It might just be as simple as the Imagineers wanting some "texture" or variety in how the building appears. In other words, if every room had the teak/wood railing, it might just look too "bland" or homogenous.
It might just be as simple as the Imagineers wanting some "texture" or variety in how the building appears. In other words, if every room had the teak/wood railing, it might just look too "bland" or homogenous.
omg! I thought that was still construction fencing!! LOL
Does anyone know why all the railings aren't the same? I just noticed this, and can't understand why the heck they'd do this rather than keep it uniform. In my opinion the teak/wooden design looks far better than the black with glass, but that's just me.
Looks like theming then. It’s the balconies inside the brown “wood” box on each face you see there, which is also two floors below the top on each face.
With enough H/A spots. We have been offered free valet, but prefer to have DH park the car.
It will be full most of the time IMO. I think 5 H/A spots meets regulations, but is not nearly enough. Thanks for looking into this!
It looks like some intern selected the wrong product option in CAD, and then no one bothered to double-check the plans before building. Or maybe the manufacturer ran out of railings and they had to come up with another option. Or perhaps someone spilled coffee on the purchase orders and then AGAIN on the plans! Or all the pens in the world ran out of ink to draw the lines/hashes on the balconies in the plans. Designed by AI hallucination? Maybe it's an embedded hidden code? Bungled hidden Mickey?
lol 100% agreed! as someone who works for a engineering software company, I can confirm it 100% looks like someone messed up the CAD and no one bothered to change it.
So I think that Moana sculpture (?) is adorable and impressive, but my inner lawyer is still screeching ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE.
I do property management and renovation work and it drives me nuts that there are these weird and glaring inconsistencies in the building exterior.
It’s a splash pad — Should be designed safe enough
If you look at a view that shows the entire building you will see that large “blocks” of rooms are enclosed by a brown border. Only those rooms inside the enclosure have the fancy railings. Rooms outside the enclosure have the “plain” railings. Definitely a design feature.
I mean I get it….but it still looks awful. Imagine if the grand had 80% beautiful white balconies, and then 20% were black iron with glass. No other Disney hotel does this for a reason. It just looks out of place. It kind of reminds me of building a Lego set where everything is going perfectly, and then towards the end you realize you’re missing some pieces, so you sort of throw it together with pieces from another Lego set even if they might be the wrong color.
Complete agreement here.
Back in the 1970's, mushrooms were all over wallpaper, "artwork" (ugly prints), nick knacks etc. It was an UGLY time. Someone got inspiration from great-great grandma's 1970's kitchen and thought to "update" it?
Or maybe the designer was under the influence of mushrooms throughout this entire project!
