#mk coco

[evanvison]

Mentors!

I noticed that I love the "flawed mentor with a student that they treat like their child" trope a lot and wanted to see how many of my fav shows and books (+ a musical) had this trope. In no particular order, here they are!

7. Ursula Callistis "Little Witch Academia"

she is such an amazing character! More people should watch this show. Her relationship with Akko is so fascinating especially after the twist about why she is so determined to help Akko specifically is revealed. I need to rewatch this show again.

6. Athena "Epic The Musical" (1st 2 pics by Luiza Xavier Mazzei)

Athena is one of my fav Epic characters and I love her arc so much. Seeing her start as the Mentor to Odysseus and then switch to Telemachus' mentor is so cool. Also, Teagan Earley (her singer) is awesome! (3rd pic is by @wolfythewitch and 4th is by Luiza Xavier Mazzei again)

5. Toshinori Yagi (All Might) "My Hero Academia"

All Might is an interesting character in his own right. I actually wrote an essay about his heroism and how it has changed for a class. His perfect symbol idea that he built and then decided to move on from and grow from his inability to maintain it. Oh, how I love it.

4. Frieren "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End"

Frieren is an amazing main character and it's rare to see the mentor be the focus of a show. Her growth over the course of the story is lovely in its pacing and I love how when she meets Fern her sense of time does start to slow down as she helps to teach and raise her.

3. Sun Wukong "Lego Monkie Kid"

Wukong has a slew of flaws that have caused issues for him and his loved ones for as long as he has been alive but seeing him grow and change both for himself and for his new loved ones is so beautiful to watch. He sees how his past actions have caused issues for his successor, MK, and actively tries to make sure MK will not have to suffer for his actions.

2. Edalyn Clawthorne (Eda) "The Owl House"

Eda is flawed in ways that are mostly due to her being an outlaw and taking some time to figure out how she should be training Luz. Once those motherly instincts kicked in she started doing a fantastic job. She started taking better care of herself as well. She is a wonderful caretaker of Luz and King. I love you, Mama Eda!

Qifrey "Witch Hat Atelier"

Qifrey is a broken man who is able to hide his pain pretty well from the people in his life (well enough anyway). He loves his students so much but he can get carried away by his grudge against the brimhats. Luckily he has a whole family's worth of people to remind him to relax and take in the calm while he can. Hopefully, he's able to keep Coco from going down a similar path.

That's it! That's all of them! I hope you all liked seeing these lovely mentors and their respective pupils. This all started because a while ago I was talking to a friend about Wukong and I realized that he and All Might fit into the flawed mentor role and from there it spiraled. Now you all got to read this! I also hope this lets other people who love this trope find new characters to obsess over from this list.

[shatteredstarsart]

I got some more Victorian era au stuff.

MK is a person here, he’s a kid Wukong used to work with when he was poor (because remember child labor was a thing in the Victorian era unfortunately) and he likes to hang out with MK sometimes, bring him some tea and hot coco. Wukong tries his best to help out MK financially and it’s enough to where he doesn’t have to work. Macaque also tries to teach Wukong common upper class Victorian social rules, like hat language, and of course it’s counterpart, fan language.

This next bit is a little bit in the future, Wukong and Macaque kind of get married. They can’t technically get legally married due to yknow, anti mlm laws ( :[ ), but they do just act like they’re married and wear wedding bands anyways. And this is them as old men. Wukong is the only one of the two that actually has fun wearing clothes, he has Lego Batman Style suit dress up parties on a daily basis.

[tiredghostness]

Who is kai?

Chenxi! or Kai Bagwis. he is Malaya's best friend and Mk's number one fan.

and i am so sorry he is my most neglected son aside from coco.

[thegreatsagewukong]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all, today im drinking hot coco and trying to stop the little ones from destroying the tree i dragged in.

Macaque smiled today, MK got his present delivered and Nezha seems happy where he's at.

