News Round Up 2017

[lockedoutlogic]

So if they don't end up charging for parking,
once SWL
(maybe even Toy Story Land)
opens,
then
will the CBR guests find lack of parking
spots
@ their resort due to offsite guests & locals parking @ CBR to gondola over to HS or Epcot (or both!) and avoiding the HS/Epcot parking fees?!

They'll have to lock all the lots at Caribbean/pop/AoA down like they do at contemporary regardless...

There won't Be "I'm here to use the food court" anymore

There's two parks with an easy ride here now...one at contemporary was bad enough...and people had to bother to walk from Y&B and boardwalk...

 

[jknezek]

...uh....huh...

Didn't we just have this discussion about what a core fan would say like 2 weeks ago?

You either see it...or ya don't.

Yep. I think your avatar has it nailed...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Yep. I think your avatar has it nailed...

The correct answer to the mainline Star Wars Fan is ALWAYS the original trilogy...you're on the wrong side of the fence in this case.

Did you hit your head during the prequel era?

We're not gonna agree...that a given...but if you think I get entrenched about other things around here...look out here. I'm boarded up in Helm's Deep on this one with enough food to last 3 lifetimes

 

[jknezek]

The correct answer to the mainline Star Wars Fan is ALWAYS the original trilogy...you're on the wrong side of the fence in this case.

Did you hit your head during the prequel era?

We're not gonna agree...that a given...but if you think I get entrenched about other things around here...look out here. I'm boarded up in Helm's Deep on this one with enough food to last 3 lifetimes

No. The lightsaber duel between Maul and Jin/Kenobi is fantastic cinematography. The story sucked, but that duel was wonderful. The duel between Yoda and Dooku is excellent green screen work. The duel between Kenobi and Skywalker is riveting, even if it is the conclusion to a crucial an poorly portrayed storyline. The duel between Vader and Kenobi in Episode IV? 2 guys waving their arms very slowly while wandering in a circle. Objectively, it's not even close. I get that you have no objectivity about any of this, but that doesn't make barricading yourself somewhere and closing your ears and eyes and chanting your beliefs to yourself correct.

Regardless, I think Disney's direction is fine. I wouldn't have complained if they went with a known location, but I think the freedom they earned going this direction was fair trade off.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

No. The lightsaber duel between Maul and Jin/Kenobi is fantastic cinematography. The story sucked, but that duel was wonderful. The duel between Yoda and Dooku is excellent green screen work. The duel between Kenobi and Skywalker is riveting, even if it is the conclusion to a crucial an poorly portrayed storyline. The duel between Vader and Kenobi in Episode IV? 2 guys waving their arms very slowly while wandering in a circle. Objectively, it's not even close. I get that you have no objectivity about any of this, but that doesn't make barricading yourself somewhere and closing your ears and eyes and chanting your beliefs to yourself correct.

Regardless, I think Disney's direction is fine. I wouldn't have complained if they went with a known location, but I think the freedom they earned going this direction was fair trade off.

Fantastic cinematography? Ok...but it was in the end pure cheese...

I know how outdated the old movies looked there with their low SE wands and choreographed moves...but the rest of empire and Jedi looked so good I shan't care the tiniest.

And I mean...the obi wan flip at the end...I mean...that's as corny as the early stuff.

Faster was definitely more smooth...but I don't even know if it added to anything.

That train wreck at the end of Sith certainty didn't...but George was long declared nuts by then.

 

[Phicinfan]

Does anyone know if the new Skyliner air gondolas will be air-conditioned or will they be little greenhouses in the sky? The picture is vague, almost looks like window vents.

By all reports I have seen, it looks to be force air, not air conditioning.....yeah, could get a bit soupy

Probably not. Let's just say same division and I do a lot of crying. Ha!

Bears fan, is my bet

 

[umichigan10]

Bears fan, is my bet

Ahhhh the magic of jay cutler

 

[rteetz]

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New Magic Shots

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[jknezek]

Fantastic cinematography? Ok...but it was in the end pure cheese...

I know how outdated the old movies looked there with their low SE wands and choreographed moves...but the rest of empire and Jedi looked so good I shan't care the tiniest.

Ok. So we are talking about completely separate things and should probably stop. My contention was that the answer isn't always "the original trilogy", your point here is that you can't pick pieces where the answer wouldn't be "the original trilogy". That's fine. It's just good to not talk at cross purposes.

And I mean...the obi wan flip at the end...I mean...that's as corny as the early stuff.

Um, yeah... Luke did the flip. And shot out of the carbon freezing pit like he was bouncing on a trampoline (hmm....)

Faster was definitely more smooth...but I don't even know if it added to anything.

It integrated the concept of different lightsaber styles into canon, which was a huge deal in the Extended Universe.

