Let me say this graphic is awful and pre-mature. The planters are retro and uninspired. The flower arrangement is pedantic. It looks like congestion waiting to happen. The People Mover tracks could be removed next year. Astro Orbitor clashes with the new sculptures on the planters. I wish they waited on concept art until they really announce something.
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Tomorrowland new entrance
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Mac Tonight
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mickEblu
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We won’t need to be but we we ll still enjoy beautiful things like flowers and trees so I don’t see why our buildings/ architecture wouldn’t follow suit.
RobWDW1971
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Nobody does massive amounts of rockwork like Disney! Forget the actual inhabitants of Batuu, more rocks! Higher! Higher!!!!
Disney Irish
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Well if we no longer occupy our physical forms why would we even need buildings or architecture? I mean it won't happen in our lifetimes but my belief is we'll end up uploading our consciousness into advanced quantum computers. This is one way that will allow us to be a truly multiplanetary species beyond our solar system. Upload it into the quantum computer, send it across the cosmos, and then download it into a 3d printed copy of ourselves at our destination. This will allow our species to go light years beyond anything we've imagined today, even to the edge of the known universe and beyond.
mickEblu
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well it’s not going to happen over night. I would imagine that as we are getting to that point our surroundings would reflect how we feel. And it wouldnt be cold and sterile.
Wow this is some next level stuff.
Disney Irish
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Yep, like I said not in our lifetimes and likely not even in our children's lifetime. But a couple generation down the road I think it'll happen. Experiments have shown its possible, so its a matter of understanding the human brain a lot better than we do now. And yes I agree our world will change around us as we move from being a single planet species into a multi-planet species and beyond.
But yeah next level stuff. This is what TL should really be about.
mickEblu
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Content wise I don’t see why the can’t do an attraction about it. Still want the land to not look sterile and inspire optimism. Id say even if we believe the future is nothing but death and destruction they probably shouldn’t build a land reflecting that. Lol
SuddenStorm
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Disney's awful concept art aside- I really like the potential look of those planters. If they give the rest of the land a look that's a throwback to '67 like those planters are, I'll be very very happy.
Weird to use tomorrowland '98 as the backdrop for it though.
Over the last few days, lights have been added to the new planters as well as handrails. I'll take photos next time I'm in the park... Probably Sunday.
Here's a photo I took last night, I still think even with the grass it's way better then with the rocks.... Though the contrast in lighting between the Astro Orbitor and the rest of the land isn't great.
I struck up a conversation with someone who looked like a manager I saw in the park the other night. I asked about the curb lowering and the planter alterations and their impact on crowd flow. He talked about how they can navigate crowds in ways they couldn't in the past... So they're experimenting with different ways of navigating people around the hub during peak times. The lowered curbs have been a huge benefit for accessibility.
Weird to use tomorrowland '98 as the backdrop for it though.
Over the last few days, lights have been added to the new planters as well as handrails. I'll take photos next time I'm in the park... Probably Sunday.
Here's a photo I took last night, I still think even with the grass it's way better then with the rocks.... Though the contrast in lighting between the Astro Orbitor and the rest of the land isn't great.
I struck up a conversation with someone who looked like a manager I saw in the park the other night. I asked about the curb lowering and the planter alterations and their impact on crowd flow. He talked about how they can navigate crowds in ways they couldn't in the past... So they're experimenting with different ways of navigating people around the hub during peak times. The lowered curbs have been a huge benefit for accessibility.
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Disney Irish
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Yep, call it Horizons 2.0: Tomorrow and Beyond.
But yeah if we're talking just about the land then yes sterile and cold is not the way to go.
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Well...it's signaling a change in direction due to the contrast with Dumbos Space Spinner:
New Concept Art Released for Reimagined Tomorrowland Entrance at Disneyland
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This is just... well. I have no words, only questions.
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Kram Sacul
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Disney is smart. Instead of creating concept art that is mind blowing they’re giving it to an intern and intentionally making it look bad. It’s going to be stunning in person.
mickEblu
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I think that they ll be too scared to commit and go all the way so TL will still be a Hodge podge with retro elements in its aesthetics and rides like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. The concept art kind of tells me they re not going full demo and retro is a cost effective and low risk/ high reward way to refurb those old buildings. I think we end up seeing a Retro light TL in it’s aesthetics but lacking most of the kinetic energy that really made it charming except for some iteration of a Tron Coaster. As for the weenie it’s hard for me to see them going back to the rockets so I’m kind of at a loss for what they do there in a Retro light TL. Unless they plan on keeping the Orbitor where it is and just giving it a new paint job - which would be awful.
DrAlice
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This picture made me realize what bugs me the most about the current and proposed design for this site. It is the lack of an entrance arch/sign. As it stands, it looks like the Astro Orbitor is sitting on Main Street. There's no clear division into Tomorrowland or even a sign until you get to the PeopleMover track, which is BEHIND the Orbitor.
Also, while I was harsh (maybe overly harsh) in criticizing the new lawn areas in a previous post, I still stand by part of what I said before. The concept art they just published showed that the bulk of those lawn areas are going to be flowers. I still don't understand why this wasn't already done. Plants (especially annual flowers in bulk) are not so expensive that they couldn't put them in now, even if they would have to be removed later to accomodate construction of the tall, retro planting areas. It would look so much better than just grass. As I said before, this just feels like such a cheap-o kind of decision to me. This is DISNEY. Landscape it (even temporarily) like DISNEY, not Six Flags. But, alas, what do I know? *sigh*
George Lucas on a Bench
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Why delay the work? Is it because the parks are now busy for the holidays and they don't want to have walls up and choke that area again? Should've done it in summer when the parks were dead.
DrAlice
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Unless they are going for that blue and gold University of California look.
As a UC grad, that's all I see. haha