All is well

[late-tothe-party-07]

Thinking about a Christmas filler episode for Lego Monkie kid that we haven't gotten yet.

Thinking about Macaque and Wukong doing last minute panic shopping because time is weird for them. Wukong grabs his own merch but also a few things he genuinely hopes the gang likes. Macaque, on the other side of the store, grumbles the entire time like someone's forcing him to get a few good things.

Thinking about them bumping into each other and having a lot of the same things. They argue over who gets to give what.

Thinking about Tang wrapping presents while Pigsy makes Christmas dinner behind the counter.

Thinking about MK, Mei and Red Son trying to sneak a peek at the presents

Thinking about Sandy bringing everyone matching homemade earmuffs and hot coco/peppermint tea.

Thinking about Macaque hanging out in the corner and watching everyone have fun, then being surprised there's gifts for him. All are the typical things but the last one, unmarked of who gave it, is a new scarf. Across the room Wukong chugs hot coco to hide his smile.

Thinking about all of them bundling up and playing in the snow and watching Monkey King Christmas movies and everyone, for once, being content to live in the moment.

Thinking about a Christmas filler episode for Lego Monkie kid that we haven't gotten yet

(Edit: Wait it wouldn't be cold during Christmas....)

[bleached-d-soul]

MK Intro Fake Netorare Guy: Jaune vs Coco to kick things off

Coco: Don’t think I am going easy on you just because I want to lick those abs of yours.

Jaune: Go easy on me, how about- Wait, what did you say?

[dinomites]

@twinklesofhope | ⭐ (If it's okay!)

I can't really think of much but here's some thoughts!!

Hand u my cookies, especially my crk aus for Aelia and MK.

John with Rosie ( Will include Raionshi's pkmn au )

Akane & Hifumi >B)

Raionshi and Lumine!! ( I have genshi/n aus )

Grimsby + Mizuki and Eri... fandomless muses deserve love too.

Aelia and Coco teehee

[real-total-drama-takes]

reboot mean girls au priya - cady julia - regina nichelle - gretchen emma - karen caleb - aaron MK - Janis (i've got a big LESBIAN crush on you!) bowie - damian DAMIEN - glen coco chris - mrs. norbury chef - principal duvall do u see the vision...

[quitealotofsodapop]

Man, this whole Stone Egg talk is giving me brain itches...

...

...well, let's say that a SWK found the pieces of the stone he was born from and kiiiiiindaaaaa makes a small shrine for it? Like a memorial thing, except, he has no memories of them or anyone to tell the memories of his parent, but it's the spirit of the thing sort of?

Make it a Wukongverse scenario, where one of the others wonder why is he doing that to pieces of rock. Here come a series of question that go like "Why though?" "Respectful to my fucking parent, maybe?" "But it's a rock?" "Wait....you guys don't know who that was..."

Cue somebody screeching, somebody doing the thousand yard stare, somebody trying to speed dial Buddha for answers, somebody breathing into a paper bag, somebody running to their own FFM to find their parent...

Fun times.

...

[As for Macaque knowing that Wukong was under the mountain... he sorta assumed since his head was exposed, the Stone Egg process couldn't happen. Like, he thought maybe you needed to be completely airtight for your body to start doing it.]

[The process is very taxing, and many died if another was not present to "wake" them afterwards.]

Hmmm....okay, I don't remember all of it as I was thinking it while at work and teaching a new mentee the ropes, just the following: LEM accidentally starts the process when trying to make protections on FFM to keep those wishing it and its monkeys harm, SWK comes back too late to save LEM (SWK was late by one day), SWK tries raising the child, but gives it to one of the other monkeys, something-something-something, MK is actually a shadowpeach grandchild.

hah! I have seen "Coco"-inspired aus where MK is a shadowpeach grandchild via stone egg.

A whole family lineage of monkey demons *furious* at being "abandoned" by the Monkey King. MK is nicknamed such to differ him from his eldest grandparent, Old Xiaotian. A cheeky but aging monkey demon, and visual mirror of MK. MK grows up still idolizing the king despite his elders disapproval.

