Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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Reminds me of when they sold chunks of the MuppetVision Balloon as a limited-edition pin or something like that. Get a splinter of the Liberty Belle for $79.99 plus tax!
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MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom
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Brian
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It would be more appropriate than Cars since Monsters Inc can just be walking through a door into a western saloon and doing whatever IP nonsense from there with Mike and Sulley.
TrainsOfDisney
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Lilly Belle / Liberty Belle is a very easy mistake when typing on a fan forum. Especially when they even swap whistles!
SMRT-1Michael
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So is Villains going beyond Big Thunder outside the berm or the back half of RoA? I was holding out for a Thunder Mesa type experience that leveraged the Riverboat (renamed back to Richard F. Irvine) that connects the riverboat more to a Frontierland storyline like DLP. Then using the Riverboat for a re-located Fantasmic that would be part of Villain Land. Pretty amazing compromise if you ask me. It doesn't seem like they are re-located any WDWRR track at ALL.
Brer Panther
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I just hope this Cars ride is good, and the situation is another "it's fun but should've been an addition as opposed to a replacement" sort of thing. Y'know, like Test Track with World of Motion.
Purduevian
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Not past the railroad tracks, but the back half of ROA, a good chunk of the non-river between the tracks and the current river and north of HM.
RobbinsDad
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We give Disney Experiences heck for the slow pace of construction, but we don’t give them nearly enough credit for their efficiency in erasing prior attractions from existence. Impressive.
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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Worth pointing out that the concept of docking the Riverboat and making it a restaurant (quick service or snack stand) is something they've considered for decades, even in Disneyland- the scrapped Discovery Bay land was going to have the Mark Twain and Sailing Ship Columbia permanently docked and used as dining space. Who's to say Magic Kingdom and the Liberty Belle couldn't get the same treatment? Put the riverboat outside TBA, have it sell beignets and mint juleps, maybe have a jazz band that plays on the upper deck for people like in the movie. Great way to save the ship while adding more theming to the TBA area.
What I wanna know is- what's gonna happen to the glowing eye owl animatronic in Harper's Mill? That guy is super charming, I hope he's moved to be outside the Haunted Mansion or something. I love me some simple 70s-era animatronics.
Raineman
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I'm not sure if others that opposed this change are in the same camp as myself, but this would not be as egregious if there was no IP tied to it. If it was just a pacific northwest landscape, with some kind of non-IP based "off-road" attraction traversing it, then it would be alot more palatable, IMO. Maybe even have a small section of explorable caves, as an homage to TSI. I don't want to see TSI/ROA go, but I would be ok with the type of replacement I just mentioned. But it is very obvious that Disney management thinks that only new projects with tied-in IP will make them money, and, with the masses that they are now catering to, they're unfortunately probably right.
It will always be the Richard F. Irvine dagnabbit.
SMRT-1Michael
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This annoys me because it's not really beyond Thunder. The wasted potential. Meanwhile at Disneyland................
SMRT-1Michael
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Agreed 100%
They did the same with Spectromagic floats as well.
Purduevian
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This has been beaten to death in this and the villains land thread... but the logistics of getting back to villains land would have been difficult if they didn't at least majorly alter the ROA. It was for sure possible, but some combination of reasons told disney this was the correct path forward.
SMRT-1Michael
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Gee thanks. Back to not replying in these forums for another 5-7 years.
Tha Realest
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It sold a ton of merch in the 2000’s!
Under that logic, we should be seeing a Bratz licensing agreement and mini land any day now.
Purduevian
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Sorry wasn't trying to undermine you. Just saying, there were valid reasons for closing ROA for Villains land... One of which is the logistics of getting people back to that expansion area. Also Disney 100% could have still done it while saving the ROA in some form... but chose not to.
You keep asserting Cars is no longer relevant. And those who say it is are just wrong.
Where is your data for this assertion?
They had other options to get back there. I even suggested one on this board.
Thus, Disney sunsetted RoA because they wanted to. Not because they had to.
Purduevian
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Oh I agree, I'm just saying the logistics of getting back there likely played a key role. It was just easier to remove ROA than try to design around it.