Not Paradise Pier, which was very dumb at the start and is kind of fun and pretty now ... I meant California Screamin itself, which I think is a very fun coaster and is very much the symbol of DCA to me. Granted the queue needs a lot of work, and I thought the faux wooden thing was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen at first, but now I like the kinetic energy of the ride cars and it's a great World of Color backdrop. I'm having a really difficult time imagining how an Incredibles storyline will fit without being contrived, or why it even needs to.
This is my argument pretty much. The car and the long curvy light rig and of course the giant Stratocaster draw enough attention away from the bland stucco building behind it, in a way that the Paris facade is not successful with. Again, I won't defend the queue here and I always wished Orlando used the indoor switchbacks ever. (I do also recognize that it doesn't fit with the rest of Sunset. At least it's set back far enough so as not to intrude. Hey, maybe they'll move the whole ride over to "Grand Avenue," where it'll fit right in.)
The AAs are good, true, but dear god do I hate the rest of that attraction. To me it was the tipping point where Disney stopped using 3D/4D well, and started using it solely for effects with no coherent story. Also I've been trying to figure out for 15 years why some of the bugs are human-sized and some are normal-sized.
The inside of the shops in Paradise Pier are actually done nicely. At least the two main ones. The outside is the main problem. I'm hoping that new taller facades are added to help hide site issues.
Correct. And the whole show is how bugs are helpful to producing food. It fit perfectly back then. Only with Carsland does it no longer make sense.
I think that is pretty much the extent of the overlay. We will get a new soundtrack and a Victorian looking queue to match TSMM. They may paint the trains but nothing else is going to change.
I never bought the explanation that Car Culture justifies Cars Land in DCA. Car culture is not unique to California and Cars Land is explicitly Arizona not California. But if Car Culture is enough to justify the existence of Cars Land then Comic Book Culture is enough to justify Marvel Land. San Diego Comic Con is one of the largest, most famous, and earliest comic book conventions in the country and arguably established Comic Book Culture as we know it.
I do remember that, but even then it felt way more like a cheap (even by DCA 1.0 standards) copy-paste from WDW to fill space in a dead land more than a spirited tribute to California. I'm sorry, I just hate the hell out of that movie.
Fair enough on the car culture thing -- the more important aspect to me is that the design of the whole thing was sufficiently Route-66-through-SoCal (obviously not uniquely SoCal), which may be why I give it more of a pass than other IP intrusions. I have no recollection of Radiator Springs being in Arizona in the films, which also helps. Comic Con is even more of a stretch California-wise, but also the most brilliant possible setup for Marvel Land that I've heard yet.
That will be the launch sound.
If something needs a guest to read some long backstory to really understand how it fits, then it probably doesn't fit.
Not liking the Pixar Pier concept is in no way inherently tied to a desire to preserve what exists.
Space Mountain does have a story, it just is not some convoluted linear narrative. A trip through space is plenty of story.
