It's a Mickey world after all?

[€uroMeinke]

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

[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!

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

And beating the bush, too!

If only they handed out baseball bats at the Hall of Presidents at WDW...

[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.

[BarTopDancer]

For some reason I now have:

There are noooo cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese from American Tail in my head because of that comment Bill!

[Prudence]

So would the added characters appear as usual or would they be "Mary Blair-ed" versions? And if the latter, would that make it more palatable?