Pics of Te Fiti from the Moana attraction (Journey of Water... Hey that sounds just like the Way of Water... lol) at Disney World's Epcot, opened Oct 2023.
Absolute must see if you're there, best if it's a sunny day. Words cannot describe the magic in this attraction! You must experience it! BTW you will get wet!
Me: *stumbles out of the latest Defunctland video sweaty, shaking, and overwhelmed by nostalgia for a version of a theme park that never existed, trying to reconcile that while what the Disney Corporation did accomplish has a place in my heart as a profoundly impactful part of my childhood, it could have been something completely different, more public-minded than both Disney's original plan and the eventual corporate sponsored shadow of itself that it became by opening day; coming to terms with the thought that even if it had made it off the ground as a world-changing force of collaboration between that generation's greatest minds, capitalism is an inherently cancerous, corruptive influence, and the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow would have become warped and bowed to corporate interests anyway, so maybe it's better that it didn't have much in the way of real-world policy influence; that maybe it's better that it became what it was to my younger self: the park with that Norse Mythology Boat Ride Where You Meet A Three Headed Troll*