As someone who has experienced it several times in-person: my feeling is that it's hit and miss. The highlight of the land is without a doubt the outside portions and the overall visuals of the land. It's actually pretty breathtaking when you first come out of the pipe and see everything.Am I the only one who thinks Super Nintendo World doesn't look good? I see everybody constantly praising it, but I think it looks super cheap and plasticky. It gives grand-scale Toy Story Land for me. And I say this as a big Nintendo fanboi.
The sleeper hit of the land is the Toad restaurant. The food is actually good with a lot of variety in the menu and the interior is very well themed and bigger than it looks on the outside.
LOLyeah nintendoworld looks like universals Avengers Campus....underwhelming for what a great IP it is, and the 1 ride the land has (Im talking about USH) looks like such a dissapointment lol
Update on the construction of the expansion
Right now it's just "spring 2024" but I'm anxiously awaiting the news as well. I'm tentatively thinking of going to Japan next year and I don't want to book anything until I know I'll be there to see Fantasy Springs.Well the hotel still looks like a wedding cake but all things considered this is my most anticipated theme park build right now.
Is there any word on when this thing opens next year?
Well the hotel still looks like a wedding cake
It is the worst example of Deluxe-level hotel architecture Disney or Universal has ever built
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IMO, only a complete razing and the construction of a totally new design (bring Wing Chao & Ahmad Jafari out of retirement), one worthy of the DisneySea standard, could perk this disaster up.
It is the worst example of Deluxe-level hotel architecture Disney or Universal has ever built, and because it is integral to the new land (which looks the opposite of this hotel in quality) it means Fantasy Springs Hotel maybe the biggest face-plant in the history of WDI/Disney, certainly since WDSP opened. And there is no fixing it.
MiraCosta (easily one of the most beautiful and best-themed hotels on the planet) on the opposite side reminds everyone of the stark difference in the capabilities & qualities of the leadership & designers behind these two polar opposite hotels.
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The problem isn’t that there’s not more stuff glued onto the box.I wouldn't say a complete razing and reconstruction is necessary. At least the current building is an adaptive shape, and with its light palette color and nominal decorative structure, it is literally a 'blank canvas'. Which means in the future it can be rethemed into totally different design through repainting and adding new ornamental exterior without internal structural changes. Those swirly things look like they can be easily removed.
So maybe this is just Disney's new way forward for all hotels.
Explorer’s lodge is fantastic. To me, the Grand Californian stands out as the worst lodge by farWith how Disney operates these days it wouldn't surprise me if these Deluxe boxes somehow cost more than all the Lodges (Wilderness, Animal Kingdom, Grand Californian) did, even when adjusting for inflation.
I guess the last nice looking Deluxe hotel was HKDL's Explorer's Lodge, which owes a lot to its predecessors.
I don't think this is the case, the scaffolding has come down already this happens as areas wrap up they are not coming back months later to build huge scaffolding all over the façade to paint it with trompe-l'oeil the cost of that alone would make no sense. If there was a plan for something like that it would have happened as they finished each area.If you not stayed in MiraCosta and had the time to sit and stare at it for a few hours, you'll not realise that 90% of the effect is paint. You take away the trompe-l'œil and bag-render and the whole thing is a huge flat concrete wall with hundreds of identical windows in it. Heck even the majority of shutters are painted on.
I'm sure this whole thing will perk up dramatically in the last few months before opening.
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