Emotion is feeling a deeper connection beyond just "ohhhhs and ahhhhhs".
Honestly - Wishes was one of the reasons why we kept coming back every summer. It was a huge emotional draw for us.
Watching it evoked feelings of happiness and connections to our real lives - -- the whole story and message of wishes just clicked.
-- folks here tend to want the "old" wdw. basically there is nothing new that disney could do that people would like.---
Folks here also tend to just LOVE whatever WDW does......WDW could do not wrong / how dare your criticize what the Mouse does!......stop complaining you are lucky to go and you are lucky to give WDW your hard earned money.
---I've never understood the "emotion" thing? ----
I feel sorry for you - - - - emotion and WDW have gone hand in hand for generations in our family.
Emotion is WHY we keep coming back. Story is why we keep coming back -
We all feel that WDW has been missing on these beats - - not just for the sake of complaining - - - but through our emotions.
We just don't feel it as much in their New creations.
IP experiences are nice - - - but the original WDW rides and ideas hold up more in my opinion. They have a uniqueness that IP based attractions can never hold.
and that's great FOR you.
My point being is all this is "subjective". Now I admit, I'm slap happy with wdw. if I wasn't I would not go. my stance has pretty much been the same for years. You criticize the mouse and then give it thousands of dollars is like betting in Vegas, the house always wins. I actually think the folks who love wdw are more pragmatic. we know Disney is NOT going back to the 19___ version, that's done, we feel we are still getting a good value for our dollar AND more importantly if we stop feeling that we don't complain, we move on.
Don't feel sorry for me, once again this is very personal and subjective. Just because I don't get verklempted over a theme park show is really not all that important.
To give you an example, I'm a widow, a few years after my husband lost his battle with cancer I asked my sons what were some of their favorite memories with dad. guess what, DISNEY did not even break the top 10. I teased them and said I wish you guys had told me this 10 years ago before we spent truck loads of money. the point being, if wdw is what you live for, hey go for it for others it's a place they vacation, like 20,000 other options.
Actually I feel the opposite, I feel bad for folks who constantly go to the world longing for the "old" days. it's a no win situation, they are not coming back any time soon. IP is here, whether one likes it or not. I've said it before, if you go on a vacation to anyplace and when you come back all you do is complain about the changes, some thing is wrong.
The point for this thread is simple. technology isn't killing anything, it's change how things are done. it's simply a matter of preference. I'm glad they got rid of Maelstrom and the great movie ride, they were old and horrible. doesn't mean that the folks who liked those two rides are wrong, it's not sad that I don't get the boohaha over those two rides, just that I have different taste.
lol but then again, I'm on the dark side. I think they should make a world showcase out of Wakanda.