News Zootopia and Moana Blue Sky concepts for Disney's Animal Kingdom

[WaltsTreasureChest]

I wouldn't give Disney any ideas.

I'd like to think they're not dumb enough to replace the Haunted Mansion, but at this point I wouldn't put anything past Iger.

“Haunted Mansion welcomes Phineas and Ferb”!!

 

[Dinoman96]

Reminder that both the Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland versions of Space Mountain have been permanently rethemed to Star Wars. Reminder that nothing is sacred anymore.

 

[Brer Panther]

“Haunted Mansion welcomes Phineas and Ferb”!!

Remember those rumors that they were gonna turn Journey Into Imagination With Figment into a Phineas and Ferb ride? Good times...

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Uh, each character has a room of practically limitless size shaped by their powers, three of which are directly depicted in the source film. On top of that, Casita itself is a living house with its own personality.

I was thinking a ride same way as Ratatouille or you can have it like Little Mermaid and have it circle into the casita. It's either we have enough of the Ratatouille, Runaway Railway and Rise of Resistance or it be more popular than a track ride. I can't imagine how many rooms the ride would be. I also would want the Casita has a walking pavilion in it not just crammed hallways wait line and everything else is the attraction look alone how big the Ratatouille attraction is..

 

[Brer Panther]

I've said this before, but I've had enough of trackless dark rides. The novelty has worn off.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I've said this before, but I've had enough of trackless dark rides. The novelty has worn off.

What ride system would you want that hasn't been overused?

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

What ride system would you want that hasn't been overused?

I think the issue is the trackless tech. It kind of sucks. Too limiting.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I think the issue is the trackless tech. It kind of sucks. Too limiting.

What ride system would you want that doesn't suck and isn't too limiting?

 

[Brer Panther]

What's wrong with regular ol' busbars?

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

What ride system would you want that doesn't suck and isn't too limiting?

Maybe a "tracked" dark ride.

 

[Brer Panther]

I distinctively remember seeing some sort of patent leaked online for a Monsters Inc. dark ride around the time Shanghai Disneyland was under construction. The track could split into two and go in different directions.

Whatever happened to that?

 

[rle4lunch]

Moana's deeper themes resonate within the fabric of DAK...Encanto's magical humans have absolutely no connection to conservation or nature at all... Moana was the better pick, and could have been an entire South Pacific flora and fauna region... Instead we get a family and a magical house, and a tomb raider...

Tomb raider, dino smuggler... 6 in one hand, half dozen in the other..

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Moana's deeper themes resonate within the fabric of DAK...Encanto's magical humans have absolutely no connection to conservation or nature at all... Moana was the better pick, and could have been an entire South Pacific flora and fauna region... Instead we get a family and a magical house, and a tomb raider...

This!!!

 

[lazyboy97o]

I think the issue is the trackless tech. It kind of sucks. Too limiting.

Maybe a "tracked" dark ride.

This is a great example of trying too hard to have a hot take and ending up with something that is just obviously not true.

What's wrong with regular ol' busbars?

I distinctively remember seeing some sort of patent leaked online for a Monsters Inc. dark ride around the time Shanghai Disneyland was under construction. The track could split into two and go in different directions.

Whatever happened to that?

And another. Guidewire and true trackless systems are already capable of switches without a moving mechanical part that needs to be maintained.

 

[wdwgreek]

I've said this before, but I've had enough of trackless dark rides. The novelty has worn off.

The realiability of them also are wearing off. The sensors are very sensitive and they seem to have long downtimes.

 

[UNCgolf]

I think the issue is the trackless tech. It kind of sucks. Too limiting.

I don't think the tech itself is too limiting; I just think they haven't been imaginative enough in utilizing the positives of the tech over the downsides. They too often fall back on having at least one giant, mostly empty room so the vehicles can move around each other.

There are things the trackless tech allows that can't be done with an omnimover, and some which probably couldn't be done with a non-omnimover tracked ride, but they shouldn't just automatically default to trackless either. It's not as though omnimovers or other tracked rides are obsolete and worthless just because trackless tech exists.

 

[No Name]

DAK isn’t Disneyland. They won’t be packing a flat ride into the Dino courtyard. They could build teacups on top of Dino, too, but that won’t happen either.

So you’re halfway admitting they won’t build it because they don’t want to, but still trying to imply there’s hardly room. No, there’s an absolute poop ton of easily-accessible room for another flat ride or two.

 

[James Alucobond]

So you’re halfway admitting they won’t build it because they don’t want to, but still trying to imply there’s hardly room. No, there’s an absolute poop ton of easily-accessible room for another flat ride or two.

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The artwork suggests they intend to use the triangle-shaped wedge for something, though it's not clear what.

 

[DisneyHead123]

I've said this before, but I've had enough of trackless dark rides. The novelty has worn off.

I think they’re in a tough position with dark rides. On the one hand dark rides are a defining feature of the Disney Parks, very much iconic. On the other (spicy take warning, lol) new dark rides often don’t really impress people in 2023. It seems that the dark rides with serious appeal all have a heavy dose of nostalgia attached (or, for those too young to be nostalgic, a sense of history, in the way that walking around a colonial era town like Williamsburg is charming.)

I know there are the usual complaints - too book report-y, too much unused space, not enough animatronics, crappy animatronics. But when push comes to shove, I think today’s generation, with so much technology at their fingertips, are just not wowed by traditional dark rides in quite the same way. This leaves Disney trying to find ways to “jazz them up”. I think there recent attempts with Rat and Runaway Railway are a step up from Little Mermaid and Frozen, but still not quite… there (wherever “there” ends up being) yet.

 

[No Name]

The artwork suggests they intend to use the triangle-shaped wedge for something, though it's not clear what.

Not sure what you’re seeing…

Looks like nothing more than trees to me, but even if they use that as an animal trail or something, they do have two other large and readily available areas.