Underwhelming 'Fantasy'

Originally Posted By HMButler79

The more details that come out, the more boring this project seems. A 40min Meet n Greet? WHAT?? This generates none of the excitement of Fantasyland '81-'83

<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-daily-disney/os-disney-fantasyland-d23-20110516,0,5808598.story" target="_blank">http://www.orlandosentinel.com...98.story</a>

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

It all sounds pretty good to me.

 

Originally Posted By HokieSkipper

I'm excited for the Mine Train, and Mermaid will be a nice addition. But yea, a 40 minute meet and greet is horrendous.

Also...

<<Beatty said they had adjusted to the initial reaction to the Fantasyland expansion — that it seemed awfully girly.>>

Didn't the cheat sheet they put out a few months ago say exactly the opposite of that?

 

Originally Posted By HMButler79

WDI never had the umm "cojones" to admit it. The re-do plans in Jan made it seem like Staggs was admitting it, but WDI never really came out and said anything. But it's STILL girly. Names don't matter. The CONTENT of the attractions is still girl oriented. And i am NOT thrilled with the Mine Train. NO Dark Forest, NO Queens Castle, NO Queens Dungeon, NO Witch at Cauldorn. Sorry, all the scary stuff is gone.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

^^^ Do we know that for sure, yet? I've heard the Witch will be back.

 

Originally Posted By magic0214

I am looking forward to Mermiad and I am really curious to see how the rocking motion works.

 

Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt

YEAH! New stuff!

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

Well, I'm speechless...

Speechless at the headline:
>>More Fantasyland plans showed during D23 event<<

Showed? SHOWED?

I should have knowed that a paper down South might do that in print...

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

>>The doubled Dumbo ride will get a new color scheme, doing away with pastels in favor of a 1940s feel to reflect the colors in the film.<<

The film is full of pastel colors. It was the last feature until Lilo and Stitch to use only watercolor backgrounds, which tend to be very pastel-ey. I'm not certain about the WDW version, but the DL version of the ride uses much more bold and bright colors than what's found in the film. I think the colors work very well in a real-world setting, but it's strange that they claim that they're taken from the film, since it's a completely different palette.

 

Originally Posted By Christi22222

^^Lol! I gotta agree with Dug, that's BAD!

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

IMHO, Fantasyland will still feel inferior to DL and DLP unless they sort out those aweful carnival facades of the front end.

Asthetically it will all make a big difference, but I agree with HMButler, this still does not feel as grand as the New Fantasyland of Disneyland in the early 80's. Though it could be due to the fact that I was my son's age when that one reopened.

I must confess though, I am disappointed with the direction of travel with regards to these aweful meet and greets. But when you have middle age women doing trip reports where every photo is a meet and greet, and most parents on other bulletin boards are fawning over planning the M&G's (the same ones that when they return home had skipped Pirates of the Caribbean or Carousel of Progress or Spaceship Earth), it shows how the mentality has really changed about Disney parks.

I think it is somewhat amusing though, as people fawn over the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but moan about Disney. Both are about shoving IPR. But as they say, it's not what you do, but the way that you do it. Universal have developed a whole immersive environment, Disney on the other hand seem to be segmenting the parks like markets are segmented by their chieftans.

 

Originally Posted By dshyates

My favorite line from the article:

"The new wall that divides Cinderella Castle from the rest of Fantasyland will run through where the Dumbo ride currently sits. It will look old."

 

Originally Posted By -em

>>"The new wall that divides Cinderella Castle from the rest of Fantasyland will run through where the Dumbo ride currently sits. It will look old."<<

WHAT?!? It won't look new and modern?

I do wonder what the view through the castle will be without the carousel visible behind it cause I heard that was silently disappearing... (which if true makes me really mad)

-em

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

I seriously doubt the carousel would disappear. It is a MK style park icon (there is even a merchandise range for it in Paris), and every MK park has one. Even DCA and TDS got one.

 

Originally Posted By Christi22222

Wow, I know carousel's are old school, but they are a fantastic piece of kinetic energy. They are also a beautiful piece of art that adds character and theme to the area even if you never choose to ride it. I would be stunned if this went away. I mean, I'm none too thrilled with TDO, but that would make no sense to me.

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

I would be shocked if they removed the carousel. While it's not anything that will draw people to WDW, it's just expected to be there (though I guess that's like having a ferris wheel around the time DL opened). It's a great way to kill a few minutes while waiting for a FP, and something nice to look at as you walk by. If it's removed, it will leave a very large open space with nothing in it, even with the new wall.

Plus, didn't they just give it a top-of-the-line makeover to become Prince Philip Regal Carousel? There's no way they would to that for a temporary solution! : )

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

A 40 minute meet n greet that you're not required to experience. I curse you Disney.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

>>>IMHO, Fantasyland will still feel inferior to DL and DLP unless they sort out those aweful carnival facades of the front end.<<<

See, I don't know why we can't have both.

Granted, I think that the tents need work, and greenery to look their best, but, with both areas merging into each other, it would make for a very differentiated Fantasyland.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

>>>I do wonder what the view through the castle will be without the carousel visible behind it cause I heard that was silently disappearing... (which if true makes me really mad)<<<


I really doubt that it'd go away forever... but maybe they'll need to close it while work goes on? Or move it, like in DL?

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

You've never been to the others EE, for me, once you've experienced the more fully realised FL's, Florida's feels aweful.