Originally Posted By dresswhites so how did they incorporate teh characters? did they still drape the rainforest/North America scene?
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 Went on it today. They incorporated some of the characters in small ways. Alice had poinsettias on her apron, Woody's lasso has sparkly stars on it, Ariel had a garland around her neck. I noticed Tink was missing. She wasn't flying around with Peter Pan. All the scenes have holiday overlays in them. I especially liked the Christmas Tree pinata and the wreaths made out of corn!
Originally Posted By DlandDug The America scene has been given a "Ho Ho Holidays" lighted sign, over the Hollywood Bowl arch. There is also a silhouette of Santa and his reindeer in the sky above. The music in America is a "twangy" guitar version of Deck the Halls and Jingle Bells.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 The silhouette of Santa and the reindeer is really cute. I knew I forgot some stuff. It's too detailed to remember everything.
Originally Posted By dresswhites tink seems to missing more often than not. she seems to be the donkey of small world. (the donkey from pirates always seems to missing)
Originally Posted By dresswhites so i just saw a video of small world holiday on youtube. i will withhold final judgement until i visit next week. as always the sets look beautiful with all the holiday overlay. the little pointsettia pedals on Alice and Cinderella are well done. The America scene looks good.i like the little gophers they added. But, i am not sure about the music. the little music undertones that accompany each Disney character doesn't seem to match jingle bells. i seem to notice them much more than during regular small world. It is just a little jarring. And i think they added one. I think you can make out part of your world in the mermaid scene. I don't understand why for the holiday version they also had to have the character music. like i said it is all right during the regular version. But it seems overkill for the holiday version. It really seems like Disney wants to prove the detractors right. that is all a commercial for their characters. In the regular version of small world, i didn't seem to notice this but with holiday version i am not so sure. also while the decorations are well done in the America scene, i really think this room should be draped as in years past and used as the transition from Jingle Bells to Deck the Halls. Now there really is no transition. It is all bright sets to bright sets. With the transition room you left a bright set, when into a darkened room and then you come to the finale which is the brightest set of all. It was very theatrical. with the scene uncovered this is lost, which is a shame. Obviously you tube isn't the same as being there, so we will see how it is like in person.
Originally Posted By Dznygrl Tink is missing AGAIN? Sheesh. I just saw her back in mid October and she seemed to have recovered from her seizure disorder. I guess she had a relapse!
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Went on it three times in a row early Saturday morning. That alone says something about my wife and I only a doctor could explain. Anyway, the Disney characters are incorporated rather nicely, although we were again left wondering what the point was of adding them at all. It wasn't as if the attraction was begging for something like that. They could be completely removed and not be missed. But I digress. What we noticed was the lack of the second big red archway in the Mexico section, the one with the clanging bell. There's only one archway this year, and then a string of luminarias where the second archway used to be. The last room, the Grand Finale, was really, almost jarringly bright, the downside of using too many LED lights. You get used to it soon enough, but entering there for the first time was a little bit if a shock. But overall, the attraction was very nice as usual, even with the out of place Disney characters.
Originally Posted By Bellella The Small World holiday overlay, in my view, is a bit over-decorated. If they should do anything to Small World, they should take out the Disney dolls for good. By the way SinglePark, there can never be too many LED lights in the park. They actually need more.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^People, the Disney dolls arent going away, sorry. The vast majority either likes them or doesnt care. But they will be there for as long as the ride is I suspect. And as much as I dont really like the ride in general, I DO like the Christmas overlays actually, so looking forward to riding it again.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I agree with WorldDisney that the dolls most likely are here to stay. Just like Jack Sparrow in POTC. The last scene for me when they do the overlay has been a but much. So bright and in your face with the rainbow lights. Never my fav. I do agree though that some of the awe factor is missing without the curtain this year.
Originally Posted By Bellella Pirates of the Caribbean and It's A Small World. Two from Walt's time attractions that have been changed forever and not for better. Let's hope they're the last.
