Tom Sawyer Island and Liberty Belle close permanently for Piston Peak at Magic Kingdom

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Frontierland's Rivers of America, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat at Magic Kingdom closed on July 7 as Disney prepares to bring a national park-themed area called Piston Peak to life.

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I was commenting on the live action snark, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any studio not named Ghibli to produce a hand-drawn feature film.


Bring back the original...black and white. But seriously, I see complaints about hand drawn versus computer animated a lot, and quite a bit on the Mouse fanboy sites. Nonsense. Give me a good story.

Heck, we aren't all communicating with each other via smoke signals, morse code, teletype, typewriter or fax. We are on computers. Some of us are using talk to type. The technology evolves but the one constant for Disney, which they lose focus on from time to time, is, or should be, creative storytelling.


"You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world...but it requires people to make the dreams a reality." -Walt Disney

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