I sort of thought that the tacos were in part, poor-man's screens to show the imagery for those who couldn't get a spot for the perfect view at the mouth of World Showcase but a number of the cuts shown in that video show nothing on those screens at all while stuff is happening in the middle or those only having accent stuff while the main screen shows the story.
I mean, I sort of get it: Directing a show with a point and meaning intened to work at many different angels is hard and not something that a lot of people have a lot of experience in doing but Disney used to do it and it feels like they've given up totally, not just here but with the castle shows, with the shows at Hollywood Studios, and when they had to build stadiums to perform to when they tried to do Rivers of Light.*
Instead of making shows designed to fit their spaces like they used to, it feels like more and more, they are trying to force people into configurations those spaces were not designed for so that they can present more traditional stage-like directional shows.
HEA was/is impressive but incredibly problematic and unsafe feeling in the kinds of crowds it creates in front of the castle and again, this is after they destroyed the hub for over a year for what we were told, was a plan to improve the already problematic crowds during nightime shows and parades in that area that
didn't focus people there.
That courtyard area at Hollywood studios was always a troubled area during nighttime shows even before they added projections that required you to be right there in it to see everything but they doubled down with that and built projection towers that block views from spaces you used to be able to see shows from.
I just don't get the thinking with this stuff. It feels like they are developing them all in a bubble without consideration of the real-world experience.
*I know this was also in part, about trying to create space for people to see it and not just the design of the show.
