Okay, so there are these art installations/dark ride experiences called "Meow Wolf" being built in various areas around the U.S. The first one was built in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Recently another installation was built in an actual amusement park - Elitch Gardens, in Denver, Colorado (in this instance, the attraction is called "Kaleidoscape", and was installed into what once was an old haunted house dark ride).
These places are mind-blowing. I'm going to leave two videos here for you. One is from the Carpetbagger's channel, and features a full Meow Wolf attraction walk-through:
And the other video involves a behind-the-scene look at the artists who built one area of the attraction called "The Forest":
Now here's my point - and to quote Ellen Degeneres, I do have one: Notice in the behind-the-scenes video how hard the artists worked to cover up the ceiling in the Forest room. They did this because they were building the attraction inside a warehouse and if people saw the warehouse ceiling, then the illusion would be broken. Now contrast the artists' concern with this problem to Imagineers who had no such qualms in letting what is clearly a warehouse ceiling being seen in The Little Mermaid ride, particularly in the "Under the Sea" area. You look up and not only see ceiling beams, you see plastic fish stuck to a very obvious spinning wheel to simulate "swimming". It all looks fake and cheap as hell. And that's just one instance of Imagineering cheaping out. Holy crap, stuff like that burns me up. The artists behind Meow Wolf had very little money and had to scrape and dig to find the materials they needed to create their incredible otherworldly magic. The Imagineers have MILLIONS of dollars to work with, but they leave show buildings undisguised and stick plastic fish on wheels and yes leave broken yeti AAs to rot.
I hope that if Imagineers read this forum that they see this and have the integrity to feel at least a little bit ashamed...
These places are mind-blowing. I'm going to leave two videos here for you. One is from the Carpetbagger's channel, and features a full Meow Wolf attraction walk-through:
And the other video involves a behind-the-scene look at the artists who built one area of the attraction called "The Forest":
Now here's my point - and to quote Ellen Degeneres, I do have one: Notice in the behind-the-scenes video how hard the artists worked to cover up the ceiling in the Forest room. They did this because they were building the attraction inside a warehouse and if people saw the warehouse ceiling, then the illusion would be broken. Now contrast the artists' concern with this problem to Imagineers who had no such qualms in letting what is clearly a warehouse ceiling being seen in The Little Mermaid ride, particularly in the "Under the Sea" area. You look up and not only see ceiling beams, you see plastic fish stuck to a very obvious spinning wheel to simulate "swimming". It all looks fake and cheap as hell. And that's just one instance of Imagineering cheaping out. Holy crap, stuff like that burns me up. The artists behind Meow Wolf had very little money and had to scrape and dig to find the materials they needed to create their incredible otherworldly magic. The Imagineers have MILLIONS of dollars to work with, but they leave show buildings undisguised and stick plastic fish on wheels and yes leave broken yeti AAs to rot.
I hope that if Imagineers read this forum that they see this and have the integrity to feel at least a little bit ashamed...