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News 'Beyond Big Thunder Mountain' Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

Sir_Cliff

Sir_Cliff

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seabreezept813 said:
Agree x1000 here. Three Caballeros is fun, but it's excellent because you can just walk on and it feels like a bonus, especially after a visit to the margarita stands.
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I feel pretty much the same way. While Coco is perhaps my favourite Pixar film and I think a Coco attraction would be great, Gran Fiesta Tour seems to fit the space pretty perfectly as it's one of the few actually good rides you can still just walk onto. Moreover, the space seems to be designed for a ride that attracts almost exactly the wait GFT always has!

I'm not sure how unpopular this opinion is, but I actually quite like Gran Fiesta Tour as a ride. While a revamped El Rio del Tiempo would have been ideal, at least this is using an IP related to the host country to give guests a tour of that country.
 
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ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Pi on my Cake said:
Alternatively while Nemo is far from perfect I'd argue that "filler" rides with high capacity, low lines, appeal to kids, eat crowds, aren't a big draw themselves, are good even if not great, and make use of underutilized spaces without cutting much if anything of substance are exactly what Disney needs more of. The fact that Epcot has rides like Nemo or 3 Cabs is exactly why it tends to be the most pleasant park to visit.

Sure I'd love an expanded experience, but there's not space to do much more. And even with Nemo not being the most popular, I can't imagine "the thing that they got rid of for being unpopular but now with less of a story" being a bigger draw.

Parks need relatively cheap filler B/C-Tickets to round out there line up and keep the park from feeling overcrowded. Epcot gets that. Which is why aside from Imagination (and I'd say Spaceship Earth is seeming pretty rough and could use good long refurb if not a new version) is the only thing there that really needs it. DAK and Studios need a good mix of new high capacity draws AND they desperately need low budget but still pretty decent filler like Nemo
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Absolutely. I LOVE staying at a Crescent Lake resort because of the ease with which we can walk to Epcot any given evening, find good food, and actually get on some rides. That’s a complete package you can’t really find elsewhere. DAK is perhaps the closest because it tends to empty out but it closes early and can take awhile to get to. I can leave Beach Club and be on Figment (weak as it may be) in 20 minutes.
 
HauntedPirate

HauntedPirate

Park nostalgist
Premium Member
ToTBellHop said:
Absolutely. I LOVE staying at a Crescent Lake resort because of the ease with which we can walk to Epcot any given evening, find good food, and actually get on some rides. That’s a complete package you can’t really find elsewhere. DAK is perhaps the closest because it tends to empty out but it closes early and can take awhile to get to. I can leave Beach Club and be on Figment (weak as it may be) in 20 minutes.
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20 minutes from Beach Club to Imagination? I walked from the Skyliner exit to row 408 of the Dory lot in 21 minutes last week. ;)

All kidding aside, I completely agree with you. The Skyliner opens up DHS as an evening option, as well, plus the 3 resorts on the line. And in the past, if you knew the secret, you could also get into Stormalong Bay even when not staying at YC/BC/BCV to boot. :cool:
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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HauntedPirate said:
20 minutes from Beach Club to Imagination? I walked from the Skyliner exit to row 408 of the Dory lot in 21 minutes last week. ;)

All kidding aside, I completely agree with you. The Skyliner opens up DHS as an evening option, as well, plus the 3 resorts on the line. And in the past, if you knew the secret, you could also get into Stormalong Bay even when not staying at YC/BC/BCV to boot. :cool:
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What? Take the water slide in? Now I feel like they check for wristbands everywhere, thankfully.
 
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sWANNISAX

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Moana belongs in Adventureland. Use that Shanghai pirates tech and build a great e ticket behind pirates and adventure land will be on the map.

Rejigger Frontierland as an easy to west progression. The bears in appalichia. Add more line trees and rocks. Leading into New Orleans around Tiana and then the far west with big thunder and ultimately Mexico. I think that progression fits the idea of the frontier very well from a westward expansion view. I would do giant villains section for the rest to connect back to mansion. And while there back there build the Asian Beauty and the Beast ride and connect it to Belles house. To plus up fantasyland. I'd take out the speedway and use that for some of the fantasy springs attractions. Maybe expand Peter Pan and then the old pan into tangled since we apparently can't get rid of small world.

