So the future is disco?

Oh where, oh where has my idealized version of the future gone?  Where are my jet packs, my flying cars,  my vision of tomorrow, my anything that is not animated and doesn’t have Stitch in it?

WHERE IS  TOM MORROW PAGING TOM MORROW… Can anyone find him please?!?

Some of the current trends in new attractions in Tomorrowland have me wondering if Disney has lost it’s vision of the future and has decided that it can take the path of least resistance in developing attractions at its park.  Why are all the attractions animated, and well  less then stellar, some might say they are downright lousy?    Has marketing run amuck at Disney?  Are  the new attractions just there to push Stitch dolls and Mike Wazowski shirts?

Stitch’s Great Escape, Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor, and Stitch’s SuperSonic Celebration?  Really?  Is that the future.. if so  let me quote Mr. Jetson, ” JAAAAAANE GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING!!”

The current push of attractions are just weak copies of other or older attractions that seem purely based on marketing.  Monsters makes absolutly no sense in Tomorrowland.  Monsters Inc is set in current time, not in the future, and it’s monsters.  When are monsters ever futuristic?  I might even give you robot monsters, but Sully, Mike Wazowski, Boo?  Huh.. sorry they just don’t belong.

Two of the three attractions do feature Stitch.  I guess you can argue that he is from space and future-ish, it’s a stretch and I could excuse that if the two attractions weren’t lousy.  And do we need two attractions with him? Stitch’s Great Escape is just a shell of a great attraction that was Alien Encounter.  Stitch’s SuperSonic Celebration is just a sad, poorly paced stage show.  Chili dog burbs are not an awe inspiring vision of the future.

Disney is also now in the recycling.  Hey we all want to go green, but do we need two copies of  versions of Turtle Talk with Crush in the same land?  Why aren’t we developing new attractions that are different wow our senses?  And I don’t mean a rework of the Figment skunk smell!  Where are the futuristic new attraction technologies of the future?

Who needs seatbelts, we are flying!

With all the current technology and visions of the future, I fail to see how we cannot have a Tomorrowland full of attractions that are rich, vibrant and full of the promise of tomorrow.  The new attractions don’t have to be full of techno wizardry either.  One of my favorite all time attractions is the Tomorrowland Transit Authority.  Its simple, contemporary and wow hey fits the theme, go figure.

Disney please revisit some old classic Popular Mechanic magazines, and then look to some current trends to develop a new vision of tomorrow, one that will inspire a new generation of kids.  I really don’t want the future to be filled with disco dancing Elvis impersonators.