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Transformative Multi-Year Expansion Announced for WDS Paris
- Thread starter Jwhee
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Not true at all. Put in a backstory where it makes sense to have one, and it doesn't need a coffee table book to hold it all.
denyuntilcaught
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It's just logical that something as simple as a kiosk does not need a backstory. Just fit the theme of the land.If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too
Disney should modify the Snow White movie before it releases and make all dwarves be Grumpy
cjkeating
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I think internally many small projects have had a 'story' it's just they were never publicly shared. I think a lot of the backlash against 'story' comes from when WDI uses it to shoehorn IP into something it was designed for. Why is Tiana in a mountain? Why is Frozen in Norway? Why are Guardians in Epcot? Whereas I think for a non-IP project it helps the people working on it understand the time/setting/'history' of what they are designing.
Sir_Cliff
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I think it's more that they seem to have lost sight of why backstory is important for theming. I don't find this especially egregious, but the general trend toward writing elaborate narratives for shops and stalls and then being far less careful about cohesive and coherent theming is more annoying. One of the worse examples was Main Street Confectionary at Magic Kingdom with its elaborate story supported by graphics that completely clash with the time period in which the shop is supposed to exist.If they don't put a theme and backstory, bad
If they put a theme and a backstory, bad too
Disney should modify the Snow White movie before it releases and make all dwarves be Grumpy
Who knows what the execution of this stall will be like. However, it's hard not to roll your eyes just a little when such attention is being paid to the backstory of a stall at the same time the whole park is becoming the nebulous "Disney Adventure World" with remnants of the old studio theme in parts and then areas of gardens and art nouveaux structures tying together new single-IP lands just because the Imagineers/executives seem to think they would look nice.