As much as coco goes with Mexico in Epcot the space for a great ride isn't really there and I would rather they build out other countries. Give us a mulan attraction in China and poppins in UK.

If we're doing tropical americas the you can do encanto in Ak. I hate losing dinosaurs and feel like they should kept the Dino theming and build tropical just where hester and Chester's area is. Restuarantoaurus I think is well themed it's just the other side that isn't.

Hollywood you can do pretty much anything. The different studios as the lands always made the most sense to me but that ship has sailed. Something to take over all of the animation courtyard whether it's Zootopia or something all new would be preferable. Using those available marvel characters would be cool.
 
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doctornick

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Coaster Lover said:
I'm sure Food & Beverage doesn't feel that way... BOG practically prints money for the park... probably far more revenue than the Gift Shop Exit of even the most popular ride could generate.
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If they wanted to add the Tokyo BatB ride to MK, I think the more logical way to do so would be to have the entrance/queue be from "Belle's village" and replace Gaston's and/or the shop. It would have to somehow (either the ride or the queue) take you over the access road north of that location to a show building north but it can be done.
 
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jpeden

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In the Parks
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doctornick said:
If they wanted to add the Tokyo BatB ride to MK, I think the more logical way to do so would be to have the entrance/queue be from "Belle's village" and replace Gaston's and/or the shop. It would have to somehow (either the ride or the queue) take you over the access road north of that location to a show building north but it can be done.
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You'd have to somehow tie in the fact that the facade of BOG and the facade of this ride are both the Beast's castle - can't have two of those in MK. I'm sure if they wanted to they could figure that out (or maybe they don't care about show that much anymore).
 
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doctornick

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jpeden said:
You'd have to somehow tie in the fact that the facade of BOG and the facade of this ride are both the Beast's castle - can't have two of those in MK. I'm sure if they wanted to they could figure that out (or maybe they don't care about show that much anymore).
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There's no reason the façade of the ride has to be the castle. The context for MK could be that you start in the village and wander through the woods while in the queue to get to the castle.
 
Stupido

Stupido

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doctornick said:
If they wanted to add the Tokyo BatB ride to MK, I think the more logical way to do so would be to have the entrance/queue be from "Belle's village" and replace Gaston's and/or the shop. It would have to somehow (either the ride or the queue) take you over the access road north of that location to a show building north but it can be done.
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It really feels like such a no-brainer. It's a universally loved classic movie that would garner a lot of universal goodwill. MK always needs more capacity, and Fantasyland could always use more rides. Plus if you have a whole BatB mini land in MK, you can get rid of the sing-a-long in epcot, and replace the stage show in Hollywood, freeing up space in other parks for newer productions and more appropriate experiences.
 
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jpeden

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
No
doctornick said:
There's no reason the façade of the ride has to be the castle. The context for MK could be that you start in the village and wander through the woods while in the queue to get to the castle.
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Eh, I'm not sure if I agree with that. The ride itself takes place IN the castle. You're in a teacup from the movie. At some point, you're going to need to go into the castle and that doesn't square with the castle being the entrance to BOG.

I know I'm nit-picking but this is the type of stuff that Disney used to make sure to validate and I just don't think they do anymore.
 
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jpeden

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In the Parks
No
Stupido said:
It really feels like such a no-brainer. It's a universally loved classic movie that would garner a lot of universal goodwill. MK always needs more capacity, and Fantasyland could always use more rides. Plus if you have a whole BatB mini land in MK, you can get rid of the sing-a-long in epcot, and replace the stage show in Hollywood, freeing up space in other parks for newer productions and more appropriate experiences.
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For some reason (and I'm stretching back into my memory here) on the EPCOT transformation thread it was mentioned (or I think it was mentioned) that one of the negatives to putting BATB into EPCOT was that WDW would have to pay to break the exclusivity license that TDL had for the ride and that was something that they didn't have to do for Remy's.

Could possibly be why you won't see it come stateside for a number of years.
 

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