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April 6, 2006

Bay Blogger Thursday

disappointed.jpgImagine if you were put in charge of fixing the decline of Disney's theme parks over the past few decades. Assuming that your head did not explode from the mind-boggling coolness of the assignment, what would your first step be? Setting up a blog about it, of course. That's what's up with Re-Imagineering, which proves that not EVERY Blogspot account is a splog. A handful of Pixar and Disney employees -- wonderfully, blissfully, orgasmotronically lucky employees -- have taken on the task of figuring out what rocked Disneyland and Disney World back in the day, and what blunders brought them to their current state of "eh."

Among their conclusions: The Carousel Theater, which opened in 1964 with an animatronic extravaganza and characters and music and a stirring prediction of future technology, was pretty cool. But the new version, opened in 1998, is just a walk-through infomercial where patrons are told why they should buy more Disney products. And that's pretty lame. Another blogger comments that the current designers ruined the subtletly of the Leave a Legacy Monuments, most of which he had originally designed back in 1999. And: more tiki would be good -- which is only, like, our personal motto. Also, someone's not very happy about the new Pooh ride: "If slogging past wobbly wooden flats while sitting inside a giant carved out turd is your idea of fun then you will be delighted." Actually, that does sound kind of awesome -- maybe they could build a ride that's a tribute to schlocky B-movies. Lord knows they'd have plenty of reference material to consult in their library.


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