Then he meets the actual Monkey King...

Who slips up a few times and calls him "Xiaotian" despite MK not telling him his birthname.

And he accidentally encounters the revivied Macaque, who can *sense* that his body did something and is wondering if MK is his Egg.

Deaceased Stone Monkey might actually be able to produce an egg from their body if relatives bury them shortly afterwards. A way of "saving" a part of their lost loved one. It was considered a bit rude to bury a relative without their prior permission though.

Its a cluster of confusion for everyone involved.

[hah-studios]

Teen Bluey and Teen Mackenzie, 25! It just seems like a natural fit.

"...as a yes." (writing prompts list)

Mackenzie was already panting, struggling to follow the girl that was jogging ahead of him.

Even after years of being friends with Bluey Heeler he was still outpaced by her. Never mind he was sixteen and taller than her!

“Blue!” he called out, moving around a family of four as he chased her through the busy street. “Wait up! We left everyone behind!”

Bluey finally skidded to a stop and looked over her shoulder, ears pricked. “Huh? Oh.” She looked around them. “So they are. I didn’t even notice it.”

“No kidding,” Mackenzie said dryly as he caught up to her.

She tried to look over him and he felt a flush of delight when she couldn’t. “Think we should go back to them? Or wait until they catch up?” They were all suppose to head to a new fish and chip shop in town.

Mackenzie swallowed as he looked at her, he could hear Rusty and Jack’s voices banging around his head: Just ask her!

“We can wait for them. They won’t be long.” He looked over his shoulder to see if he could spot Rusty or Indie or any of their other friends coming up, but the crowd was too thick.

“Hey, Blue…” he scratched the back of his neck. “Would you wanna-” But when he turned back around the heeler dog was no longer standing by him.

“Blue?” he looked around frantically. “Blue! Bluey!”

There she is! Standing by an ice cream shop, looking over the menu they had on the window.

Mackenzie hurried over to her, “We’re about to eat lunch!”

“I know,” Bluey waved her paw, “But we can always get some ice cream after lunch. I was seeing if they had any good flavors. Oooh~ mango.”

“Right, well, as I was saying. I wanted to ask-”

As he was saying the words Bluey’s chin tilted up and she was looking up at the sky. “Oh wow! Check out those kites, Mk!” She turned around and abandoned the ice cream shop, walking along the foot path with her eyes on the soaring kites.

“Blue, watch where you’re going!” Mackenzie hurried over and pulled her off to the side before she got rode over by a pair of cyclists.

“Oops, my bad!” Bluey smiled cheekily at him while Mackenzie could only roll his eyes.

“Bluey, I keep trying to ask you something.”

“Sorry, Mackenzie. Go on and tell me.” Her eyes were bright and attentive, and Mackenzie would have asked his question-but then she ruined his concentration by grabbing onto his paw.

“Uh-I um…” he floundered like a fish flopping on a dock. He couldn’t meet her eye now, only staring dumbly at their paws and he felt flushed when he realized his tail was wagging.

“So…the-the thing is…”

In her defense Bluey kept her attention on him, but after a few moments of stammering her ears twitched and she turned her head away. “Someone’s playing music?”

“Hm?”

“Let’s go listen while you find your voice,” Bluey continued. Still holding onto his paw she dragged him off into a crowd. A performer was playing on a set of pipes. Bluey was swinging in place, tail wagging and ears flickering. She still held onto Mackenzie’s paw like it was the most natural thing. That had to be a good sign.

He sucked in a breath, counted to three, and asked her.

Bluey gave him an odd look. “What was that? I couldn’t hear you!” The crowd and music was too loud.

Mackenzie tried again.

“What?”

“Will you go to the dance with me!?”

Bluey blinked, clearly having heard him this time. And by a few chuckles and side glances they got a bit of an audience.

“The dance on Friday…” he continued when Bluey didn’t say anything. “Do you want to go with me. As-as like a date….” “There you two are!”

