I hear a lot on the forums about how Disney had the option to keep the Great Movie Ride instead of building Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. With a proper budget what would have you guys done to fix up or change to the Great Movie Ride?
I hear a lot on the forums about how Disney had the option to keep the Great Movie Ride instead of building Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. With a proper budget what would have you guys done to fix up or change to the Great Movie Ride?
I absolutely agree. Personally I have no problem with Runaway Railway replacing Great Movie Ride. I loved both rides, but Runaway Railway is a very worthy successor. Personally I would have rather seen Great Movie Ride stay and have new scenes featuring Star Wars, Avengers and other newer famous movies. And have Runaway Railway replace Launch Bay and fix up Animation Courtyard.Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I loved the Great Movie Ride, as was. I hate that they replaced it. I've not seen M&MRR yet, but I'm sure it will be loaded with tons projected images rather than animatronics. I appreciate animatronics because they're so real, but you know they're not. I do projection stuff myself for holidays. Oh well. Sorry for not answer the OP's question, but I guess my response would be, no changes other than maybe some maintenance to keep things in good working order.
I agree! There was rumor of a ride idea called the Great Disney Movie Ride where it would take you throughout all of the Disney movies from Snow White to Frozen.I loved the Great Movie Ride, and the Mickey/Minnie Runaway Train is really neat; however, I think an update using Disney movies would have been popular with adults, teens, and kids. The interactive portion found in the GMR could have included a Star Wars reality portion.
Personally I would have rather seen Great Movie Ride stay and have new scenes featuring Star Wars, Avengers and other newer famous movies. And have Runaway Railway replace Launch Bay and fix up Animation Courtyard.
I'd open the area up for Disney films only. After all we are at a Disney park where guests are wanting Disney theming. A ride through featuring a mixture of the best Disney animated films and movies. ( One of my favorite scenes of the GMR was the Sorcerers Apprentice scene ) After the ride an area showcasing props, awards, memorabilia, behind the scenes stories and actor bios. This would include actors who not only appeared in films but also provided voice roles. There would be brief clips playing from films like Old Yeller, Davey Crockett, Zorro and other lesser known films.
I hear a lot on the forums about how Disney had the option to keep the Great Movie Ride instead of building Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. With a proper budget what would have you guys done to fix up or change to the Great Movie Ride?
I‘d have loved for the GMR to stay and love some of the suggestions above. I’d have kept the basic ride with a few changes btw sorry if the order is wrong i last rode the ride 20 years ago!
musicals - keep Mary Poppins and singing in the rain if you can but add some classic fox movies - sound of music or king and I
swap out the gangster scenes for marvel scene with a suitable villain hijacking your car. Replace the western scene with a star wars stormtrooper or maybe Boba Fett taking the car. Leave alien (fox ip). Keep indy but shorten the scene after the guide comes back replace the rest of the temple with cut down western (Clint eastwood and john wayne only). Take out tarzan and put in titanic goes well with casablanca, if there’s space maybe avatar. Keep mickey butSwap out oz for classic disney fairy tale maybe beauty and the beast and sleeping beauty (both golden ages) with malefecent replacing the witch. Keep the end montage but update with new movies
Having Luke saying No I am you father would be amazing! Disney had a lot of potential to fix or add new scenes to the ride.Excluding Avengers, I completely agree. The GMR was really about classics. To me superhero movies don't qualify. I know they break the bank at the box office, but they're not classics IMO.
Now you've got my creative juices flowing. Here are some ideas:
Now granted, some of these are obviously Disney owned, but I have no idea if any of them are owned by other studios that maybe couldn't be done, or perhaps they'd need to purchase rights to reproduce them.
- I love adding a scene for Star Wars, like Luke and Yoda with an X-wing in the swamp scene or something
- Or better yet Luke and Darth Vader lightsabering in the Death Star battle
- Or Darth Vader telling Luke, "No, I am your father"
- A classic scene from The Godfather... like Don Corleone saying "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"
- E.T. and Elliot
- Jack on the front of the Titanic being "king of the world... woooo, hoooooo... ooooo"
- Beauty and the Beast dancing in the ballroom
That sounds amazing!I floated an idea roundabouts a few years ago that included something akin to Runaway Railway. Only instead of watching a new Mickey short and then the theater explodes, you would be there to watch a premiere of Fantasia, and while Mickey conducts the Sorcerer's Apprentice, just as the brooms came alive in the segment, now the movies come alive and you go through them in a manic style reminiscent of HKDL's Mystic Manor.
This was back when the rumor appeared that a Guardians ride would replace the GMR. I myself didn't care for the entire GMR being renovated to only feature just one franchise.
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