think this ride being about trying to understand and communicate w animals is awesome. Plus them going w indy in a mythical creature route is a nice revival of beastly kingdom ideas IMO
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DAK 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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mlayton144
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Haven’t followed this thread too closely recently. Question - are we 100% sure this is one of those trackless dark rides or is it possible that’s it’s a boat ride? Any actual statement from Disney on this? Thanks
Gremlin Gus
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According the rumors, the Encanto ride (I assume this is what you're talking about) is not trackless or a boat ride, it's rumored to be a ride system similar to Journey Into Imagination With Figment.
mlayton144
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Nah… a ride on a track?
James Alucobond
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It was said earlier in the thread that it's believed to be a tracked ride with trains of cars. There are two cars per train, styled as furniture animated by Casita. Each car has two rows that seat 2-3, allowing for 8-12 per train.
Pizza Moon
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The “takes place after the movie but still rehashes it” has to be the worst ride concept that’s ever existed.
Pizza Moon
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I’m a fan. I think trackless rides tend to be flat and barren.
I hope it has more movement than just “figment” though.
Pizza Moon
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The gap between Frozen: Ever After and Anna & Elsa’s Frozen Journey is so monumental it’s not even funny.
What’s wild is Tokyo DisneySea, despite having queue length issues, is literally the most impressive thematic park ever created, yet a park like HKDL, WDSP, EPCOT get a flawed D-ticket (arguably C just because of how weak its execution is) at best, and losing Maelstrom at EPCOT for it are all dumbfounding decisions.
James Alucobond
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Frozen is an overlay that couldn’t satisfyingly rehash the plot given the existing infrastructure. Given the circumstances, I actually don’t think it’s that bad, and I don’t understand why people are so opposed to musical reprises as a means of telling a different story through familiar melodies. Where FEA goes wrong is in inexplicably resurrecting the ice palace and in not modifying Let It Go to the extent that the other songs are modified. If they just had you go through an ice-adorned Arendelle castle, rewrote a few more lines, and maybe did something more satisfying in the final room instead of In Summer, it’d work pretty well all things considered. That’s to say nothing of whether it should go where it is or have been retrofitted in the first place; I’m just commenting on the ability to work within the constraints.
Agent H
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The ice palace reappears in the on-screen continuity as well where it becomes a home for marshmallow and later the snowgies. Elsa probably just fixed it for marshmallow between frozen and the short frozen fever.
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mlayton144
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I have to question your sanity - from my experience before and after the refit, FEA gets tons more riders than maelstrom year after year, it’s not even close. How is that dumbfounding ?
Because no sane person would look at FEA and say, “Wow! That’s the best thing they could have done for Frozen!”. It was quick and cheap with minimal creative thought given.
mlayton144
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General park goers seem to love it , even 9+ years after it opened
Pizza Moon
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It’s terrible and lazy. There’s no reason the Viking Village and Polar bear scenes look that bad.
There is also no world which it should’ve been cloned, for one of the largest IPs in existence, especially when OLC actually did it right.
It’s not like TWDC is incapable, I mean Cosmic Rewind is a world-class coaster, Mission: Breakout was a ridiculously well executed retheme. Test Track 3.0 was a huge upgrade over 2.0 as well.
Pizza Moon
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It’s nowhere near as popular and bringing in new guests as it would’ve been if they had done it right, as Fantasy Springs shows. It’s a low capacity attraction, and poorly executed for what it is. The track extension opening Olaf scene is terrific though so I don’t hate it, it has some redeeming elements but is it really an improvement over Maelstrom? The queue sure, opening scene sure, the rest? Not at all. That’s besides the fact it’s a poor fit but since they opened the floodgates I’m down for Aladdin in Morocco.
It’s sort of like, if we can’t just fairly assess things we as the guest are the ones that are punished.
Also just because something is popular, doesn’t mean it can’t be heavily flawed…
Pizza Moon
Active Member
And they’ve cloned it twice when an even better ride exists.
Make it make sense.
BrianLo
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Maelstrom was a developmental lifetime ago, when it was rushed (honestly fairly impressively for Disney) in less than three years from them realizing the movie was a smash success.
Arrendelle at Hong Kong is a much better land than Tokyos. So there’s that at least. It’s a better ride in Tokyo, but honestly not as much as it should have been. Then there are some choice improvements for Hong Kong that helped FEA.
FEA gets way too much unnecessary flack in my opinion…
Incomudro
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Well they didn't give us Friends on the Other Side at Tiana's.
(I'm making a joke here.)
Incomudro
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General park goers are...
Chi84
Premium Member
. . . the lifeblood of Disney’s business.