The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[Parteecia]

Butterscotch squares and California brittle are my go-to’s. Rum nougat, marzipan, Boudreaux, and molasses chip are also all on my list.

Milk peanut crunch for me!

 

[Distorian]

Fun Fact: When DCA was in the initial planning stages in 1996-97, after being drastically downgraded in scale and budget from its Westcot foundation just a few years earlier, there was a concept for a "California Workplace" area on what is now the World of Color viewing amphitheater.

They had a rendering of it in early WDI artwork for DCA circa 1997. It was to have several sponsored exhibits and small pavilions hosted by California companies. A computer company (Apple?) was being sought, a surfboard maker, and other similar types of stereotypical California commerce and industry. One of the exhibit areas shown in early WDI artwork was a chocolate kitchen and sales counter, and the WDI artwork used the classic See's black-and-white checkerboard theme. Thus heavily implying that See's would have a chocolate demonstration kitchen and sales space in the California Workplace mini-land.

The California Workplace concept floundered, and Paul Pressler's stewardship of the DCA concept in the late 1990's didn't help win over enough new sponsors. The concept was downsized, and on opening day 2001 became solely the Boudin Bakery exhibit and the Mission Tortilla factory tour in the Pacific Wharf area. The San Francisco row houses across from Golden Dreams that were designed to host some of the California Workplace were left empty, and the main area for showrooms and work spaces of the California Workplace along Paradise Bay was turned into a bland cement amphitheater.

But for a brief period circa 1996, someone smart at WDI thought they should try and get See's Candy into DCA!

An opening day DCA with a See's Candy would never have produced Mission Breakout. Ghiradelli could never accomplish that.

 

[mickEblu]

Wow apparently when BTMRR reopens at MK it will have a lower height requirement. 38 inches. This would have been really helpful for me at DL last year. This is the first I think a DL height requirement for an attraction has been changed that I can recall.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

I wish Disney would build a park in Texas. Unfortunately I know that if they did, it would suck. Shanghai, DCA, Disney Adventure World, and the planned Abu Dhabi all exhibit Disney's preference for departing from the formula that made Disneyland and other Disney Parks work. There is a rejection at WDI of true themed environments. Instead of a park receiving a central theme, they're amorphous and allowed to add any IP they desire. This is best exemplified with such hit lands as Mickey Avenue, Gardens of Imagination, Adventure Way, and, the greatest example, Performance Corridor. These are non specific lands with no time period, no story, no place, all so that they can be shaped and changed in whatever way Disney chooses. An anarchic model of theme park design. If Disney built a park in Texas, I'm confident that's what we would receive, not the kind of park that makes Disneyland, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, or Disney Sea special and good.

Shanghai’s a wonderful park that is chock full of truly interesting twists on the formula. They shouldn’t just keep rebuilding Disneyland with every castle park, they SHOULD experiment and try new things and Shanghai does that remarkably well. Hong Kong is living proof that they shouldn’t ever try to one to one an old formula again.