Originally Posted By pirategal ahoy This is supposed to be a themed ride, right? Why not just rename it "It's a Disney World"?
Originally Posted By jdub Well, "It's a Small World" would still fit, as the globe seems so tiny that Disney is everywhere. And, HEY! While the kids in some countries could be playing with the toys, the kids in some others could be MAKING them~
Originally Posted By dlkozy >>>"A people eater? What?"<<< That's a ride can take a large number of people at one time. Everytime I went to CB there was a crowd-certainly more than the measly few that Pooh has at any one time.
Originally Posted By jdub I waited in a line to ride Pooh. The Chuck-E-Cheez Bears? My choice of seating. Oh, PLEASE tell me they aren't adding the bears to the Small World ride! It's bad enough they ARE changing the SONG!
Originally Posted By monorailblue <<I waited in a line to ride Pooh.>> That is an accomplishment that very, very few can boast of. Truly, it is unique.
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 OMG!!! THEY NEED TO STOP CHANGING THINGS!!!! IT IS STARTING TO PISS ME OFF!!!
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 I am sorry for my last post I meant to say that it was really making me mad.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 LMAO, fine let's go back to the way Disneyland was in 1955 if you are so Pi$$ed off about them changing things... I am sure you will love it , because heaven forbid Disney changes anything....
Originally Posted By mawnck Just Small World, William. Just Small World. Keep repeating it until you get it.
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 Ok well I am fine with them changing SOME stuff but they are changing way to much
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney Things change and rightly so, as the world changes. I have been going to Disneyland since I was two and I am 37 now. Many rides have come and gone in that time frame or have been changed. I miss the people mover and the shrinking into the microscopic world (sigh) good times from when I was a kid. Can you remember the original version of Tomorrowland? I remember parking with my grandparents in their truck with the camper, and then walking right to the main gate. It only took five minutes. There was no DD or DCA at that time. Can you remember E Ticket rides? Remember when the DL hotel was the only one on property? I stayed there on Prom night with four other giggly senior girls in a suite (We ditched our collective dates to go play) While this makeover may commercialize a "classic" ride, most of Disneyland is and has always been commercialized anyway. The reasons we love Disneyland are beyond that. It is the ability to be a kid no matter what your age. It is the magic of shared family experiences that you hold forever. It is the discovery or rediscovery of a place where it is safe to be a child in a world that has few places specifically for that. I will miss the old ride (I had the record which included the book you looked through while you played the record). I have many memories that include the ride and my grandparents (now deceased). But this August I will take my two year old to begin her memories. And when the ride re-opens this winter I will be taking her on it. And who knows, maybe in twenty years she will be saying "I remember the It's A Small World ride as it was. Now would you look at what they are doing?" (Perhaps It's a Small Galaxy? LOL)
Originally Posted By danyoung I'm already on record as not being wild about the new characters in the ride, but I'm willing to wait and see how they're implemented. But I really like the concept of the music changes, as long as they continue to fit within the small world theme. That's one of my favorite things about the Christmas version - having a couple other songs breaking up the monotony of the same small world theme over and over about 20 times per ride. Hearing some other themes woven into the fabric will be kinda cool, I'm thinking!
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt It's kind of funny how the Small World discussions lost steam once pics of the HKDL version were posted online. I don't like the characters in the ride, but for the most part they really don't look all that bad.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The discussion had come to a pretty nice little simmer a couple days before the pictures went up. I don't think many people have anything new for their argument, no matter which side. I said that I would assume they would do a decent job, but change the focus of the attraction, and that seems to be what's done. Instead of little kids around the world coming together, it's becoming Disney's conquest of the globe. No one is really that much better than the other if you want to look at it in the simplest terms. I just personally prefer the more traditional version of it, and I really have to question the character additions in HKDL, where people aren't as familiar with Disney's characters and a lot of the characters wouldn't really stand out if you didn't already know them.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I don't think many people have anything new for their argument, no matter which side." Yeah, and it literally came to a halt when pictures of what we might expect to see at DLR were posted. Mary Blair's family even made a public statement against the changes. Where is Mary Blair's family now that the HKDL publicity shots have been released? I agree with your opinion 100% - it does change the attraction's meaning - but after looking at the pictures I can't say that it is the artistic desecration that some people were saying it might be. At least not at HKDL.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I don't think many people have anything new for their argument, no matter which side.<< It never was about how the characters looked, and I thought I had made that clear in my 7 million posts, as did Mary Blair's family in their open letter. There's more to "artistic desecration" (your term, not mine) than just not matching the draperies. The pictures were exactly what I expected, and I'm just as against it (for Anaheim) now as I was before. HKDL, hey, whatever. You want to draw a nose ring on Mona Lisa, fine with me as long as it's not the original. But you're right - I've got nothing new, and there's really no arguing with folks who say it's fine with them to toss out Walt's original vision for IASW so long as little Caitlin can see Cinderella for the 5,000th time today. It's just a fundamental difference of opinion, and I don't think either side is going to argue the other out of it.
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney Thank you SoThisIsLove for the nice comment and the welcome! I wish I had come upon this site a long time ago. I have been a Disney lover for my whole life and cannot waiting to instil that in my own daughter (along with other things of course. ~smile~)
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Well, Mom, head on over to the Community thread and introduce yourself! There are lots of friendly people here who may not see you in with this topic, and they'll be happy to "meet" you. Again, welcome, and you have a very lucky little girl. xoxox
