Next Pirates Premier at DL - May 19th

[MickeyLumbo]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I've always wondered why, while they never could get them working right in Tomorrowland (and have now replaced them all with oh-so-futuristic stairs) ... there was rarely a problem with the one in Haunted Mansion, operating constantly since 1969.

i'm not certain, but wonder if constant exposure to weather and the elements had something to do with it. on occasion, mansion's ramp was down... and the indoor Space speedramp was always down. so, on second thought, maybe weather had nothing to do with it. perhaps people would get hurt/trip/fall and CM's would simply stop them, or, hooligans discovered the e-stop button and would do it.

hmm, and here i thought i had an answer when i started this post. LOL

but, off topic, i'm all a twitterpated --i'm going on a Matterhorn walkthough -- or is it an expedition?

[Not Afraid]

"They'll go UP a waterfall?"

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

"They'll go UP a waterfall?"

Julie Reihm was hot

[JWBear]

POTC is dead to me.

[Kevy Baby]

I like most of what they did with POTC. I'm of the ilk who belives that Disneyland is not a museum.

Flame away.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I like most of what they did with POTC. I'm of the ilk who belives that Disneyland is not a museum.

Flame away.

We've been through this. None of us are anti-change. Most of us are anti-halfass change. Either do it right or don't do it at all.

[Alex]

I don't really see it as half-assed, either (thought that's subjective). My only complaint was that the Depp animatronics should be a bit more cartoonish to match the style of the other pirates, but I'm fine with the amount of integration and change.

I don't feel it was ruined, nor particularly augmented. Just different.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I like most of what they did with POTC. I'm of the ilk who belives that Disneyland is not a museum.

Flame away.

I don’t want it to be a museum either, but neither will I not remain quiet as the heart, soul, and magic of the place is torn away bit by bit. POTC told a story. That story has now been scrambled by the arbitrary inclusion of references and characters from movies that were only loosely based on the ride. The unified whole that the original designers worked so hard to create has been destroyed. It’s like sticking a High Victorian turret on a Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

I never understood the ideology that all change must be embraced. Not all change is for the good, and that which is not should be resisted vigorously.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

If the changes aren't taken out of the ride a full year after the third movie comes out on DVD, I'm going to start a full-scale complaint assault to get them removed. Call the papers, march on City Hall (every time I visit), emails, phone calls, letters.

I mean it. Who's with me?

[innerSpaceman]

I am.

The entire piece of resistance has been gutted and ruined. The creepy tunnel of ghostly pirate voices that blossoms magically onto a an impossbily indoor scene of an outdoor, nighttime pirate ship battle. (One that's really happening, as opposed to one with recognizable motion picture score blarring. One with a classic pirate captain who became one of Disneyland's most famous creations, as opposed to one with a mocking wax museum robot of a movie star).

Originally Posted by JWBear

Not all change is for the good, and that which is not should be resisted vigorously.

Aaaaaarrrrrh!