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In contrast to how the non-hotel parts of the land are coming along, the horridness of that hotel design/execution is (almost) beyond words.
As every construction photo/video update has been confirming, the hotel is completely inept in terms of its application & understanding of historic Architecture (required when creating a backdrop to a Fairytale setting), top-tier placemaking & production design. It looks like something you'd find at Legoland Shenzen; something created based on a random hotel-builder's vague memory of playing with a Barbie Palace set as a kid grafted onto an average modern-excrement-hotel-style building. I wouldn't be surprised if it's by the same embarrassments-to-the-profession that brought us The Riviera (or someone related to Chiger). But instead of being out-of-sight, out-of-mind, this thing will form an unignorable backdrop to an entire land in the best themed park in the world, forever marring this great achievement.
The hotel's failure to acknowledge/represent any historic precedent for a "Fairy Tale" theme, i.e., 18-19th century European styles, in the faithful way that MiraCosta does is an observable, objective fact. Some can like what they see, but they can't deny that fact. It isn't even faithful to stylized, animated hybrid styles you'd find in films like Tangled & Frozen. And it doesn't even attempt to feign historic materials on its walls or roofs.
Obviously, the mindset and talents that brought the brilliant Mira Costa into existence are long since departed from the OLC and Walt Disney Company, but this tripe is inexcusable and indefensible. It's much worse (for its criticial site) than anything I could have feared or imagined when the project was announced. The hotel concept art was iffy from the outset, but the reality, as we are seeing it is a theme park design nightmare. This is the equivalent of the "Mediterranean" Orlando Four Seasons being built in place of the Mira Costa. How could they get something this big and expensive and important so wrong? Are there no quality gatekeepers left at WDI, OLC or TWDC? Is this on Bob Weis? It angers me that the clueless, tasteless Philistine dunces responsible for this hotel are/will be proud of this massive, uncorrectible turd they've laid.
