Correct.
Fresh baked's made up rumors have never turned out to be true.
I don't necessarily think he's trying to give out inaccurate information as fact. It's just he has such a wide reach that any speculation he talks about people start posting all over the internet and it turns into fact.
Personally, I couldn't care less what any actor or actress thinks is important.Sure, it's been a version of that since the 1970's. But this is getting ridiculous. Drive My Car? The Power Of The Dog?
I remember about five years ago when a gaggle of actresses got all snotty about the media making such a big deal about who they were wearing instead of what they were thinking. The actresses claimed they were professional busineswomen at an industry event, and thus any question about their hair/dress/look was sexist and barbaric.
And I'm thinking... "Ladies, if you want to present yourself as 'business professionals', then wear a professional business suit to this event instead of a backless/strapless/breast baring/thigh revealing $25,000 couture gown with 5 inch stilettos and hair piled to the heavens and four days of grooming done in advance."
If the ladies attending the Oscars don't want people to ask them "Who are you wearing?!?", they should stop dressing like this...
And instead wear something like this to the Oscars as a "professional" attending an "industry business event"...
I dunno if I'd want that life. I love Disneyland as much as anyone else, but I wouldn't want going to the parks it to feel like a job and not just going for enjoyment. Always having each trip have a purpose, always filming, etc. Just not for me. More power to him and the others who are cool with all that though.
I agree that there are some trees at Disneyland that are irreplaceable. The ficus tree at Alice In Wonderland is a perfect example. The building itself that Alice is in is not much to look at, even with the outdoor track.
That said, it's easy for us to get complacent about trees as the years turn into decades. Often, they grow so huge they dwarf the buildings and obscure the architecture that was Imagineered there in the first place. I think those two sickly trees in front of Pirates are a good example of that. Pirates was originally Imagineered to walk right up to and thus be able to take in the New Orleans architecture easily and allow it to set an Opening Act in your mind as you headed inside. It really is an elegant and beautiful building.
Most 1960's photographs are amateur shots from tourists and don't do the building justice, but this one is pretty good. Notice the bullet ashtray sitting out front by the trashcan! Disneyland used to have those everywhere.
Then in the late 1980's they redesigned the area to add the bridge in front to help alleviate crowds. They planted those two trees in the queue, a large tree in the planter in front of the queue, and they grew and grew. In 2000 they beefed up the signage in front for Fastpass with a wrought iron archway, pushing the marquee even further out from the bridge, and they planted vines and more shrubbery. The end result is that by the 2020's you enter the ride through a dark, overgrown tunnel. As you pass under the bridge, the trees then obscure the building from the queue itself, and you can barely tell there's a building there at all!
That bridge will still be there, but it would be nice to be able to see the building again from different angles. Especially when you walk over the bridge above, or are in the queue as you head into the building.
A similar fate met Tomorrowland. They planted a couple of ficus trees at the entrance to the land in 1967, alongside the Bell System show on the left and the Monsanto ride on the right. But the entrance as designed in 1967 was wide open and you could see the clean and sleek buildings framing the land.
Over a half a century later, and those ficus trees grew into monsters (as that type of tree does in the SoCal climate). Now Tomorrowland is a wall of green and it's hard to tell what's back there. The failed New Tomorrowland redesign of 1998 didn't help, but even after the recent rock removals it's still a ficus forest.
There's actually Imagineering behind all of Disneyland's massive trees, and much of that Imagineering is quite good. A little replanting after 50 years would do the park good in several spots. In my opinion.
I agree that there are some trees at Disneyland that are irreplaceable. The ficus tree at Alice In Wonderland is a perfect example. The building itself that Alice is in is not much to look at, even with the outdoor track.
That said, it's easy for us to get complacent about trees as the years turn into decades. Often, they grow so huge they dwarf the buildings and obscure the architecture that was Imagineered there in the first place. I think those two sickly trees in front of Pirates are a good example of that. Pirates was originally Imagineered to walk right up to and thus be able to take in the New Orleans architecture easily and allow it to set an Opening Act in your mind as you headed inside. It really is an elegant and beautiful building.
Most 1960's photographs are amateur shots from tourists and don't do the building justice, but this one is pretty good. Notice the bullet ashtray sitting out front by the trashcan! Disneyland used to have those everywhere.
Then in the late 1980's they redesigned the area to add the bridge in front to help alleviate crowds. They planted those two trees in the queue, a large tree in the planter in front of the queue, and they grew and grew. In 2000 they beefed up the signage in front for Fastpass with a wrought iron archway, pushing the marquee even further out from the bridge, and they planted vines and more shrubbery. The end result is that by the 2020's you enter the ride through a dark, overgrown tunnel. As you pass under the bridge, the trees then obscure the building from the queue itself, and you can barely tell there's a building there at all!
That bridge will still be there, but it would be nice to be able to see the building again from different angles. Especially when you walk over the bridge above, or are in the queue as you head into the building.
A similar fate met Tomorrowland. They planted a couple of ficus trees at the entrance to the land in 1967, alongside the Bell System show on the left and the Monsanto ride on the right. But the entrance as designed in 1967 was wide open and you could see the clean and sleek buildings framing the land.
Over a half a century later, and those ficus trees grew into monsters (as that type of tree does in the SoCal climate). Now Tomorrowland is a wall of green and it's hard to tell what's back there. The failed New Tomorrowland redesign of 1998 didn't help, but even after the recent rock removals it's still a ficus forest.
There's actually Imagineering behind all of Disneyland's massive trees, and much of that Imagineering is quite good. A little replanting after 50 years would do the park good in several spots. In my opinion.
Yeah, I was watching one of his recent videos and realized that Fresh Baked is pretty much him now with his wife occasionally going (someone's gotta watch the kid). It's weird, because just a couple years ago he had a team of people that went (Ian, Sara, etc.) and now that he can finally make it a full time job he's all alone....walking around the parks alone talking to a camera. There's no more banter or exchanging of thoughts and ideas. Just him and his own thoughts. It's definitely shifted the paradigm of the content which used to be a day long trip broken up over the week, to sprinkling in construction updates, to now being a mix of trip reports, podcasts, and news...and most of the trip reports are a lot more geared to specific purposes than just general hanging out.
Of course. Don't forget what Walt said; anything is possible at Disneyland!
And by that I mean, Disneyland has daily access to a highly trained and well funded Horticulture department. The beauty of the park's landscaping speaks for the caliber of their talent. But Disneyland also has the ability and funding to bring in outside teams that have the heavy machinery to dig out and extract root systems from these trees, and then prep the area for new growth and future decades.
Would it be easy to remove and replace the Tomorrowland ficus trees? No, you're not going to be able to do that with just a few guys and a trip to Home Depot. It will require digging and extraction, shoring up building foundations, and some heavy machinery specifically made for stump removal and root extraction. And some money. But it's entirely possible. Then you refill the hole with several strata of draining soil and materials, and replant.
