OK Greg!! You asked for it!!
Baron, duh! I think you opinions are totally off base and you think mine are...I can't believe that is still frustrating to you. Geesh!
You dont know how frustrating it really is.
Regardless, while certainly missplaced, I think S/D is anything but a box hotel.
Agreed.
It is a carefully detailed "story" which is told through architecture.
Scoop!!! I shouldnt need an Architectural guide to explain the theme of a Disney hotel!!
It is a unique approach to telling a story which, I again admit, may be too abstract for some if not more.
Well!! How nice of you to point out to the peons what a cultured eye sees! How patronizing!! How condescending!!
But, I love to see Disney try unique approaches whether its modular hotel rooms to monorails to, yes, even this approach.
And this is the basic disagreement!! Which lead to my thread. Which I assume you read. And you came away with no substantive change in position or more importantly argument. You just spit the same stuff back again, without taking one, NOT ONE, of my thoughts into consideration for agreement or debate!!
The whole premise of the argument was Walts concepts of theme. And you ignored not only that point, but every other point made in that essay.
And thats why I gave it a Whatever.
There. Is that a better response? (Somehow, I dont think so)
WDW could have simply ordered another "time period" or geographic location based hotel but those aren't really that unique anymore at Disney or even non-Disney locations.
They may not be unique, but they are
DISNEY!! Those two are not!! Plain and simple. You did read the thing, didnt you? Youre going on about S/D theme was the main motivation for the many, many words there. And yet
Still no reference, points or arguments taken or made. In other words, whatever!
but I find that type of unique approach to be much more promising or interesting or whatever than simply plopping down a Venetian themed hotel
Do you see how fundamentally different our philosophies are? I couldnt think of this sentence if I were offered a million! It is totally alien to my way of thinking. Yet you have no problem at all, happily typing in, simply plopping down a Venetian themed hotel! And thats another reason for the Whatever.
Disney and Graves were going for artistic merit with this resort.
Again, not part of the Disney Standard. Or did I really have to say that after writing the referred to thread? Evidently you didnt read it, or chose to ignore it or youd know that this type of post didnt at all further the dialogue, but just restated what you had said before.
Im all for talking, but I really need something to talk about. And when I pose an argument, fairly well thought out (at least lengthy) and not one single point was brought up, well
Whatever!!