What Disney attractions do you think should be incorporated into the Society of Explorers and Adventurers storyline?

[NigelChanning]

The Society of Explorers and Adventurers (SEA) is a large story in the Disney parks lore that spreads to almost every worldwide Disney parks and could possible be incorporated into more attractions. Which ones would you want to get the SEA treatment?

 

[mickEblu]

None at DL would be great. I find the cartoony SEA explorers to be kind of silly outside of any land not named Toontown.

 

[NigelChanning]

I respect your opinion but I don’t find the SEA explorers silly at all. Even the teenager-adult oriented Indiana Jones franchise has been integrated into the story. Why not expand it into Disneyland?

 

[mickEblu]

I respect your opinion but I don’t find the SEA explorers silly at all. Even the teenager-adult oriented Indiana Jones franchise has been integrated into the story. Why not expand it into Disneyland?

I’ll admit I don’t much about them but I’m not a fan of their character design and don’t find them fitting of adventure type attractions. I wouldn’t want to see them attached to the Jungle Cruise or Indiana Jones for example.

 

[NigelChanning]

I get what you’re saying. I’ve just always liked the idea of expanding the backstory of an attraction and connecting it to another

 

[mickEblu]

I get what you’re saying. I’ve just always liked the idea of expanding the backstory of an attraction and connecting it to another

Gotcha. Yeah I’m the opposite. I feel that connecting attractions via a backstory is unnecessary and waters down the themes/ integrity of the separate lands and individual attractions. It also just reinforces that you are at an amusement park and not really escaping to said lands/ attractions. Maybe it’s different if there is just one nod to SEA per park. If it’s just kind of tying attractions around the world together I guess that’s different. Still don’t find it necessary or entertaining personally.

 

[NigelChanning]

Gotcha. Yeah I’m the opposite. I feel that connecting attractions via a backstory is unnecessary and water downs the themes/ integrity of the separate lands and individual attractions. It also just reinforces that you are at an amusement park and not really escaping to said lands/ attractions.

You make a good point!

 

[Twilight_Roxas]

Jungle Cruise, Indiana Jones, Big Thunder Mountain, and Grizzly River Run.

 

[NigelChanning]

Jungle Cruise, Indiana Jones, Big Thunder Mountain, and Grizzly River Run.

The first three have already been incorporated but I’d be interesting to see what they could do with Grizzly River Run!

 

[Twilight_Roxas]

Not the Disneyland versions.

 

[mickEblu]

Out of curiosity how do these backstories get connected? Via a parks blog or queue signage? Or do these references make it onto the ride?

 

[Twilight_Roxas]

In the rides along with the stores in the parks, restaurants in the parks, typhoon lagoon, and the Disney cruises.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Nowhere at the DLR, if at all possible, especially at Disneyland.

 

[No Name]

It’s not so much a “story,” it’s more like a thread of references. Quite honestly no attraction is any better or worse or fundamentally different because it incorporates SEA. If they get rid of the whole thing tomorrow, I won’t give a crap, because essentially nothing would be changed.

Out of curiosity how do these backstories get connected? Via a parks blog or queue signage? Or do these references make it onto the ride?

It started with a few vague references in one part of Tokyo DisneySea (which itself is a pun on Disneyland) but Mystic Manor in Hong Kong opened with a portrait in its queue that references Harrison Hightower III from Tokyo’s ToT (on the left). And with that, a shared universe was born! Clearly this will one day rival the MCU!

Some guests had massive orgasms over the whole thing, so they’ve expanded it to restaurants, cruises, a water park ride, etc. Sometimes it’s told through Disney’s website, sometimes blog posts, sometimes through the decor/queue, but the average guest would have no idea.

 

[No Name]

It’s not some kind of toxic thing that needs to stay out of DL though. It makes a negligible difference.

 

[mickEblu]

It’s not some kind of toxic thing that needs to stay out of DL though. It makes a negligible difference.

Gotcha. That’s why I asked the question. After thinking about it, I figured it was probably something negligible. Not that I would lose any sleep over it but even seeing one of those cartoon faces in a picture in the jungle Cruise Q would bug me.

 

[No Name]

Gotcha. That’s why I asked the question. After thibking about I figured it was probably something negligible. Not that I would lose any sleep over it but even saying one of those cartoon faces in a picture in the jungle Cruise Q would bug me.

They wouldn’t do that anyway, they’re saving space for The Rock!

 

[mickEblu]

They wouldn’t do that anyway, they’re saving space for The Rock!

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Please God no. One possible benefit to this economy. No dumb knee jerk reaction overlays.

 

[Nirya]

I would take small nods to SEA on Jungle Cruise over anything to do with the new movie any day of the week.

Outside of that, I do think Disneyland has one SEA reference already at the Tropical Hideaway.

 

[mickEblu]

I would take small nods to SEA on Jungle Cruise over anything to do with the new movie any day of the week.

Outside of that, I do think Disneyland has one SEA reference already at the Tropical Hideaway.

As long as it does include any of their images I wouldn’t really care. For example an old newspaper with an article referencing one of them wouldn’t really bother me.