I wouldn't mind it if they put in the rumored "Brother Bear Rocky Mountain Raft Ride"...anything to replace that awful brown "mountain" with something that actually resembles the Canadian Rockies (and also something that's actually taller than the Chateau that it sits beside).
With a well-themed queue, they could still deliver the message that Canada is a beautiful, natural wonderland, and they could do it in a way that doesn't come across as a bad educational film from the early 80s.
If the raft ride is off the drawing board, I'd love to see a couple of Canadian Companies get together to fund an all new movie. The first thing I'd do is tear down the Circle-Vision place and put up a new 5-story plus Rocky Mountain themed theatre (again, something that actually looks like the Rockies), which would be ideally suited to a new movie which utilizes the Made-in-Canada technology, IMAX (3-D IMAX, even better).
The movie could be hosted by Rutt & Tuke (or any of the other thousands of Canadian celebrities), and provide a tour of this great nation.
I don't really have a problem with the basic structure of the exisiting film, except for the fact that it's over 20 years old (and someone stole the Calgary skyline, along with the Saddledome).
Even though most of us live in modern cosmopolitan cities, tourists don't want to visit (either in a theme park, or in real life) a Canada that runs around trying to prove how grown-up and modern its cities are. If they want to visit Manhattan, they'll go to NYC, not "Manhattan, if it were run by the Swiss", as Toronto has been described.
Tourists want Niagara Falls, the Calgary Stampede, the RCMP Musical Ride, Anne of Green Gables, winter festivals, and natural unspoiled wilderness full of happy friendly people.
Pretty much all of the presentations at World Showcase are stereotypical representations of the ideal tourist vision of each nation, not realistic presentations of day-to-day 21st Century life in those countries.
A sweeping panorama of the Toronto skyline isn't going to leave someone breathless the same way a sweeping panorama of Niagara Falls will.
The biggest problem with another movie is that it will be out-of-date again long before it is out-of-service. That's why I hope they put in the raft ride and leave the tourism aspects to posters and merchandise that can be constantly updated.
Speaking of merchandise, would it kill them to stock some Flames and Oilers merchandise too? Not that I'd ever buy a Flames' puck in Florida (unless it was to throw at Dave Andrechuk's head), but there are only 6 Canadian teams in the NHL, they could at least make a token effort to represent all of them.
With a well-themed queue, they could still deliver the message that Canada is a beautiful, natural wonderland, and they could do it in a way that doesn't come across as a bad educational film from the early 80s.
If the raft ride is off the drawing board, I'd love to see a couple of Canadian Companies get together to fund an all new movie. The first thing I'd do is tear down the Circle-Vision place and put up a new 5-story plus Rocky Mountain themed theatre (again, something that actually looks like the Rockies), which would be ideally suited to a new movie which utilizes the Made-in-Canada technology, IMAX (3-D IMAX, even better).
The movie could be hosted by Rutt & Tuke (or any of the other thousands of Canadian celebrities), and provide a tour of this great nation.
I don't really have a problem with the basic structure of the exisiting film, except for the fact that it's over 20 years old (and someone stole the Calgary skyline, along with the Saddledome).
Even though most of us live in modern cosmopolitan cities, tourists don't want to visit (either in a theme park, or in real life) a Canada that runs around trying to prove how grown-up and modern its cities are. If they want to visit Manhattan, they'll go to NYC, not "Manhattan, if it were run by the Swiss", as Toronto has been described.
Tourists want Niagara Falls, the Calgary Stampede, the RCMP Musical Ride, Anne of Green Gables, winter festivals, and natural unspoiled wilderness full of happy friendly people.
Pretty much all of the presentations at World Showcase are stereotypical representations of the ideal tourist vision of each nation, not realistic presentations of day-to-day 21st Century life in those countries.
A sweeping panorama of the Toronto skyline isn't going to leave someone breathless the same way a sweeping panorama of Niagara Falls will.
The biggest problem with another movie is that it will be out-of-date again long before it is out-of-service. That's why I hope they put in the raft ride and leave the tourism aspects to posters and merchandise that can be constantly updated.
Speaking of merchandise, would it kill them to stock some Flames and Oilers merchandise too? Not that I'd ever buy a Flames' puck in Florida (unless it was to throw at Dave Andrechuk's head), but there are only 6 Canadian teams in the NHL, they could at least make a token effort to represent all of them.