Mackenzie jumped at Rusty’s deep voice. Looking over he saw their friends had caught up to them. Both Rusty and Jack looked encouraging while the girls (Indie, Coco, and Chloe) watched him with teasing smirks.

He swallowed. He hadn’t gotten an answer yet, would Bluey choose then to be shy and not wanna answer? Maybe he should’ve-

Bluey reached up and smacked a kiss against his cheek, winked and then ran off to join the group.

“Wait…” even through his confusion his tail was wagging so fast it was about to take him off the ground. “Was that a yes? Blue? Bluey!”

[randomanimaticse]

Guardian Tales Masterlist

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[dear-indies]

hiii! can you please help me out? i need fc ideas for a 19 - 25 black female, ty :(

Sisi Stringer (1997) African Australian and White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Alisha Boe (1997) Somali / White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Lori Harvey (1997) African-American - has spoken up for Palestine!

Precious Mustapha (1997) Nigerian.

Anok Yai (1997) South Sudanese.

Bethany Antonia (1997) Afro Jamaican and White.

Nia Sondaya (1997) African-American.

Antonia Gentry (1997) Afro Jamaican / White.

Bali Baby (1997) African-American - is bisexual.

Kassius Nelson (1997) Black British.

Dominique Thorne (1997) Afro Trinidadian.

Sydney Park (1997) African-American / Korean.

Jayme Lawson (1997) African-American.

Halima Aden (1997) Somali - has spoken up for Palestine!

Kiana Ledé (1997) African-American, Swedish, Mexican, and has claimed to be Cherokee and other Unspecified Indigenous but I don't know if this has been documented o verified - has spoken up for Palestine!

Channique Sterling-Brown (1997) Black British.

Erin Kellyman (1998) Afro Jamaican / White - is a lesbian.

Sophie Wilde (1998) Ivorian / White.

Yandeh Sallah (1998) Black Swedish.

Aweng Chuol (1998) South Sudanese.

Lovie Simone (1998) Ghanaian / African-American.

Salem Mitchell (1998) African-American / African-American and Filipino.

Ama Qamata (1998) Black South African.

MK xyz (1998) African-American and Filipino - is queer and uses she/they.

Coco Jones (1998) African-American.

Jaylen Barron (1998) African-American / Mexican.

Madison Pettis (1998) African-American / White.

Chloe Bailey (1998) African-American.

Laura Kariuki (1998) Kenyan.

Shanice Archer (1998) Afro Jamaican / White.

Imani Lewis (1999) African-American.

Simone Joy Jones (1999) African-American.

Samara Joy (1999) African-American - has spoken up for Palestine!

Summer Madison (1999) African-American.

Alycia Pascual-Pena (1999) Afro Dominican - has spoken up for Palestine!

Kayla Maisonet (1999) Afro Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Adut Akech (1999) South Sudanese.

Genneya Walton (1999) African-American.

Lee Rodriguez (1999) Afro Mexican - is queer.

Savannah Lee Smith (2000) African-American - is bisexual.

Khosi Ngema (2000) Black South African.

Quei Tann (2000) African-American - is a trans woman - has spoken up for Palestine!

Nyadollie (2000) Sudanese.

Chandler Kinney (2000) African-American.

Marissa Bode (2000) African-American and White - is disabled - has spoken up for Palestine!

Sharon Alexie (2000) Cameroonian.

Zoë Love Smith (2000) Afro Curaçaoan / Indonesian.

Halle Bailey (2000) African-American.

Zamani Wilder (2000) African-American.

Daniella Perkins (2000) African-American.

Dara Reneé (2000) African-American.

Emyri Crutchfield (2000) African-American.

Cat Burns (2000) Liberian - is queer, autistic and has ADHD - has spoken up for Palestine!

Aaron Rose Philip (2001) Afro-Antiguan - is a trans woman who has cerebral palsy - has spoken up for Palestine!

