Great ideas. I like the pirates shop and the old haunted mansion one. I really don't go in the jewelry shop. Bring back the Pirates shooting game.How do you guys feel about the shops in New Orleans Square? Do you find yourselves going into them on a typical visit to Disneyland?
As much as I loved NOS and Splash as they were, I suspect Tiana’s Palace and TBA are going to inject some vitality into the area, and I’m on board with it. Might be kind of nice to see a sprucing up of all of NOS.
I’ll admit I never go into the NOS shops. Is it sacrilege to suggest they be replaced with more interesting stuff? Maybe take a page from Hogsmeade, where the shops have some interactive elements, and the window fronts have features that prompt guests to stop and stare? There’s a lot they could do with the New Orleans theme.
Just a hypothetical. Let me know if I’m way off base.
Great ideas. I like the pirates shop and the old haunted mansion one. I really don't go in the jewelry shop. Bring back the Pirates shooting game.
The arcade game was similar to this but with a POTC gun like the one at the end of the ride.Gotta admit, I’m not even familiar with these shops or shooting game. Will do some googling…
I’m really hoping for a good jambalaya and gumbo since they don’t have them at Beignets Express anymore. That was often a quick meal for us on our way back to the hotel.I’m more concerned about the menu than the building. I hope they’ve got new recipes that are actually worthy of having the “Creole” title.
Me, too. What they had before wasn’t bad, necessarily, but I prefer to have really good to excellent gumbo or jambalaya. I’m cool with having decent or fine other foods, but not that.I’m really hoping for a good jambalaya and gumbo since they don’t have them at Beignets Express anymore. That was often a quick meal for us on our way back to the hotel.
I don't think that's a building behind it, but part of the roof parapet.I like it but I’d never noticed the yellow building behind it before, it really draws your eye to the unthemed building that used to blend into the background.
AgreedThe exterior looks great. I like the Mark Twain inspired top better than what was in the concept art.
As for the shops, I always walk through that part of NOS and go in and out of them. The area is very old school Disney to me.
Looks fine but I’ll completely forget it exists until I go back to Disneyland in X years then I’ll see it and say “oh yeah” before forgetting it exists once again. I barely even remember Tower of Terror doesn’t exist anymore (and then I get upset when I do).
I mean, it's replacing a 1967 restaurant (albeit with changes over the last 50 years). That alone is mildly frustrating- as New Orleans Square was mostly untouched by IP for most of the year until Nightmare takes over the entire dang land. Not to mention modern WDI's track record of making unnecessary changes that degrade the product- I'm not optimistic.
Those aren't cartoony steamboat smokestacks. They're not any kind of steamboat smokestacks.Yup not mention the cartoony steamboat smokestacks in a land that has actual steamboats passing by the restaurant.
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