EPCOT Explorer
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A couple of the movies and all of the attractions. Rampant commercialism focussing on merchandise sales
I agree...They treat the Pixars more like fads than a movie that will become a classic.
Not at all.It's just part of the trill.Hey EE, does The Yeti count in your opinion?
Maybe the fact that it's been 25 years tells us something about where their heads are at on this issue.
Is it not much simpler to create an attraction around an existing brand? Audiences are already familiar with the characters and as such they have a built in desire to come and visit them.
I would think that from a business perspective it's much easier to sell a spin off of an already wildly popular product than it is to create something new altogether. Your costs are much lower and the turn around would be loads faster and WDW is after all a business.
It seems to me they're leaving the character development to the people that are doing it best right now, and that would be Pixar as far as the Disney brand is concerned.
Plus there have been loads of attractions over the past 25 years that have nothing to do with movies... i.e. Test Track, Mission Space and Soarin just to name a few.
I think the proposition of creating an entire character that exists solely at WDW might be something they've deemed ineffective. I'm not the expert here, just my 2 cents.
1st Bold-Glass half empty or half full.-Neither of us knows.
2nd Bold-Is easy always the best way?Yes,I can see that it would make guests want to see some of there fave characters but Disney has created(and can create again!) Characters unique to their attractions that people fall for and come back for.(Figment-again)
3rd Bold-Yeah,but I was talking about characters...Like Sage of Time,Master Gracey,Figment...