I think you'd have a hard time finding a poster here who's actually said "I'd rather have no ride at all than have them build TRON because the sightlines are bad".
I think most of us who are annoyed with how they're handling the sightlines mostly just wish they'd do a better job handling the sightlines.
The ride isn't done, but, like Guardians of the Galaxy, the building is up and large enough that it's not going away short of a cloaking device the likes of which we've never seen. The building is getting some paneling - okay, so now it's a big box with some paneling. If you're gonna be visible from all over (like Space Mountain) at least give us a beautiful building that's an asset if not a liability (like Space Mountain).
I don't understand why we have to wait for ALL the panels to be up to say something when we know what all the panels are going to look like. We get it, and the criticism is valid. Come on. There's no secret applique forthcoming that will suddenly hide this building.
It's beyond me why after 60 years in the business Disney suddenly feels like they can build an IKEA warehouse and decorate it on one side and call it done, like they did with TRON in Shanghai, are doing with Guardians in Epcot, and here again with TRON in MK. The level of re-landscaping they would have to do outside of Storybook Circus to hide TRON is tremendous and we've been given no indication they're going to try to do it - and the Guardians building suggests the standards have dropped enough that they don't feel this is an issue. So why wait to say something? All that does is let them get away with it.
"There are angles where they did not theme the buildings really" - to the extent that they aren't theming TRON? There's nothing else like this anywhere in the MK, and the race isn't close. There's room for imperfection - you don't have to theme the
entire building if the eye is guided skillfully away from the spaces that are lacking, as is the case with Pooh, Pan, and Small World, which all have interesting facades that cover a vast majority of their surfaces.
The same cannot be said of TRON - as seen below, MOST of the building is unthemed AND uncovered, with the Canopy positioned strategically to hide this fact. If that's your design then you must either place the building equally as strategically in its new implementation or account for the fact that you can't. In building TRON at MK Disney is doing neither.
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I say this all as someone who's still excited to ride. I've been dying to take a trip on a Light Cycle for years. I'm excited for MK to get a new E Ticket Attraction. But let's not pretend that the lack of theming on this building isn't a new low for sightlines at the Magic Kingdom - it is.
