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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
I don't enjoy Space Mountain for the nostalgia. It's 36 years old, and fondness for my childhood never enters into it for me.
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That's fine, I don't mean to say that anything applies to every one. There'll be plenty of individual variation, but collectively hardly a change happens where the average response, to my perception, isn't some form of "it was better before, the way it has always been is fine, put it back the way it was." Watch any discussion of what should be done with Tomorrowland and 90% of the suggestions will be putting back some attraction that used to be there. Witness the collective internet orgasm that resulted just from repaining the iasw and Space Mountain exteriors to be the same colors they used to be.
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Originally Posted by flippyshark
The part of me that resists change in theme park attractions seems to reason thusly: A really good attraction is a bit like a favorite film or piece of music. I revisit my favorite tunes for the emotional resonance, and relish my favorite parts over and over. Much of the pleasure is in anticipating my favorite bits, and reveling when they invariably arrive.
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I'm completely opposite in this regard. No matter how much I enjoyed something the first time I tend to get very little pleasure out of repeating the same experience again. I very rarely watch movies a second time (and people who report having watched the same movie dozens of times are completely confusing to me). To the extent I watch TV shows again it isn't for their stimulating effect but for the soporific effect (I don't get pleasure out of Law & Order episodes I've seen before I get mental numbness and sometimes that is what I want).
I reread books a bit more often but I've still probably never read any one book more than five times. Again, when I hear someone say they read a book and then immediately started reading it again the unkind part of me wonders what it is like to live as a mentally retarded person (because the thought of doing that seems so alien to me).
I've ridden Pirates of the Caribbean. After I had ridden it once I didn't really need to ever ride it again even though I think it is a brilliant thing. If left to my own devices I never would and when I do it isn't for the ride but for the company I keep while on it.
So, the more DL is in a constant state of change the more I'm interested in it as a place to be. Riding the incredibly crappy Winnie the Pooh ride for the first time is a more interesting and rewarding experience than riding Pirates of the Caribbean for the second time.