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Barnstormer is an old ride.
I find it hilarious that Disney has built a coaster themed to a 77-year-old animated film.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking this project in any way. I think it's beautiful, and will be a fantastic addition to the Magic Kingdom. I just think it's funny. Imagine Walt going through the turmoil of getting Snow White and the Seven Dwarves produced and someone telling him, "Mark my words... in eighty years they will erect a roller coaster based on this picture!" He'd laugh in their face and then probably punch 'em.
-Andy
If someone told him that the first animated feature length film he ever released would be getting paid homage with a new attraction almost 80 years later, he probably wouldn't have believed you. He would be eternally grateful that the film has remained a classic and is receiving a new attraction. The success of Snow White is the reason TWDC is what it is today. If that failed, the whole operation could've gone down. Disneyland may never have been built.I find it hilarious that Disney has built a coaster themed to a 77-year-old animated film.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking this project in any way. I think it's beautiful, and will be a fantastic addition to the Magic Kingdom. I just think it's funny. Imagine Walt going through the turmoil of getting Snow White and the Seven Dwarves produced and someone telling him, "Mark my words... in eighty years they will erect a roller coaster based on this picture!" He'd laugh in their face and then probably punch 'em.
-Andy
Actually, Walt Disney would probably not laugh (even if you think its funny)...he was a serial perfectionist and the legacy of Snow White and the Dwarfs, among most other classics, is proof of such. This is an example of a timeless classic brought to a modern audience. I hope this is a sign of things to come for Disney.
If someone told him that the first animated feature length film he ever released would be getting paid homage with a new attraction almost 80 years later, he probably wouldn't have believed you. He would be eternally grateful that the film has remained a classic and is receiving a new attraction. The success of Snow White is the reason TWDC is what it is today. If that failed, the whole operation could've gone down. Disneyland may never have been built.
I'm pretty sure you changed the entire context of the original statement to fit your own agenda. Never once was the term "destination theme park".I'm pretty sure that if you had told Walt during the production of Snow White, that in 80 years The Walt Disney Co. would build a roller coaster based on it in the largest, most popular destination theme park resort on the planet, he would have asked, "What's a destination theme park resort?"
I wanted to share my thoughts on the mine train lately. In my eyes it can be decent or a Antarctia letdown to me. From what I've seen of it I honestly don't care. It's like a big thunder mountain 0.5 that is just taking up a gigantic amount of space that could've been used for something way cooler. That and it basically replaced scary adventures, probably the best fantasyland dark ride ever made. It had charm, great audio, honest to god scary moments and a happy ending. Getting all that wrapped up in one little dark ride is pretty unheard of nowadays. To see that go for a meet and greet and a 1-2 mine train with no witch and possibly no animatronics just makes me kinda pissed. The whole fantasyland expansion makes me feel kinda jipped. Promised a ton of things and most got cancelled or just came out mediocre. It's pretty damn sad