We don't have a lot of fine dining here in Milwaukee but we we do have good restaurants. I agree that WDW food for the most part is average compared to the rest of the world. However I myself wouldn't describe it as bland. I would also go out to say it's a theme park I'm not expecting fine dining where ever I go. I will also agree that the dining plan and incentives like that did make things go downhill.
You know while I've never seen it in person I didn't find winter dreams all that bad. I will agree it's not as good as the original but I don't think it's terrible. Celebrate obviously isn't great either but I also don't think it's terrible but definitely lacking.
I'd agree with your take on winter dreams. I'd be more harsh on celebrate though. What the original lacked in storyline, it made up with heart. Seeing a 70 foot tall awkward host (no diss on NPH, but just about anyone would be awkward in this setting) flying in front of your face is weird. They tried to push the medium in a whole different direction, and unlike other more unique offerings such as Illuminations, failed miserably. The show was just... off. I will respect the fact they tried to do something different. That deserves credit. I also have mixed feelings saying they should go back to the original, as the parks aren't museums and I want them to feel safe taking risks. It's just sometimes risks fail and it's better to cut your losses, especially when it's as simply as changing some programming.
In general my complaints are mostly with the feel or story. I actually thought I saw the animators and show designers having a perfect technical control of their craft. WoC Celebrate's effects are just amazing. I feel like the designers have been playing around with the hardware for 5 years and now really understand it. Like landscape artists who are masters of their craft. The sad thing is instead of being instructed to paint a landscape, they had to paint a wall. Their subject matter was really bad. That's my main issue.
Well we know the name of the banshee ride is flight of passage and we know there will be animatronics and bioluminescence in the river journey but that's about it. They are also still being vague in just saying 2017 rather than an actual date or even early 2017, spring 2017, Summer 2017 or late 2017.
I think WoC is a difficult show to plus or make better because it's already so good. It will be interesting to see what the next version is like eventually. I know we probably won't see that for a while tho.
me personally I don't need to know all the details
They are temporarily done. The walls/railing between each lamp are temporary. It's expected that they will have the ramps open for the holidays and then put the new permanent railings in after the holidays.
