They're following a financial principle rather than a thematic one, which leads to decisions that make poor creative sense. Moana obviously would fit best in Adventureland, but Animal Kingdom needs help more than MK, so they're overlooking the fact that Moana barely even features any animals, and certainly isn't a story about them, and saying they can just make it work. Frozen is an example of this - that was clearly a property well suited for Fantasyland, but EPCOT needed a boost more than Magic Kingdom, so they chose to go against theme and put it there. Now they're fully willing to throw a park's theme out the window to try add a property that doesn't belong in the name of putting a bandaid on the park's performance. They devised parks with guiding principles, and they followed those principles. People complained less because there was less to complain about.

People may not have always agreed with placement, but at least they put things places that suited the common sense of their own designs. Which is why it was so meaningful when Disney could be trusted to be an insightful arbiter of what properties belonged in the parks and where. What do you think? Both these IPs fit more at EPCOT then at Magic Kingdom.Ĭlick to expand.That's called people having different opinions? It's always been true that you can't please everybody. These are some of my Armchair Imagineering ideas. And maybe outside the Casita is an outdoor theater for an Encanto Sing Along. You are invited to an open house and you go inside each room in the Casita as Mirabel takes you on a tour letting us meet the Madrigal family. It can be a walkthrough attraction or a new trackless dark ride like Mystic Manor / Haunted Mansion. When you step into the Colombia pavilion, you enter this small village full of shops and restaurants.

Maybe a VR ride.įor Encanto, EPCOT should have a brand new Colombia somewhere between Germany and Italy. It should replace the Gran Fiesta Tour, or give it a small expansion. I think it's better if they put these two films into World Showcase.Ĭoco, inside the Mexico pavilion. Why would they even think about placing Encanto and Coco at Magic Kingdom beyond Big Thunder Mountain Railroad? I'm not impressed with the D23 Expo panel about the Parks.

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