I think most will see a distinct set of posters who seem to complain about every change and that is the group that I was speaking to. You're right, not all posters complain about everything, but there is a significant subset that are very pessimistic about any possible rumors coming out. Read enough of the posts and it's fairly apparent.
That may be true, I just know that anytime I see you responding to someone with a criticism, you talk about how some people aren't happy with any changes at all--true enough, but you often don't bother to find out whether the person you are responding to is in that category. Read enough of the posts and it's fairly apparent.
In fact, you do it again in this same post!
Yeah, okay.:hammer:
So when was the last time an "
unthemed hypercoaster in Epcot" was rumored?
Let's not be
juvenile here and actually stick to real world matters. Theme that baby and I'll be checking it out.
There you go off the deep end again. It appears you can't develop a decent response to justify your stance. Try again.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Obviously (or so I thought) I was giving extreme, entirely fictional examples (thanks for the unnecessary insult). My point was to show that for all of us here, there is
something Disney could do that would make us sit up and say, "They go too far! No increase in attendence can justify this!" We just draw the lines at different points. I'm well aware that for some people, repainting a wall in a slightly different shade of the original color is akin to setting the park on fire ("Walt wanted that wall to be
sage!").
(Just to be clear, that is also an extreme, entirely fictional example).
But I am not one of those people, so indicating that such people exist isn't really a response to anything I have to say, or that other people "in the middle" like me have to say.
If WDI was scared that the end result wouldn't always be perfect, they would never try in the first place. It's no guarantee that an idea will always work and DL history shows that very well. Some of the original and early concepts were failures that had to be replaced. The issue here is the simple problem that some don't want them to try to plus an attraction for fear that it may change their nostalgic views of the attraction. They can't stagnate so change is necessary. Not all changes or additions will be perfect but the attempt is always good for the company.
See, there you go again. I have said over and over that I have no problem with change in and of itself. I've been going to the MK for thirty years now and I've seen a lot of changes. Most of them have been for the better, even if many of them have not. I'm not in favor of the parks stagnating. I don't think Disney should be afraid of trying new things. I have no problem with the JC, in particular, being different than it was when it first opened. I'd love to see some new stuff there.
But I disagree that an attempt is always good. Undoing mistakes can be a lengthy process, and subtle mistakes can be hard to recognize. It's not like I think many people would actively complain if a video screen was put in the queue. But I think that it's possible their experience will be diminished even if they don't realize it. When I first rode Pirates as a six-year-old, I remember my dad taking me through that queue and thinking we really were wandering through a fort--I remember pulling my dad's sleeve and and asking him if he was sure we were going the right way! If there had been, say, a series of video screens with Orlando Bloom along the way, it would have been a very different experience. The "magic" is a tricky thing to keep a hold of.
