It's a Mickey world after all?

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by zapppop

...because it's not Disneyland, it's EuroDisneyland. I don't mind their IASW being different from ours.

Sigh. Ugly and uninspired is not the same as different. It's a microcosim of the arguments being made in this thread. Difference is fine, as long as difference is not crappy.

Replacing magnificent with crappy is a terrible difference. But not all differnces are terrible.

Those ugly sets at DLP's small world are not worthy of that lovely park ... which outshines Disneyland in artisty and beauty on many fronts.



But not the small world front.

[€uroMeinke]

The ride was already ruined when the took out the laughing black children and painted the final scene room purple

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Sigh. Ugly and uninspired is not the same as different.

You and I have been down this road before. Your problem is you demand a carbon copy or else it's just crap. You had complaints about every single clone attraction in that park & how it's not as good as Disneyland's.

It's not Disneyland. The art direction in that park & it's attractions was different. You however interpret it as crap.

You give the same song & dance iSm and I'm not buying it.

It's not Disneyland. It never was & never will be. Get over it & quit your old man bitching.

See you Friday ?

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!Jerry!

[Disneyphile]

Can we just go back to choking Chicken Little now?

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Can we just go back to choking Chicken Little now?

And beating the bush, too!

[innerSpaceman]

Hmmm. Phantom Manor? Different, not crap. Big Thunder Mountain? Different, but not crap. Space Mountain. Very different, but so not crap (at least the version I saw). Pirates? Significantly different, and you know I didn't even really like it ... but it's certainly not crap. The three Fantasyland dark rides were not terribly different.

Um, I'm running out of DLP attractions. But how could I love all the architectural differences, too ... if I interpret all difference as crap?

Answer: I don't interpret all Disneyland differences as crap. I know (what I find to be) crap when I see it.



And sure, see ya Friday. Let's look longingly over the wall at small world.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I don't mind change at Disneyland, even beloved attractions such as IASW; but for Gawd's sake, Disneyland was NOT founded to be for kids only- IASW has a lot of wonderful art design in it, and adding Disney toons just cheapens it.

Are they gonna change the snake in the Indiana Jones Adventure to be a giant Kaa next?

Heaven forbid a park founded by somebody with a legendary imagination has anything left in it that feeds the guests imaginations, rather than spoon feeding them 'cute' or 'thrilling'.

That just gets old and stupid. Have a Seagram's wine cooler.

You know, I hadn't thought of it that way. I figure adding the Disney characters to it is a way for the newer generations to connect to it. But now that I think about it, it is a flat, simplem and boardroom careless way of trying to sell a "New" IASWA on a 30 second TV ad.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ya know, I sorta understand those who find small world boring. If you're not paying particular attention to the sets or the music, it comes off as a room full of dolls with a repetitive song.

I always want to take such people to France, have them look and listen to their pathetic copy with its generic sights and sounds, and then whisk them back via Star Trek Transporter to Anaheim ... to experience the lush musical soundtrack of international flavors and fantastic graphical design by Disney Artist Extraordinaire Blair. Only the most dim-souled could then fail to appreciate the orders of magnificence by which the original small world reigns supreme.


Yeah, I don't want to see it cheapened in any way. As soon as the likes of Mary Blair and Walt Disney walk this earth again ... feel free to improve it with the input of such resurgent geniuses.

Excelent points. It does make me think about the fact that while I may not care so much for it because I've been on it all my life, it has almost a heart and soul due mostly to those creative forces behind it. This is so hard to copy by anyone else. "Plussing" it would be like painting eyebrows on the Mona Lisa because we are pretty sure she had some before.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Also, the flumes should be filled with Powerade.

It's got what plants crave, it's got electrolytes!