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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Imagineering Theory: The Sightlines of Fantasyland

This is an elaboration of this Micechat forum post.

In a previous post, I lamented the thematic mess that is present-day Tomorrowland (there's an ironic turn of phrase). Whatever your opinion of the individual attractions therein, there's no denying that it's a complete hodgepodge of concepts and design elements.
But the funny thing is, it's not the only area at Disneyland that has this issue. Take a look:


It's Fantasyland! What a charming little fairy tale village! But then...


Okay, getting weirder...


Wait, what?
How can all these vastly different design motifs be part of the same land? Were the planners drunk or what?
And how come we never notice how badly things clash when we're actually there?
To answer these questions: 1. Because that's how it worked out, 2. Probably not, 3. I'm getting to that.