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I left myself at a considerable disadvantage in trying to do this comic this way, seeing as how I’ve never once set foot inside a Disney theme park.
Also, I have NO idea how a whole galaxy’s worth of planets connected by tubes is supposed to work, even by Far Out There’s fuzzy science.
(Historical Notes: See, this is the thin line I constantly find myself having to walk in Far Out There’s vague science fiction rules. Objectively speaking, there’s been PLENTY of other things that make even less sense than these interplanetary tubes, but most of them aren’t as OBVIOUS as this. I don’t really care if the idea holds up under scrutiny or not, I just care if it INVITES scrutiny in the first place. And I dunno about you, but for me this is the kind of idea that just attracts too much attention to itself for too little reason. So even setting aside the whole “Disney” aspect, don’t expect me to revisit this gag again… at least, not to this extreme level. Like, I dunno, maybe an asteroid belt where everything’s connected by tubes? I’d have a much easier time letting the improbability of THAT slide.)
While most people call them “tubes”, because that’s what they look like from the outside, they’re technically “wormholes” – n-dimensional 0-distance connections through hyperspace between points in the 3D universe light years apart. Of course, nothing says “Disney” like faking something up to look like people expect it to, so they dress them up to look visually like physical connecting “tubes” from the main hub, and all the DisneyGalaxy employees are required to refer to them as “tubes” and pretend as if there were actual tubes connecting other planets so as not to spoil the “illusion” that they’re something other than just boring, normal, everyday, run of the mill transhyperspatial wormholes.
In a similar vein, the ultrabigbudget Disney remake of Manos would surely be all Disneyfied and “Family” friendly (like they did with all those horribly Grimdark original versions of old fairy tales) so the average person would be far more familiar with that version than the Ancient Legends upon which it was based. M. Ventricle is probably familiar with the original, because she’s not Average.