Maybe the idea is that Tiana was a pioneer with the co-op concept. It fits her character, her life experience and makes sense. It could be a factor in a movie sequel. But as a plot element in a musical log ride full of huge drops that make people miserably wet? Really?
There is (or soon will be) a D+ series based around Tiana.Maybe the idea is that Tiana was a pioneer with the co-op concept. It fits her character, her life experience and makes sense. It could be a factor in a movie sequel. But as a plot element in a musical log ride full of huge drops that make people miserably wet? Really?
Maybe a film sequel is the answer to the origin of all of this???
Food co-op based? If so, this all makes sense now.
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Yeah food co-ops have been around forever. They really started to be noticed by consumers after World War 2 however.
I think the issue is that it feels anachronistic, as well as strangely out of keeping with the lighthearted and nondidactic tone that one expects of a log flume. Hopefully they’ll pull it off.PatF takes place in 1926. The ride is 5? years after?
20th centuryOn May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places. Previously, on March 21, 2019, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation designated both buildings as Historic Sites in New York State.By 1920, there were 2,600 consumer co-ops in the United States – all but eleven were general stores – and 80% were in towns with populations of less than 2,500. Combined sales volume for these stores was about US$260 million.
History of cooperatives in the United States - Wikipedia
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Maybe it's because of my age, but, to me, there is nothing anachronistic about an early 20th century co-op. I've been aware of their long-time existence, and I grew up in a NE suburban neighborhood.
How old are you?!
More than half a century.
I think this is exactly right.
That honestly isn’t why I’m sceptical about the story. As I said a few posts ago, it just seems out of keeping with what one typically expects of a log flume, which is something fun and lighthearted rather than rooted in more serious themes such as labour, food production, entrepreneurship, etc. But I realise that my concerns are based on very little information and that I may well end up loving the final product (which is my sincere hope).
Because the "backstory" doesn't have to make it into the storyline of the ride itself, I don't see it as odd, overly-complicated, too serious, or whatever. It's how the Imagineers answer the question, "where are we and how did we get here?"
I didn’t say it’s complicated, but I do find it tonally weird for a Magic Kingdom log flume. But again, that’s just my impression based on the very sketchy details we currently have, and I remain hopeful overall that the retheme will be carried out well.
I'm with you! Hoping!
THIS may be the true reason I wasn't settled on the story fit. Not the historical accuracy but the feel/tone of it for a ride that is just wonderfully fun.
Technically, it's not a rumor, but a supposition based on the flimsiest of hint, namely, one piece of concept art.
