News Paradise Pier Becoming Pixar Pier

[PiratesMansion]

MB sticks out like a sore thumb from everywhere including the esplanade. TOT wasn’t beautiful but as you say it kind of blended in instead of saying “look at me!” The only redeeming quality I find with GOTG:MB is the randomized drops but even that is a mixed bag because I don’t find any of the profiles as thrilling as TOTs one ride profile. That’s without even getting into the everything lost.

Are you talking about losing the totality of the experience of TOT? Or was there something else that was lost that I'm not remembering?

I disagree that TOT was more thrilling; it might have been a more thought out sequence that was more satisfying as a result, but I would say MB clearly is the best Disney drop tower worldwide in terms of thrills. It DOES call more attention to itself though, much like the facade, in a way that is definitely more superficial than TOT.

My experience at Lamplight Lounge was tarnished by the $20, massively overhyped Lobster Nachos. I've never been so disappointed by a single food item in my life!

 

[mickEblu]

I happen to like Pixar Pier as a guilty pleasure; I know, it's bad (I mean... Poultry Palace exists ), but also the former personally wasn't something I found worth being sad over, and I love the Lamplight Lounge and pockets of PP.

I’ve always liked the Pier before and after its Pixarificarion. It has good energy, fun rides and is nice at night. I just don’t like the concept or execution of the land. Hate the red tunnels, Poultry palace and Jack Jack on sticks. Outside of those three, nothing is too offensive.

 

[mickEblu]

I swear it'll be 2050 and if I'm still alive Mickey Blue will still be complaining about Mission: Spaceout and Slashed Mountain, in addition to the eventual replacement of Frontierland with Princess Outpost.

You bet your @$$ I will.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I swear it'll be 2050 and if I'm still alive Mickey Blue will still be complaining about Mission: Spaceout and Slashed Mountain, in addition to the eventual replacement of Frontierland with Princess Outpost.

Tiana aside, the princesses won't expand west until they have claimed all of Fantasyland! Can you imagine them wanting to get their skirts dirty in the wild west?

 

[mickEblu]

Are you talking about losing the totality of the experience of TOT? Or was there something else that was lost that I'm not remembering?

I disagree that TOT was more thrilling; it might have been a more thought out sequence that was more satisfying as a result, but I would say MB clearly is the best Disney drop tower worldwide in terms of thrills. It DOES call more attention to itself though, much like the facade, in a way that is definitely more superficial than TOT.

My experience at Lamplight Lounge was tarnished by the $20, massively overhyped Lobster Nachos. I've never been so disappointed by a single food item in my life!

Yes the totality, the haunted hotel/ old Hollywood theme, Sterling, the music etc.

I disagree. MB is one really fun launch up and then a bunch of bouncing up and down on small drops. I don’t think one drop goes the full distance as the last drop on TOT did. And yes I think the suspense and build up also added to the overall satisfaction

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Tiana aside, the princesses won't expand west until they have claimed all of Fantasyland! Can you imagine them wanting to get their skirts dirty in the wild west?

That is an incredibly outmoded and sexist attitude.

 

[mickEblu]

The scary/ macabre got cut by 2/3 at DLR. No more Snow Whites Scary Adventures or TOT. All we have now is HM for 8 months a year.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

You could always go through the castle walkthrough over and over again.

 

[PiratesMansion]

The scary/ macabre got cut by 2/3 at DLR. No more Snow Whites Scary Adventures or TOT. All we have now is HM for 8 months a year.

At least scary Snow White lasted longer than at WDW. And an identical version of DL's (other than the addition of an ending scene) will live on in Paris.

I'm forever disapointed that I was too young to miss the original horrorshow WDW version!

 

[mickEblu]

They won’t stop until their are only two themes at DLR.... Princess and irreverent/ meta.

 

[PiratesMansion]

They won’t stop until their are only two themes at DLR.... Princess and irreverent/ meta.

Which stinks, because they are good at NEITHER of those themes!

 

[mickEblu]

At least scary Snow White lasted longer than at WDW. And an identical version of DL's (other than the addition of an ending scene) will live on in Paris.

I'm forever disapointed that I was too young to miss the original horrorshow WDW version!

I’m not sure why they are losing sight that kids LOVE that stuff. They are just like us. They are drawn to the mysterious, weird, scary etc...

 

[mickEblu]

Which stinks, because they are good at NEITHER of those themes!

Leave the irreverent for Universal and as far as princess stuff I think they do it fine but they have enough and shouldn’t be replacing non Princess stuff with Princess IP.

 

[PiratesMansion]

I’m not sure why they are losing sight that kids LOVE that stuff. They are just like us. They are drawn to the mysterious, weird, scary etc...

In fairness, society in general has lost sight of that. Disney's simply being reactionary.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Tiana aside, the princesses won't expand west until they have claimed all of Fantasyland! Can you imagine them wanting to get their skirts dirty in the wild west?

A princess roughing it in the American frontier riding horses and fighting against the tribes? Never!

 

[PiratesMansion]

A princess roughing it in the American frontier riding horses and fighting against the tribes? Never!

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Meh, at least two of those aren't really Princesses.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

A princess roughing it in the American frontier riding horses and fighting against the tribes? Never!

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But have we seen a movie with all three, I THINK NOT!

That why we need Disney's Calamity Jane so that Princesses can rule over the entire park!

 

[mickEblu]

In fairness, society in general has lost sight of that. Disney's simply being reactionary.

True but they weren’t always so reactionary.

 

[Curious Constance]

A princess roughing it in the American frontier riding horses and fighting against the tribes? Never!

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Here we go......

 

[Phroobar]

Here we go......

Okay, I'll say it.

Mulan is NOT a princess!