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TP2000

TP2000

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That pipe contraption at the 6:00 mark that they've been working on for several weeks sure is odd. I wonder what it will become?

Let me know what you think of this, gang... According to Micechat the river will be filled with water in May and Tom Sawyer Island will reopen in early June. As we get closer to that, shouldn't we start a separate Rivers of America thread in anticipation of all the new views and features we'll be seeing this summer on and around the Rivers of America?

That will keep this thread focused solely on Star Wars construction. Probably almost time for that new thread, right?
 
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jerryp49

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Fallen tree or tree limbs , first speculated by OneDream on Micechat :

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britain

britain

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Curious Constance said:
Think we can thank Harry Potter for that?
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I gladly will, though I can appreciate the "Kept neat outside / Ghosts inside" philosophy that guided Walt's vision for Disneyland. I can readily admit that this hyper-themed experience that included artificial dilapidation started cooking at DLP, really heated up at AK, and now is all the rage... this is not what Walt would have wanted.

But I like it. Besides, he was trying to convince the public that an amusement park could be clean and well-taken care of. He was fighting a different perception battle back then than I imagine he be would today.
 
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britain said:
I can readily admit that this hyper-themed experience that included artificial dilapidation started cooking at DLP, really heated up at AK, and now is all the rage... this is not what Walt would have wanted.
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It actually started with Big Thunder in 1979.
 
dweezil78

dweezil78

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britain said:
I can readily admit that this hyper-themed experience that included artificial dilapidation started cooking at DLP, really heated up at AK, and now is all the rage... this is not what Walt would have wanted.
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What Walt wanted is all relative to when Walt was alive. Had Walt been immortal (or even lived just another 10-15 years), surely he would have changed with the times and evolved his park to incorporate new ideas and leverage advances in theming in the same way he embraced new technologies. To think that Walt would have been stubborn and never allowed his initial design blueprint to change is crazy when you look at how much the man was constantly changing and pushing things forward across his entire business.
 
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dweezil78 said:
What Walt wanted is all relative to when Walt was alive. Had Walt been immortal (or even lived just another 10-15 years), surely he would have changed with the times and evolved his park to incorporate new ideas and leverage advances in theming in the same way he embraced new technologies. To think that Walt would have been stubborn and never allowed his initial design blueprint to change is crazy when you look at how much the man was constantly changing and pushing things forward across his entire business.
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Of course we have no way of knowing for certain, but to your point I don't think he'd care all that much, and the ongoing development and operation of Disneyland seemed to be something he wasn't particularly focused on at the time of his passing.

Someone else here may know more about this, but from what I've read Walt Disney was so apparently absorbed with EPCOT he had to be persuaded to build a magic kingdom park at WDW, and only agreed to it after being pressured by company financial advisors. He purposely chose a plot of land for the theme park at the farthest corner of the property at the end of a road that would pass through the experimental city first to symbolize the importance of EPCOT over The Magic Kingdom.
 
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Travel Junkie

Travel Junkie

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I'm not a fan of the what Walt would have wanted. He changed direction on a dime. He opened Disneyland in 55 and 4 years later completely reshaped a large portion of it. By the time we hit 1966 he had released plans to create an entire city on the opposite side of the country. Like a lot of entrepreneurs Walt kept bouncing moving in different directions.

I am a proponent of preserving as much as Disneyland's history as possible and do not feel Star Wars land fits within the concepts of Disneyland. That being said I can be confident that the person who would have altered Disneyland's DNA more than anyone if he was around is Walt Disney. We would be pleading with him to not ruin what he created.
 

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