Mrs. Potts' Cupboard gets new 'Fantasy Forest' look with thatched roof and more

[Texas84]

I like it, but would have preferred the Norway grass roof.

 

[WDW Vacationer]

New look is great! Will loom nice in FF.

I also noticed the click tower is gone. Always looked awkward.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

It does - but WHAT a maintenence job! If there isn't a conventional roof under that stuff? WDW will need to re-thatch about every other year!

Good point. Hope they are ready to maintain it.

 

[WDW Vacationer]

If it's the same plastic thatch from AKL,it should hold up well.

 

[Tiggerish]

Sorry the clock tower is gone (big fan of clock towers), but, hey, Irish person here--big fan of thatched roofs!!!

 

[Victoria]

I'm in a weird place with this. I like the thatching. What I'm not a huge fan of is the sort of cartoony look it has going on. The roof angles are going every which way and that bothers me. Maybe it is just a matter of personal taste, but things that aren't perpendicular often annoy me. :shrug:

 

[HMF]

I am sorry but this is too good to ignore.
http://imagineerebirth.blogspot.com/2008/03/no-one-approaches-our-classic.html

 

[sknydave]

Saaaaaave the clock tower!?!

 

[FullJr]

This does not quite look right now. But maybe later. I personally like my roofs like that in adventure land. One of the main reasons it does not look right yet, is lack of this type of theming in this one area, hopefully to come with the FLE. I hope they will change to a different name, doesn't look right with ms. potts having a thatched roof. I hope she will be able to open a better shop in the BatB area opening in the FLE.

 

[BrerFrog]

It looks pretty awesome, but I don't know which looks is my favorite.

Does that mean all the other FL facades will be refurbished to look like that, or at least the ones that are more distant from the Castle Walls?

 

[jtizzle1023]

i like it... still not 100% on the expansion... well i mean i love the idea but not thrilled on the worlds greatest meet-n-greet :ROFLOL:

 

[hazelrah]

I like the look individually, though to be honest it's more because the building now has a rounded, friendlier shape without the clock tower. I do think it looks very out of placed sandwiched between the medieval Pooh facade and the Bavarian facade of the Friar's Nook.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

I like the look individually, though to be honest it's more because the building now has a rounded, friendlier shape without the clock tower. I do think it looks very out of placed sandwiched between the medieval Pooh facade and the Bavarian facade of the Friar's Nook.

Strong evidence for Pooh changing, I guess.

 

[NewfieFan]

I'm in a weird place with this. I like the thatching. What I'm not a huge fan of is the sort of cartoony look it has going on. The roof angles are going every which way and that bothers me. Maybe it is just a matter of personal taste, but things that aren't perpendicular often annoy me. :shrug:

I kind of like cartoony! I think this will be more magical, whimsical, an area that could convince you (when it's all finished, of course)!

 

[jt04]

I like the look individually, though to be honest it's more because the building now has a rounded, friendlier shape without the clock tower. I do think it looks very out of placed sandwiched between the medieval Pooh facade and the Bavarian facade of the Friar's Nook.

Strong evidence for Pooh changing, I guess.

Definitely. And there will be a dividing line with the new castle walls to help that areas transition. I still think 20K was thrown in way back when and the current FLE plan is much closer to the original plan for the MK.

Someone was supposed to ask Imagineering at the D23 convention but I guess they chickened out.

 

[Hobnail Boot]

Strong evidence for Pooh changing, I guess.

That's what I'm thinking. The Pooh stories are from the UK, and this new roof reminds me the thatched roof on a building in the UK at Epcot (sorry, I forget the name of the place). Maybe they're trying to have a better transition between attractions in the new FL.

Personally, I like it and I don't. I like that it looks new and refreshed and it reminds me of a facade near Alice at DL, but it's an abrupt change from the Friar's. Hopefully whatever they do in the future to Pooh changes this.

 

[Next Big Thing]

I love the thatched roof look, but I don't like that in that picture, on the right corner you can still see tile. It that tile section part Mrs. Potts and they haven't done? It is just bothering me in that picture one side is thatched and the other is not.

 

[voodoo321]

The louvered vents? That's the first thing I noticed. They ruin the theme, no matter if the thatch looks better or not. That is the problem and I'm very surprised that no one else has pointed it out.

 

[TP2000]

I just don't like thatched things. :shrug:

It's a British thing, and it themes well with British stories and places. Disneyland's Fantasyland has a British themed miniland with the Alice In Wonderland, Mad Tea Party and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride attractions all clustered around each other, with several thatched structures. I think it works.

The operator booth for the Mad Tea Party (teacups) ride has a thatched roof.

As well as the adjacent Mad Hatter hat shop.

But the real question is... Mrs. Potts is in France in Beauty and the Beast. Do they have thatched roofs in France like they do in Britain? I've always thought of thatched roofs as a typically rural British design element. But maybe that's only because it's used frequently in Disneyland's British miniland area in Fantasyland?

 

[Tar Heel]

Saaaaaave the clock tower!?!

I got a laugh out of that this morning.:lol: