Originally Posted By goldenstate5 "Unpopular?" That's a laugh! Here are my recalled trips to DCA, all entering the Animation building sans the most recent: May 2001: Drawn to Animation is packed with a line, didn't go to see. July 2002: Drawn to Animation seen, with theater packed. December 2003: Drawn to Animation did not see, line in front, though. May 2004: Animation building PACKED due to ToT opening., didn't see Drawn to Animation though. July 2005: Animation building did not enter, but plenty of people seen entering. (stepped into Hollywood for only ToT and Muppets) Only seen once, but through my five visits, it was very busy according to my memory. I don't know about you guys, but it was very, very busy all the times I've been there, and as you see, my range goes from around the show's opening (along with the park) to pretty much its end (the last trip was right before August)...and seemed like it was doing well. Yes, the animation redo is baffling. Turtle Talk...I can understand? But why fix where you've gone right? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"...while Paradise Pier is screamin' (pun intended) for Project Sparkle...color me confused...
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^Wow, I can't recalled seeing word "PACKED" in a DCA thread as many times as I saw it in this post ;D.
Originally Posted By jmuboy VIDEO GAMES inside the animation pavilion? Good lord you have to be kidding? That or you work for 6 Flags?
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 That big main room is boring. It feels just like a movie theater lobby where we are forced to watch Disney commericals all day long. They should put those video games in there! Maybe even a mini playground or water play area. It could be princess themed because some of the stuff on the screen looks like princess movies. This is really what DCA needs because there is not enough for kids to do. Both the playground and the princesses are kid friendly. Also that expensive merchandise in the Off the Page shop needs to go. They have already added a lot more plush than they had at opening, but there are still too many statues that block my path, and a big painting wall that is taking up valuable tee shirt space. They should replace all the display cases with Crush dolls and walls with my favorite Disney Princess tees. I am wearing my favorite one right now, but it is getting kind of old. I hope they add more cool jasmine stuff, I am getting really tired of the Belle designs. they never change much. Those are just a few of my ideas, what do you guys think? just my two cents <a href="http://www.JiminPasadenaisntherebutIguessthisisagoodspotforanotherplugforoneofhiswebsitesmanthispageisgoingtogetreallyreallywidewiththislinkbesuretovisitourgiftshopforyourfavoritestitchjokeofthedayandallkindsofdiscountedpoohsweatersihopeyouliketherecentimprovmentsanddrawntoanimationisbeingremovedandtheanimationpavillionisgoingintothetoilet.com" target="_blank">http://www.JiminPasadenaisnthe rebutIguessthisisagoodspotforanotherplugforoneofhiswebsitesmanthispageisgoingtogetreallyreallywidewiththislinkbesuretovisitourgiftshopforyourfavoritestitchjokeofthedayandallkindsofdiscountedpoohsweatersihopeyouliketherecentimprovmentsanddrawntoanimationisbeingremovedandtheanimationpavillionisgoingintothetoilet.com</a>
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle >>That big main room is boring.<< I guess one person's boring is another person's inspiring...
Originally Posted By dingdong2U "Stop with the long jokes with no purpose but to mess with the thread." Gonzo: "What foolishness would you like to see?" ;-) But, seriously, in response to "Woody's" comment which was: "Another problem was the lack of publicity for the attraction. If it was a gem, it wasn't advertised at all. How about some posters on the OUTSIDE. There is no advertisement in the park. No won't know it exists unless you're an animation fan." That's how I think "Millionaire" got canned. Sure, it was frequented by a lot of "Annual Passholders" but there was no real advertising being done for it as well. Being set off in the corner next to two closed buildings (i.e. Superstar Limo & "Hollywood & Dine") and the events of 9/11 didn't really help matters either. But taking away the "Drawn to Animation" show is just simply wrong. The building is called the "Animation Building" for a reason. Granted there are several different types of animation but it was cool seeing what went into making some of the earlier animated titles.
Originally Posted By DisneyFreak96 This was one of the most boring things I've ever done in a Disney park. We went in, had a 'fake' animator tell some decent jokes and interact with the audience like at a comedy club for about 4 minutes or so, and then had a character from one of the least popular Disney cartoons joke on film with the CM for a couple until they 'pushed' the next Disney film. I walked out feeling like I had just sat through a movie preview. And the CM wasn't that bad, it was just so 'fake'. Fake animator, fake dialog with a cartoon character on film, and preview.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby Don't forget the fake dialog when you walk in, when the "animator" was chatting on the phone with his/her friend, and then has to hang up with the friend because people have just entered his/her "office." I liked this little show but the fakeness quotient of that whole contrivance was painful.
Originally Posted By danyoung >That big main room is boring. It feels just like a movie theater lobby where we are forced to watch Disney commericals all day long.< I guess we won't be visiting together any time soon, Brigman. This lobby is one of the coolest things Disney has ever done. I look at it as an attraction in itself. Every visit, I'll spend at least 20 minutes or so just standing there slack jawed, enjoying the bombardment of images and music from the incredible catalog of Disney animation. And I'm totally pleased that the princesses are out - they got in the way of my slack jawed standing!
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 I agree with you completely danyoung, I was being sarcastic. At park opening I ranked the Animation lobby alongside Soarin as the two greatest experiences. Unfortunately on my last trip with the meet and greets in there, a lot of the splendor and immersiveness of the experience had been destroyed. Diaper changes occuring on the couches as the parents waited to meet Cinderella also affected my feelings quite a bit. I'm glad to hear they have left the building. And during a hot summer day I can grab a cool drink and sit in that lobby for an entire loop of the films. It is a fantastic creation, and the way the presentation is setup, I beleive that it shows that the artsy/hip/alcohol drinking orignal ideas of the park could have worked alongside the Disney characters. It is too bad they abandoned the idea completely before the first year was over. It is a more "sophisticated" experience, I believe.
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 Oh, and I cant believe the people that brought us the Animation Pavillion also gave us Superstar Limo, the Soarin theater and queue just before we enter it, the Screamin queue (Heck, all of Paradise Pier), and Steps in Time. What's up with that?
Originally Posted By danyoung >I agree with you completely danyoung, I was being sarcastic.< I guess it helps reading the entire post, eh? For some reason, messages 21-30 come up really wide screen on my computer, so I didn't take the time to scan back & forth and finish reading. Sorry bout that. So, maybe we will be visiting that lobby together some time soon???
Originally Posted By DisneyFreak96 Count me in danyoung and BrigmanMT 2. I love the lobby (just not the Mishu show.) I'll meet you two there and bring the wine and cheese. You'll know me as I'll be the one with a stroller with Banon where the babies head should be.
Originally Posted By 8ab Lemme get this straight.. I understand thier taking out Drawn to Animation.. But the article states that thier removing the whole "Art of Animation"?! And turning it into Chicken Little's house?.. Theres not going to be all the screens and music, backdrops, concepts, etc etc surrounding you? This is my favorite thing in the WHOLE Disneyland Resort.. Please say I've gotten it wrong. such a shame.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oooooooh, this news is enough to make a witch's cauldron boil over!! I LOVE the cavernous screening room with all those incredible scenes from our favorite Disney films!! Whenever WE visit the place, it certainly doesn't seem to be so vacant. (The Drawn to Animation thingy does, though.) But the screening room with it's incredible atmosphere is SO much more inspiring than a....what did you say? A home for Chicken Little?! What kind of a bird brain idea is that? ORDDU: And if CHICKEN LITTLE fails at the box office, they're going to regret drawing attention to it by wasting all that space on yet another failed movie. Just leave some things alone, please!!
