Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Or we talking about Screamin' or Soarin?> My bad. I was writing Screamin' but thinking Soarin' Over California.
Originally Posted By Ohana <<<Every park at WDW has visual intrusions and they had 47 sq miles to work with. AK you can see the Epcot resort area while riding Expedition Everest Epcot you can see the Swan and Dolphin. Easily the biggest mistake ever as it ruins views from the World Showcase. MK you can see the Contemporary Hotel DHS you can see Epcot hotels from TOT. DL still has visual intrusions. Ride the monorail, see Harbor Blvd. Bottom line is Maliboomer and MFW have many of the same views that every other Disney Park does. It wasn't just a DCA problem.>>> Excellent points when people get so worked up about the sightlines of Maliboomer or other DCA attractions...
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Speaking of visual intrusions, what about this: <a href="http://www.disneyfrontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/hong_kong_disneyland_sleeping_beauty_castle.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.disneyfrontier.com/...stle.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance They make the castle look dollhouse size. Which park is that?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Hong Kong Disneyland. More images showing the surrounding hillside: <a href="http://www.yesterland.com/images-tomorrowland/rocketjets_orbitronhk.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.yesterland.com/imag...onhk.jpg</a> <a href="http://www.coasterforce.com/images/parkguides/hongkongdisney/main%201.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.coasterforce.com/im...%201.jpg</a> The natural beauty of the site is remarkable, but I don't know... that view down Main Street is so odd to me.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Yeah, it's distracting to everything inside the park. Your eye is drawn to the hills rather than the castle or trees or shops.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The mountains are really nice in person. Instead of intruding as you guys claim, they blur the line between what's real and what's not. They fit the theme of all of the lands nicely (except maybe Main Street, but the castle doesn't fit either), and really add another level of depth to the park. The Fantasia Gardens photo area in the back of Fantasyland (basically the same location as Storybookland) area looks fantastic with the mountains in the background, as does the iasw facade. I agree that in pictures it looks a little strange, but it certainly looks a lot better than the Matterhorn towering over the entire park, IMO.
Originally Posted By xrayvision <a href="http://www.yesterland.com/imag...onhk.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.yesterland.com/imag...onhk.jpg</a> Look in the background...I see hotel people. I really like the mountains at HKDL. The above was not the best vantage point for a pretty picture.
Originally Posted By xrayvision Post 151's link was in reference to the first photo link in Post #148 of HKDL's TL.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Look in the background...I see hotel people." Good eye. I didn't see that. Ferret I'll take your word for it that the mountains look ok in person. Still, that's one hell of a visual intrusion.
Originally Posted By socalkdg Grabbed one last ride on Maliboomer this past weekend. They were actually running two towers and there was a 10 minute line. Wow.
Originally Posted By Terminus Grabbed two last rides last night... One tower running... Not much of a line, though.
Originally Posted By RogRabbit I know I probably know the answer to this, but was there ever a time when all three towers ran at the same time?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I feel like up until about a year or two ago (ironically, when the park started to become more popular), they had all 3 running the vast majority of the time. Then, they started just running 2 for most of the time, but now it's not uncommon to see just one, making the already slow lines with a terrible speil ("Hey there! This the Mal-eee-boomer!..." ) even slower and more painful. Good riddance.
