Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=75985" target="_blank"><b>Latest: LATimesFunland: Disney California Adventure: A peek into what the future may hold</b></a> <p>Brady MacDonald of the Los Angeles Times gathers together the various rumored "blue sky" proposals for Disney California Adventure's redesign. </p>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Interesting read...sort of... It's like he's compiled rumors from message boards like LP.com and created a list of what might be... This made me laugh too... <* Grizzly River Rapids receives animatronic bears, condors and other creatures once envisioned for the raft ride. Animatronic characters under construction for the Grizzly Trail area at Hong Kong Disneyland would fit perfectly.> Vindication will me mine!!!!!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros But Jim, you should know by now that there's no way to see things on the banks of the river. With the spinning and other people in the rafts blocking the view, there's just no point. And the water is known to cause blindness... : )
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'm not buying the idea of an "e-ticket outdoor adventure attraction or mine train ride" on the redwood creek trail location. Much of this site sits chock-a-block up against the GCH hotel. It seems unlikely they'd operate a major attraction all day every day literally feet away from guest rooms and balconies and pool decks. A lot of what he includes are just dusty old rumors that came and went years ago - like 'philharmagic'. He also points to locations and says "e-ticket here". I need more details than that to qualify it as a "rumor".
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Yes, gadzuxx, there was a lot in that article that I think we can pretty much forget about. The Green Army Men parachute drop for instance.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Anyone with access to LP and a cuisinart could have written that article.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Yes, gadzuxx, there was a lot in that article that I think we can pretty much forget about. The Green Army Men parachute drop for instance.<< Now that there's the same atrocity sitting in Walt Disney Studios Paris ......... <a href="http://www.dlrptoday.com/images/2010/04/21_toysoldiers_02.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.dlrptoday.com/image...s_02.jpg</a> ....... Who wants this sitting in the "victorian" styled Paradise Pier ????
Originally Posted By oc_dean >> Interesting read...sort of... It's like he's compiled rumors from message boards like LP.com and created a list of what might be... << A Micechat poster said the same thing: "The article really was just a rehash of MC discussions and a few leaks that we all know about." But my feel .. is this writer compiled a list of not just what the online community has said .. but with an ear to WDI as well. My concern ... is Disney puts no effort to not one single ORIGINAL attraction for the future .. but just continues down the same pipeline to creating a host of rides that are clear "Synergistic Pushes" to their Cartoon World Arsenal .. from Disney's own library, newer or older ... or worse yet - More Pixar!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Now that there's the same atrocity sitting in Walt Disney Studios Paris ......... <a href="http://www.dlrptoday.com/image...s_02.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.dlrptoday.com/image...s_02.jpg</a> ....... Who wants this sitting in the "victorian" styled Paradise Pier ????> Agreed, oc_dean. It's just as much of an eyesore as the MaliBOOMer. And we just got rid of that!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Now that there's the same atrocity sitting in Walt Disney Studios Paris" And HKDL. "My concern ... is Disney puts no effort to not one single ORIGINAL attraction for the future .. but just continues down the same pipeline to creating a host of rides that are clear "Synergistic Pushes" to their Cartoon World Arsenal .. from Disney's own library, newer or older ... or worse yet - More Pixar!" I hear you! I've pretty much come to accept the fact that this is the new Disney. It was a hard pill to swallow, but there's really no point now in complaining about it because this is just the way that they do things now.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle ^A double-edged sword to be sure. The "synergies" created by such an approach no doubt generate the very revenues that allow them to continue to put in more and more new attractions at a relatively rapid pace (3 next year, 4 in 2012). No doubt if Disney were more daring and gave us all-original non-toon-based attractions that both educated and entertained, these would be fewer and further between. But higher quality experiences. Quantity vs. quality. I suppose quantity via "synergy" wins out by way of a healthier bottom line.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo But I have always preferred quality that rewards patience. It seems I am old fashioned.
Originally Posted By Ohana It's a reminder why newspapers are going out of business. It isn't NEWS if everyone has already been discussing it online for weeks.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle Dave, not "old-fashioned", just a totally different approach. Quality/patience simply does not agree with today's instant-shareholder-value-maximization-focus of current management.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Ironically, the original DCA design had plenty of original attractions. The problem is that no effort was put into them except for Soarin'. I wonder if the failure of DCA and its original attractions is why they are focusing so much on character-centric attractions now, under the mistaken belief that it was the original attractions that people did not want.
Originally Posted By tashajilek ". It seems unlikely they'd operate a major attraction all day every day literally feet away from guest rooms and balconies and pool decks." It works fine with the NY NY hotel in Vegas. It would be nice to get ride of the trail, but probably not going to happen.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I wonder if the failure of DCA and its original attractions is why they are focusing so much on character-centric attractions now, under the mistaken belief that it was the original attractions that people did not want." That might be true if it weren't for the fact that the content of every Disney park, with maybe the exception of EPCOT, is slowly being undergoing a similar character-centric transformation. Just look at the recent additions to DL over the past decade.
Originally Posted By tashajilek It seems like everything Disney does now is character-centric and geared towards children only. The Christmas special was terrible! It seemed like it was made for children and preeteens only.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I stopped watching the Christmas Parade on TV years ago. It's nothing but a 2-hour long infomercial for Disney now.
