Why no love for Toontown Fair?

[Disneykidder]

VERY sad and dissappointed to see it go. There was a lot for boys to do in there and now the new Fantasyland is maninly geared towards girls. I LOVED visiting Mickey's house and Minnie's too...it was a must do for all of us.

 

[unkadug]

VERY sad and dissappointed to see it go. There was a lot for boys to do in there and now the new Fantasyland is maninly geared towards girls. I LOVED visiting Mickey's house and Minnie's too...it was a must do for all of us.

:veryconfu
How to do figure that?

 

[mharrington]

Toon town gets no love from me for the simple reason that it felt so lacking. They took the cheap approach and it showed. Its not that the concept was bad, it was the execution of the idea.

Well, there's only so much you can do with a fair, which had been the obvious theme of this Toontown.

The Alien Encounter is an example of a great ride, that people LOVED. It was a touch of a more adult approach to a ride, and Disney had signs posted all over warning people that is could be too intense for young children. But because people cannot, or choose not to, read they brought their young ones in there and they were scared.

Of course now we have the horrible Stitch Escape. It is an empty shell of what Alien Encounter used to be. And all because the masses have to suffer because someone has a kid who is scared. Meanwhile, 99% of the parks are kid friendly.

Please, leave Alien Encounter out of this.

 

[wm49rs]

Well, there's only so much you can do with a fair, which had been the obvious theme of this Toontown.

Please, leave Alien Encounter out of this.

And therein lies why it went by the wayside....

Nothing wrong with presenting alternative arguments.

 

[mharrington]

Nothing wrong with presenting alternative arguments.

No, but we should be careful not to go too far off-topic.

 

[wm49rs]

No, but we should be careful not to go too far off-topic.

You brought up the discussion of "dark" rides when you bumped the thread. They simply added to the discussion with an example of one.

 

[mharrington]

:veryconfu If it's relevant to the discussion, why shouldn't it be invoked?

Because I was referring mainly to Fantasyland, not to the whole park. I did not even bring up Alien Encounter at first.

 

[wm49rs]

But some of the dark rides tend to be unsettling towards kids simply because they're dark. Some kids are afraid of the dark.

Because I was referring mainly to Fantasyland, not to the whole park. I did not even bring up Alien Encounter at first.

You brought up the dark ride "issue," of which AE/SGE could be considered.

 

[mharrington]

You brought up the dark ride "issue," of which AE/SGE could be considered.

But Alien Encounter is not a dark ride. It doesn't even move much at all. It's a show.

 

[wm49rs]

But Alien Encounter is not a dark ride. It doesn't even move much at all. It's a show.

It is as much a dark ride where kids could become frightened as anything else in MK, hence the change to SGE. If you didn't want it discussed, don't bump the thread with a post about dark rides.

 

[mharrington]

And therein lies why it went by the wayside....

How was that the reason it went by the wayside?

 

[wm49rs]

How was that the reason it went by the wayside?

"there's only so much you can do with a fair."

 

[mharrington]

Well, where did the fair come from, the concept or the execution? I'm confused.

 

[wm49rs]

Well, where did the fair come from, the concept or the execution? I'm confused.

I have no idea. But it was expendable, and is now in the process of being replaced by the FLE....

 

[Disneykidder]

I have 3 boys...8, 3 and 11 months. My 8 year old will not go near anything princessie right now. I sing The Little Mermaid song and he covers his ears. So, maybe my statement in saying that the new Fantasyland is geared more towards girls is really based on my own children disliking princesses. I did, however, tell them and my husband that since I am a girl, they have NO CHOICE but to go onto these attractions.

 

[MissMorrow]

What I don't understand is why we're not getting a "real" Toontown? Not enough room? They don't want to clone Disneyland's? Or is it because you can't replace Toontown with Toontown? :shrug:

 

[disney fan 13]

What I don't understand is why we're not getting a "real" Toontown? Not enough room? They don't want to clone Disneyland's? Or is it because you can't replace Toontown with Toontown? :shrug:

Most likely it's because iger does not feel the fab five are popular with little girls at the moment :zipit::lookaroun

 

[MissMorrow]

Most likely it's because iger does not feel the fab five are popular with little girls at the moment :zipit::lookaroun

:brick:

 

[disney fan 13]

:brick:

suppose to be a joke...:brick:

 

[mharrington]

Most likely it's because iger does not feel the fab five are popular with little girls at the moment :zipit::lookaroun

Yeah, they're so... what's the right word?... gender-neutral, and they want to keep the characters as gender-centric as possible! :lookaroun