Theming IS a huge part of the experience and I haven't said otherwise. I've simply said that the addition of the video may enhance and plus an old attraction. Just because we don't know how it will work or how a few purists will react doesn't mean that it won't work for the majority of people walking through the gates.
Look at Pirates... people were whining and complaining about the addition of Depp. Now look... all positive reviews and people love the new additions. An old attraction has a new life. Look at the changes at The Land... people whined and complained for months about the change and it was a HUGE success.
You know, just because someone opposes a change doesn't mean they oppose
all changes. That's what you always seem to fall back on, these so-called Disney purists who opposed everything. There are many many people on these boards, myself included, who don't oppose everything and like to see things "plussed."
It's just that not everyone agrees on what a "plus" is. In my mind, I can't imagine any way a video screen can be made to fit in with the Jungle Cruise's theme. Setting aside whether your child will enjoy seeing the corporate synergy at work when Tumbaa appears, do you? I mean, since you say you understand how theming is important, on theming alone, do you really think this can be a plus and not a minus? If not, why get so crabby and call people "purists" and "geeks" who do?
You often go on about how Disney is a business, and such and such is bringing in guests and so on. I'm aware that Disney is a business (I'm a shareholder, like a lot of people here), but that doesn't mean I don't get my own opinion. Let's suppose Disney put a big, unthemed hypercoaster in Epcot. Even if that brought in a lot of new attandence, I wouldn't like it--would you? Or would you tell me I was wrong to dislike it because so many other people were riding it?
Or, let's say that Disney started including the "f" word in their animated films, and that got a lot of people into the theater who wouldn't normally come. Would we be purists to object--especially if the films were a HUGE success?
My point is that we all have boundaries on these things. Some of us see a fine line and worry that the current crop of suits at Disney don't see what made places like WDW so magical to previous generations--not asking that the parks be frozen in amber, mind you, but that as changes come they are given the same care and consideration as what was originally there. You are on the other end..."if it works, do it." What some of us believe is that a lot of things can work in the short term but fail in the long term. Stuffing characters in every nook and cranny in the parks, for example, may please the youngest children in the short term, but may, in the long term, lower the desire to return.
