Twilight_Roxas
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Hopefully DCA could connect Grizzly River Run to SEA.
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What Disney attractions do you think should be incorporated into the Society of Explorers and Adventurers storyline?
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PiratesMansion
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None.
While it doesn't really offend me, the way they've been using it is very fan service-y, which is kind of a turn off.
It's the new hidden mickey; started as a fun thing, then has exploded into this ridiculous thing people obsess over to the detriment of a lot of the other things that are actually important, and now we will never hear the end of it.
While it doesn't really offend me, the way they've been using it is very fan service-y, which is kind of a turn off.
It's the new hidden mickey; started as a fun thing, then has exploded into this ridiculous thing people obsess over to the detriment of a lot of the other things that are actually important, and now we will never hear the end of it.
Sharon&Susan
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Has SEA actually had any narrative importance or is it actually important to any of the characters in any of the attractions where its mentioned? From what I've seen, it seems to exist solely to make references to other attractions.
There doesn't seem to be anything interesting about the organization itself or the interaction between group members. Maybe I'm missing something, but there needs to be some sort of drama or mystery to really get me intrigued.
There doesn't seem to be anything interesting about the organization itself or the interaction between group members. Maybe I'm missing something, but there needs to be some sort of drama or mystery to really get me intrigued.
Mac Tonight
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Honestly, I think the fact that SEA exists and has varying links between attractions in parks around the world is as benign and harmless in overall scope as the names in the Main St. windows.
It's like knowing Disneyland has feral cats that roam the parks at night. Nice bit of trivia, but if it actually negatively impacts your desire to experience something, that's on you.
It's like knowing Disneyland has feral cats that roam the parks at night. Nice bit of trivia, but if it actually negatively impacts your desire to experience something, that's on you.
Magic Feather
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SEA is somewhat integral to Fortress Explorations at TDS (which is absolutely wonderful). Other than that, almost all “SEA attractions” could easily exist without being related to SEA. I’m pretty sure that it all started as a way to somewhat give a cohesive narrative to Tokyo DisneySea, and then, once it got added to manor in Hong Kong it spiraled from there. I’m pretty sure that some people’s fascination with it spurs from its Tokyo roots, and we all know that a lot of people of obsessed with Tokyo Disney Resort. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great place, but I feel like some people put up their blinders with the “Tokyo can do no wrong” mindset.
Rich T
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While I generally like the idea and aesthetic of the SEA, when characters started getting modeled after the Imagineers’ own likenesses, that’s when I checked out. It’s so egotistical and distracting and self-congratulatory. Little obscure references are fine, but Joe Rhode’s mug all over Tokyo’s ToT as the FREAKIN’ MAIN CHARACTER is just obnoxious.
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EPCOTCenterLover
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Did Joe do that himself? I could be wrong, but I didn't think so.
BrianLo
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I like it well enough. It's the only hope for an original attraction these days.
That said I always felt a properly done Soaring Over the World redo could have included a SEA character.
Indiana Jones has been tied into Shanghai Disney's lore, with a tie in to their River Adventure Ride and OG tower of terror. Since those attractions take place a few decades after the turn of the century (I think Mystic Manor takes place in 1900 or 1899, something like that).
It's kind of harmless and generally speaking doesn't detract, like an IP slathering might.
That said I always felt a properly done Soaring Over the World redo could have included a SEA character.
Indiana Jones has been tied into Shanghai Disney's lore, with a tie in to their River Adventure Ride and OG tower of terror. Since those attractions take place a few decades after the turn of the century (I think Mystic Manor takes place in 1900 or 1899, something like that).
It's kind of harmless and generally speaking doesn't detract, like an IP slathering might.
Rich T
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Not sure, so in the interest of fairness I went back and altered my post.
Model3 McQueen
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- In the Parks
- No
Twilight_Roxas
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How would Grizzly River Run fit in SEA?
Sharon&Susan
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Assuming they keep the setting in a 1950's Californian national park:
-Letters scattered throughout the queue that all basically amount to "You have obtained a cursed artifact, btw see you at the next SEA meeting!"
-Group portrait of 1950's SEA members featuring (photoshopped) Walt Disney in a normal everyday business suit and everyone else being modern day imagineers in silly over the top costumes.
-Random out of place Jungle Cruise references
-Safety spiel and narration done with an over the top snooty British accent
-Cursed artifact causes weird things that almost kill us until the projection filled finale.
Twilight_Roxas
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There’s also a member of SEA that is connected to Grizzly River Run.
networkpro
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- In the Parks
- Yes
None, its a dead concept just like Infotainment
__r.jr
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Subtlety is such a lost art.
Recall a time when Disney would allude or suggest interconnective narrative elements within its attractions without having to feel so blatantly contrived?
The Ravenswood storyline for Big Thunder Mountain with the Phantom Manor, the space stations story beats within the Space Mountains across the world, do this and with such graceful, organic subtlety than what S.E.A. continues to concoct.
Recall a time when Disney would allude or suggest interconnective narrative elements within its attractions without having to feel so blatantly contrived?
The Ravenswood storyline for Big Thunder Mountain with the Phantom Manor, the space stations story beats within the Space Mountains across the world, do this and with such graceful, organic subtlety than what S.E.A. continues to concoct.
Rich T
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I never thought about it before, but it’s like the SEA should have it’s own theme park, because right now it almost feels like the Imagineers are trying to hijack all the Park-original concepts and brand them with their own IP (and their own faces!
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Sharon&Susan
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I'm sure J. Audborn Woodlore will eventually become a SEA member, so they can integrate CBJ into the SEAverse.
No Name
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He had no real part in the actual design of the attraction, they just decided to use his face as inspiration for the main character. Lots of characters are modeled after real-life inspirations, and there’s nothing really egotistical or whatever about it because it’s not like he pushed to shoehorn himself in. Also, side note, but that predates the character being folded into SEA.