Unpopular Disney world opinions

[onemediumspark]

The Jungle Cruise is mediocre (at best), outdated, and redundant, and it takes up a tremendous amount of space. If they wanted to replace something at the Magic Kingdom, it should have been the first to go*. Leave the Disneyland original since it was Walt's attraction, but dump the MK version. They could probably build two attractions, a restaurant, and a shop on that footprint.

Leave Rivers of America and tear up Jungle Cruise.

*actually Tomorrowland Speedway should be first, but they kind of screwed themselves in terms of building anything major in that space when they shoehorned TRON in.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's so-so on Jungle Cruise. I sometimes feel bad for not laughing at the skipper jokes even when I've heard them all before or the delivery isn't great.
I loved the live performer element of Great Movie Ride but I get really tired of it in Jungle Cruise.

 

[UNCgolf]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's so-so on Jungle Cruise. I sometimes feel bad for not laughing at the skipper jokes even when I've heard them all before or the delivery isn't great.
I loved the live performer element of Great Movie Ride but I get really tired of it in Jungle Cruise.

In Great Movie Ride the live performers were actually part of what happens in the attraction; in Jungle Cruise they're just a narrator.

I don't mind the live performers -- I definitely don't think it would be improved with a recorded narration -- I just find the whole attraction pretty bland.

 

[monorail81]

Both water parks should be open at the same time - especially with the check-in day “perk”.

 

[esskay]

Both water parks should be open at the same time - especially with the check-in day “perk”.

I agree...but the check in day "perk" only exists because they cant get enough people to one waterpark, let alone two.

 

[Chef Mickey]

-Country Bear Jamboree deserves the "it's creepy and annoying" allegations that it's a small world gets. I do not like those singing bears one bit, but I can vibe with the children of the world. CBJ gives me Gatlinburg tourist trap vibes but without the sincere Southern campy charm of Gatlinburg.
-In fact, the small world haters are weird for hating so hard on an attraction whose message is "we are all human and should respect each other's cultures."
-Cosmic Rewind makes no sense in Epcot, and I'm tired of people calling it one of the greatest Disney attractions. Yes, I will ride it, but it's meh to me and didn't do anything revolutionary. It just contributed to the IP overload in Epcot.
-Remy's isn't great. I wish it had animatronics or more physical sets or SOMETHING other than the 3D.
-I will never understand Spirit Jerseys or Loungeflys. $70 bucks AT LEAST for a long sleeve tshirt and a tiny backpack?????
-Splash Mountain was not a classic attraction and needed to close, problematic past or not. I never really understood why it opened in the first place, since the film it was based on hadn't been publicly available for 40 years (I know this one will really make some folks mad lol).

The Splash Mountain take is ridiculous. It's like you forgot Disney used to build attractions that were not based on popular and/or current IP. They used to actually build rides based on no IP. Splash Mountain was a de facto "no IP" attraction because one literally didn't need to understand the IP at all for the ride to be great. Most people didn't even know it was and old movie. It was one of the most beloved and popular attractions Disney ever built and America caving to political pressure was mistake. Thankfully, we still have Tokyo.

The others are basically common knowledge probably and 50/50 on CBJ, so not really unpopular there.

Remy is objectively mediocre and lazy because it was old tech simply imported from Paris. Cosmic Rewind belongs at HS.

Most Disney veterans don't get caught up in "spirit jerseys" and "Orange Bird" merchandise because those fads are designed to prey on tourists that don't go very often.

 

[onemediumspark]

Most Disney veterans don't get caught up in "spirit jerseys" and "Orange Bird" merchandise because those fads are designed to prey on tourists that don't go very often.

Orange Bird's been around since 1970, idk if I'd call him a fad

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I have two unpopular opinions regarding the replacement of EPCOT Center originals:

• Food Rocks was kind of hilarious.
• Frozen Ever After, while not perfect, is one of their better recent efforts at creating a film-based dark ride and (in a low voice) Maelstrom wasn't that great. While I get that there are blank spaces, etc., they could do worse than creating more rides that just allow you to drift through the world of the film and spend time with the characters and songs you enjoyed without having to recount the film's story or explain their small business ventures following the film's conclusion.

 

[UNCgolf]

I have two unpopular opinions regarding the replacement of EPCOT Center originals:

• Food Rocks was kind of hilarious.
• Frozen Ever After, while not perfect, is one of their better recent efforts at creating a film-based dark ride and (in a low voice) Maelstrom wasn't that great. While I get that there are blank spaces, etc., they could do worse than creating more rides that just allow you to drift through the world of the film and spend time with the characters and songs you enjoyed without having to recount the film's story or explain their small business ventures following the film's conclusion.

I'd agree that Maelstrom wasn't anything great -- definitely disagree about Frozen Ever After, though. Other than some impressive AAs (minus the awful projected faces) it's a worse attraction than Maelstrom, IMO, and a really bad ride in general.

Actually I agree about the part where they don't have to recount the film's story etc., I just think Frozen Ever After does just about everything badly. I think it's among the worst rides at WDW.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I'd agree that Maelstrom wasn't anything great -- definitely disagree about Frozen Ever After, though. Other than some impressive AAs (minus the awful projected faces) it's a worse attraction than Maelstrom, IMO, and a really bad ride in general.

Actually I agree about the part where they don't have to recount the film's story etc., I just think Frozen Ever After does just about everything badly. I think it's among the worst rides at WDW.

Honestly, I don't quite understand why the attraction gets the hate it does, but that what makes this an unpopular opinion!

I do get liking the approach but not the execution, though, and I must admit that those projected faces are awful. I did recently go on the HKDL version and it makes a big difference to have the proper faces. They really should be piggy backing onto the HKDL and DLP versions being built to create new faces for the Epcot attraction, but I haven't heard so much as a rumour that they are.

