News Villains Land Announced for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

[Brer Panther]

But the ghosts aren't "villians".

With the possible exception of the bride in the attic.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The Host's non-stop punning is true villainy.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

With the possible exception of the bride in the attic.

They tried to retcon Hatbox and make him villainous but he'll always be a grim grinning ghost to me. The only true villains are the imagineers responsible for his placement in the mansion.

 

[celluloid]

The real villians, are the last decade of execs we made along the way.

 

[FigmentFan82]

The true villains are the friends we made along the way.

 

[danlb_2000]

The real villians, are the last decade of execs we made along tbe way.

I for one am looking forward to the Kathleen Kennedy dark ride.

 

[erasure fan1]

I for one am looking forward to the Kathleen Kennedy dark ride.

It should be great! Each third of the ride will be done by one imagineer who will create their own thing. And they will announce 12 different rides before they start one. It's gonna be awesome!

 

[MisterPenguin]

I for one am looking forward to the Kathleen Kennedy dark ride.

Spoiler

It never ends!

 

[drkarcher22]

Am I alone in thinking that this is far and away the most logical WDW spot for a Shanghai Pirates boat ride for all the villains?

Does anyone else wonder if they don’t do the multi villain ride because it’ll be too similar in concept to Monsters Unchained over at Epic?

Although if it was done with a different ride system like say the Shanghai boats I’d suppose it wouldn’t be that similar especially since the tone of the rides will be vastly different

 

[celluloid]

Does anyone else wonder if they don’t do the multi villain ride because it’ll be too similar in concept to Monsters Unchained over at Epic?

Although if it was done with a different ride system like say the Shanghai boats I’d suppose it wouldn’t be that similar especially since the tone of the rides will be vastly different

Seeing them continously try to rip off of Uni's biggest hitters such as the new thanks ride I think it is not a concern. Lots of rides have an anatg9mist ensemble.

 

[HMF]

They tried to retcon Hatbox and make him villainous but he'll always be a grim grinning ghost to me. The only true villains are the imagineers responsible for his placement in the mansion.

It was more management's decision than WDI's. Not that WDI is blameless.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Does anyone else wonder if they don’t do the multi villain ride because it’ll be too similar in concept to Monsters Unchained over at Epic?

Although if it was done with a different ride system like say the Shanghai boats I’d suppose it wouldn’t be that similar especially since the tone of the rides will be vastly different

I imagine it would be a totally different tone.

I think they'll play this moderately safe and you'll get a Maleficent thorny coaster and a Villains cocktail party dark ride / boat ride. Both could be amazing attractions, I'm not meaning to demean that approach.

Having said that, we played the armchair Imagineering game on our show and independent of one another we came up with an even more self aware approach. In our pitches, the villains know they're adjacent to the Magic Kingdom, adjacent to Fantasyland, adjacent to the most Magical Place on Earth. They want to take over the Magic Kingdom as the underlying objective. The ride we pitched was the villains going through existing and extinct attractions and causing chaos. Each scene of the ride would be a new scene in a different MK attraction. The ending was an elevator ride up to the top of Cinderella Castle to look out on the Magic Kingdom after the villains had completed their chaos.

The other lesser ideas were taking existing attractions but re-told through the eyes of the villain. Splash Mountain would have been an obvious choice here, but Peter Pan's Flight also works.