That train wreck at the end of Sith certainty didn't...but George was long declared nuts by then.

It was a good dual, it just was minimized by the absolute garbage plot. And the fact that the cruelest thing Kenobi could ever have done was leave his former padawan and best friend/brother in all but blood, to die a horrible, lingering death either cut in half or slowly swallowed by lava. Awful, absolutely awful mischaracterization of Kenobi and the Jedi in general. Even Vader gave Kenobi the class of a quick death. George was nuts. To take something so important and screw it up so many ways was a tragedy...

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Ok. So we are talking about completely separate things and should probably stop. My contention was that the answer isn't always "the original trilogy", your point here is that you can't pick pieces where the answer wouldn't be "the original trilogy". That's fine. It's just good to not talk at cross purposes.

Ok...agree

Um, yeah... Luke did the flip. And shot out of the carbon freezing pit like he was bouncing on a trampoline (hmm....)

But i think they had an excuse in 1979...none in 1998.

And the greatest "flip" was off the plank in 1983...there's just no way to argue this. Because it had the brilliant flash of green for the first time ever and showed Luke to be the most powerful character in the original, core story...That moment...for all of us kids jumping out of the non RPX seats...popcorn flying. And the music was better too...

(What I said about core fans...see above)

It integrated the concept of different lightsaber styles into canon, which was a huge deal in the Extended Universe.

A lot of that EU stuff went crash when lucas couldn't make a decent new movie. Baby got thrown out with the bath water. It has become more Nerdcon in legend since.

It was a good dual, it just was minimized by the absolute garbage plot. And the fact that the cruelest thing Kenobi could ever have done was leave his former padawan and best friend/brother in all but blood, to die a horrible, lingering death either cut in half or slowly swallowed by lava. Awful, absolutely awful mischaracterization of Kenobi and the Jedi in general. Even Vader gave Kenobi the class of a quick death. George was nuts. To take something so important and screw it up so many ways was a tragedy...

It was drumline baton twirling...swinging from ropes like some roger Moore mid 70's James Bond. Nothing like the tension of the fight in empire. Just awful.

I will agree the plot overall kills anything decent. III gets a lot of excuses made for it...I think it's everybit as bad as I and II. Just awful.

 

[Tigger's ally]

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New Magic Shots

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My mouth was watering thinking this was a La Cava or Trader Sam's article....and then.....Argggghhhhhhh

 

[lockedoutlogic]

My mouth was watering thinking this was a La Cava or Trader Sam's article....and then.....Argggghhhhhhh

Lol...we can only dream...sadly...it's pure fluff/nonsense as usual.

 

[rteetz]

News

Universal is surveying guests about Disney's Star Wars hotel... How long until we see a Potter hotel announced?

 

[lockedoutlogic]

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Universal is surveying guests about Disney's Star Wars hotel... How long until we see a Potter hotel announced?

No doubt...

Though I think they are more likely to counter with something BIG in the next year or so

 

[rteetz]

No doubt...

Though I think they are more likely to counter with something BIG in the next year or so

A Nintendo announcement has to be imminent but I think the biggest counter they could do is a third park. Just announcing Nintendo as an addition might not be enough for them.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

New Magic Shots

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That cool that you can now see what is available and where in each park - a lot of times I don't even know what to ask about or which places have them, etc.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

A Nintendo announcement has to be imminent but I think the biggest counter they could do is a third park. Just announcing Nintendo as an addition might not be enough for them.

Ima thinking...

They need a huge IP To do it through...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

It was a good dual, it just was minimized by the absolute garbage plot. And the fact that the cruelest thing Kenobi could ever have done was leave his former padawan and best friend/brother in all but blood, to die a horrible, lingering death either cut in half or slowly swallowed by lava. Awful, absolutely awful mischaracterization of Kenobi and the Jedi in general. Even Vader gave Kenobi the class of a quick death. George was nuts. To take something so important and screw it up so many ways was a tragedy...

I like episode III overall but yeah, the ending is bad - why would he just leave him? Makes no sense - either from a character stand point or why leave just the possibility he would have been saved by Palpatine (I know the novelization tries to rationalize it by saying it was against the code of the Jedi to kill a defenseless person, but rather leave it to the will of the Force, but still).

 

[Fantasia79]

Ahhhh the magic of jay cutler

Former magic.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I like episode III overall but yeah, the ending is bad - why would he just leave him? Makes no sense - either from a character stand point or why leave just the possibility he would have been saved by Palpatine (I know the novelization tries to rationalize it by saying it was against the code of the Jedi to kill a defenseless person, but rather leave it to the will of the Force, but still).

It was just crap...plain and simple. We can just leave it at that. George lucas was exposed as not being a good storyteller...it was the "team" in the 70's...not the quarterback

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