News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[lazyboy97o]

All they're doing is pouring cement! Why can't they be done by the end of tomorrow?!?!

Cement is an ingredient in things like concrete. Pouring cement would just result in grey powder all over the place.

 

[JoeCamel]

Cement is an ingredient in things like concrete. Pouring cement would just result in grey powder all over the place.

And that is a concrete fact!

 

[Disstevefan1]

I don’t think we were the target audience for the post. Why would they target people with cold, brittle, and/or jaded hearts?

At the pace they are building it, a 5-year-old today won't be their target audience by the time they are finished.

 

[Rich Brownn]

Yeah, at least they used to try to manage it. Then they sort of only pretended to. Now they don’t even do that (staring at the Harmonious barges).

My understanding is Eisner picked the artichect

 

[J4546]

It’s hard to find pictures that list exactly where they’re taken from, but this looks fairly accurate to me based on what I saw when I was last there. Again, I don’t think it was blue when I last visited, but if anything, I feel like that makes it worse.
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I bet that will look kinda cool at night from the hotel seeing the pulsing bands of color flow through the canopy, but during the day i get that the giant box makes some people unhappy.

Overall Im really on board with this addition to the park though, because 1 - I love TRON the IP, the og movie is classic Disney imo and seeing that IP get a massive park attraction esp taking place on lightcycles is just a dream from my childhood come true. 2 - its an actual addition adding a new area to the park where there was just a path. 3 - Canopy looks great imo and gives a new futurist aesthetic that will hopefully carry to the rest of the land(starting with speedway hopefully) and the way they are using trees and landscaping with the canopy is turning out pretty beautiful imo but its still not done. and 4 - while its not an exclusive one off ride, the only other one is in Shanghai and I will probably not ever go to that park in my lifetime. So its an attraction I otherwise wouldnt get to experience

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

It’s hard to find pictures that list exactly where they’re taken from, but this looks fairly accurate to me based on what I saw when I was last there. Again, I don’t think it was blue when I last visited, but if anything, I feel like that makes it worse.
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My first reaction when seeing this was “but what if you are looking over the whole park rather than zooming in on that area?”

Not much better.

 

[corran horn]

It’s hard to find pictures that list exactly where they’re taken from, but this looks fairly accurate to me based on what I saw when I was last there. Again, I don’t think it was blue when I last visited, but if anything, I feel like that makes it worse.
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That building in the foreground has only been there about 50 years probably, and I can hear it thinking to itself, "What about me! I want to be considered destructive too!".

 

[James Alucobond]

That building in the foreground has only been there about 50 years probably, and I can hear it thinking to itself, "What about me! I want to be considered destructive too!".

It's not great, but it sits below the treeline, looks like a functioning building with windows, and doesn't rival Space Mountain in terms of actual size. TRON is just a monumental undisguised warehouse box. As with Cosmic Rewind, I would simply appreciate any effort at all to make the structure look like something other than a huge, featureless show building. It doesn't have to be perfect, but if it's going to be in plain view, at least have it look like the slightest bit of thought went into it.

 

[corran horn]

It's certainly below the tree line *now*.

 

[James Alucobond]

And TRON will never ever be below the treeline. I'm honestly just not sure how this is a point of contention. There are certainly other show buildings and maintenance structures that you can see if you look; that doesn't negate the fact that TRON is exponentially larger and plainly visible from many locations where views are offered at a premium, at a height and scale that rivals or exceeds the defining structures of the park like Space Mountain and Cinderella's castle.

 

[corran horn]

And TRON will never ever be below the treeline. I'm honestly just not sure how this is a point of contention. There are certainly other show buildings and maintenance structures that you can see if you look; that doesn't negate the fact that TRON is exponentially larger and plainly visible from many locations where views are offered at a premium, at a height and scale that rivals or exceeds the defining structures of the park like Space Mountain and Cinderella's castle.

I think I and Disney would simply say, turn your head slightly to the left. Actually look at the park instead of the edge case that you dislike.

If you can see any backstage at all that shatters the magic I guess I just wonder what the point of being bothered by it is. You could always see it from California Grill as well. Even in the 70s.

BLT is DVC. More than any other people staying there are doing so purposefully and with a stake. I'm sure they thought about such things. They consider that outside the environs of the park, for whatever their reasoning.

Given the space they had available and the cost of either putting the entire building underground or extending the curtain over the entire structure (which would then truly rival Space Mountain, something they probably didn't want to do) they did what they did.

 

[James Alucobond]

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.

 

[JoeCamel]

I think I and Disney would simply say, turn your head slightly to the left. Actually look at the park instead of the edge case that you dislike.

If you can see any backstage at all that shatters the magic I guess I just wonder what the point of being bothered by it is. You could always see it from California Grill as well. Even in the 70s.

BLT is DVC. More than any other people staying there are doing so purposefully and with a stake. I'm sure they thought about such things. They consider that outside the environs of the park, for whatever their reasoning.

Given the space they had available and the cost of either putting the entire building underground or extending the curtain over the entire structure (which would then truly rival Space Mountain, something they probably didn't want to do) they did what they did.

I think your last paragraph is my beef with this box. The land, the park is all circles this angular intrusion is not in keeping although it could have been with very little effort but greater expense.
If they had put some curves or something besides paint to hide the box it might be OK. Still in the wrong place but not as egregious an error as it presents today.
In defense of the "you can always see backstage if you look for it" crowd it could have been much better. They did what they did and it is just one more thing that diminishes my appreciation for "Disney Magic™"

 

[lazyboy97o]

In your opinion, has Disney gotten better at this, or have they decided that it matters less?

Your post makes it sound like you’d give them a pass on TRON because they’ve got to do something and, well, nobody’s perfect. Maybe I’m misunderstanding.

I think they’re generally worse of late.

I’m not saying TRON deserves a pass. I’m saying the inability to achieve perfection is not an excuse to not try. TRON is not an example of Disney trying to do their best.

 

[Incomudro]

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.

I don't think the show was ever designed to be hidden from that height.

 

[danlb_2000]

Cement is an ingredient in things like concrete. Pouring cement would just result in grey powder all over the place.

Thanks construction terms police.

 

[Ayla]

Tall plants require sizable roots to keep them in place. Think of how often you can see tree toots that have pushed up a sidewalk. You don’t want that happening to the railroad, pipes underground, the road or the retaining wall (which goes back further than you can see). So that limits your space. The steep grades down to the pond also limit space.

Yep, we had 4 large trees taken down yesterday along our driveway because their roots were breaking up our driveway.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Yep, we had 4 large trees taken down yesterday along our driveway because their roots were breaking up our driveway.

But did they also have a flatulence problem?

 

[Ayla]

But did they also have a flatulence problem?

Possibly, I never checked.

 

[J4546]

What if they built a fake tree to block the views like the tarzan treehouse?