I'm kind of sad that they put Tomorrowland Terrace back to its pre-Club Buzz look. It just continues the trend of making Tomorrowland into "Tomorrowland if Todayland is 1978 and Tomorrow in 1986").

That said, the Club Buzz stage was so hideous that I'm completely willing to overlook this instance of looking forward to yesterday.

Woohoo! Adios Club Buzz! :D

I know Alex is right about Yesterdayland but anything is better than Club Buzz.

Really? I never would have guessed by your siggy!;)

What are those tall towers flanking the entrance, the speakers dressed up?

Interesting how they can't come up with anything new, so they put things back the way they were. Now if they would only put the rocket rods back on the people mover track, bring the people mover back (or something else in it's place), and rip out the bottle-necking rock formations at the TL entrance, I think we'd be much better off! People might want to go into TL if it didn't look so crowded from Main St.

Great pictures, Zapp! Thanks!

I guess I am in the sad category of being completely in love with the Tomorrowland of 1968, so the old Tomorrowland Terrace just about brings a tear to my eye. Out here in Florida, we have a pretty snazzy (though not quite completed) "Thirties Vision of the Future" style. I like it fine, but I actually have dreams (as in actual sleepytime dreams) of going back in time to the Tomorrowland of Yesterday. I suppose I should move on.

Very interesting observation, tho. Florida's Tomorrowland is nifty looking, but it definately has a Future-from-the-30's feel. Nowadays, you almost have to resort to a Looking Back at Tomorrow design sense to express "futuristic." So, what's wrong with the Future-from-the-60's, even if it was something already done in the 60's?

Nothing wrong with it. I've expressed this sentiment before, whenever possible I prefer Disney try something new, even if it doesn't work. If it doesn't work then try something else but I hate to see them "give up" and just go back to what worked in the past.

I would never advocate for them to remove Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted Mansion but if for some reason they did so I would hope they'd never bring them back and keep trying to find something new to fill the void.

So I'm generally unhappy that they are bringing back the subs and really hope that they don't bring back the PeopleMover.

I still love Tomorrowland 1967 and it's retro-contemporary reprise. Disney has done their part in promoting contemporary architechs with their own buildings, but I'm not sure I place any of that post-modern group into really being "future looking". Unfortunately, I think the "future" as a design concept seems to have faded in our post millenial times. Perhaps something other than terrorism will come along and inspire us to look forward again.

A few more tidbits:

• The new Tomorrowland gift shop has been named 'Tomorrowlanding'.
• Construction for Midway Mania (the new Toy Story ride in DCA) will begin Monday October 2nd. The opening is scheduled for 2008.
  
• (Sorry iSm) The REAL date for the final showing of Remember: Dreams Come True is Saturday November 4th.
  
• There's a tentative soft opening for Believe In Holiday Magic on Thursday November 9th.

Alex, I'm not sure how many bites at the apple over how many decades a place called Disneyland should have at trying something new before failure after failure after failure leads them back to what Walt did.



oh, and don't be sorry, zapppop ... I'm glad there'll be a more final last Remember a month from now.

Tomorrow's will be the last bling Remember.

Surely you don't think there is nothing worthy among the many things at Disneyland untouched by Walt. A lot of what Walt did at Disneyland sucked. He just wasn't yet stuck with an antique crusted with decades of nostalgia that made it nearly impossible to change anything without excessive bitching.

But to answer the question I'd prefer that they keep trying in forever if necessary before deciding to just go with the past. Otherwise we might as well have wrap the whole place in Saran wrap in 1966 and shipped it off to the Smithsonian.

On a side note, I'm just going to say this publicly. Quite a few of the things mentioned in this thread will be appearing in the MousePlanet park update on Monday. Lest this generate more emails charging me with plagierizing, I want to point out that almost everything in this thread has previously been mentioned in MP park updates and now that they are actually happening I'll be repeating the information. I know that sounds all dramatic, but maybe it'll save me being called names.