It isn't just restrooms, it is visually one end of Fantasyland in a highly visited area. So regardless of it being restrooms behind the facades, it has an important role in the visual look of the area. Well worth doing it right in my opinion.
sounds good to me
Exactly. I think the frustratuion is not that they are putting this much detail into bathrooms. I think it is that people feel they are putting this much detail into bathrooms without doing more towards upkeeping current attractions and developing new ones. I think we can all agree in a perfect world, they would put this kind of detail into EVERYTHING they do.
I actually have two answers for you!
The tents and banners signify that there is a ride in the building. In FL, your eyes are drawn towards all the towers, turrets, spires. Except near rides: here the eyes are drawn downwards, inwards. All FL attractions had loading areas that were visible from outside, to add life and kineticism to the land, and to draw the guests in.
Yes, comforting thoughts. I hope that some trees and foliage will separate the bathroom area from the Mansion area. In fact, the Mansion area could do with some more trees period. Set it apart from the rest of LS a bit. The walk, however short, from the inhabited world to the eerie mansion out of town is important!
I actually have two answers for you!
1 - Yes, you picked up on that perfectly! It would make all the difference in the world. The very essence of my criticism is thematic mismatch. If the rest of the land is themed likewise, then this objection becomes moot.
2 - No! Because I dislike by default the cartoonification of the MK. I think it is a mistake. One that diminishes the magic. Magic is to enter a 'real world', one inhabited by humans, but where magical things happen. Where flowers sing, birds talk, princesses walk the streets.
In a cartoon environment, the magic is a given, normal, to be expected. So not magical at all. Who is surpised by a talking bird in a fairytale?
Something similar, in a slightly more brutal way, happens with violence (perhaps the opposite of Disney Magic): in a human setting, say a live-action movie, violence is shocking, emotional, an outrage. In a cartoon world, it is normal (Tom and Jerry). This is the same effect as magic being normal in a cartoon world, but something extraordinary in a real-live environment.
FL's new Storybook look makes FL less fairytale-like, instead of more. This, incidentally, is also why I think the FLE feels so flat, so emotionally uninvolving. And not lack of rides.
Actually, that's true. There is a certain realistic flavour to the cartoony elements being build in FL, from Storybook Circus to the French village.
In my mind, the only place it really breaks down are in a couple of areas in Storybook Circus and that would be Casey Jr. and the queue to Barnstormer. Both of which I actually like, but honestly cannot separate out if I like them because I personally like them, or if I like them because of how much my children like them. They break the realism that they worked so hard to instill in the area which it seems they worked so hard to build, they could look cheap (in a few years due to wear and tear) and out of place, they... awwww, do you see how much fun she's having playing over there?
