Marvel coming to WDW?!?!

DManRightHere

DManRightHere

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Amazes me how so little info gets to a 6 page thread in 2 hours (I know, I know, the OP knows his stuff). I don't know what else to say about this thread.
 
CaptainAmerica

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MasterGracey82 said:
This sums it up for me. This just screams of lazy. Instead of coming up with something new and original, they want to take the path that requires the least amount of effort and thought.
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You're not being harsh enough. This is far beyond lazy and ventures into agressive stupidity. Skinning Stitch or Country Bears or some other mediocre experience with a shiny IP is lazy. Destroying your most complete attraction with that same IP is actively idiotic.
 
Haymarket2008

Haymarket2008

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This is deplorable. If this HAS to happen, then I hope to the high heavens that it is only a limited time overlay (a la Hyperspace Mountain). I just don't see this happening at DHS. They're trying to make that park cohesive, not even less so.
 
WDW1974

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Cosmic Commando said:
Spirit, I'll be first in line to kiss your ring if you're right, but I'm choosing to snort the pixie dust on this one until I see it happen. It's just too crazy. Why not retheme RnRC and build a clone in Anaheim? If Disney really does this, it will be 10x worse than Frozenstrom.
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Last post before I move on for the evening. But the original plans for DCA's Marvel land included a Spidey version of RnRC, which would also get converted in Paris. Not sure whether that is still planned.
 
MasterGracey82

MasterGracey82

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CaptainAmerica said:
You're not being harsh enough. This is far beyond lazy and ventures into agressive stupidity. Skinning Stitch or Country Bears or some other mediocre experience with a shiny IP is lazy. Destroying your most complete attraction with that same IP is actively idiotic.
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Can't disagree at all. The thing I don't get is how anyone could think that doing this to an attraction that is just about as 'perfect' as they get, would be an improvement.
 
Smiddimizer

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WDW1974 said:
I am not (currently) wrong. And there is an awfully big push for this to happen. That doesn't mean it won't be canceled or, more likely, delayed. But current management doesn't see why this is a horrible idea. That's the scary thing. They think they have a great idea to add a 'new' E-Ticket that celebrates an expensive acquired IP at a very low (relatively speaking) cost.
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Even if it doesn't happen, just the fact that it's on the table, being discussed, is about just as bad.
 
hopemax

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I saw this thread was the newest post in this forum, and started rolling my eyes, and thinking, "Here we go again..." And then I saw who posted it!

Then I started reading. Just finished page 3. Imagine 100 things Disney could do to make the theme park experience worse, and they still find a way to surprise you with something worse. Is the hope that Shanghai is so bad that they don't have the funds to pay for the ToT retheme?
 
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unkadug

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WDW1974 said:
Yes. Can you believe it!??!? The Weatherman flexed his giant ... um ... muscles and UNI quivered and he traded Brent Musburger to NBC-UNI for the rights to all the Marvel characters. All of the twits were so right. All bow down to BOB!!!


OK, not really, but the thread subject still may well be true, my friends (and assorted crazies who can't quit me.)

Did that get your attention? Good. That is my reason for being, after all. At least that's what I hear frauds, addicts and con men say.

While Bob Iger lamented at the recent shareholders meeting in Chicago that TWDC would likely never be able to use its stable of Marvel characters (or the ones everyone knows and cares about) at its ATM in the swamps, there is one major exception that every fanboi sleeping in his Hulk boxers knows about.

Yup. I am talking about the characters from the second best Marvel film -- behind Deadpool, which doesn't count because it's not controlled by The Weatherman and not part of something called The Marvel Cinematic Universe -- namely The Guardians of the Galaxy.

Well, if current plans (and they are subject to change, but accurate as of this posting and that is all I can ever offer) follow through, sometime in either 2017 or 2018 you will get to experience a true GotG E-Ticket at The Corpse of The Disney-MGM Studios. Fast construction timeline you say. Or the Spirit is smoking on some bad Kissimmee weed you say?

Nope. Welcome to The Guardians of the Galaxy Tower of Terror. Yes. Really. Yes, Disney wants to destroy (or make over depending on how you look at it) one of its high points of creative product in the last 25 years to tie it to a BRAND that it can't even use to advertise and promote, in Florida that is.

You see, like almost everything these days, the genesis of this project is in Anaheim where ToT isn't an anchor of a park (DCA), just part of its menu of offerings. A park that can take full advantage of The Weatherman's acquisition spree (the only thing that marks his tenure as head of the world's largest entertainment company) and is planning a major Marvel addition right next door to an old hotel on Hollywood's dark side. WDI has pushed this concept heavily and TDA wants to do it badly.

Having to license The Twilight Zone IP from CBS, IP that most people not born prior to 1980 have little if any knowledge of -- just makes it even more attractive.

Let's forget that this is one of the best attractions Disney has ever built. We do have toon characters in Small World and Jack Sparrow soon to be in every Pirates attraction worldwide, so shilling IP by changing classic attractions isn't something Disney is afraid to do.

They want to market it as DL's 'BIG, NEW THING' for 2017 and the first of many new major Marvel attractions in DCA (and other parks not located in the Florida swamps) before The Star Wars Experience (oops, did I name drop prematurely? Happens with age!) debuts in DL in 12/18 . If they have their way, the current Anaheim ToT will close around the first oft the year and reopen before summer with an entirely new GotG based show, still (somehow I am told) centered on a haunted hotel from the 1930s. How? Who knows? Stitch and Buzz Lightyear belong in Tomorrowland, right?

The hitch right now is, naturally, WDW. They are interested in this, but they see it more as a temporary overlay to draw people into their moribund Studios park (the one they actively engage in deceptive advertising in because telling people that the real Star Wars stuff won't arrive before 2020-21 probably wouldn't be good for business). They (again naturally) are looking to cut the budget and the timeline because shutting the ToT next January might just finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back (hell, even 1-2 lifestylers might tell people to not visit for more than half a day out of their 11 day on property MAGICal $11,000 WDW vacations ). At DCA, this will be the gateway to Marvel BRAND Land and has to look and act the part. TDO is whining about money and downtime (they will soon count restrooms and ODV carts and Marsha the special needs CM at The ABC Commissary that thinks she does a great Daisy Duck impression as attractions).

But right now it looks like this has the momentum needed to happen on BOTH coasts provided TDO is willing to shoulder the costs and realize this will be a permanent change, not a summer marketing deal.

And, no, this means nothing at all regarding other Marvel IP ... and, no, I don't think UNI cares one way or the other.
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This is terrible news to me. The Tower of Terror in Florida should be sacred like The Haunted Mansion.

They can destroy Disneyland's version if they want to, as they got the inferior product...but leave perfection alone in Florida.
 

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