The Tiki Room and the Future of our WDW Community: Where will we travel?

[TinkerBell9988]

Ah. I can sympathize with that, then. I do see an unnecessary abundance of Stitch in the parks, although I can't really say I feel the same with Finding Nemo or Toy Story. Nemo pretty much revived our Living Seas and Disneyland's abandoned 20K attraction, and it added something to do in Animal Kingdom (I find the show rather impressive!). It would be nice if Space Ranger Spin lived up to the standards of the new and shiny Midway Mania, though...

Just saw Finding Nemo The Musical for the first time last weekend (I know, I'm behind!) and I really enjoyed it.

As for The Seas... I am/was a huge Living Seas fan, because of its foundation in education of aquatic life and the ocean. The Finding Nemo overlay has totally blanketed the pavilion, in my opinion; some of the mystical grandeur of the original pavilion is lost. I feel like there is no real "draw" to the education part of the pavilion. The old pavilion was very engulfing, between the film and the whole Seabase Alpha backstory.

The Living Seas (or The Seas with Nemo and Friends, as it is now) has been 'revived', but I feel like it was revived for the sake of marketing Nemo rather than keeping in line with the pavilion's purpose of telling a story without the help of a movie tie-in.

 

[puntagordabob]

Why is there so much hate for Lilo & Stitch?
Before anyone jumps down my throat, by no means do I think Stitch should take over the Enchanted Tiki Room. Although he comes from Hawaii, which I suppose could fit into the tropical/jungle/whatever theme of Adventureland, I see no coherent connection he could possibly make with the singing birds.

Your second point is right on the mark!!!! Stitch would not be an upgrade for the Tiki Room....

As for your initial point: My perception is that Stitch is almost force fed to us at WDW...he was even once part of the monorail spiel... so people are probably just simply reacting to that. Also, of course there is the inclusion of Stitch in Alien Encounter (refurbed now as SGE) that has a lot of people soured in the Ways of Stitch.....

I personally like Stitch.... he is a jokester and could be implemented in a new attraction (not a refurb) that is for his movie series that could be very funny and entertaining.....

When you start to see a character show up in 1,000 different places at once for no good reason other than to push the brand, it gets very annoying to many.

+1

 

[imagineer boy]

I actually like Stitch and the movie too, but like others have said, the over-marketing of him and degredation of AE has soured our image of him.

Disney really needs to stop over marketing popular characters. I love the Toy Story movies, heck the first two are huge parts of my childhood. But the over marketing of the franchise is actually starting to make me feel a little resentful of the characters. Which makes me feel horrible because I really do love them. :brick: