Mary Blair's Family Speaks Out Against IASW Changes
 

http://imagineerebirth.blogspot.com/...ly-speaks.html

Too cool! :snap:

Hopefully this will have some influence on TDA.

We can hope...

LSPE brought up a good point last night. If they add the USA section, they will never, ever remove it. It would make Disney look unpatriotic to do so.
Oy. What a mess.
They should have just added more articulate AA dolls. That would have been cool.

They should turn it into a padded playground so people have a place to go when Toontown is closed.

*crossing fingers*

While it may not be my favorite ride, it's pretty much fine the way it is, perhaps with a few technological advances. No new characters!

The characters HAD a lot more range of motion in the earlier years- check out any early video of the motion of the Dutch kids in the tulips for one of my favorite examples.

I'll be pretty depressed if these changes go ahead, but I won't be surprised. The fallback position on everything at Disney these days seems to be "pirates, princesses and characters." It feels like a slow steady march toward a dull, homogenized future. And I'm tired of hearing the defensive cry of "Disney is not a museum," just before some new piece of banality is unleashed on the parks. I don't want everything to stay the same, but I do want to be charmed, delighted and surprised by new things, not marketed to. Ugh.

Yeah, you wouldn't hear many complaints if there were new, non-host countries done in non-clashing style.

Alas, I don't think that Blair family complaint is going to fall on any un-deaf ears. For one thing, it was a little impolitic in its harshness. Of course I agree with it completely ... but it's talking to the proverbial wall.

My mom said that she saw a news clip about IASW. They were interviewing people to ask them what they thought of the ride. One woman said that it is a very racist ride. The entire segment was focusing on Small World not being politically correct. That type of mentality just floors me. It is this same thought that prompted the changes to PotC (which, as a plus sized person, I found very offensive).

Wow, I didn't have a particular opinion eaither way, but after reading what kevin Blair wrote, I have to agree with him.