India Amarteifio (2001) Ghanaian / White - has spoken up for Palestine!

Talia Jackson (2001) African-American / White.

Rainbow Wedell (2001) African Australian.

Bktherula (2002) African-American.

Ava Raine (2001) Samoan, Black Nova Scotian.

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[tiredghostness]

Got some questions about coco

Is coco still macaque and wukong’s child? If so were they born in a similar way to mk?

Do macaque and wukong have joint custody over them?

What is their dynamic with the monkey trio?

Do they see macaque and wukong arguing? How does it affect them?

Were they with wukong for season 3 and 5?

Did they get stuck in the scroll with wukong?

YIPPEE COCO ASKS! i miss her </3

Is coco still macaque and wukong’s child?

yes! tho Coco is just adopted, just a silly baby monkey barely knowing how to walk in ffm. mk found them one morning and was like

If so were they born in a similar way to mk?

depending on the time she was born in (cuz i haven't thought that far yet) , Coco was born from a cloud of energy over ffm, then later on took the form of a monkey infant. Mk found her, took her to Wukong and now Monkey King basically adopted her. ig he's already done this before to other monkeys, so he didn't treat it like a big deal. til the infant began to SPEAK.

Do macaque and wukong have joint custody over them?

yep! Coco has that bell on her tail for a reason! they're a curious kid. if they wanna explore, they WILL explore and you can't find them. so Mac placed the bell on her tail to at least keep her to his reach. buddah knows how many times wukong couldn't find them and called Mac in the middle of the night for help.

What is their dynamic with the monkey trio?

Sun Wukong- basically her mom/grandpa. honestly, beign a baby has him wrapped around her finger cuz of how adorable she is/pos silliness aside, Wukong is extremely protective over her, as acording to him. they are the first ffm yaoguai monkey (after Mk) in CENTURIES. so he makes sure to keep her safe and away from danger. which is hard due to how much this furball explores with no mind to the dangers surrounding her.

Macaque- helps wukong and takes coco out whenever he could, since he's back in FFM now. he has to worry about the baby monkeys following him around, including Coco! :D he is another story compared to wukong, if Monkey King is an over protective bear mom, then he's a cheetah. two steps ahead of anything trying to harm them.

Mk- Coco's babysitter! he loves them to bits and Coco does too, platonically ofc. they're like siblings and takes them along his deliveries. no one tell the guy. but he's gonna be Coco's mentor in the future!

Do they see macaque and wukong arguing? How does it affect them?

although the two try to avoid arguing around her, it does happen eventually. one time coco even ran off while they were arguing and hid beneath a tree. mk found her the next day and she was glued to his hip for at least 2 more nights. this sticks after Coco is older, apparently she hates conflicts.

Were they with wukong for season 3 and 5?

depends on how early/far i want them to be born. either way, expect wukong with a baby strap, or have coco as a hostage for lbd

Did they get stuck in the scroll with wukong?

no, but she did watch the monkeys (and wukong) get Ink Machined . so that's a good lifetime scar for her yet to be developing braincells

[owlsong74]

thoughts and opinions on the D23 parks announcements under the cut. it's pretty long and rambly, and written as much to get my own thoughts in order as to share them. That said, would gladly hear others' opinions.

(edit: this was written before monday's news, and I've soured on the announcements related to the upper left corner of MK since then)

TLDR: It's more good than bad. A few good things I'm genuinely excited for, and some bad things tempering them. The bad things would have hurt a lot 10 years ago, but Disney is getting predictable in their faults, and we didn't get the worst possible outcomes, so whatever.

The Good

New nighttime parade MK -- genuinely good news, and it looks lovely

Coco DCA -- happy to see this! very cute. I like the sound of focusing on animatronics and use of music. I'm glad its not going to Epcot as was rumored, so we can still have the Three Caballeros there, and enjoy a new, unique dark ride in California. may tip the scales in favor of me wanting to go to DCA every DL trip again alongside Ariel/Monsters/Cars for the dark ride goodness. Basically no notes. Just want to know location and more details.

