Even if they had slapped the same concept art we've seen a thousand times with the TBA logo on it over the walls it would look mildly more interesting. Kind of makes you think "Huh. That looks interesting", instead of "Tiana's Food? Isn't this a boat ride?"Isn't that baffling? And they've chosen to show absolutely no artwork of the actual ride being built for '24, just this faux food company logo.
I just can't believe the small number of things they are choosing to put out there as descriptors for this new E Ticket.
It's getting very weird.
2017 = "ON A REMOTE OUTPOST PLANET, NEW ADVENTURES AWAIT..." (Overlaid on dramatic action aerial image of entire land)
2023 = "Employee Owned" (Overlaid on generic 1930's food label)
No, please. Continue your side conversation that is obviously about me with @SuddenStorm. Enjoy.
I’ve been meaning to respond to this, but I got caught up.
Only if you promise to keep calling me ridiculous and irrational.
I agree, there can be some hiccups here. The hardest for me is which land does this ride exactly fit? A lot of the buildings in Critter Country already look like the homes I saw on the swamp on my bayou visit so that helps. They can easily make it a bayou village, maybe even fake signs of gators and a fishing bait store façade. But as you stated, Pooh will still be there standing out more than ever. Also the ride would technically be more of a Louisiana thing instead of a NOLA/NOS one, as that kind of architecture & bayous are a good 20-45 minutes outside the city of New Orleans. So it makes me wonder if they'll keep the name Critter Country but only keep the Pooh elements to it's queue, making the Pooh meet & greet area a Tiana meet & greet instead.
Thinking about it, the trees began to fit less and less as more new attractions opened up in Critter Country. Nothing like them appears in Song of the South's backwoods Georgia or Winnie the Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood. Funnily enough, the park where the retheme doesn't fit at all is the one with the most geographically appropriate flora.Agreed.
Much of the landscaping in Critter Country today was planted over 50 years ago as part of Bear Country, which was designed and landscaped as a late I880's/90's Pacific Northwest offshoot of the more inland/southwestern I850's/60's Frontierland proper. That is why Critter Country is so pleasant to be in, it's shade canopy of very mature pine trees and tall foliage. The landscape design and tree specimens are there to evoke the Pacific Northwest, not Louisiana.
You could make a decent argument that the average Disneyland guest won't know a Douglas Fir from a Loblolly Pine, so who cares? It's just trees and junk for dumb tourists. But when they are touting the newspaper articles in the cue that will explain to riders the difficulties Tiana's father faced fighting World War I under Woodrow Wilson's segregated troop mandates, it's hard to argue that dense landscaping and massive trees aren't also an important part of that story.
I laugh that I'm giving Disney the benefit of the doubt that "story" still concerns them, when it clearly no longer does, but I'll just go with it.
Oregon is not Louisiana. Mature tree canopies of Firs and evergreens are not the bayou.
and this is the problem I have with the retheme. They needed to treat this like the auction in pirates and trader Sam’s in Jungle Cruise. Take out the rabbit, fox and bear, add in some more frogs and gators and swap out the music and call it splash mountain still.
In an ideal timeline (not one where TBA is cancelled), they'd do just that and maybe throw in some Rescuers-inspired setpieces like the sunken boat.
Please remember that all we’ve seen are simple signs on a construction wall, a few pieces of concept art, some early vague press releases about the backstory and some more encouraging news about the many new AA figures.
One PR release like this and the negative talk will instantly stop.
Please remember that the signs on a construction wall and few pieces of concept art and early press releases are cause for concern!
