Disney Parks Animatronic Tournament: Bracket B/Tier 2 Round 4
Figment: Journey Into Imagination/Journey Into Imagination with Figment - Epcot Disney World
Propaganda:
"Every Christmas since 2020 he wears a snowflake and Imagination logo sweater"
Statler and Waldorf: Muppet*Vision 3D - Hollywood Studios Disney World, Disney California Adventure (formerly)
Propaganda:
"Waldorf: “Do we have time to go to the bathroom before the next show?” Statler: “We can’t, you old fool. We’re bolted to the seats!” These animatronics are the next best thing to having the real puppets sitting there in the balcony doing what they do best--heckling the Muppets."
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so ever since ive been getting back into animatronics (pizza time theater, rockafire explosion) ive had this question in mind ever since fnaf got me into the rich history behind them
full description of choices
Positive: Brought more people wanting to save old animatronics, more nostalgia and interest into the scene, more awareness and efforts to save old animatronics
Negative: Caused people to not take animatronics seriously anymore, only viewed them as scary and just to be the butt of jokes by people and especially, (mostly young) kids, animatronics not being desired anymore by entertainment facilities/attractions and parks due to the interest in the games
personally i think their are both positives and negatives to fnaf's impact on the animatronic scene. for me fnaf has made me care a lot about animatronics and their history, especially the cec/showbiz and disney ones (it was my cranium command hyperfixation that triggered it to come back again recently thank u buzzy) but i would love to hear your thoughts!
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[ID: a drawing of teddi barra in her swing holding her parasol. the other paw is holding onto the swing, which has various shades of pink flowers adorning the ropes. the background is pink with darker shading under her. /end ID]
swingin' teddi barra!
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A Clip of the new Elsa Animatronic coming to the Frozen land (World of Frozen I think) at Tokyo DisneySea was shown at D23 today And it's incredible! The new animatronic Tech looks so amazing, and it's awesome to see it get used on the Frozen Characters. I still wish they would update Frozen Fever with these instead of the projected faces but that's never happening under Chapek.
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Disney Parks Animatronic Tournament: Bracket C/Tier 3 Round 4
Computer engineer woman/Foxy Brown: Spaceship Earth - Epcot Disney World
Propaganda:
"The representation here is fabulous! We love our ladies in STEM. Also she is STUNNING."
( go to 29:45 for animatronic )
Donald's Butt: Mickey's PhilharMagic - Magic Kingdom Disney World, Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, Disney California Adventure
Propaganda:
"He wiggles and falls into a hole in the wall"
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I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.
He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.
"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."
My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.
But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.
In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...
This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.
But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?
"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."
And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.
Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...
... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...
... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).
I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.
Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.
Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.
We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:
Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.
Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.
There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.
But the problem I encounter is that:
Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.
We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.
And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.
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Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.
So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.
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