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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 13, 2024 10:52:45 GMT -5
Man, meanwhile a lot of us theme park fans are dying here because, surprise! More shoehorning movie properties into areas of the park they don't belong in, ruining all the details and artistry that made them work in the first place, because the shareholders want more movie character merchandise and Disney+ subscriptions! Harry Potter at Universal absolutely broke Disney Parks' collective brain. Tom Sawyer's island and the riverboat are going to close! Though I gotta be honest I'm a DVC member and go every other year and have never gone to Tom Sawyer's Island or on the riverboat. But I'll miss the ambiance they bring! Also disappointed about the shooting gallery closing and the Country Bears getting way less weird. Universal doing the Monster themed park certainly had to spark Disney to do the new villains land.
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 13, 2024 10:58:13 GMT -5
Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios I expect this from. I get more annoyed when it happens to EPCOT, especially World Showcase. I didn't even like the Maelstrom and I still get annoyed over it getting turned into a Frozen ride.
Unfortunately, because of Disney Parks doing everything it can to get the influencer set to show up at their parks, they'll keep doing it. Like Avengers Campus in California is f***ing shit in terms of attractions and overall theming. But the influencers love it because there's some nice setpieces to take photos in front of.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 13, 2024 12:38:03 GMT -5
Man, meanwhile a lot of us theme park fans are dying here because, surprise! More shoehorning movie properties into areas of the park they don't belong in, ruining all the details and artistry that made them work in the first place, because the shareholders want more movie character merchandise and Disney+ subscriptions! Harry Potter at Universal absolutely broke Disney Parks' collective brain. Tom Sawyer's island and the riverboat are going to close! Though I gotta be honest I'm a DVC member and go every other year and have never gone to Tom Sawyer's Island or on the riverboat. But I'll miss the ambiance they bring! Also disappointed about the shooting gallery closing and the Country Bears getting way less weird. Universal doing the Monster themed park certainly had to spark Disney to do the new villains land. Yeah, I'd have been fine with changing Tom Sawyer Island; times change, fine, I get it. I'd have been fine with adding a "wilderness of the Rockies and/or Pacific Northwest" section to Frontierland, since that could be done in a way that's pretty awesome. But they're literally draining and paving the Rivers of America, the thing that every attraction in Liberty Square and Frontierland faces and is centered/laid out around, to add more sub-3 minute rides with excessively long waits that'll get more people to pay $20 a person to get Lightning Lane...and of course, it has to be a Cars ride, because the "theme" part of "theme park" is meaningless at this point. Honestly, if this is the boring ass road we're going down, I'd rather they just get rid of all the park names and themed areas. Just admit you don't care anymore: it's "Florida Park 1", "Florida Park 2", etc., with individual areas containing one big ride, one small ride, a quick service restaurant, and tons of merch from specific properties Disney owns. Stop insulting our intelligence that Cars "fits into Frontierland" or "this is how Walt would've wanted it" or whatever other corporate word vomit they have ready to go next.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Aug 13, 2024 14:17:57 GMT -5
Toy Story 4 was ... really not very good. It was a massive, massive step behind the other Toy Story movies--which is imo the best animated trilogy of all time. 3 was the perfect sendoff to it. If they wanted to do a 4, then they should've done Woody's origin and how he came to be Andy's toy.
My take: Woody originally belonged to Andy’s father, who died before the start of the series. It explains why he always considered him special, and was the only toy he was going to take to college. The timing of a toy that was essentially Howdy Doody also fit why a 90’s kid would be so attached to a Boomer-era character. I heard that TS5 might focus on adult Andy trying to get Woody back, and this would be the perfect way to make that connection. EDIT: I saw the blurb about where they want to go for TS5, and it could be interesting. {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}The idea of “toys vs. tech” with the crew having to deal with electronics could be fun, as long as it doesn’t get preachy. It’s a hot topic right now, but it could have been done in an earlier version. When all the toys worried about being replaced, you would think one of them might bring up their kid getting a video game system would put them all out of a job (though Andy did have one in the second movie). The toys could have interacted with video game characters (Wreck-It Ralph crossover!), so I’m seeing either that or an AI system in a phone or tablet, which I expect a lot of 2001: A Space Odyssey parodies with Buzz.
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