Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer <<I've never felt like I'm in any other time than the present on the ride.>> Take time to note minor detail in the queue. If that doesn't make you feel like your in the 30's, idk what will
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Take time to note minor detail in the queue. If that doesn't make you feel like your in the 30's, idk what will << Doesn't the preshow video imply we aren't in 1939? I don't know exactly what Serling says, but I also got the feeling that this is a much later time (the lobby looks dusty/aged, the directory sign before the library is missing letters as if from age, etc)
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Take time to note minor detail in the queue. If that doesn't make you feel like your in the 30's, idk what will>> I've taken more time than I care to admit to take in the detail of ToT and the queue. But it's never made me feel like I'm in the 30's. It makes me feel like the building was used in the 30s, and then once the incident happened (which again, happened Halloween 1939, making it almost impossible that we'd be at the HTH in the 30s) it was abandoned. Add on top of that Mr. Serling's narration, "The time is now(!!!!!!) on an evening very much like the one you have just witnessed..."
Originally Posted By leobloom ^^Could also add the broken fountains in teh queue that are obviously in disrepair. Did all of this stuff start to show its age moments after the hotel was struck by lightning?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I guess MGM's original postmodern playfulness is charming or off-putting, depending on your love of MK-style attractions. I enjoy them both -- but not in a mixed setting
Originally Posted By leobloom ^^Me, too. And I think different attractions benefit from different approaches.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>If that's the case it does a pretty ****ty job of conveying it. I've never felt like I'm in any other time than the present on the ride.<< You kidding? I've walked that queue a few times, and it's really realistic. Unless you are just pulling at straws here? ;-)
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Doesn't the preshow video imply we aren't in 1939? I don't know exactly what Serling says, but I also got the feeling that this is a much later time (the lobby looks dusty/aged, the directory sign before the library is missing letters as if from age, etc)<<< It implies that we are looking at what just happened and that time has been warped. Of all the things to say to be taken seriously...LOL.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> It implies that we are looking at what just happened << So the overgrown, unkept garden happened moments after the lightning strike. That's your interpretation, but I'm not buying it. However, if you have a Mickey Mouse toilet seat, I'd be happy to oblige.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer There's been a time warp. And the storm/lightening destroyed the grounds. That's how I've always perceived the story from WDI, anyway.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I may be butting in here, but I feel like I deserve to after reading the hundreds of posts to get to this point. I am 27 (so I don’t consider myself old-school) and I also think that ST and Indy don’t “belong” in DL. Of course they are part of my idea of the place. I have been to DL about 25 times since I was five, and I have ridden both many times. But, what do Star Wars and Indiana Jones (both of which I LOVE) have to do with Disney??? I agree with spirit (I think?) that there was no other space in Anaheim and so they are where they are. I do think that they made IJA fit in well in adventure land (love the queue theming) and ST doesn’t stick out, to me. On another note, my family, especially DH and myself, do not consider IJA in our top 15 must-sees in DL. I think I have been on it twice in my last eight visits. For us, it is definitely not an important part to the Disneyland park experience. I am very excited to go to WWoHP but WDW is a priority for me. I do feel that HP will bring many more people to Orlando and that will increase WDW attendance. I don’t think it will “steal” much if any. Also, spirit, didn’t know you are also female. Also, I look forward to a PoTC without the stickly Knightley. And I liked all three of the films, the first being my favorite. I thought the time period of the guests was very ambiguous at DCA’s ToT. I guess I thought that it was post the 1939 events but not today.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<You kidding? I've walked that queue a few times, and it's really realistic. Unless you are just pulling at straws here? ;-)>> No. Like i said I'm 100% sure I've spent more time in that queue than you have. There's no way you're in 1939. Just listen to Serling's monologue. Watch the preshow. Look at the state of ruin the entire building and it's surroundings. Add on top of that the ancient HTH billboard on Sunset Boulevard and I think it's pretty obvious you're in the present time. "The time is now(!!!!!), on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed." And then DURING the ride(something you wouldn't know of hehe), "One stormy night long ago(!!!!!!), five people stepped in the door of an elevator and into a nightmare. That door is opening once again and this time, it's opening for you."
Originally Posted By leobloom >>One stormy night long ago(!!!!!!), << Case closed. Let's have a beer.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> And then DURING the ride(something you wouldn't know of hehe), "One stormy night long ago(!!!!!!), five people stepped in the door of an elevator and into a nightmare. That door is opening once again and this time, it's opening for you."<<<< I think that's where the warp comes in. I don't know for sure, though....but I do know, for sure, that you are not in the present.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper EE...you're crazy, haha. Even if you're warped during the ride(possible in the Twilight Zone universe I guess), at the beginning and end of the ride you're in the present.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Maybe at the end, yes. I'll have to look up the info on beginning.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "<<The fact that they waited until the Studios opened says a lot about it's placement in that park, and also about the nature if other "movie" attractions. >> No it doesn't haha. It says a lot about how little Disney-MGM Studios had when it opened." Agreed. And I STILL don't think EE understands how badly Indy(as it is in Anaheim)would fit into MGM. Look at it this way - imagine Expedition Everest, queue and all suddenly being picked up and placed in the studios. Indy is a little bit smaller, in overall scope than E:E but imagine something THAT real and elaborate being in MGM. Would it fit? No, of course it wouldn't. Neither would Indy as it is now, unless you add all that crap like lights that we could see, a director's chair and cables, to make it a "set". I REALLY believe until you see the actual attraction, as it is in California, you will not understand what we are all saying. Once you DO see it and where it fits in AL you will LOVE it and, like me, could NEVER imagine it NOT being there!
