FettFan
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WDW definitely needs a Lidsville Land.I saw the Defunctland episode on that one. Apparently it was partly designed by Sid and Marty Kroft.
Basically a trippy mashup of Brer Rabbit, HR Pufnstuf and Chuck E. Cheese.
WDW definitely needs a Lidsville Land.
Thanks for the update!
The models indicate that will indeed be the case.I would think given they are now setting the ride in a Louisiana bayou, that they would be building a lot of artificial Cypress trees around the mountain structure... that would feel more transportive than a water tower...more evocative of a bayou setting....
Seeing this concept art again, I just can't get over how the drop seems so out of place. What is even supposed to be happening? Also, the mountain is still pretty clearly a mountain in places. Other parts of it have large trees meant to reverse the forced perspective (I guess) to make the mountain/salt dome/whatever seem smaller. I just don't really get what this is supposed to be.The models indicate that will indeed be the case.
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It's literally no less intuitive than it was for Splash Mountain. The drop looks exactly the same.Seeing this concept art again, I just can't get over how the drop seems so out of place. What is even supposed to be happening? Also, the mountain is still pretty clearly a mountain in places. Other parts of it have large trees meant to reverse the forced perspective (I guess) to make the mountain/salt dome/whatever seem smaller. I just don't really get what this is supposed to be.
It's literally no less intuitive than it was for Splash Mountain. The drop looks exactly the same.
In principle, yes, but show me one real mountain that's ever had a waterfall configured like the one in Splash. There wasn't even a waterfall on Chickapin Hill in the Song of the South movie - it's always been a feature devised out of creative license.Water flows down mountains and foothills and through broken trees creating damns. Not so much down Salt Mounds.
That's it. You could stop right there .In principle, yes, but show me one real mountain that's ever had a waterfall configured like the one in Splash. There wasn't even a waterfall on Chickapin Hill in the Song of the South movie - it's always been a feature devised out of creative license.
People are ascribing to TBA issues that have always been present in Splash, and it's petty at best.
That's it.
Moving the argument. We never said realistic. Intuitive was used by you. It is fair to say that both are log flumey. But one intuitively made sense.
You saying things are petty is just tripe.
Exactly the same thing that was happening before . . . a waterfall flowing out of a mound of earth. As if it's so much more wildly impossible to imagine this kind of waterfall on a salt dome as it is to imagine it on Chickapin hill. It's no more out of place than before because the physical geography of the mountain/dome is remaining fully identical, save for the tree stump and a new paint scheme.Seeing this concept art again, I just can't get over how the drop seems so out of place. What is even supposed to be happening?
This seems like double speak - the building is still "clearly a mountain", but suddenly the exact same waterfall on the exact same edifice "seems so out of place"? It's a Salt Dome . . . with a Waterfall. A stylized one, just as it was when it was a (Ckickapin) Hill with a Waterfall.Also, the mountain is still pretty clearly a mountain in places. Other parts of it have large trees meant to reverse the forced perspective (I guess) to make the mountain/salt dome/whatever seem smaller. I just don't really get what this is supposed to be.
To quote Mark Twain in The American Adventure, "Easy now." In Splash Mountain, the drop down the waterfall was a stand-in for Brer Fox throwing us into the Briar Patch. Absent them actually flinging us through the air, a waterfall is the most appropriate way to represent this. So in TBA, they're either having the drop stand in for something else, or it will literally be a waterfall we're going down.Read again and closely if you're gonna get this heated - I was the one who introduced the word "intuitive", what they said was that "the drop seems so out of place. What is even supposed to be happening?". That point is ridiculous - It's obvious what's happening because it's the same thing that has always been happening.
You really think it's valid to say "This made perfect sense when it was an imaginary hill, but now that it's an imaginary salt dome I can't even tell what's supposed to be happening"? Come on.
Their point was not about intuitiveness, mine was - as someone who was willing to concede that waterfalls are less likely on Salt Domes than on mountains and hills (until a few minutes ago when I learned better) it seemed like a decent middle ground to start on. But now that you're trying to throw it in my face and it turns out not even to be geographically true, I'm not putting up with it.
Tiana's Bayou Adventure is just as make-believe as Splash Mountain was. Silly is a nice word for what you're being.
My point was not about geography. See above.There are waterfalls in bayou areas. Bayous exist around main waterways (like uhhhhhh the Mississippi River)
I don't seem to remember a waterfall coming out of Brer Fox's stump in Song of the South, or the briar patch being in water. So I think it makes more sense around the salt mine and bayou than the original Splash Mountain.
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