Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>You're right, I hope when I'm in my 80s I'm on stage in skin tight clothes exciting the audience too<< If I wind up in my 80's on stage in skin tight clothes, it'll be because someone has mixed up my medications.
Originally Posted By danyoung >But what about my other assertion that the ride itself is out of place in Critter Country? No one's taken that one on yet.< I tend to agree that it would have been a better fit in Fantasyland, both for its subject matter and its style of ride - more like Pinnochio and Snow White and Pan. But it still works for me in Critter Country.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Agreed, especially if the ride they would have removed would have been Mr.Toad. ANd Pooh meet&greet has always been there Correct?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Good grief all you over-thinking Disney dweebs. It's a theme park. An escape from reality. You want historical accuracy, buy it and turn it into a museum.> Blame Disney for the discussion in this and other threads about theme-ing, and where various elements of a Disney theme park belong. Disney is the company that started telling uo how awesome they are when it comes to creating theme parks. Theme-ing. Transitions. Attention to Detail. Special Icons (Weenies) that draw guests to each location in the park. Earthen berms to keep the real world outside the park. The HUB. Disney likes to brag about how good they are at designing theme parks -- and how they're industry leaders in all of the various elements that make great parks. Their own 'Disney Theme Park Design Bible.' And in many cases that is absolutely correct. Early Disneyland is one of the best examples of a beautifully designed theme park. But the 'rules' have been stretched and squashed like Chip and Dale in one of their animated shorts. And when a park like DCA is designed and constructed, a park Disney essentially take their own bible, and throws it out the window -- we're not supposed to notice. Or if we do notice, we're being 'picky' or 'Dis-Noids' or (my personal favorite) 'thinking about it too much.' My favorite was when DCA opened and the designers claimed that they wanted the 'real' California to be seen from inside the park -- That way they were able to justify why the gigantic powerlines, Anaheim Convention Center and Katella Avenue could be seen from inside DCA. 'Bear Country' changing to 'Critter Country'? Whatever -- it's sort of a generic name for a land anyway. A land devoted to... 'critters' -- okay... It's like these theme parks with the theme of 'movies' -- boring. 'Winnie-the-Pooh' in 'Critter Country' -- count me in as one who thinks it's lame. And then, adding a super cheap-o dark ride like 'The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' -- with a pedigree of really amazing, creative and beautifully artistic dark rides in Disneyland -- blecch. But we're not supposed to notice. See, we've been educated on Disney theme park design over the past 50 years, and sorry, but sometimes, we know the rules better than the current crop of Imagineers who are put in charge of these projects. Many here cry 'budget' or 'hey, Disney's a business' or 'Monsters are futuristic' or whatever you want to say. Fact is, the 'Disney Theme Park Bible' is now a pick and choose sort of thing.
Originally Posted By Manfried Jim in Merced: "Fact is, the 'Disney Theme Park Bible' is now a pick and choose sort of thing." Duh.
Originally Posted By capteoyes <What they put there was ENGLISH STUFFED ANIMALS. No, it does NOT fit, it's ridiculous to imagine they COULD fit, and Disney did it all for the money.> Ha! That's funny Mr. X. Not even close to destroying us. More like a Kleenex falling on a feather! Though you too are over-thinking this. Stuffed animals? Pooh is based on famous books and animated movies, just as Song of the South character are. Pooh is NOT based on famous PLUSH or stuffed animals. The are animals, and, if you read the definition of a Critter, it reads: <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/critter" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/critter</a> Pooh is a BEAR, Christopher Walken is a HUMAN. Tigger is a TIGER. All Critters, according to any dictionary you can find.
Originally Posted By capteoyes <If people can accept Splash Mountain, filled with singing cartoon animals in Critter Country, I don't understand why Winnie the Pooh is so horribly out of place there as well.> Perfectly said, KartoonMan. Then X said: <***I don't understand why Winnie the Pooh is so horribly out of place there as well*** It just IS.> Well, that took a lot of thought now, didn't it!? Just sayin'. <Good grief all you over-thinking Disney dweebs. It's a theme park. An escape from reality. You want historical accuracy, buy it and turn it into a museum.> I second that, Manfried! LOL!!!!!! <Okay, if you say so - but why would they locate a country music jamboree in the pacific northwest?> HAHAHAHAHA! That's al I have to say! HAHAHAHAHA! BTW, one of the funniest topics EVER!!! I have tears in my eyes with laughter! Especially when a poster was singing the "stuffed with fluff" song! We went from Capt Eo Thumping floor to Critter Country and stuffed with fluff?? LOL!
Originally Posted By capteoyes <Umm, you have a vast misunderstanding of Pooh and the gang....> I do? Please explain this to me, and all of us, in GREAT detail, how a BEAR and a TIGER and a KANGAROO are NOT Critters?
Originally Posted By mousermerf They are indeed stuffed animals.. they are animals, but are stuffed animals. That's why eeyores tail keeps falling off, why tigger's tail has a spring in it and why piglet looks so weird.
Originally Posted By capteoyes You did not answer the question: How are they NOT Critters? Since the definition of a critter is a living, breathing organism, as all of the Pooh Characters are in Winnie the Pooh? Sure, they may at one time be stuff animals, though they come to life as LIVING BREATHING CRITTERS. They fit wonderfully into Critter Country! As much as Monster's Inc Laugh Floor fits into Tland. The bottom line is you may feel they are not the best fit. However, there is more than enough criteria there for the animated creatures from Pooh to be considered Critters, hence, Critter Country is just fine.
Originally Posted By mousermerf And they are, at all times, stuffed animals - they are never not stuffed animals.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Monster's inc doesn't fit into Tland..>> No and Lincoln doesn't fit into Old New Orleans Square, but there was a discussion of moving him there prior to the binural sound crap. Speaking of technology out of control, we just "Rode" Captain EO the other night. Wow, the floor undulations began to get to me to the point that I thought that I would need a cigarette after the performance. I can't even begin to go into how out of place 99% of the induced motion base is. And for a moment, I thought that Hooter was going to blow slobber all over us. Thankfully, Entertainment didn't put us through that part of HISTA. Oh well, you all get back to Pooh Corner now.
Originally Posted By mousermerf <<<< Thankfully, Entertainment didn't put us through that part of HISTA.>>> Entertainment would make no such decison - nor did they with the floor. WDI did... just so we're clear. Those folks, honest to god, have gotten on this forum and said can do no wrong in "their" parks.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Ack - typo. Those folks which "other" have have said - it's possible they've said it themselves, but lets not presume
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> Christopher Walken is a human? << He's gotten awfully cartoony lately.
