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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Thursday, October 20, 2016
The Mouse Minute: A Weekly Recap of Disney news and Rumors #1
A Quick Snapshot at this weeks Disney News.
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The Top story as far as we are concerned is the Release a new Star Wars Rogue One Trailer.
Here is a great trailer breakdown from the folks at Rebel Force Radio.
Disney's Hollywood Studios announced a new Christmas Spectacle called "Jingle Bell, Jingle Bam" Which will feature music, Projection technology and fireworks and will incorporate Disney Christmas themed films.
Dr. Strange is set to open on November 4th.
If you are at the Disney Theme Parks you can catch a sneak peek of this Strange Marvel film and see Dr. Strange's costume in DCA.
Pete's Dragon flies onto DVD on November 29th. Can't wait to finally see this film which got great reviews.
The Lost Ark from Raiders of the Lost Ark is currently on display at the Great Movie Ride in Orlando.
For those in the California ---There is currently an exhibit at the California Science Center featuring the Science Behind Pixar.
New Rogue One Products are heading to the Disney resorts.
Colin Firth has been cast in the new Mary Poppins movie and speaking of Movies......
We were just surprised with a teaser Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy 2
In another surprise a sequel to the 2005 movie Sky High was announced according to Movie Pilot.
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Monday, October 10, 2016
Disneyland Photo of the Day Halloweentime
Halloweentime at Disneyland
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
3 Reasons why I have mixed Feeling About: Guardians of the Galaxy Ride/ Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
I totally have mixed feelings about the DCA Tower of
Terror getting changed. I’ll start off
by saying that the Tower of Terror is one of my favorite rides in the Disney
Parks. I once meet a group of people on
Friday the 13th to ride the Ride 13 times on Friday the 13th. So I obviously love the attraction.
1. Nostalgia factor: Negative
Every time Disneyland announces that they are going to
replace an old Attraction the Disney Community goes a crazy. It doesn’t matter what that attraction is or
whether they even go on it anymore. I
watched a month ago people getting all upset about the old Skyway building
getting torn down for Star Wars Land.
People were seriously upset about an abandoned building that hasn’t been
used for anything in over a decade being taken away. The first thing Disney fans will say is that
Walt would have never done that or gotten rid of that attraction. Then within minutes someone will respond back
with the Walt Disney quote about how Disneyland will never be finished. The battle will then go back in forth for
hours. My thoughts on this is generally
in the camp of “If it isn’t broken –don’t fix it”.
That being said I love that they occasionally update Pirates and the
Haunted Mansion with cool new effects---but I would never want to see them
replaced. Unlike Disneyworld where they
pretty much have a ton of space, the Disneyland Resort has limited space. When they want to do something new and
exciting they generally have to remove something. This is unfortunate, but just a matter of
fact. They pretty much expanded into the
remaining space they had with Carsland.
The Twilight Zone is one of my favorite TV shows. The Tower of Terror fits perfectly into the theme of Hollywood Blvd and the feel of the Buena Vista Street area. The ride is still popular and as far as I’m concerned it is a nearly perfect attraction. I would prefer that they don’t touch it. I will miss it when it is gone. I love the Tower of Terror so much that I wrote about a concept for a Tower of Terror bar earlier this year.
http://braddisneylandblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/my-idea-for-tower-of-terror-bar-in-dca.html The Twilight Zone is one of my favorite TV shows. The Tower of Terror fits perfectly into the theme of Hollywood Blvd and the feel of the Buena Vista Street area. The ride is still popular and as far as I’m concerned it is a nearly perfect attraction. I would prefer that they don’t touch it. I will miss it when it is gone. I love the Tower of Terror so much that I wrote about a concept for a Tower of Terror bar earlier this year.
This idea coincidentally spread as an actual rumor for
something going into the park about 3 weeks later. I was
excited that my idea may actually have been shared by Imagineering, but the
rumor turned out to be false. Then
this rumor popped up and I thought there was no way that it could be true.
I would love to see a Guardians of the Galaxy ride---just
not at the expense of the Tower of Terror.
2. The Balancing
Factor: Positive
3. Is DCA heading
into a Dangerous area with this change? Worried
I’ve established that I will miss the Twilight Zone
version of the Tower.
I’ve established that I will probably love and enjoy the
new Guardians Version.
My main concern about this change of the ride is the loss
of Lands.
Disneyland is the perfect theme park design with main
street leading to the hub that then branches off into perfectly themed
lands. DCA was originally setup in a similar
way with themed areas representing different areas of California. Many may say that this theme was flawed from
the start. The executives have slowly transformed
DCA over the years moving away from that theme with the additions of A Bug’s
Land and Carsland and Monsters Inc. Then Disney rethemed the entire entrance
into Buena Vista street and combined the Soaring area and Grizzly Peak into one
land. It seemed like they were moving
the park back to the California theme.
My concern with this change to the Tower of Tower, which is based on a
building in Hollywood will start to create a feeling of a less themed
park. I’m sure the Disney Imagineers
will put some thought into this and unlike the Tower in Orlando –our tower is basically
hidden behind Hollywood street –so it will be a less abrupt transition, but I
just don’t want DCA to turn into Universal Studios. At Universal Studios you used to walk around
and see attractions like the Terminator 3-D right next to a London themed street and Back to the Future next to Conan the Barbarian. It was just a mess with no theme at all and
despite being a fun park it didn’t immerse you in an experience the way a
Carsland or Adventureland does. I don’t
want Disney to lose their ability to immerse you in a Land. I’m confident that they are going to find a
way to do that with Star Wars Land.
But I fear DCA move further away from that with this change.
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