Originally Posted By dresswhites like i said i am judging from a youtube video. when i see it in person i might like it more. i don't mind the characters in small world.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Bellella ... give it time. Newer managements have "a way" of erasing older decisions that newer managements see as mistakes. Fads don't last. Original, classic designs have a way of making their way back.
Originally Posted By Dis-Philip You heard what WorldDisney said, Bellella. The Disney characters are not leaving IaSW anytime in the future and Jack Sparrow is going remain in PotC forever. IMO, those are excellent additions to those attractions and do a great job of keeping them new and fresh.
Originally Posted By oc_dean It's interesting how he came into three topics on this subject .. just to say the exact same thing. If this isn't enough evidence of trollish behavior, more of the same type of "trolling" can be found in the WDW section.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<They are only fads. The real, timeless designs will return.>> What leads you to that conclusion? Are there fewer people riding IaSW, or more people complaining about it? Somehow I rather doubt it. Rather, I suspect that the current and future generations of kids will only know IaSW as it is now. They will grow up with the characters in the ride, and it won't be any less timeless to them than the old IaSW is to you.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Since it's the same old crew here at LP, as was at the time of all the debating over Small World and the Disney characters .. I won't waste anyone's time going into the artistic merits of 'it's a small world' and the changes that seem to come and go in Disneyland .. throughout the years. But history has proven .. that "classic" status in some things seem to trump over previous decisions that were ill conceived. Either done in vein, or just shear stupidity. DCA 1.0 was a failure. Now they are attempting to bring in "classic" Disney magic into the park with "DCA 2.0". Sleeping Beauty Castle's 1977 dioramas have been replaced with the attraction's first and original "art design" from 1957. Space Mountain's (now deemed - "classic") white cone exterior made it's way back into Tomorrowland, after a few years in it's brown - 1998 motif. Tomorrowland's ill-concieved "brown, bronze, copper" paint scheme of 1998 is being "washed away" .. as more and more classic futurism makes it's way back in .. with whites, and hints of blues, and silvers .. much like WDW's TL from 1971 to 1993 ..and to TDL's current TL. In 1993 in order to blend into the new neighborly Toon Town .. 'it's a small worlds' exterior was painted various pastel shades .. very much like DLP's. ONLY to have that decision overun by newer managements (just like all these other attractions) ... where the "classic" white design was brought back, and the color exterior now a thing of the past! NEXT......... Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is reported to have more of it's "classic" appeal REINSTALLED with Royal Dano's voice of the original 1965 "Abe's" voice to trump over the new voice used in 2001! N.E.X.T. .............. The "DL Classic attraction" Submarine Voyage was brought back to life! Putting the show they installed aside .... Imagineering wanted this CLASSIC attraction brought back to life .. after nearly a decade of being left to disintegrate. HOW ABOUT ANOTHER? The Enchanted Tiki Room. Many people worried that the show would be taken out. By either TDL's show .. or WDW's "New Management". Instead ... the decision makers of DL in the 90s who let the attraction rout ... was BROUGHT BACK to it's CLASSIC appeal .. by lovingly restoring it perfectly as it was in 1963! Thank you Matt Oimet (newer management) .. and a big "BOO" to the previous managment who let it rout. I have provided examples of one creative decision that brought change in one (seemingly good, at the time) form .. to LATER be rectified! Or as it says in the dictionary for "rectified": 1. To set right; correct. And time, and time again .... newer managements have had to set right .. and correct what others from the past have done. So .. it's only a matter of time, that a future regime will take another look at what was done to 'it's a small world', and if their minds and hearts are in the right place .. as it has for all those examples I have laid out .. it will only be a matter of time a committee will sit down, and take another look at what was done with 'it's a small world' .. with some perspective. It's too early now. But eventually .. someone will look at with objective eyes .. and make rational observations about the artistic merit of what holds true, and what does not.
