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Aramar

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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 😜
 
denyuntilcaught

denyuntilcaught

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Aramar said:
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 😜
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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.
 
cjkeating

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

Sir_Cliff

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Aramar said:
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 😜
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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.

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.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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Notice the boundary behind Woody has no entry to a meet and greet area. Any chance that the meet and greet version of the concept art shown at D23 was an earlier version and the meet and greet section was actually cancelled?
 
nickys

nickys

Premium Member
I had to laugh at the people in the renderings!

We have a man with someone else who apparently has no face under a hood - maybe she’s a Dementor from Harry Potter.

And the other pictures just have white figure shaped spaces where they decided not to bother drawing them!

However I’m glad to see extra details being added.
 
Bernswss

Bernswss

Member
How the inside of Frozen is currently, according to Magicfocus (insider from Le Royaume des Passionnés that first broke the news about Lion King replacing Star Wars)
  • The inside rockwork is complete
  • Medias are being installed (projections, screens...)
  • A large amount of the animatronics are in place
  • Different types of programming are taking place
  • Finishing work on the scenes has begun
  • Boats are scheduled to be put into circulation in April
  • Imagineering should recover the construction site at the beginning of the summer, followed by tests and adjustments
And for the big one:
  • Soft openings expected at the end of the year
 
Gusey

Gusey

Well-Known Member
Bernswss said:
How the inside of Frozen is currently, according to Magicfocus (insider from Le Royaume des Passionnés that first broke the news about Lion King replacing Star Wars)
  • The inside rockwork is complete
  • Medias are being installed (projections, screens...)
  • A large amount of the animatronics are in place
  • Different types of programming are taking place
  • Finishing work on the scenes has begun
  • Boats are scheduled to be put into circulation in April
  • Imagineering should recover the construction site at the beginning of the summer, followed by tests and adjustments
And for the big one:
  • Soft openings expected at the end of the year
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With the pace we've seen recently, I can see them doing soft openings in the Winter, before the grand opening in Spring 2026
 
Bernswss

Bernswss

Member
Gusey said:
With the pace we've seen recently, I can see them doing soft openings in the Winter, before the grand opening in Spring 2026
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Yes. I could see them officially open it even earlier than Spring, to be honest. March could be nice seeing the park opened on the 16th and this is basically a whole remake of the park, opening Adventure World (still hurts...) on the same date would be poetic.
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

Well-Known Member
Soft opening for the holiday season crowds, briefly closing, and then officially opening in March sounds doable.

I think they said 2026 to give them plenty of room to work with the opening, and because they knew this was not going to be ready for the busy summer season of 2025.
 

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