Disneyland General
Topic: small world changes

#	Author	Message
81	gurgitoy2 Wed 3/5/2008 7:19a	"^^^Maybe it's because I'm used to the DLP version, but I'm far less upset about changing the rainforest for a USA section than the author of that piece. If I were going to fight a fight it would be about adding characters first, rainforest second!!!" Yeah, I don't mind a new USA scene, but I'm sure going to miss the gayest jaguar ever! I love that rainforest scene, and it's over-the-top queerness. Hopefully they can keep, and fit it into the attraction somehow!
82	FerretAfros Wed 3/5/2008 8:45a	At the World's Fair, the rainforest scene was part of the South American room, so maybe there will be space to put it back in there. I know that it's probably the one scene that already has way more than you can possibly see in one trip (can you tell that Mary Blair liked South America?), but there has to be room to squeeze it back in there somehow. As for the little huts and the giant fan, I'm sure there's room in the Polynesian room just before it to put it in. If they reconfigure the fire dancers on the left just before the end of the room (which I never noticed until late last year), there should be room for the extra scene.
83	u k fan Wed 3/5/2008 8:52a	<<the gayest jaguar ever!>> He is my favorite IASW figure. I call him "The Happiest Leopard on Earth", but now I don't know if it's a leopard or a jaguar!!!
84	gurgitoy2 Wed 3/5/2008 10:30a	"He is my favorite IASW figure. I call him "The Happiest Leopard on Earth", but now I don't know if it's a leopard or a jaguar!!!" Well, it's a South American rainforest, so he can only be a Jaguar. The only two big cats in the New World are the Puma (the mountain lion falls into this species) and the Jaguar. The Leopard is found in Africa, and parts of Asia. So, he's the "happiest Jaguar on earth". I just love his tail twirling action!
85	jonvn Wed 3/5/2008 10:48a	I don't even remember the jaguar. I just remember the crodocile with the umbrella. And the drum playing kids.
86	jonvn Wed 3/5/2008 10:49a	Oh, and the egg with the bird coming out of it. And the strips of plastic as rain. But no jaguar.
87	inlandemporer Wed 3/5/2008 11:35a	Small World is its own world. Injecting Disney characters in there would diminish that world. I hope they don't.
88	gurgitoy2 Wed 3/5/2008 2:35p	"I don't even remember the jaguar. I just remember the crodocile with the umbrella. And the drum playing kids." He's big, lime-green, furry, and standing there twirling his tail. I can't find a picture of him though...
89	EighthDwarf Wed 3/5/2008 2:53p	I'm generally against all the animated characters being added everyehwer, but this does not sound like a real big deal to me. It sounds like they will by stylized so that they blend it pretty well with the other figures. I don't think it's gonna be as bad as it may sound.
90	mawnck Wed 3/5/2008 3:11p	Worst. Idea. Ever. (Well, other than Tiki Room Under New Management. DID WE LEARN NOTHING FROM TIKI ROOM UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT?) But seriously. I've been one of the leading anti-emotion curmudgeons on this board, accusing people of getting a bit too worked up over what is nothing but a friggin' theme park. But this news hit me like hearing that an old friend has died. There's so little "old Disney" left in that park. Pirates has been invaded by Johnny Depp, with Kiera and Orlando soon to follow, Jungle Cruise has been joked up and teched out, Tom Sawyer Island and the Swiss Family Treehouse have - well, we all know about that, Mr. Lincoln is gone, Carousel is gone, the Peoplemover is gone, the rocket to the moon is gone, Autopia has been cuted up to nausea-inducing levels, Mansion has "exciting new effects" ... If this is the Year (or so) of a Million Dreams, my dream is to have a nice, comfortable, familiar place where I can escape from change, and go back to a time when cynicism was not the norm, when messages of peace and brotherhood still made some kind of sense, when Disney was this little magic factory in Burbank where they did all these cool things and invented this cool theme park, when it was so much more than enough to take a boat ride through a spectacular, magical panorama of fantastically costumed dolls, who were singing one of the catchiest songs ever devised by humans. Some of the old movies take me back there. Certain storybooks, record albums, mementos of the past can bring a glimmer of it. Small World, Tiki Room, and parts of Mansion were the last places in Disneyland that really did it for me, and I rarely miss them on my visits. Yeah, there's Fantasyland, but that's all small scale dark rides and just not quite the same thing. Small World was an immersive, wonderful EXPERIENCE, and for me was an escape from, not just the real world, but from Disney/PIXAR circa 2007. No Cars, no Roger Rabbit, no Eisner, Iger, or Jobs, not even any Aristocats or Rescuers, just the pure good old Disney magic, conjured up by kindly old Uncle Walt himself, that I enjoyed as a kid. iasw SURROUNDS you with it - the work of genius artists at the top of their game, with no overt commercialism or even reminders that you're at a DISNEY!!! park. It ACED the test of time. It's JUST as wonderful now as it was at the World's Fair. And now they're gonna stick friggin' Brother Bear into the Canada section? I'm not particularly interested in going to a Disneyland that would put the animated characters (even the old ones) or an "America room" into DL's iasw. They had plenty of characters available to them in 1963 when the ride was created, and they deliberately chose to leave them out, for reasons which I would hope would be obvious to even the most money-addled executive or technology-besotted imagineer. And the folks in charge now think they're qualified to second-guess that decision? Change is fine, but does it have to be EVERYTHING? Can't they just leave one really, really, REALLY awesome old thing alone, to be just like it was, so we can share the exact same experience with our own kids and grandkids? Forgive me, everybody I've ever lambasted for posting something like the following: If this goes through, that's it. No more Disneyland for me. And I mean that in the most literal sense, because my Disneyland will be gone.

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