Lion King Flume, WDS paris -- very weird that they announced that it would be based on the original movie while the concept art very clearly shows the "live action" version. maybe a recent change? It's a good change if so. (Although still very unprofessional to show a Live Action concept art when it probably could've been edited to show the Animated characters within hours of the event.)

This is the resort's first water ride and is badly needed both on that front and as another attraction in WDS' sad lineup.

Will be excited to see more art for this, based on the original movie this time, and especially of interior scenes-- imagine a dark ride version for "I just can't wait to be king"!

A surrounding land was announced with shops/restaurants and I'm curious how they plan on pulling that off, given the humanless, naturalistic setting and relatively less-anthropomorphized characters.

Good idea for park and resort and looking forward to it!

Mostly good with complicating thoughts

Pandora DCA -- as someone who has seen neither of the Avatar movies, but enjoyed Pandora in Florida, I'm looking forward to this, but with less excitement than Coco.

I do like atmospheric boat rides and this looks more impressive than the one in Florida, which I already enjoyed. It seems to be based on the Pirates tech in Shanghai, which will be cool to have stateside. I hope some of the monsters are animatronics.

This addition basically confirms that the California theme for the park is dead, but I really gave up on that several years ago; this was just the final nail in the coffin. DCA is an Everything Park, and that's fine. Whatever. Making it a dumping ground for whatever movie franchise Disney wants to promote in its parks acts as a buffer for the more historical and foundational park, Disneyland. In addition, the California theme was also never uniformly executed well, which makes its watering down much less painful than the watering down of Epcot or Animal Kingdom's themes.

I'm hoping this is slated for the Disneyland Forward land, but I'm hearing it may take over Hollywoodland as well. I'd personally miss the Monsters Inc dark ride and be nostalgic for things like the Animation building or stupid backlot puns, but I don't think there's any reasonable argument that this wouldn't be an upgrade.

Tropical Americas DAK-- the way they described it makes it sound like it should fit in well with other areas of the park, matching Africa and Asia better than Dinoland did, and more generally that the Imagineers are putting a lot of thought into its design. I'm glad Indy is not a carbon copy of the one in California, and the Encanto dark ride sounds cute.

On a more meta level, I'm glad they are still designing and building themed lands that have more than one IP applicable to them, and even the opportunity/necessity for original elements.

I'm personally sorry to lose Dinosaur. It was my favorite attraction on my first trip to Florida as a pre-teen and I love the dinosaurs and kooky premise. That said, we've thought it was going to close for years now, so I've had time to come to terms with it.

It still sucks that they are doing replacements instead of building real expansions when they have the space for it and DAK needs all the capacity it can get. I also hope someday the animal-themed park may feature non-avian dinosaurs again. Overall though, I was happily surprised with how they seem to be handling this.

One remaining question: where are the animal exhibits...?? Isn't this park primarily supposed to be about seeing animals?

Monsters Inc roller coaster DHS -- This has been a rumor on the internet ever since I was a child in the 00s watching Screamscape.net and Disney park fan forums like a hawk. It's a no-brainer and it'll be a fun addition to DHS.

Hoping they're killing the Animation Courtyard for this and not Muppets. Muppet*Vision 3-D isn't an E ticket by any means but it was one of the last major Muppet projects that Jim Henson himself worked on, and has already been evicted from DCA. It's a cute show and one of the better 4D shows at the parks. Its loss would be felt.

VillainsLand MK - YES. This has also been rumored since forever. Again, at least since the early-mid 00s when I first got online. We got basically no details on this, but the art looks cool, and the concept alone is an immediate sell! Very excited for this!

Two reasons why this is in this tier instead of the "good" tier:

1. We don't have any details. Like, for a detail-dry panel, somehow we got even less info for this than for everything else. trying to reserve judgement until we know more.

