LOVED the video. Thanks for taking it, showing a lot of the little details, and for posting.
Thank you! I really was struck by the details, and I tried to show them as much as possible.LOVED the video. Thanks for taking it, showing a lot of the little details, and for posting.
The intention to have such an environment was definitely there. I think the biggest issue is the Old Florida aesthetic. There is no consistency to that narrative. It's an old rural town but with massive buildings more appropriate to the eastern coast and a southern portion that echoes too much of northern industry. You get weird things like the triple roof because a spread out, individual structure based aesthetic is trying to be grafted onto a very urban context.
Did you even bother to read some of the critiques? They're not focused on nonsense like Hidden Mickeys.
The popcorn lights preferably need to go too, but then again, those are the only lights on the bridge at night so they'd need to change out for something that would make up for that loss. They just look cheesy and were meant to fit in with the string of popcorn lights that used to run across Pleasure Island.
the sight lines of the mammoth garage from areas of the town center are TERRIBLE
From all of the promotional material and videos I have seen, Disney has always mentioned a story behind what they did with Disney Springs (like they always do with any new area), but also if I recall they also say "harkens back to" quiet often when referring to the Disney Springs town. So this is the morden day version of the old Disney Springs of yesterday.
If you look in the Guest Relations building they have a large mural or painting of Disney Springs from a supposed 1950's Expo. It shows the train tracks still in tact and the train running across it. This is clearly not true today as plants are growing on the elevated tracks now.
What this tells me is that those days are the past, and we are in Disney Springs of the present, today. So you have an old style with modern features built on top of it, like you would see in many old cities becoming modernized (like areas of Japan or China have, for example). Here it is:
I also specifically remembering Disney mention why the water tower has a new modern font logo on it, even though the water tower is old, and it had to do with it being modern day or something along those lines. In fact, behind the logo on the tower there is printing on the tower itself... watch this:
