Have you not noticed my avatar, status, and sig line? :p

Thou hast spake of That Which Shall Not Be Named. Thou needs must now be banished (or spanked).

There's no mistaking that most people will accept a lower quality. We, on the otherhand expect perfection. I don't think the suits are allowing Imaginering (or what's left of it) to do the best job possible the way Walt lead them. So no, I don't realy expect perfection any more. But if they make a choice like changing a ride, I just hope they do the best job they can.

Just adorn thyself in the safe color, and offer a dead animal as a peace offering. That should apease the evil. :D

Why, thank you!

I do look good in yellow.

Does evil like cheese?

Evil must be appeased with 1000 boxes of thin krisps, and a couple kegs of beer

Ugh, worse than accepting it, the loudmouthed nimrods we rode with on July 4 were ecstatic about everything new. They loved Davy Jones, were agog about Jack Sparrow x 3, and loved the Pirates movie theme playing over the battle scene. Everything I despise is loved by the unwashed masses, I fear.


Anyways, I confirmed my worst about the long, dark tunnel. The mist waterfall does indeed cut far short the reveal to what I've always called the "get it" room (i.e., a vast chamber filled with water, projected clouds upon a faux sky, and a looming pirate ship firing its cannons upon a Spanish fortress. If you haven't gotten it by then, this is where you frelling "get it.")

And it's not simply that the tunnel does not become lofty and vaulted because they now fail to light the loftiness .... its because the loftiness is no more! The contraption that creates the mistfall descends 20 feet from the roof of the tunnel. Look backwards next time you pass through Davy Jones cheapcrap projection effect. The machinery is huge, and the lofty tunnel is humbled.

You know what I think is missing - that I love - is the lighthearted pirate-theme music that plays after you come up the rise. I'm not sure I remember it being there - biut not sure it is gone. I always LOVED that fact that, you come out of this "adventure" and you are back in reality, but there is music still playfully playing.

DOes anyone else know what I am talking about?

I do! It's one of my favorite parts of the score. :) And I am almost positive that it is still there.

^ It's there, just hard to hear because of Downer Jack's "singing" and Squiddly's incessant yammering coming up the lift.

BTW, the movie reviews are starting to come out. Uh-oh.