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News Reimagined Toontown coming
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chadwpalm
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Back when Disneyland commercials were cool. Now they're all dramatic and "magic" this, and "imagination" that.
mharrington
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Aw, man, the talking mailbox is gone?! That was so cute!
MoonRakerSCM
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Is the brand new fountain already cracked and separation from the inside of the sidewalls?
MarvelCharacterNerd
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It was a shoulder-to-shoulder packed madhouse when I went. Not enough seating for the new Cafe and the whole place suddenly felt claustrophobic from all the people. The grass carpet will get thrashed quickly from all the people tromping around on it and people have apparently caused damage on both the play locations and in the MMRR queue already. 
That said, visually the land is a definite improvement as was opening up the walkway a bit more (which is now taken up by lines for food but oh well).
Thumbs up on the pizza flopover from Daisy's but skip the hot dog with toppings. Looking forward to trying more on the menu though!
That said, visually the land is a definite improvement as was opening up the walkway a bit more (which is now taken up by lines for food but oh well).
Thumbs up on the pizza flopover from Daisy's but skip the hot dog with toppings. Looking forward to trying more on the menu though!
Phroobar
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Contractors really don't care about quality anymore.
Sharon&Susan
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And yet they do have some (though nowhere near all) of the old shorts, including the Silly Symphonies, streaming on Disney Plus. I suppose we should be grateful that they have anything of the sort at all.
Plus, they supposedly have released (or will be releasing) some of their shorts on Blu-Ray as part of the 100th anniversary:
Again, I guess we should count our blessings. It's certainly better than them erasing their history at all.
And with Bob Chapek gone, maybe, just maybe, things will turn around again. How hard can it be to change a music loop, especially if the tracks already exist?
Why is Disney expecting people to pay $15 a piece for a 10 short collection that use old remasters? That new Looney Tunes collection coming out in May with 20 shorts for $20 without any double dips already looks a lot more exciting.
mharrington
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Once again, I think we should be grateful that Disney still has anything to do with the old shorts at all.
Disney Irish
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Because people will pay?
TP2000
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I love this kind of stuff, don't get me wrong.
But let's not pretend that the average Disneyland visitor is ever going to notice that the window trim on the fake Toontown Post Office changed from it's 1993 cream trim to a 2023 teal trim.
And this only reinforces my point; Mickey's Toontown is still there, still largely as it has been since 1993, except now it has an E Ticket ride where a gift shop used to be, and the rest of the land got a full repaint and a few thousand square feet of AstroTurf.
And in 2025, that paint is going to fade quite a bit. And then it will be repainted in 2026. And in 2029. And in 2032. Rinse, repeat.
Sharon&Susan
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All I can say is that I would've been interested in these if there were either more shorts included per volume or these shorts got a nice new remaster like the Cinderella 4k that's coming out later this year. As is I already have like 9 of these shorts on that Celebrating Mickey blu-ray they released a couple years back and I'm not interested in paying to upgrade the other 11 from the DVDs I bought over a decade ago for $30.Because people will pay?
But I'm sure plenty of collectors with more money and shelf space than I are buying these collections in the vain hope that buying this will result in Disney releasing more of their movies on physical media. And I guess the kids who have babysitters in the form of DVD players instead of streaming services will have a nice 70 minutes of entertainment as well.
SplashJacket
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It’s not meant to be noticed. It’s meant to just look better.
Good design usually goes unnoticed, in Toontown, the design is meant to be noticed, while also immersing you into the world of Toontown.
Castle Cake Apologist
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Is it a trick of the perspective, or did they fence in and landscape those curbs?
One of the design elements of the redesign was to remove all barriers for those with physical disabilities. So, they purposefully removes all curbs and tripping hazards from the walkways (and the play areas are full of ramps rather than stairs and are such that a child with disabilities can play on them).
While nixing the curbs, they added a fenced in green island.
chadwpalm
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Yeah, I only noticed it because I was looking at footage on YouTube (before they took the walls down) and wanted to see what had changed and that's when I noticed the paint scheme was different on all the building in that area.
I don't expect anyone to really notice as it is not something you memorize. I only noticed because I was doing a side-by-side comparison at the time.
chadwpalm
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I believe this was talking about in an interview I saw that Dusty from MC was giving to an imagineer (don't remember if I saw that posted here).
I really like the added planters as I said in my earlier thoughts that it adds to making the place feel like a more lived-in town. Paired with the new road it actually looks like the buildings are on the side of a road like a town rather than just sitting as a bare island in the middle of plain asphalt.
MarvelCharacterNerd
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Update: even on a weekday (in an updated land - during spring break, I understand) it was wall to wall people.
But meeting Pete was great - he was delightful.
And I can also recommend the kids' corn dog nuggets. However, it took literally half an hour from my hitting "I'm here - prepare my food" on my phone to actually getting the food in hand - almost 20 minutes until it was ready to pick up and then another 10+ minutes in line at the window to get it. And then having to ask for a lid and a straw and utensils sitting there behind the window instead of out in the land along with being handed my order in a paper bag with a ripped handle and having to point it out to the CM and request another bag with both handles so I could actually carry the food and drink order as there are no trays. Growing pains, I understand. But this place is woefully small and understaffed for the current demand. The food lines are as long as the ride lines.
But meeting Pete was great - he was delightful.
And I can also recommend the kids' corn dog nuggets. However, it took literally half an hour from my hitting "I'm here - prepare my food" on my phone to actually getting the food in hand - almost 20 minutes until it was ready to pick up and then another 10+ minutes in line at the window to get it. And then having to ask for a lid and a straw and utensils sitting there behind the window instead of out in the land along with being handed my order in a paper bag with a ripped handle and having to point it out to the CM and request another bag with both handles so I could actually carry the food and drink order as there are no trays. Growing pains, I understand. But this place is woefully small and understaffed for the current demand. The food lines are as long as the ride lines.
mharrington
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I want to address a question from a few days ago...
I'm curious what you mean by "second drop down the line". Can you maybe show us some videos of these streams so we can hear?
I'm curious what you mean by "second drop down the line". Can you maybe show us some videos of these streams so we can hear?
TP2000
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This first-hand account is fascinating. Not because it speaks to a snack bar that is badly managed at serving uncomplicated food like "Corn Dog Nuggets".
It's fascinating because this badly managed snack bar is a 30 year old location in a 68 year old theme park with a gazillion Dockers-clad managers and endless executives overseeing them all allegedly doing their jobs of, you know, managing a theme park snack bar.
Castle Cake Apologist
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Nice, I like it! It definitely also serves to give it more of a small town feel.