I'm annoyed because Disney did it's usual bull$hit, lying backpedal when Al's story about the destruction of Tom Sawyer Island hit the L.A. Times. So they dug out that great Mark Twain quote from the novel about Tom and Huck playing Pirates, and used that to advertise the new trend on the Island to all Disneyland guests who wandered by the raft dock to wonder what's up - - portraying Pirates Lair to the guests,
and to the press, as a Tom Sawyer Island overlay.
Then they went on to demolish and remove every single (and now) last vestige of the Tom Sawyer FRONTIERLAND theme.
I don't so much mind the Pirate overlay. I am just bummed about the loss of such prime Frontierland property. I daresay this will be more fun for kids than the recent, neutered version of the Island ... but this strikes me both as an AmericaSings-in-Tomorrowland theme mismatch, and a Cut-Down-Cascade-Peak and Put-Nothing-In-Its-Place net loss.
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On a happier note ... I'm doubly glad my last visit to the Island just before it closed featured a fun interlude at Fort Wilderness. The rear entry door to the Fort was ajar, so naturally I wandered inside. I wasn't there long, though, before some CMs using it as a break area came into the open and I had to retreat.
But as I exited the Fort, a crowd of tourist guests were milling about, wondering aloud if the Ford were open. I told them 'of course it is,' and held the door for them as the dozen or so walked inside
