News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

ChrisM

ChrisM

Well-Known Member
James Alucobond said:
If you're telling me to look left, I'm stating my desire to not have to avert my gaze. That it doesn't bother you is great, but you can't pretend that this case isn't fundamentally different. Whether or not Disney chose to accept that it would be unattractive is small comfort.
Click to expand...

I find it impossible to be upset over "ruining" the BLT/Contemporary view - because it has always sucked.

It's a parking lot view with the back of a theme park waaaaay behind it. Most disappointing "theme park" view imaginable.
 
J

J4546

Well-Known Member

Attachments

  • tronn.jpg
    tronn.jpg
    193.4 KB · Views: 153
MrPromey

MrPromey

Well-Known Member
For in-park views, they could easily put something else in the foreground to block views.

The closer you get to the building itself, the larger whatever you want to use has to be to hide it.

There are simple ways to hide views. Like on the second level queue for smugglers run when you can see out the windows, they have "shades" that tilt down preventing you from being able to see out beyond the land but it's done in a way that makes it not apparent that's what they're doing.

In Fantasyland, a bilboard in-theme for the circus area would probably work for one of the worst spots. Otherwise, some sort of basic enclosure or covered area would mostly hide it and that's all you really need.

As others have pointed out, it doesn't have to be totally invisible as long as the area can be designed in a way to draw attention away from it or mostly cover the view or, ideally, do both.

When it's only certain limited spots with viewing angle problems, it's not that hard to get around.

The view from the contemporary would have taken real money to consider, though, even if it was just extending the canopy back a little so it appeared to organically end as a rounded shape somewhere over the structure rather than abruptly where the structure itself, begins.
 
Last edited:
Marc Davis Fan

Marc Davis Fan

Well-Known Member
I posted about the underutilization of "fake trees" in earlier discussions about the Cosmic Rewind show building. The best-quality of the "fake tree" cell towers are nearly indistinguishable from real pine trees. There are very realistic fake pines on top of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train "mountain" already. Ditto for a "tree" in Disneyland's Frontierland, which blends in with the real ones around it.

They should absolutely be using top-quality fake trees in strategic locations around the property, from these spots between Tron and Fantasyland, to locations in EPCOT, to areas that would block roadway views of SWGE rockwork supports, etc.
 
Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

Well-Known Member
MrPromey said:
For in-park views, they could easily put something else in the foreground to block views.

The closer you get to the building itself, the larger whatever you want to use has to be to hide it.

There are simple ways to hid views. Like on the second level queue for smugglers run when you can see out the windows, they have "shades" that tilt down preventing you from being able to see out beyond the land but it's done in a way that makes it not apparent that's what they're doing.

In Fantasyland, a bilboard in-theme for the circus area would probably work for one of the worst spots. Otherwise, some sort of basic enclosure or covered area would mostly hide it and that's all you really need.

As others have pointed out, it doesn't have to be totally invisible as long as the area can be designed in a way to draw attention away from it or mostly cover the view or, ideally, do both.

When it's only certain limited spots with viewing angle problems, it's not that hard to get around.

The view from the contemporary would have taken real money to consider, though, even if it was just extending the canopy back a little so it appeared to organically end as a rounded shape somewhere over the structure rather than abruptly where the structure itself, begins.
Click to expand...
Yes, I think particularly in the area close to the Barnstormer where the view seems worse, they have to put something pretty close to queue/railway tracks or at least on the FL side of the toilet building for it to hide the Tron building. Hard to imagine anything they could put on the other side of that pond that would make much of a difference.

As for the Contemporary view, it would have been nice for them to do what you suggest to at least make the canopy look like it organically curved around the building and ended somewhere rather than just being ornament stuck on the front of the box. I feel like that is not an unreasonable accommodation for all those people in the theme park-view rooms for which they're charging a fortune. In general, though, it seems like they just took what they had built in Shanghai and set it down with as few modifications as they could manage rather than thinking through how it would fit into the space. The landscape designers seem to be doing the heavy lifting in that respect.

Looking at the state of Space Mountain, I am also curious to see how mouldy they're going to allow that canopy to become over the coming years.
 
J

J4546

Well-Known Member
yeah i could see a giant billboard being put up with a circus theme. That would work pretty well. Pus from what I remember there isnt an "entrance" to story book circus on that side like the other. It just goes form a pathway to now trainstation/barnstormer/SBC area. The other side has big entrance signage so maybe they will put something like that on the other side now.
 
Last edited:

Register on WDWMAGIC. This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.

Back
Top Bottom