Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I'm sure our intrepid online Disney geek paparazzi will find a way to capture the DCA construction porn somehow.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig DCA was the first Disney theme park anywhere who's construction was thoroughly documented from above and afar and regularly posted worldwide via the web. Most of the best shots came from upper floors of what is now known as the Paradise Pier Hotel. In a way, that was sad, because it created so many "spoilers" and reduced the excitement of seeing something for the first time ever with your own eyes during your first visit to the park, and being "wowed". But then again, DCA was so bland, that there wasn't really much "wow" there to discover in the first place. Disney has so "conveniently" provided us with several high vantage points for the Darkbeers of the web to get us plenty o' pics during the entire course of Cars Land's construction. I expect that we'll be seeing shots taken from the Mickey's Ferris Wheel, the upper levels of the unenclosed Hyperion Theater, the Monorail, and maybe even from Screamin'.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Yeah I agreed, that what made DCA exciting and a let down at the same time. The fact we saw its construction week by week, but also that there was no real excitement for it when it opened because we already saw what the thing looked like well before it opened. Take something like TDS where it was close to impossible to get construction shots and so the few things we did get just made it more grand. And TDS IS grand anyway ;D. And dont see how Carsland will be covered. Its just such a big area and as you said there are just too many higher areas to capture it, so I imagine quite a few pics will get on the web in the next few years.
Originally Posted By SafariRob I'm not crazy about "Carsland" either. A year ago, after everything was announced, I thought "Carsland" was a working title. Apparently not. I don't want to sound sacrilegious here...but...names like Adventureland, Tomorrowland and Fantasyland might have sounded kind of hokey in 1955. Now people like us don't give them a second thought.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^That's true, but there is the matter of consistency too I guess. DCA has yes, generic names like Paradise Pier and Hollywood Pictures Backlot, they still invoke a specific place and title. Carsland is simply dull and boring and doesnt tell you anything about the area. We knows it because we are famaliar with the film of course, but its kind of a cop out. I'm GUESSING though as someone said in this thread or another place that there are names of areas once you get inside like Route 66, Radiator Springs and etc and Carsland is just the blanket title for the entire area, nothing more. Sort of how GRR encompased areas like San Francisco, the Wark and etc. BTW, does anyone ever say 'district' to describe these area's as originally intended? I dont think I ever said that name in my life lol. I just say lands or area.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt The problem I have with the Carsland moniker, other than what WD said, is that it uses a movie title as part of the name. It would be like having an area of the park called Indianajonesland or Brokebackmountainland. It just sounds stupid to me.
Originally Posted By avromark They could call it McQueen Street (Now you know why I'm not an Imagineer if you didn't already). Welcome to Disney's Hollywood Studios. What they could do is hold a contest to come up with the name. They could even turn it into a year and a half long celebration or something
Originally Posted By Britain I wonder if we'll see another sort of Toy Story Mania / Toy Story Midway Mania switcheroo? Will all the marketing say Cars Land and the actual signs say "Welcome to Radiator Springs"? I suppose the park map could even say Cars Land, but the signs still say Radiator Springs. There isn't any sign anywhere that says "New Orleans Square."
Originally Posted By ArchtMig ^^^ well yeah. And the Toontown Station is actually in Fantasyland. Funny thing about those stations... Frontierland's was actually IN Frontierland before NOS was built. And the Toontown station is in nearly the same location as the original "Fantasyland" station, which existed early on in the park's history, then was removed when the park bulged out northward, slightly. For many years, the leg between Frontierland and Tomorrowland stations was really long, with no stops.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>I wonder if we'll see another sort of Toy Story Mania / Toy Story Midway Mania switcheroo?<< No "switcheroo" involved, really. It was always Toy Story Midway Mania, although some wondered if it would get that moniker in Florida. (It did.) The marketing folks call it Toy Story Mania for brevity. (Or orneriness, depending on how you choose to look at it.) >>Will all the marketing say Cars Land and the actual signs say "Welcome to Radiator Springs"?<< It could happen, since Radiator Springs will be in the new Carsland. >>There isn't any sign anywhere that says "New Orleans Square."<< Not true. Even if it was, so what. There isn't a sign saying "Fantasyland," nor was there originally one saying "Tomorrowland," other than directional signs. Yet no one doubts their names. The sign atop the railroad station says New Orleans Square AND Frontierland, by the way. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/andycastro/2592450042/" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/photos/andyc...2450042/</a>
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt ^^It does now, but for many years it only said Frontierland and appeared that way in the guidebooks. Another fun oddity are the River Rafts that are in Frontierland, yet their loading dock is directly in front of the Haunted Mansion, which is part of New Orleans Square.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig ^^^Right! But back in the day, before NOS, they actually WERE in Frontierland.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig Matterhorn is an example of an attraction that straddles two lands, and actually can be accessed from those two lands. It has a Tomorrowland track side, and a Fantasyland track side. And the tracks are not exactly the same - there are differences. I think Matterhorn is officially located in Fantasyland, but more often than not, the Fantasyland track side is closed, and you can only go on from the Tomorrowland entry.