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Are there any pictures or concepts of how they plan to retheme that area?
Are they going to? I sure hope so! I feel like I'm in line for a Six Flags ride. Then again, I was surprised by the lack of queue theming (and indoor queues) in Disneyland in general when I finally made it there this summer--guess it's a space thing.
On MasterGracey's project tracker it says this:
California Screamin' queue / Eastern Paradise Pier re-theming
Project Status: To begin September 2008
Open Date: Early December 2008
Lack of queue theming was actually the norm rather than the exception before the days of Eisner and was something Walt established. Aside from ATIS and HM pre-Eisber queues were mostly unthemed. It wasn't until Star Tours that people started to think all queues for some reason must be elaborately themed, and that a ride is lacking uf the queue is in fact not themed.Originally Posted by SomethingWicked451
I think CS feels "Six Flags" because the lack of theming is continued even in the load area. I do say Walt's queues were unthemed, but the theming did start in most cases in the load area, POTC is a good example. I say, theme the load area onl and it should improve thngs a lot.
While I love Screaming, its poses an interesting challenge. How do you theme a rollercoaster who's theme is infact a rollercoaster? Its a steal coaster themed to a wooden coaster but not so sure as to how to theme that. I guess that is why the guys in WDI are there, and not me. hummmmmm
ATIS?
Adventure Through Inner Space
Re: California Screamin' Queue As far as I know there is no concept art for that area. Although I have heard many great ideas for what they could do from fellow Micechatters.
What about the ride itself? The track will fit in well with the new Paradise Pier themeing since it looks like a wooden coaster but the trains don't look very victorian, it's doesn't look funny now but I think it might when everything else is done.
[QUOTE=DisneyIPresume;3088886]Lack of queue theming was actually the norm rather than the exception before the days of Eisner and was something Walt established. Aside from ATIS and HM pre-Eisber queues were mostly unthemed. It wasn't until Star Tours that people started to think all queues for some reason must be elaborately themed, and that a ride is lacking uf the queue is in fact not themed.
I think CS feels "Six Flags" because the lack of theming is continued even in the load area. I do say Walt's queues were unthemed, but the theming did start in most cases in the load area, POTC is a good example. I say, theme the load area onl and it should improve thngs a lot.[/QUOTE
To me, beyond the lack of theming, there's something particularly Six Flags-ian about California Screamin...maybe it's just the cement ramps going back and forth.
I think of queue theming as just another part of the evolution of imagineering; it got more sophisticated through the years along with almost everything else. I love it when it's done well (the Star Tours queue you cited as the genesis of the whole trend is, IMO, vastly superior to the actual ride). So I was just surprised that even more recent attractions at DL didn't have the elaborate and entertaining queues to help time pass, like I had come to expect at WDW. With the exception of Indiana Jones, of course.
Anyone have any info yet?
No idea, but I gotta say, kidgenie is right. The queue is perfectly themed to the attraction, which is to say that it's themed to an attraction that's intentionally themed to unthemed attractions. That's not to say I like the situation...but the queue is merely a symptom of the problem with the entire attraction. And if you ask me, there ain't much Disney can do about it. I'd love to be proven wrong, but there isn't room to theme the coaster to something other than a coaster...and doing so wouldn't make sense with Paradise Pier, anyway...so really, Screamin' is also a symptom of the even larger problem that is Paradise Pier.
Well, at least if the queue looked like an unthemed queue from a 20's rather than the '90's, it would fit the new theme. At minimum they could build a Victorian roof to cover the queue to replace the fabric awnings and maybe tile, paint or put a veneer over the concrete. At least then it wouldn't feel so awkward.
Ideally they'd demo that queue and relocate it into the helix. That would really make it feel like a '20's boardwalk coaster, and they actually already have a framed out opening into the helix that I think they put in just for this reason. Surpringly, they actually planned for the future on this one. They also need to repaint the trains, Techskip gave some nice ideas for that in a previous thread.
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But Paradise Pier will be rethemed to be more Victorian (which, by the way, I think will be a vast improvement), so why not just retheme the queue to be more Victorian? TSMM's queue is great next door. The lights, the walls, the roofs... everything about it is just like a better Pier. So why not do the same thing to Screamin'? It would fit into the area.
I think that'd be nice, though then the attraction wouldn't match the queue.But Paradise Pier will be rethemed to be more Victorian (which, by the way, I think will be a vast improvement), so why not just retheme the queue to be more Victorian? TSMM's queue is great next door. The lights, the walls, the roofs... everything about it is just like a better Pier. So why not do the same thing to Screamin'? It would fit into the area.
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