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Who is Achilles Veal?
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What is "Wobble on the Wild Side"?
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May we all go as she did: on a bridge in a sword fight against the human surrogate of a predictive digital intelligence.
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This magnificent song has somehow cursed my wife's phone, and it has unintentionally been set as her alarm and various other system sounds.
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(she refused to come back)
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What is home ownership?
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They still technically haven't made Paddington 3 either.
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I'm tempted to say "we should have been more specific," but we've been very specific so this one's not on us.
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I'm sorry, that's The Maltese Phone.
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I forgot about that!
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I am glad the kids for whom this series was founded still have a few artists willing to speak the language of myth.
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Still no room for the Legends frame.
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Based on threads like the one quoted, I can only assume Marcia or Kurtz directed the first film, saving George from his infantile instincts. (An amazing perspective to have on one of the most documented productions in history.)
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I would like to know who this person thinks directed A New Hope.
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It's me. I'm the one feeling dumb.
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I would imagine some are trying to not say anything at all because they have nothing nice to say.
I would imagine comic fans are existentially angry that the pitch for a non-hierarchical transmedia slate in 2014 turned out to just be a marketing tactic, and they feel pretty dumb for believing it.
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The yellow barrel was right there.
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at last, a president willing to tackle the epidemic of childhood pencil addiction
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That post reflects the level of research rigor I've come to expect from him.
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they gotta get all these out before everyone who gives a shit dies
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Love this!
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Not arguing for a scale up — they've already achieved a level of intimacy between the vignettes — just a redirection of the same resources toward something other than replicating movie scenes.
(They had, like, ten actors! And a live band! And a dog!)
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No amount of blockbuster staging can compare to having an extended conversation with the Save The Clock Tower Lady.
Too often we focus on spectacle, but what I really want isn't a photo op, it's the opportunity to exist in a universe and share a genuine, unstaged moment with a character.
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For decades the Back to the Future franchise boldly avoided adaptation — in an animated series, a video game, several runs of comic books — allowing each new medium it entered an original story that could play to its unique storytelling advantages.
I wish that vision had applied here.
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Also, the app has a different title listed for the Back to the Future experience, despite the logo being right above it:
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The show writing really boxed in the actors. I understand if your cargo bay needs to be an LED screen, but then maybe don't force your performer to ask the audience, "it's really something, isn't it?"
You wouldn't have a character call attention to the lack of ceiling, so maybe don't assume awe.
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What is a pot of tepid water slowly brought to a boil?
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I'm torn between wanting people to worry we'd do it anyway and pride in nobody even considering we would.
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"No mourning allowed!" — the First Order, apparently
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One map shouldn't take you too long, and it's well worth it!
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Sadly the Play Disney Parks app has stagnated, but if the Smugglers Run ride is going to have connectivity with the Epic Games parks project as announced, we may yet have a chance.
Until then, "arrivederci!"
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The format was carried over beautifully to Pirate's Adventure at Magic Kingdom, and it's one that I hope can continue to evolve into more complex systems of interaction enabled by digital tools.
It's fun to imagine a version of this that dynamically adapts to player skill level and capacity demand.
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Fortress Explorations was already a beautiful example of placemaking, but this layer of play brings the story of the space to life.
A few too many of the stops might've felt like dice rolls to spread out players, or multiple choice with no wrong answers, but they always led to a dynamic effect.
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Only three missions are running due to a missing set piece, but two of the maps are now available in English!
(The third map in Japanese was easily playable with the assistance of Google Translate.)
The way the maps interact with the finale podiums is a satisfying bit of magic.
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My only nit to pick with this perfect attraction is that one of the ride vehicles has a large envelope addressed to Philip Edwards, Esq at 19 Cherry Tree Lane, despite there being a known resident of that house:
Mrs. Nineteen from P.L. Travers' final book, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door.