Originally Posted By oc_dean >>So what John is doing is basically filling all the empty holes with huge Pixar hits.<< At the expense of the integrity of what makes a multi-land "MK" park?
Originally Posted By oc_dean I'm still trying to give benefit of the doubt ... that of all people from PIXAR ... Lassetter was a CM at Disneyland in the 70s .. who worked on Jungle Cruise ... loooong before the days of creating CGI characters. I want to beleive Lassetter will use his experiences learned at Disneyland as a FOUNDATION before he gets himself too wrapped up with PIXAR toons where they don't belong!
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite My gut tells me that the Pixar influx into the parks worldwide has not come from John Lassetter. This sort of thing seems to be more from the corporate side and the folks leading Parks and Resorts, like Jay Rasulo. They don't want to take risks, so they insist on only greenlighting projects that have a tie-in to a profitable franchise or blockbuster hit film. And for quite a while that has all come from Pixar. Again, just my hunch. But I truly think that John and the folks in WDI would gladly take up the chance to do something completely original again.
Originally Posted By tcsnwhite ^if management and the folks who control the purse strings would let them.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Suspicions are about a similar Hunny Hunt technology, with added interactive features, but who knows... Lee, care to enlight us here??>> Nope, no Hunny Hunt technology here. It is an embedded wire dark ride system. About 70 AAs in all and you will flash your light on to various show scenes which will reveal the AAs doing something. There will also be a lot of different gags built-in. It will be a fun dark ride. The $90m budget isn't huge by TDR standards (there is usually anywhere between a 33-50% extra cost to building in Tokyo due to the post-Kobe building regs) and significantly less than Hunny Hunt ($100m is way off the mark here).
Originally Posted By Mr X ***A talented one???*** Awe, thanks. ***Mr. X this is not about disrespecting others. This is a site were we talk about future Disney projects & so forth.*** You don't know me very well, huh? Trust me, Kane, I've contributed to and know more about this site than you EVER will. >>>And to answer your question doesn't it seem futuristic in the Monsters Inc. building?<<< Not to me. Just kinda like a big factory in real life. Sure, the door thing is weird, but I'd say it's more fantasy than future. They certainly didn't go out of their way to make the Monster World seem particularly advanced. Just different. By the way, OC, didn't you read that stuff I wrote a while back about the plans to make a new land which included Buzz, Honey I Shrunk, Star Tours, the theater, and now Monsters? It won't be Tomorrowland at all when they're finished, it'll be "Hollywood Land". And the REAL Tomorrowland will be from Space Mountain down towards Toontown, which would make the TDL Tomorrowland the MOST realistic and least cartoony. I really like that idea. Oh, and Mission:Space will probably become a part of Tomorrowland at some point. At least, that's the rumors I've heard.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Oh, and Mission:Space will probably become a part of Tomorrowland at some point. At least, that's the rumors I've heard.>> Very unlikely X. There is little desire inside either OLC or WDI to start putting thrill rides inside MKs.
Originally Posted By Mr X Just something I heard from a reliable source. However, he didn't say it was definite, just under consideration. I should have written "might" instead of "probably" though. Sorry.
Originally Posted By leemac ^^ No need to apologize. Beyond the new Space Mountain and Hide & Go Seek! there isn't much desire or budget to do anything else with TDL's Tomorrowland.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Hide & Go Seek sounds like it's going to be using the exact same technology as Midway Mania at DCA and MGM, is that right? If that's the case, then I'm sure the attractions will all be compareable in quality...well, maybe not MGM's...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA It's the new WDC pushing OLC to do what they think it's best for TDR, and OLC respectfully going along with it.> Ah yes. When stateside executives 'go along with it' they're mindless drones, but when OLC behaves like mindless drones, they're being 'respectful.' Got it.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Got it.<< NO, you didn't. The reference to OLC was as sarcastic and mean-spirited as I can possibly be. They CAN be mindless drones as much as anyone else or any company around.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA >>Got it.<< <NO, you didn't. The reference to OLC was as sarcastic and mean-spirited as I can possibly be. They CAN be mindless drones as much as anyone else or any company around.> Oh. Well, I get it now. Still best friends?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Jim needs to be respectful and bear in mind what his parents should have taught him. No means *NO*.
