Flight of Passage was the right ride in the right place at the right time. I think it would be a disservice to the company and the guests to build an exact copy of that ride with a different video and motion profile in Florida. You would run into the same problem Universal has with Transformers and Spider-Man, and Disney itself had with Star Tours and Body Wars. Taking the core conceit of a flying theater and making a significant, visceral change for the guests (hang glider -> banshee -> allegedly a boat on the high seas) would be a minimum requirement. You can build busbar rides and omnimovers that feel different because the experiences guests have are so viscerally different between them, and you lose that physical, 3-D, nigh tactile experience when viewing a screen.
Yes, but. I lament the loss of those great omnimovers of old. Plus if anything it’s at least not another trackless experience.
Would you consider Shanghai Pirates screen only? Because that ride system would work great with Coco I would think.
The company has the theoretical capacity to build a great one but they simply have not done this in the US this century.
Barring cavernous sinkholes, any unsuitable land can be made suitable with enough dirt, water management, and required conservation offsets.
Wouldn’t you prefer them not having to shorten an existing attraction and instead expand on the existing land they have?
You nailed the two key words - Expensive remediation. Despite the influx of planned spending, throwing a chunk of that money on expensive land reclamation seems unwise when there are better uses for that money. But what do I know.
Despite what he said, I think they're okay with more generic lands as long as they support IP use. Otherwise, Tropical Americas wouldn't be happening.
Tropical Americas is a bit of an outlier since Dinosaur needed to be addressed and Indy was an obvious fit. Much of the land's aesthetic is anchored by Encanto with support from Coco... both "current" IP.
I wonder if they will include Dolores in the new Encanto ride...
How is Delores a villain?
Grandma is the villain…she’s awful.
I don't think Iger said the IP had to be new, per se:
Yes, if used PROPERLY. Today's WDI doesn't use them properly, and that's how we get rides like Remy's Ratatouille Adventure.
And Gaston isn't in the Beauty and the Beast ride. There's a very strange trend going on of not having villains in dark rides. Then again, Captain Hook appears in the new Peter Pan ride in Tokyo, so...
All of the relevant classics get remakes so they will still have a modern release. I hope Black Cauldron isn’t on your bingo card cuz it’s a “nope”.