Originally Posted By FerretAfros America Sings Great Moments with Mr Lincoln Dutch Boy Color Gallery Skyway (Fantasyland station) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea exhibit Babes in Toyland set walkthrough in Main Street Opera House Primeval World and Grand Canyon Dioramas Motor Boat Cruise Fantasyland Autopia Midget Autopia Pirates of the Caribbean
Originally Posted By mousermerf I find the premise of the Dutch Boy Color Gallery strangely compelling...
Originally Posted By mousermerf I looked it up - I actually quite like it. It's like an early Epcot pavilion. As it existed, I suppose it really didn't fit in Tomorrowland but it'd be perfect for Epcot.
Originally Posted By mousermerf And maybe, just maybe.. if the Dutch Boy Color Gallery had stuck around chiming for good color combinations and buzzing bad ones certain Imagitards wouldn't be putting the wrong colors atop "jewels" across the way. I'm just sayin.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance When someone says "Im just sayin" it reminds me of Hannah Montana. That's one of her catch phrases.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros When I flew into Los Angeles in January, I had that song stuck in my head. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one, as we had all just hopped off a plane in LAX...
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I bet more people than would care to admit would list that song among one of their guilty pleasures.
Originally Posted By capteoyes America Sings - The theater showed off Walt's Future Technology in theater performance. Ahead of its time that has not been duplicated. Great Moments with Mr Lincoln Really? I think this fits perfectly. On Main Street, a setting close to early 1900's, turn of the Century, nostalgic, just like Lincoln. A great fit. Dutch Boy Color Gallery -Once again, fits well. Showed off a futuristic view of art by combining colors, musical notes. Another "ahead of its time" representation of Art. Skyway (Fantasyland station) Wow! Why would this even be on your list? Skyway is a transportation system, moving from one land to another. And, the concept of moving vehicles in the sky nicely fits into a Tomorrowland or Fantasy of Flight environment. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea exhibit I am really surprised with these choices. 20K represents Sci-Fi which fits it nicely to tomorrowland. <a href="http://www.20kride.com/photos_other_dl.html" target="_blank">http://www.20kride.com/photos_..._dl.html</a> Babes in Toyland set walkthrough in Main Street Opera House Well, seeing all these "exhibits", I believe your are stretching this debate from legitimate, intended to be permanent attractions. However, most any exhibit on Main Street works, as Main Street represents a a street close to what Walt experienced growing up. And, any street USA can have any exhibit in the world and it will work. Primeval World and Grand Canyon Dioramas ? The train is in a "limbo area" of Disneyland. In a sense, most of the train ride is. And this limbo area is basically 2 new areas, Primeval World and Grand Canyon. And the voice even sets this up by "going back in time" close to tomorrowland, so, even that would work. Motor Boat Cruise Any ride where a child can control that he/she can't normally control in real life is a "fantasy"...definitely fits into Fantasyland, especially with cut out animated characters in the ride. Fantasyland Autopia See above. Fits well into Fantasy theme. Midget Autopia ...or the futuristic vision of cars being driven by children. Pirates of the Caribbean Bayou? New Orleans? The fact the New Orleans from way back was associated with Pirates. Great fit.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Monster's Inc, thematically, is actually a perfect fit for Tomorrowland, for all of the reasons I mentioned above.< We've both stated our feelings on this multiple times, so I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 < And Imagineers, the arbiters of what attraction should be placed in which land, has agreed with me, so, I will side with them!> I would strongly suspect that the imagineers did not decide to place MILF in TL per se; rather, the higher-ups decided that a) another show of this type could work as a replacement attraction; b) Monsters was a movie tie-in that could sell merch and extend the value of the franchise; and that c) Monsters could fit "well enough" in TL if you stretched the definition of TL far enough.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA America Sings <- The theater showed off Walt's Future Technology in theater performance. Ahead of its time that has not been duplicated.> Eh. Pushing it here, I think. Perhaps the Carousel of Progress was the future, but America Sings appeared at Disneyland in 1974 -- and was more of a push to capitalize on the America's Bicentennial celebration than anything else.
Originally Posted By danyoung I think a case could be (barely) made that anything with AA's in it could qualify as a futuristic presentation. But I didn't buy it with America Sings either. Add to that the facts that I didn't much care for the show and I really missed the Carousel of Progress and you have a lose lose lose for me. At least I can still enjoy the Carousel in the MK, although it usually is in need of quite a bit of TLC.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^The Carousel of Progress would be a great attraction to update. Give it to an up-and-coming-hotshot Imagineer and see if he can make it work. It's a great concept, and could work if some thought and ingenuity were put into a new script.
Originally Posted By Manfried Now we hear from the "authentic themers" who seem to have no imagination. Who really cares unless its way out of whack. None on that list is way out of whack.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Nor is Captain EO, nor Monsters. That was my point in making the list. There have aways been attractions that don't quite fit in with the theme of their respective area (sci-fi 20K in a realistic modern future based TL, Caribbean pirates in a land based on New Orleans, Civil War-era presentation set at the turn of the century, etc). There is always a scale of how well an attraction fits in an area. Nothing is ever completely out of place, and its almost never completely within the theme (with the exception of things like the Canoes, Twain, and Main Street Vehicles, I can't think of anything that's a perfect match). The idea of Monsters Inc kind of fits in with the science fiction turn that TL has been on in the last 25 years. Captain EO also fits that outline. Yes, EO is horribly dated, and Monsters aren't remotely futuristic, so they don't completely fit in Tomorrowland, but then again does the Innoventions Dream Home really inspire us with hope for a grand new future? Not so much.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Pirates is the centerpiece of New Orleans Square, with good reason. And as far as Skyway in Fantasyland goes, the quotation (from Alice in Wonderland) was, "High above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky." So there. Now, try to explain Art Corner/Streets of Paris in Tomorrowland...
