Yikes. That's definitely not great to see."Another area recently rethemed toward 1970s Tomorrowland, just with paint. " By bioreconstruct on twitter
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tirian
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Yeah, at least most reactions on this site — not all, but most — are from people who frequently visit the parks and know their history. Twitter is a scary place.Steph15251
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I think both GE and Pandora have great design so I do not think it is all bad.
trainplane3
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So in Blog Mickey's Astro Oribter video, it seems the "basic" metal fins are all gone from the TTA. The only ones left are the big ones that light up at night.
I'm talking about these fins:
Before:
Right at this moment (you need to look in the background and yes the angle is impossible to match on Google Maps):
I'm talking about these fins:
Before:
Right at this moment (you need to look in the background and yes the angle is impossible to match on Google Maps):
So in Blog Mickey's Astro Oribter video, it seems the "basic" metal fins are all gone from the TTA. The only ones left are the big ones that light up at night.
I'm talking about these fins:
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Before:
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Right at this moment (you need to look in the background and yes the angle is impossible to match on Google Maps):
Yes, only the big fins are left. Blog Mickey pointed this out a few days ago:
https://blogmickey.com/2019/09/even...-stripped-from-tomorrowland-at-magic-kingdom/
trainplane3
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Ah. Oops. I read that too and somehow overlooked that. Oh well.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Donaldfan1934
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So in Blog Mickey's Astro Oribter video, it seems the "basic" metal fins are all gone from the TTA. The only ones left are the big ones that light up at night.
I'm talking about these fins:
View attachment 412777
Before:
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Right at this moment (you need to look in the background and yes the angle is impossible to match on Google Maps):
Well, looks like my theory was wrong. It’s great to see it back open, but they seriously need to update the aesthethics before it ends up sticking out like a sore thumb.
WDWtraveler
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Photo update as of Saturday, September 21, 2019. Not sure this has been posted. All new orange chairs and white tables have appeared at Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant.
timjeddwid
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Oh this looks like a potentially big clue as to where they’re taking things aesthetically. Probably taking it away from gray/blue/purple and towards white and orange. Let’s see if some orange/red goes up along with the white.
Ah, tomato soup red. All we need now is avacado green and yellow mustard for the 60s/70s trifecta of modern decor.
brihow
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I'd love for you to be right, but Tron uses blue as an accent color, and the 'purple instagram wall' was introduced as part of the recent repainting in tomorrowland. From everything I've seen they don't have a strict color palette.
_caleb
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I like it. To me, the new color scheme seems more 1960s-inspired than 1970s, a modern nod to DL’s Tomorrowland in the 60s- lots of white with pops of bright color. It’s retro-future, to be sure.
Donaldfan1934
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I get where you’re coming from. For the past five years or so of repainting, most of it has come off as either randomized color testing or a cheap quick fixes to disguise fixtures of the 1994 aesthetic they aren’t quite ready to remove just yet. However, now that things like the new entrance sign and reversion of the Peoplemover fins to their original state have come into fruition, I think the bigger picture of what’s being done here is becoming much more clear.
The direction Imagineers want to take Tomorrowland seems to be a combination of the original 1970’s aesthetic and the 2016 SDL aesthetic and that can be seen in the usage of the variety of color you mentioned. For example, not only was orange used predominantly in the original 1970’s aesthetic, but also SDL’s as well.
SDL’s Tomorrowland‘s nighttime lighting package is also a mix of oranges, blues and purples.
So, although a lot of the repainting has made little sense up until recently, I for one am optimistic that we’ll end up with a great, big beautiful new Tomorrowland sometime in the next couple of years.
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Flynnwriter
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Is this for real? Paint Tomorrowland white? That’s insane. Is it from the talented team who brought us Guardians of the Galaxy tower at DCA?
Flynnwriter
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Shanghai is beautiful. But the architecture and plan is nothing like WDW Tomorrowland. Having just been there, it’s the play of sweeping ramps and multiple levels that delivers big time. Maybe they could focus on improving the rides in this land that are in desperate need of an update.
Flynnwriter
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Disney just released the designers in charge of re-imagining Tomorrowland:
