Turns out it’s a rather good litmus test. That poster completely doesn’t understand at all what theming is.
You can pull it from the plaque for starters.
-A vista of wonderous ideas
-A step into the future, with predictions of constructive things to come.
Themes that come to mind like:
-A world in motion
-Connectivity
-Progress
-Quite literally future transit solutions from the old Disneyland Tomorrowland.
From the 2025 lens: Retrofuturism.
Slapping some animatronic AA Wall E figures around the ride and slathering it in rock work would not improve the theming for Tomorrowland. It would be decoration and speak to themes like love and eco-futurism and random rock decoration. Which are not themes of original Tomorrowland.
The theme of the Yoshi ride is essentially Yoshi's Island with the baby Mario and other characters.
It's a "dark ride" that is
largely outdoors and makes double-duty of the scenery of the entire Mario Land as a backdrop for major parts of it but even outdoors, has ride specific elements.
It's uncovered because if they covered it, it would look like nothing from the games.
It's not all that deep but neither are most Fantasy Land rides... and neither are the stories of Yoshi's Island games.
This likely works better in Cali and Japan where the heat is not sweltering 8-10 months out of the year but I have no idea how they could have done this otherwise unless they'd better positioned it and built up the high points - hills, Whomps, etc. to provide shade both east and west with the only time most of it got direct sunlight was during the noonish hours... That would have been an interesting and creative way to deal with that, actually, but they'd have had to rethink the layout of the land from the previous two builds to accommodate which is, I guess, expecting too much from them.
I totally agree it's brutal in the afternoon hours, in particular, though.
I think the comparison with People Mover, other than that they both are largely outdoors, and are kinetic additions to their lands is kind of silly.
I
love People Mover (I'm not slighting it in the least) but it's "theme" is basically to act as a
travelog for the land and that's not the point of Yoshi at all.
Seriously, I love People Mover. I wish they'd give it more love for the indoor scenes and I'm annoyed to no end with the last referb of Space Mountain that, among other things, turned that part of People Mover into a ride through total darkness but if a condition of it never being removed was that they would never change a single thing about it, I'd take that deal in a heartbeat!
