Originally Posted By magnet I've got the idea for the GMR rehab! We'll call it the Great Reality TV Ride. It will showcase all your favorite moments from classic reality television shows like Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, Survivor, etc. Remember all those timeless moments? Shouldn't we enshrine them forever (or at least the next twenty years) in a re-imagined GMR? Wait...what are those timeless moments you ask? What about when Richard Hatch won the very first Survivor contest? There's one to savor with your grandkids, right? Wow, wouldn't that be a simply abysmal ride? Nonetheless, it's a reflection of where entertainment has gone (Yeah, straight down the you-know-where!).
Originally Posted By MPierce >> They are popular, to some degree. But anyone who says they are as popular as rides has a screw loose(not speaking to you, obviously). << But I consider that a fair statment on most of my opinions.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Wow, wouldn't that be a simply abysmal ride? Nonetheless, it's a reflection of where entertainment has gone (Yeah, straight down the you-know-where!). << A sad reality of what is being presented as modern entertainment.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<Happy you should put the shells in your dh's tomato plants. Calcium.>> I'm not allowed to touch dh's plants & that's fine with me!!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I'm not allowed to touch dh's plants & that's fine with me!! << Tomato plants are a sacred thing!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 As I said, "one of the few." in reality aren't all us here really just part of the 'few'
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Like meet and greets! That's what everyone wants these days, right? << not me-- but I also acknowledge there is a very large contingent who does -- there is also a large group that wants to eat with them every meal... I recognize I am in the majority in that compared to most people attending there--
Originally Posted By sjhym33 While I agree that there is a large contingent of guests who love the meet and greets at the parks BUT I dont think many of them would say that is the primary reason that they visit WDW. Where I think the Fanstasyland addition goes wrong is that there should have been 2 or 3 new attractions. I think the Little Mermaid will probably end up being a D-Ticket and then add the meet and greets around it. It seems that Disney has it backwards. Meanwhile...The Great Movie Ride still needs a rehab.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<How about we do a Chester, and Hester type setting over in the AK. We take the premise of Lost. Put all the super heros on a plane headed on vacation. It crashes in the remote regions of Africa. We build the attractions around that. What do you think? It makes as much sense as Dinorama doesn't it?>> Don't give them any ideas.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<If you think people go to Disney theme parks to see stage shows. Raise your hands.>> I'm still not sure I get your point. Should Disney have no stage shows? They've always been part of the experience and are quite popular. Even tired old crap like the ancient Beauty and the Beast still attracts crowds. And REAL entertainment ... non-foamhead ... stuff like the old Diamond Horseshoe Reviews used to pack people in. Again, what's your point? <<They go to see the attractions, the big shows like the fireworks and stuff like Fantasmic.>> Sure. But they go for the whole package and stage show always have been part of it. Just like dining and shopping and meeting Mickey (for some). <<Standard stage shows few, except hardcore fanbois, make a trip to see at a theme park. Want to see a stage show? Take in a play or a musical in your town. Want something special? Go to Disney.>> Still trying to get your point ... I guess you just don't like Disney Entertainment and the shows it puts on?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 some people only like things that go wheee ! everything else requires more attention.. that is fairly common now..
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom DHS is probably my least favorite Disney park in Florida. Last trip I don't even think I entered the park. I'm not going to spend time of the TGMR. In my opinion there are other larger "elephants' in the room. For example doesn't anyone at Disney think it's time to rebuild Star Tours? Bulldoze it and start again this time with something more like Soaring. Mumpets is absolutely stale. There is very little of interest in the back of the park. And could Disney please put some sort of transportation ( a raised trolley perhaps ) to help with the walk from the back of the park to the front of the park. The MK has the train. EPCOT has the boats. Can DHS please have something, anything. Mary Poppins ballons perhaps?
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub This is a quote from a book I am reading "Little do they know how many miles their feet will tread to their future". This is from the Historical Letters 1854-1855 about the brave families that settled the West in a covered wagon. The children walked alongside the wagons because the necessary provisions were in the wagons and to save the animals strength.Usually the children were allowed only in the wagon during the heat of the day to take a nap. I think about this whenever I start to complain about walking in Disneyland.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I'll take covered wagons! Even that is an improvement over nothing. If there was one thing that Walt was an expert on it was crowd control. And he made it a hallmark of his parks to have modes of transportation to keep crowds from forming and moving. His first park Disneyland had unique "lands" built around a central hub with various modes of transportation, fire truck, horse drawn trolley going up and down Main Street. Along with that Walt devised a track with steam trains circling his park with various "stations" which guests could exit the train in the various lands. He also put in his park a gondola lift attraction called skyway which transported riders from Fantacyland to Tomorrowland. This was all topped off of course by a monorail system with initially transported guests between Disneyland and the Disney Hotel. Flash forward to DHS which has absolutely none of the above. No skyway, no trolleys, no train, no monorail, no boats. Zip! Would it be asking too much if Disney could put something, anything in that park to help with the flow or visitors from the back of the park to the front of the park.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I might also add that the American West Pioneers didn't have to deal with the humidity of Florida's summers.
