to Roy E, who supported breaking up the company, and Saul Steinberg, fighting off the greenmail campaign did considerable harm to WDP’s cash reserves.
Of course there is, sillyLet me guess, there is only a limited number of approved paint colors?
The timing of the 50th is coincidental. It's more about hoarding money due to the pandemic.Anyone else find it odd that these higher ups have been leaving right before the 50th...?
Blood letting is always good for Wall Street (since it no longer is about actual production and product sales)No, It's Disney cutting high paid employees so that they can "save money" in this time of pandemic. The fact that it's right before the 50th is just a sad happenstance.
Worse than Stitch’s Toilet Paper castle?Between the terrible repaint and the decor that looks like it was dreamed up in 10 minutes, the Castle is set to look worse in its Golden Anniversary than it basically ever has. It stuns me. I'm trying to forgive them given the . . . everything going on in the world . . . but it's hard to believe a brighter mind couldn't have done more with the same money. I suspect the nighttime projections will look nice, but how sad that it's up to them to salvage an icon.
I agree that Spaceship Earth will likely look very nice, but hopefully the lighting is used tastefully. Seems very much like the kind of thing where the difference between genuine beauty and mere shiny headache will fall to its programming.
Though my hope, of course, is that both projects shine and succeed. But what a shame that we have seemingly so little to look forward to.
That in itself is a disaster.Worse than Stitch’s Toilet Paper castle?
Well...given how the entire thing is uglified right now...yeah.
Whatever happens, some of the online forums will breathlessly defend it, especially Al Lutz’s old place that somehow stumbles on.Between the terrible repaint and the decor that looks like it was dreamed up in 10 minutes, the Castle is set to look worse in its Golden Anniversary than it basically ever has. It stuns me. I'm trying to forgive them given the . . . everything going on in the world . . . but it's hard to believe a brighter mind couldn't have done more with the same money. I suspect the nighttime projections will look nice, but how sad that it's up to them to salvage an icon.
I agree that Spaceship Earth will likely look very nice, but hopefully the lighting is used tastefully. Seems very much like the kind of thing where the difference between genuine beauty and mere shiny headache will fall to its programming.
Though my hope, of course, is that both projects shine and succeed. But what a shame that we have seemingly so little to look forward to.
That’s the problem - Stitch’s thing was a beautiful castle covered in Toilet Paper. It’s *about* to become a severely sunburnt castle covered in gold toilet paper, with another awkward medallion placed over the architectural center of the building.Worse than Stitch’s Toilet Paper castle?
Well...given how the entire thing is uglified right now...yeah.
That's why homeowners association and me are 3 words that will NEVER be in the same sentence...Correct. Having to meet with the "committee" regarding violations is like being called to the principal's office in high school.
Have been in a 'mind your own business" HOA for 20 years, newcomers want to run things so I'm out. Anyone want to buy a house in the country? 1 hour to the world on I-4That's why homeowners association and me are 3 words that will NEVER be in the same sentence...
Uh, you just put them in one...That's why homeowners association and me are 3 words that will NEVER be in the same sentence...
Uh, I had to do it once...lolUh, you just put them in one...
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