2. If this is going behind Big Thunder, that means the Cars attractions might be going in a much worse location within Frontierland, which will hurt MK's thematic integrity and atmosphere pretty hard. Admittedly, this is mostly Cars' problem, but it did temper my excitement for this pretty badly during the announcement itself. If we're lucky, both projects are beyond the railroad tracks, even if they shorten the River à la California.

i dont care

all the marvel stuff. Like Pandora, I'm not very familiar with the source material. unlike Pandora, I haven't been impressed with Disney's offerings so far (with the caveat that I haven't gone on Rewind yet, which does sound better than the DCA attractions).

If they blow my socks off, cool! Awesome! If not, whatever. I'm glad others are having fun, and unlike in the past, this time they aren't replacing anything I care about.

Non-parade nightime shows. I'm sure they'll be fine. I don't love Disney Animation sing-along format shows (especially outside of Fantasmic, where a lot of the interest comes in the form of props, actors, the use of the big river ships, and the dragon). However, I realize this is very much a me thing, and their mere existence doesn't bother me.

cruises and fortnite. I'm not the audience for these things and I don't even understand why fortnite costume announcements were part of this panel.

...huh?

Great Moments with Mr. Disney or whatever DL -- It's mere existence vexes me, but more out of an intolerance for corporate worship of the man than anything to do with my theme park opinions.

I wonder if they'll also update the Lincoln figure to match him in tech? That would be neat, at least. Keeping Abe updated to the latest Animatronics tech is a long-kept tradition, and the last update was back in 2009.

If nothing else, we'll probably get some banger memes out of it.

bad

Cars in Frontierland MK -- ?????????????? why are we doing this. are we really sacrificing the thematic integrity of the land, and for the sake of the Cars franchise, of all things?

I only hope that this is in the area behind Big Thunder. If it's back there, it may feel like a modern sub-land separate from the more traditional "Western" sections, with a transitional area in-between. It would even follow the already-established pattern of moving forward in time as you walk from Liberty Square through Frontierland. The Cars ride itself could even be cute and better than DCA's if handled well.

However, it doesn't seem like we are so lucky.

The announcement of Villainsland and the rumors of Tom Sawyer Island closure make it seem more likely to be taking over the Rivers of America, at least the back half of it.

Edit, with the new Monday announcement:

It's not only taking over part of the river, it's taking over the front half, with the back half probably being used by Villains. This is the stupidest, most short-sighted decision I think I've seen Disney take in a long time.

MK's river is very nice, especially at night, and the TSI is absolutely delightful, if simple, and a good place to beat the crowds and concrete found in the rest of the park. Neither are E-ticket extravaganzas, but they aren't meant to be, offering a different kind of low-key attraction, and adding a lot of atmosphere to MK.

That atmosphere also includes placemaking for the three E-tickets in the area: Haunted Mansion, Tiana, and Big Thunder. All three will be negatively impacted by this change.

These things might not sound like much, but they add up and make the Disney parks what they are, and why they are loved.

It'd be a huge shame to lose such an asset to the park, especially one that still a nearly untouched example of classic WED imagineering, between the sightlines, the river gags, the island caves, the riverboat, and everything else.

(And this not even reiterating the fact that Cars does not "fit" comfortably inside the bounds of the historically based lands around the river, which I already mentioned in my initial paragraphs.)

This decision is not easily reversible and wrecks the entire balance and design of the entire northwest corner of the park, all for the sake of selling cars merch. It's times like this where I wonder why I even bother being a fan of these places. Or, for that matter, of themed design in general.

Why can't this be its own separate land from Frontierland, as with Cars Land in DCA? Why not in DHS, which badly needs more capacity and already houses other difficult-to-fit-elsewhere Pixar movies like Toy Story, Monsters Inc, and even Cars already?

/edit

I don't know. I hope the rides are fun, at least.

what we didn't see

Literally anything not based on a pre-established property would have been nice to see. Can we literally do nothing original anymore in these parks? Are the parks always going to be tied to movies from now on, like at Uni?

