I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I really don't know which opinion to take. Let me present my conundrum as best I can; hopefully you will understand what I'm trying to say.
Do you think that characters from Disney animated classics should be "featured" throughout all of Disneyland, or just be confined to Fantasyland?
*By "featured," I mean - have attractions based around. Like, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride "features" the characters from the Mr. Toad segment of
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
The reason I am so befuddled by this issue is thus:
I've always thought that each distinctive land within the park had its own story to tell - like, Frontierland, Adventureland, Main Street USA, NOS, ToonTown and Tomorrowland each have a distinct story to tell (Critter Country I'm not so sure about...) but you know what I mean. There's a definite "story" to NOS (if you should need evidence for some crazy reason -
check this out). But when I try to think of the "story" behind Fantasyland - I'm really just left with a European village where the real "story" is actually the stories of the Disney animated classics. Don't get me wrong - I love the theme, and I think it's great. But I just feel that since Fantasyland is pretty much devoted to the Disney animated classics, should they be featured in other lands as well? I mean, what I gather from Adventureland is a mysterious jungle atmosphere in the 1930s era that we, the guests, are exploring/discovering. So it doesn't make much sense for Aladdin and Jasmine to be there with us. But the other part of me so desperately wants to see an attraction featuring these characters - or maybe even an attraction devoted to
The Jungle Book - but we can't exactly put such an attraction into Fantasyland because the truth is, theoretically, these characters would just "fit" better in Adventureland... even though they might not. Ha. Ha.
Does that make any sense? I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. What are your opinions???