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Walt Disney Imagineers Unveil Mysterious Portrait...
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Lee
Adventurer
Yep...thought so.
JCtheparrothead
Well-Known Member
The funny thing is the last sentence,
"Look for these new additions and a number of additional interactive elements in the coming months at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the wildest ride in the wilderness!"
Seriously ...coming months??
"Look for these new additions and a number of additional interactive elements in the coming months at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the wildest ride in the wilderness!"
Seriously ...coming months??
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
A nice "walkthrough" of the mining caves under the mountain would be cool.
SirLink
Well-Known Member
Aren't there now structural issues with all "mountains" on property? Especially with the ones in MK?
orky8
Well-Known Member
This is great, and one of the things that makes Disney, Disney. But it is only one of the things, and the other things are literally crumbling in disrepair and neglect. Good story needs to be accompanied by good show and top-notch innovations in immersive rides. And new ones every couple decades would be nice. I'm glad Disney is adding backstories to existing rides, but its competitor is adding amazing rides instead.
Captain Neo
Well-Known Member
So stupid. This money can be better spent maintaining Splash Mountain or fixing Expedition Everest. I bet this vanity project is yet another slap in the face to tony baxter by fitzgerald, jacobsen, and their cronies and what the hell kind of name is "baranbis t. billionaire" or whatever it just screams "dumbing down"
articos
Well-Known Member
What bugs me is there are backstories in place, yet there's folks within WDI who decide they need to put their stamp on history and create new info without doing the research to work within the story already in place. BTM is kind of using the legend, but they could do so much better. The maintenance issue is a whole 'nother thing for me. And when you can't fix something, put out a press release that diverts attention has been a mantra for years.
The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
Rubbish.
(=the backstory etc, not the post above)[/edit].
(=the backstory etc, not the post above)[/edit].
elchippo
Well-Known Member
I feel like this, much like the Haunted Mansion extended/interactive queue, adds too much to the "story" of the attraction....this fills in the holes left in the initial story (again, like HM) that guests would/could fill in for themselves....I preferred when their stories were a bit more suggested and abstract, not so literal and hokey.
Captain Neo
Well-Known Member
Honestly, I wouldn't ride Space Mountain as I think that has some SERIOUS structural issues. I mean Disneyland's SM was literally days away from something happening that would be a nightmare scenario when they immediately shut it down and Florida's space mountain track is even older. It's really not safe
Clamman73
Well-Known Member
What do you think of the show so far?
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
Unneeded backstory. Let us use, what was it? Remember that thing? Some guy in a zepplin and his pet dragon used to sing to me about it. Oh yeah, our imaginations!
Hey, it's just like this whole New Fantasyland thingamabob. It's not enough to say that there is this new very immersive area. No, the land was there all along, but because some evil queen stole one of Gaston's antlers and a few other trinkets, we lost our ability to BELIEVE and we couldn't see it.
OK Disney...
I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES, I DO I DO I DO!
Whoopie, now I can see the area that has been there all along, except for the time when 20k leagues was magically overtop of it somehow.
Hey, it's just like this whole New Fantasyland thingamabob. It's not enough to say that there is this new very immersive area. No, the land was there all along, but because some evil queen stole one of Gaston's antlers and a few other trinkets, we lost our ability to BELIEVE and we couldn't see it.
OK Disney...
I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES, I DO I DO I DO!
Whoopie, now I can see the area that has been there all along, except for the time when 20k leagues was magically overtop of it somehow.
G00fyDad
Well-Known Member
Yep, sounds credible.
janoimagine
Well-Known Member
Only a few small sections of track, that really needed it from what I remember, but they did not replace the entire thing.
SirLink
Well-Known Member
Or just use the quote from Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Oh I have just been on that terrible Disney web stuff, hokey and pandering come to mind. "Lets aim at Playschool crowd, because of JR and Meg "In over her head" Crofton slashed the budget we can't do anything that would interest anyone over the age of 4. Oh well! "
Lee
Adventurer
And this money couldn't have gone toward fixing the rainbow caverns, the falling rocks, the exterior queue lights, etc? Ugh.
Thing is, they feel like they need more backstory for these interactive queues.
The changes that are coming will likely greatly increase the number of guests that will be standing (even longer) in the standby queue. If you have to wait 90min or more for BTMRR...might as well have something interesting to look at.
Thing is, they feel like they need more backstory for these interactive queues.
The changes that are coming will likely greatly increase the number of guests that will be standing (even longer) in the standby queue. If you have to wait 90min or more for BTMRR...might as well have something interesting to look at.
The Empress Lilly
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What elchippo says. BTM's backstory served as a unifying guideline for the show's creators. It does not need to be spelled out. That only lessens the mystique, the sense of foreboding. Just like the Mansion was more eerie when the buildup consisted of a cemetery, a house on the hill, and wolves howling in the distance. So much spookier than a bubble bath.
WDW shouldn't 'George Lucas' their classics. The addition of a BTM backstory is like adding Han's encounter with Jabba to Star Wars IV. Entirely unecessary, it doesn't further the story, the viewer had always been aware that Han was a wanted man, in need of cash to settle some old business.