Where's this generation's Pirates of the Caribbean, Big Thunder Mountain, Spaceship Earth, Sindbad, Country Bears, Soarin' Over California, Expedition Everest, Test Track, Etc Etc Etc? Let Imagineers create their own stories and experiences for us to fall in love with! Have some trust in the medium!

I'm of course not totally against rides being based on movies or TV. Indiana Jones, Snow White, Tower of Terror, and Rise of the Resistance are some of my favorite attractions, period. But it's disappointing as someone who got interested in Disney in general through the parks, and not the other way around, to see them do nothing but tie-ins.

It also makes it harder to defend themed design as an art-form unto itself when the industry leader in the US, and in many ways the main innovator in the medium for multiple decades, only seems to treat its parks as a merchandising and marketing arm for its film and tv properties and little else.

/fin rant

We also didn't see the announcement for a new Tomorrowland for Disneyland, which was heavily rumored. It's disappointing to see the land stagnate for another decade, but tbh, I would be happy to let the current moment pass before they completely redo this land again.

It certainly needs the help. Literally anything would be better for the Carousel Theater's plot of land or the Magic Eye Theater than what currently exists-- even if it's not my cup of tea, it'd be a use for dead space in a park short on expansion land. Autopia needs electric vehicles at a minimum (although I'd love to see some new, cool theming or landscaping along the track as well), the Peoplemover tracks either need to be reused or torn down, Astro Orbiter needs to be moved to open up the entrance bottleneck, and tbh Star Tours is outmoded by the new Star Wars land.

However, I don't trust them not to pave over the Submarine Lagoon, and this is important enough to me to let the husk of Innoventions rot for another decade in exchange.

I would honestly be fine if Disneyland and Disneyland Paris (the castle park from the second generation of Imagineers) were largely untouched until winds have changed in favor of a bit of respect for what already exists, original works, and coherent non-single-franchise-specific lands again. Luckily we have DCA and WDS, whose needs are still more urgent anyway.

Finally, we also didn't see the constantly rumored Imagination Pavilion update. Imo, this is fine for the same reason. Figment and Dreamfinder deserve better than an Inside Out reskin.

However, as far as Epcot goes, it would have been nice to get the Play Pavilion and Mary Poppins ride back on the docket. It's also weird we got a mention of Test Track 3.0 but no new details or art.

Conclusion

This panel could have been way worse than it was, and I'm excited for some of the new attractions.

The disappointments were more of the same-old things I've started to expect with Disney parks, with nothing original, and the continued disintegration of park-level (DCA, to a lesser extent DAK) and land-level (Frontierland) themes.

However, the things announced look to be quality in isolation if nothing else, and they're unique to their respective parks, which is a good change from copying everything verbatim from one coast to another. I'm genuinely excited for the Coco boat ride, Lion King Flume, Villains land, and new nighttime parade, and cautiously optimistic for much of the rest.

The downsides felt like nothing near the disappointments of the past, where they announced rides I didn't care about to replace classics that didn't deserve to die, and made the offputting decision to put Star Wars Land in Disneyland instead of saving it for a 3rd park or keeping it unique to Florida.

(Although, frankly, Cars for Frontierland might be worse than SWGE in DL, and the difference is simply that I'm used to disappointment now. Edit: with Monday's announcement, I'm sure of this. SWGE is a lop-sided, unbalanced, out-of-scale addition to Disneyland, but at least it leaves the original park largely intact, and feels like a Separate Thing beyond the bounds of the berm/railroad)

Overall, not a bad showing.

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[bleached-d-soul]

Bad Gone Worse MK Intro

Jaune X Coco since it has been awhile

Jaune: Why are we fighting?

Coco: I like to watch men sweat for me.

Jaune: That explains you, what about me?

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Coco: Looking good, teach~

Jaune: Just remember our deal, okay?

Coco: I will follow it if you can beat me.

*

Coco: So, you and Glynda?

Jaune: We are colleagues, Coco.

Coco: Best make sure you remember you belong to me!