I swear some of y’all are never happy. People complain they don’t build new stuff, then they immediately complain because they don’t like the carpet and ceiling. Impossible to please.
I hear you, but I'm not usually a complainer. It's not that Space 220 looks like a
bad restaurant.
Space 220 looks like a fine restaurant... but one that is a cheaper, worse version of what some of us thought we were going to get. Hence the disappointment.
At this point, it looks like they over hyped and are going to underdeliver. Pleasing people is about setting the right expectations. When you see the awesome concept art and hear that it's going to be a super expensive place (which is what prix fixe means to me), then I have very high hopes. I don't think the place looks bad. But it is disappointing because at this point it doesn't appear close to what the hype/price point suggested it could be.
I think Disney does plenty of amazing things. Let me give you two counter examples, both from the west coast.
I had heard so many good things about Radiator Springs Racers that my hype level was off the charts. I was sure it couldn't live up to the hype. I was wrong, I loved it! That's an example of Disney living up to and even exceeding the hype.
Then take Mission Breakout. Now that I was prepared to hate. I'm a huge ToT fan, and the quick overlay of lower end Marvel junk (I'm not a huge Marvel guy) and a bunch of screens? Yuk. I walked in very, very skeptical.
But then I got on it, and absolutely loved it. LOVED. IT. It might be my single favorite Disney ride. Home run IMO.
So those are examples where I had both low and high expectations, and Disney delivered.
But here, it feels like the opposite. I like McDonalds. I legitimately like it. I enjoy going. But if someone is hyping me on the coolest, most amazing burger place ever, then McDonalds is going to disappoint.
That's what I mean. I feel like we were promised the illusion of being in a space station, and we're getting a Radisson conference room with HDTVs on the wall. A very nice Radisson, but certainly not a space station.
For the amount of money Disney sucks out of us, I want to be blown away. I don't think that's unfair or spoiled.
Nah, I pay objectively stupid amounts of money to Disney. So I expect Disney to give me back stupidly cool stuff in return. That's kind of the trade.
Often they make good. Sometimes they don't.
In this case, for the price of a ticket into Epcot and the (sure to be) obscenely expensive prix fixe menu, I'm perfectly comfortable demanding that they make me believe I'm on a space station. And if they don't, I don't feel too bad calling them out for it, just as much as evangelize to friends about Disney and praise them for things like Radiator and Mission Breakout.