Dylan Malone

@Mantia @starwars Great movie. My favorite Star Wars film since Rogue One. This little trailer thing, however, is terrible. Good call out.

@starwars This is not the Star Wars logo. I don’t know who edited this video and included that, but it’s not the Star Wars logo.

Star Wars is back. Get tickets now to see Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu now playing in theaters and IMAX. Fandango.com/StarWarsTheMan… #TheMandalorianAndGrogu

@BrerOswald @EpcotEnthusiast @GreenCheetah99 For a few years up until COVID, they had added a really good small salad (it had a lot of cucumbers in it), and a chicken parmesan pasta dish. While it wasn't extraordinary, it was pretty good. MUCH better than the rest of the menu in my mind. I think it's still gone though.

@EpcotEnthusiast @GreenCheetah99 Food is terrible but aesthetically it’s my favourite area in the park

Pinocchio Village Haus is severely underrated.

@DrewDisneyDude I'm such an idiot. I spent way too long trying to figure this post out. lol. Actually pretty funny. :)

I can’t believe Disney is using Al-generated content at Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. 😭

@PBBMGB @Savethedmagic Okay, so you're more interested in the culture wars than in talking about whether or not Carousel of Progress should be updated. I'm weary of culture wars. I think you're wrong, but it's not a very interesting conversation in any event. You do you.

@dylanmalone @Savethedmagic I have a problem when the WDC Management team uses the company assets to promote their political messages. They didn’t disclose to their investors that they are PAC to promote their DEI message. Those assets should go to rides, employees,etc.

It's weird being a Disney fan now. It feels strange in a way it never used to. Honestly, after what I've watched unfold, I’ve never felt worse about the future of the Disney parks. Not just because Carousel of Progress may be on the chopping block, but because I’m watching people I thought valued Disney history suddenly justify tearing it apart. It's the same playbook over again. “It’s outdated.”, “Progress means change.”, “If you oppose it, you’re the real problem.”, "It's misogynistic.", "Walt wanted it to be...", "You don't like change", "I want new", "This isn't the original, it has no value", etc. Every discussion becomes moralized until preserving anything old is treated like a character flaw. I'm realizing how many fans seem completely comfortable with Disney losing its own identity. Walt Disney dedicated Disneyland to the “hard facts that have created America.” Yet, modern Disney often seems uncomfortable with that very idea. History can contain struggle, imperfection, patriotism, industry, optimism, and tradition all at once. Instead of trusting guests to understand historical context, the instinct now often feels like simplification, sanitization, and removal. We will skip to the 80's, that's the solution. Get rid of it. People keep saying the parks “need to evolve.” Fine. Evolve into what? If the end goal is to remove everything that could possibly offend anyone, the parks eventually become so sanitized, so cautious, and so creatively sterile that they lose the very personality that made people care about them in the first place. And I don’t think that version of Disney will truly satisfy anyone.

@seanallen_dev @BitrigApp You were look for opportunities for about what, 90 seconds? Well done and congratulations.

I've joined @BitrigApp and I'm pumped to work with such an awesome team (which includes the co-creators of SwiftUI at Apple). AI has changed how we build and I love what Bitrig is cooking up for this new era of native iOS dev with Swift & SwiftUI. bitrig.com

@PBBMGB @Savethedmagic I disagree with your take. But it's not relevant. Are we discussing the quality of the new attractions, or the positions of TWDC execs on social issues? I'm not interested in your take on the latter. We're talking about attractions, not civil rights.

@dylanmalone @Savethedmagic If Chapek and Iger wanted to support their LGBTQ CastMembers they should have cut a check from their own checkbook instead putting the company in the middle of the controversy!

@sa_supporter_02 @Savethedmagic I would be delighted if they did that but it feels like a big ask for a relatively obscure attraction. It’s hard not to agree that the investment is better spent on things that will impact more guests. But sure, I’d love to see your version become a reality.

@dylanmalone @Savethedmagic Gift of size, but you can’t have a 1900s carousel and a 2000s carousel as separate rides? Or transition the current scenes into a walk through and update the ride. They never seem to want to use the green space they have.

