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On the plus side ... I feel a really good Goodbye TSI meet coming on.
Remember what fun we had when we thought they were going to get rid of the Suspension Bridge??? Well, this will be 10x as fun as that!!!
Another good thing is that, if they wanna go all copy-cat cause they're rushing this thing, Disneyland Paris has an amazingly fun version of TSI that's vaguely pirate-themed.
To me, the worst part is the loss of the dirt roads. From Al's update, it sounds like wheelchair accessibility is going to be catered to ... and that means the decidely un-bucolic paved walkways of Florida's Tom Sawyer Island.
I also bemoan the loss of a Frontierland icon ... but frankly feel that it's been gone for decades anyway. The tip of the island that used to be reeds and a wheelhouse gave way to the Frontierland Stage and then the even-more-massive Fantasmic stage. The south end of the island that fronts almost all of the guest-accessible riverbend has been unfrontierlandish, to my mind, for over 20 years.
I'm all for updating things a little bit for an area that's designed for kids, but I have my misgivings about piratizing this entire area of Disneyland. Still .... they already started wrecking TSI when they eliminated all the potentially boo-boo-causing play areas, and condemned Fort Wilderness. With the devil in the details, I guess I'm willing to see what they come up with ... since the current state of Tom Sawyer Island is a pathetic shadow of its bygone glory.
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