Will say the Hong Kong crowd seemed to like the attraction and let out an appropriate "awww" in unison when we turned the corner and Olaf was skating around. They also seemed very disappointed when it ended!

 

[UNCgolf]

Honestly, I don't quite understand why the attraction gets the hate it does, but that what makes this an unpopular opinion!

I do get liking the approach but not the execution, though, and I must admit that those projected faces are awful. I did recently go on the HKDL version and it makes a big difference to have the proper faces. They really should be piggy backing onto the HKDL and DLP versions being built to create new faces for the Epcot attraction, but I haven't heard so much as a rumour that they are.

Will say the Hong Kong crowd seemed to like the attraction and let out an appropriate "awww" in unison when we turned the corner and Olaf was skating around. They also seemed very disappointed when it ended!

Olaf is probably the highlight.

To me, the whole attraction feels like a random assortment of unconnected scenes that kind of re-tell the story of the movie but not entirely. It also feels like most of the scenes are only about 75% complete and then they just stopped and opened it without finishing. It was obviously heavily constrained by having to shoehorn it in to the existing attraction space, so they should probably get some leeway for that, although it doesn't explain the unfinished feeling to the existing scenes. I'm still baffled that they cloned it in Paris and Hong Kong, considering there's no way that's the ride they'd have built if they weren't designing around an existing footprint.

To be fair, I've only been on it once, but when it was over I had basically the same reaction I had to the Little Mermaid ride (i.e., not good at all).

 

[Jrb1979]

Honestly, I don't quite understand why the attraction gets the hate it does, but that what makes this an unpopular opinion!

I do get liking the approach but not the execution, though, and I must admit that those projected faces are awful. I did recently go on the HKDL version and it makes a big difference to have the proper faces. They really should be piggy backing onto the HKDL and DLP versions being built to create new faces for the Epcot attraction, but I haven't heard so much as a rumour that they are.

Will say the Hong Kong crowd seemed to like the attraction and let out an appropriate "awww" in unison when we turned the corner and Olaf was skating around. They also seemed very disappointed when it ended!

I hate it cause it doesn't fit Epcot, neither does Guardians for that matter. I give Remy a pass as it fits France.

My unpopular opinion is IP is overrated. IMO ride design should be priority. I don't hate IP totally just feel a great with weak IP is better than a great IP and a weak attraction.

Frozen Ever After fits that. A great IP but an awfull attractions

 

[wdisney9000]

PizzeRizzo is good.

I think it's just become popular to hate it. Yes, there is a better pizza on property. But for the price and the atmosphere, we always enjoy it.

 

[communicorn96]

The backside of water is nearly indistinguishable from the front side of water. Why make a big deal about it?

 

[UNCgolf]

PizzeRizzo is good.

I think it's just become popular to hate it. Yes, there is a better pizza on property. But for the price and the atmosphere, we always enjoy it.

I definitely wouldn't call it good... but I also don't think it's noticeably worse than other QS pizza on property. It's all about the same.

Disney World isn't exactly flush with high quality pizza. Pizza Ponte is probably the best I've had on property and it's still not anything special.

 

[Agent H]

I definitely wouldn't call it good... but I also don't think it's noticeably worse than other QS pizza on property. It's all about the same.

Disney World isn't exactly flush with high quality pizza. Pizza Ponte is probably the best I've had on property and it's still not anything special.

Call me crazy but I don’t think the Disney world pizza is that bad. It’s not great or anything but it serves its purpose. What bothers me more is how small the portion normally is.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Gran Fiesta starring The Three Caballeros is one of Disney's best rides.

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

Hello everyone this is a place for everyone to post unpopular Disney world opinions I’ll start with mine 1. Galaxys edge and dinoland (minus Dino Rama) are in the top 10 best lands Disney has ever designed 2. Constance is the best version of the bride 3. Coconut is the best dole whip flavor 4. The Rivera is a well themed resort 5.runaway railway is better than the great movie ride

I agree with 4, I think MMRR is a good ride and fine replacement, but I wouldn’t say it’s better than the great movie ride

 

[SplashJacket]

Luminous > HEA

Old Fantasmic > New Fantasmic

 

[DisneyFanatic12]

Luminous > HEA

Okay, this is really interesting to me. Why do you prefer Luminous?

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Olaf is probably the highlight.

To me, the whole attraction feels like a random assortment of unconnected scenes that kind of re-tell the story of the movie but not entirely. It also feels like most of the scenes are only about 75% complete and then they just stopped and opened it without finishing. It was obviously heavily constrained by having to shoehorn it in to the existing attraction space, so they should probably get some leeway for that, although it doesn't explain the unfinished feeling to the existing scenes. I'm still baffled that they cloned it in Paris and Hong Kong, considering there's no way that's the ride they'd have built if they weren't designing around an existing footprint.

To be fair, I've only been on it once, but when it was over I had basically the same reaction I had to the Little Mermaid ride (i.e., not good at all).

I do get all of that and also find it strange that they have chosen to clone a ride that was retrofitted into another attraction's space and use it to anchor an entire land in two different parks. That said, riding it again at HKDL it actually didn't feel as underwhelming as you might imagine in that context. Maybe a bit short, but I guess it's not exceptionally short for a modern Disney ride.

Then again, my unpopular opinion was a positive assessment of the Epcot version! I also kind of like the feeling of just drifting through various settings from the film with familiar music and characters without a clear narrative thread. I honestly think Disney should do more attractions like that. I know some people find it almost a book report ride, but that's really not my sensation as I don't see how it recreates any of the plot points from the film beyond the scene where the younger trolls are being told the story of the film at the beginning of the ride.