I think the problem with the backstory is a food co-op just isn’t a place that sounds fun to visit. I’d love to visit Tiana’s Place, but a grocery store? That’s a chore, not a treat.
It’s a shame you’re rooting for it to fail.
Well...right, because so many successful restaurants in 1920 New Orleans created a food co-op and then went into commercial food production...
While I really hate what they are doing with the source material, Failure is really not possible...It was a great flume ride...it will continue to be just that... Whether people will love the overlay or not, they will still line up for a great water ride....
Again, I'm not saying you can't dislike the concept. I'm not super enamored with it either. Just saying the comparisons you're making are disingenuous. Tiana is an established entrepreneur who could reasonably branch out into other businesses. Most other Disney princesses, by contrast, either have a profession by birthright as royalty or become princesses as a means of escaping an undesirable existence (servitude for Cinderella, a droll life amongst backward provincials for Belle, etc.). None of the attractions you're listing are realistically at risk of similar treatment.
A possibility but it would not blend well with the story since Morton Salt Co. is based out of Chicago.
But her dream was to have a restaurant...it is not a natural conclusion that she would then create a food co-op and employee owned commercial food manufacturing company... If she was always thinking of other businesses to create in the original film, then it might feel a little more authentic to her character... It is like saying Snow White enjoyed taking care of the 7 Dwarfs, so therefore when she had money and a prince, she would naturally open a home for indigent miners... or Rapunzel lived to paint, so therefore she would, with her big hair, become the mediaeval Bob Ross and create a line of art supplies and classes for the people in her town.... I think the storyline was a crazy leap in the plot that does not sound like a natural conclusion for the character at all...especially in 1920s New Orleans....
If only Disney ever addressed what happens when you finally accomplish your dream...
That photo was of a salt processing facility in Utah…and they have a facility and MINE in Weeks Island, LA
I never said it was the natural conclusion. I said it was at least a semi-realistic possibility, unlike the majority of the ridiculous out-of-character anachronistic things you keep listing for some unknown reason.
So because her father told her "good food brings people together" and she wants to open a restaurant, she is therefore a community builder? ...Not understanding how her dream of restaurant ownership makes her a community leader who then wants to create an employee owned manufacturing company Has nothing to do with paying attention... The restaurant and bringing people together through food was her dream... Why is that not enough? and does this make a statement that the other Disney princesses are all slackers or self-absorbed because they did not become community activists and start corporations? lol
We can all agree on every point you made....And I of course hope for the ride to be amazing and the storyline to be engaging....I wonder if people would be arguing the canon of a cartoon if there was not this internet thingy...
The decision (as much as I may disagree with it) has been made, and Disney can make up any story they want. I just hope the re-themed ride is as good as Splash (when it was all working and looking good). The ride itself will always be a fun ride, even if we prefer a different story.
But here's the rub - the splash part is the same, but that's mere seconds of a 10 minute+ ride after a 30+ minute wait in standby. If the overwhelming majority of the ride underwhelms, or worse yet is preachy to the point of not being fun, that could have an actual impact on the ride's popularity.I wonder if people would be arguing the canon of a cartoon if there was not this internet thingy...
The decision (as much as I may disagree with it) has been made, and Disney can make up any story they want. I just hope the re-themed ride is as good as Splash (when it was all working and looking good). The ride itself will always be a fun ride, even if we prefer a different story.
