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Another AMAZING photo of utilitidor construction from WDW Connection. I’ve never seen anything like these ever.

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Wild to me thinking about how much I played roller coaster tycoon 3 as a teen and that if it were just a couple years later it would have been planet coaster and the streaming era and I could have just played the game full time and been a millionaire

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Saw this on the Facebook group WDW Connections and I think it’s the only really good picture of the utilidor construction I’ve ever seen.

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Proposing a new term: Elonifuckation:

When tech companies abandon making things consumers might actually want to solve their problems and instead start making useless shit that looked cool in a movie once.

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Why is the thesis of Tomorrowland “in the future there will be no trees?”

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Still doodling away. The top corner has evolved pretty naturally into a Neverland inspired by the new one in Tokyo, and a great opportunity to bring captain Hook’s ship and skull rock back to Disneyland. Tomorrowland has found itself with a version of horizons or guardians and the old people mover either has a new entrance or the hub acts as the entrance to a indoor monorail station accessed by a bridge. Directly north of Tomorrowland is something of a hybrid between fantasyland and Tomorrowland. Something science fiction but highly fantastical. Submarine prop as a nod to the past, maybe there a walkthrough. In the middle, the matterhorn gets a mountain range or cliffs to provide a transition, and two unknown attractions take the rest of the space

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I didn’t come up with a story for this. Just playing with shapes. Feel free to come up with your own.

Goofing around with what you could do if you killed autopia and subs. Bottom floor of the show buildings would have to have substantial space dedicated to the train and monorail.

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Goofing around with what you could do if you killed autopia and subs. Bottom floor of the show buildings would have to have substantial space dedicated to the train and monorail.

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Gonna name a style of architecture called “theme park revit”

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I went to grad school for this.

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WDW vs Disneyland.

NGL I’m perplexed that people are perplexed by the MMRR burst through the screen effect. I love the ride, but it’s an extremely obvious illusion.

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Actually fun fact I just discovered the effect is slightly different in Disneyland vs WDW. The animation on the screen in Disneyland shows a burst hole and momentary cut to black whereas the one in WDW stays blue the entire time as the hole emerges. Kinda think Disneyland’s is more effective.

NGL I’m perplexed that people are perplexed by the MMRR burst through the screen effect. I love the ride, but it’s an extremely obvious illusion.

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NGL I’m perplexed that people are perplexed by the MMRR burst through the screen effect. I love the ride, but it’s an extremely obvious illusion.

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If only Joe Rohde started a themed entertainment design company where everyone got to operate on that perspective about theme and narrative.

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So like spoilers, obviously.

First the good: the art style is BEAUTIFUL. What a treat. Those backgrounds especially are just so lovely and fresh and different for a 3d film. Kinda wish they had leaned into it more for the characters. Honestly I quite liked all the Disney Easter eggs especially since this is clearly conceived of as the 100th anniversary movie.

The main thing that’s on my mind: man I love the big idea, disappointed in the execution. It feels like they were afraid to fully explore the ideas they set out. Like I love the whole metatextual criticism of Disney and the idea that if you go out and make a wish and expect it be granted by some magical force you’re really robbing yourself of your own agency and ability to pursue it for yourself. The grandpa character sums it up beautifully “if I have this wish it might not come true, but at least I have the chance to try”

The thing that bugs me is they squirrel out of exploring what happens when the wishes don’t come true. They hint at it, when Asha’s mother has her wish destroyed she is stricken with grief and names it as such. I think it’s great the film acknowledges that that is a kind of grief just as significant as losing a loved one. But it breezes past it so quickly.

And I wish they would have explored more how we identify with our wishes and dreams. Like they explore how our dreams are make us who we are…and the king insists everyone has one true wish that makes them them…and this was such an opportunity to correct and explore a common disney fallacy about dreams.

Like I wish it would have the been the king’s motive to destroy all the citizen’s wishes at the climax. Have him believe that since he’s crushed all their dreams they’ll be under him forever. Have that be the thing that literally holds them down. How much more powerful would it have been to have the I wish reprise at that moment…the thesis of the film being that “no matter how your heart is grieving if you keep on believing…”. The citizens stricken in their grief refuse to let it consume them and make new wishes and new dreams…dismantling the idea that only one dream defines us, that we are an infinite source of dreams and ambitions, and as long as we have the ability to keep dreaming and hoping, it can overcome grief, loss, and the things that keep us down. It doesn’t actually matter if our wishes come true, they might be a core part of us for a while, but we’re capable of creating new parts of ourselves and new dreams and that’s the source of our power and what makes us who we are.

Instead…the film doesn’t go that route and firmly stays in the camp of “we’re capable of pursuing our dreams on our own, we don’t need a wish granter”…which like that’s still a nice criticism and exploration of the “Disney wish” idea…but ultimately it still holds up the singular solitary wish as a core part of who we are idea…and of course everyone gets them back and they look to all be on track to get them - therefore the idea that they might not come true but at least you have them is kinda undermined. And the idea that we shouldn’t wait for someone to grant it and instead pursue it ourself is somewhat undermined by giving Asha a magic wand and her accepting it.

Idk…there’s some other quibbles I have with the film, but that’s the main thing that’s driving me nuts. Such a great core concept that just isn’t explored in all the depth it could be.

Just saw wish and I have THOUGHTS

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Just saw wish and I have THOUGHTS

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Stumbled across this guy who goes in DEPTH over how ride systems work.

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