Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Mine too. About 3-4 years ago, they cut down the old, mature Town Square trees and replaced them with seedlings like you'd see at a Fla strip center. They stopped planting flowers years ago. Just cypress wood chips, like I use in my beds. Unlike the beautiful flower beds and pots and baskets in the other MK's, Florida's gets nothing. But hey, they did take away the curbs like in a real Main Street!
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>About 3-4 years ago, they cut down the old, mature Town Square trees and replaced them with seedlings like you'd see at a Fla strip center.<< That drove me nuts and DID look very ugly, but what was even worse was when they yanked the plaza trees along with the sparkle lights. Sure, the DL Plaza always had a smaller prescence of tress, but look at the scale of their castle! I hated the justification. That comparison and the notion that they needed better viewings for Cinderbrellationshipiolousih.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Agreed, Mike. I hate the bare look of the flat MK Hub. It used to sparkle at night and it looked ... well, magical.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Unlike the beautiful flower beds and pots and baskets in the other MK's, Florida's gets nothing.<< I noticed that heavily used around the new Pooh Playground. Very good observation. It really is the case.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>It used to sparkle at night and it looked ... well, magical.<< Who needs that ol' outdated fanboy magic when dreams and wishes are magically being made every day! Talk about obsessive Spirit!
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite "Agreed, Mike. I hate the bare look of the flat MK Hub. It used to sparkle at night and it looked ... well, magical." I'm with you. I have not been to WDW that many times, but from all the pictures I have seen now, the hub really looks like concrete plaza now. Hate to make another DL comparison, but they took out the big, big trees in our hub at DL to open up the hub and make the castle feel a bit larger (and I am sure a few other reasons), and they left in some of the not so large trees. They left the ones with the pretty pink flowers, and overall, our hub now feels nice and open, but still keeping its old charm. I don't see why better decisions couldn't have been made with MK's hub. Doing it all for Cindybration is ridiculous. Castle shows did just fine with the old hub. Now the hub is just way to bare, especially with a giant castle looming over it. Those old trees brought in all into perspective. Now if they had done Cindybration in true Tokyo style, then I could see the justification. They really need to go back and put in some trees that have pretty colorful blossoms and that don't get too thick, and the hub could look so much better.
Originally Posted By ChiMike ^ The removal at DL was certainly not as drastic as the MK's. As you said, the DL one was reasonable and showed that expert consideration was used. Like many other things at MK and EPCOT, WDW just went in and hacked everything up with little regard.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Yes. Every old tree on Main Street from the Town Square down to the waterways and the Hub were all butchered. And it wasn't for Cindy's Costume Sellathon. It was to provide better views of the castle during Wishes, which makes little sense to me since they put such few (and lackluster) projections on it to begin with.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 And none of us are buying the thought it could be a 'minimalist' art movement in the pulling back on landscaping details
Originally Posted By ChiMike Unless you are someone who thought the DL tram loading area was a masterpiece of art expression.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Clearly Mike doesn't understand why the giant green traffic cones were supposed to evoke the elegant topiaries of Europe. Some people are just can't take a hint when it's right in front of them. : )
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Unless you are someone who thought the DL tram loading area was a masterpiece of art expression.>> Body blow ... that hoit. But I need to go back to the girls and our sofa paintings.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Clearly Mike doesn't understand why the giant green traffic cones were supposed to evoke the elegant topiaries of Europe. Some people are just can't take a hint when it's right in front of them. : )<< I know I'm just some tourist scum yokel. Whered be the hot dogs and a place I can hook'up with some smokes.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>But I need to go back to the girls and our sofa paintings.<< I wonder if any of that art now graces some of the GAP outlet stores.
Originally Posted By Disneybrad "I hated the justification. That comparison and the notion that they needed better viewings for Cinderbrellationshipiolousih." Plus that they somehow cut them down, 4 years before Cinderellabration, opened in anticipation of it, if even more asounding, I think you give them to much credit. The fact the the root system was growning into the roof of the utilidor, had nothing to do with it.
Originally Posted By ChiMike ^ Brad, you are correct. Spirit had already corrected me. I had my timeframe wrong. >>The fact the the root system was growning into the roof of the utilidor, had nothing to do with it.<< And, no, it had nothing to do with it because what they replaced them with looked like some Italian grapevine. They wanted easy open viewing. Lots of things had to give way for the fireworks including a shuttered Fantasyland. If it was all about the roots they could have planeted similiar replacements.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Yeah, but that doesn't make for a good excuse when curious cast ask why these beautiful mature trees have been butchered. Kind of like they had to remove 20,000 Leagues because it kept flooding the tunnels ;-)