Well there we are, they are destroying it completely. Enjoy it while you still can. This certainly will solve all the problematic elements that they have been after for years to change. Im glad I got to see it as it was.

@kylegriffin1 A real celebration of America's 250th, musically, should be lead by John Williams. Beyond reproach, larger than life. Beloved by all. I doubt he'd want to be associated with Trump, but a non-partisan marking of the occasion, maybe.

Bret Michaels just pulled out of Trump's partisan America 250 event. 6 of 9 artists have now pulled out.

@PeterJWasilko @Savethedmagic @JennyENicholson That would be pretty cool, I'll grant you, but I don't think visitors would tolerate a much longer show. Tik Tok, YouTube shorts, Instagram. Societal attention span has collapsed to a dangerously short window.

@dylanmalone @Savethedmagic Walt would have gone with @JennyENicholson and added a second story to extend the ride with a hidden lift system to jack the audience up a level to rotate through the additional decades.

@CTownEnjoyer @Savethedmagic Walt was traditional in some ways, but also relentlessly experimental and adaptive. You can't freeze his values in the 50s and claim modern changes violate his spirit. Cultural adaptation was central to what he built. We cannot know what his thoughts would be today, obviously.

Walt was also a conservative and traditionalist. Every decision made by him was made with those values in mind. Modern Disney leadership holds opposing values, thus the changes they make often violate the spirit of the man who created the thing being changed to begin with. That’s the problem. Not the change itself but the essence of the change and what motivates it.

@Savethedmagic I follow you because I'm sympathetic to this take. Carousel however, is just weird to end in a former future. You *could* leave every scene as was and jump 60 years or whatever at the end, but that would be odd, no? Their new plan feels like Walt would do if he built this today.

This gets into the old Marty Sklar trap of what would Walt have done. We can’t possibly know of course, because each of our versions of Walt are unique to each of us. All we do know is what Walt did actually work on, and I’m of the camp that you do your best to preserve that (not reinvent it). Change must happen yes, but changes should be additive. (That is more or less the Eisner version of expanding the parks.) That way the tone and feeling of the parks are preserved. That’s not what they are doing today - they are remaking the parks very much into their own creations.. and to be honest, they are not very good at it.

@johnnie It was a fantastic UI.

My contrarian belief is that this was a great UI.

I urge you to read this piece from @joshcowenMI I learned so much about this history from the family and he does a beautiful job describing what happened then, and now.

The Mandalorian and Grogu gave my family the best movie experience they've ever had. It was the first Star Wars movie for my 10, 9, and 6 year old, and they were completely blown away. It doesn't move the Star Wars story forward. Good. That has proven rough going. This was fun.

@Prince_Canuma I'm not a car person, and I know that you're going to think that's why I'm saying this… But I think it's a pretty great design. Very Ive, in a good way.

Tell me this is not true 😪😭 What’s happening to car manufacturers designs?

@CTownEnjoyer @ScottGustin I was shocked at how good it was, after hearing a lot of people like you over the last week. It's REALLY good. As for it not advancing the story of Star Wars. That's a great relief. Can't we just enjoy a grand adventure, without deciding the fate of the galaxy, now and then?

@ScottGustin People wouldn’t need to “try to have fun” if the movie didn’t suck Scott. Fun happens automatically when a thing is entertaining. Telling people to “shut up, eat the slop, and smile” is only contributing to the death of the franchise.

The best way to enjoy ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is to uncross your damn arms and try to have some fun. My oldest kiddo had *zero* interest in Star Wars beforehand and absolutely loved it. A new generation of Star Wars fans? This is the way.

@klf3681 @JimShull Bought IMAX tickets for Monday (sadly, a busy weekend, so that's the soonest my family of 6 can get there). We can't wait.

@JimShull Film was fun saw it twice today

General audience won’t pay for what they get for free. If Baby Yoda dies in the film then it would be a must see but to succeed the film has to be that level of special.

@MosasaurusRoll @JimShull This is a really rude way to talk to a treasured Imagineer who is just speaking his mind. Have some respect for different view points. If you disagree, at least do it thoughtfully.

@JimShull You’re fucking stupid if you think they would kill off Grogu He’s literally the future of Star Wars. They will make him older eventually