Not every ride needs to be Rise of the Resistance. My kids love Mermaid and always have. It is. A fun ride with a decent ride time, and decent queue that eats a ton of people. Disney’s problem is that it only tries to make ROTR type rides now, and they are too expensive to mass produce.
Yes. And the newer ride experiences have less CAPACITY. Great Movie Ride could push through 2400/hr, whereas MMRR does about 1660/hr. FOP does about 1500/hr, whereas ROTF (when it works) has a theoretical capacity of 1700/hr.
I've found the queue to be mostly empty because people avoid it. It contains interactive windows with Sebastian that are too high up for children to see and obviously, holds up the line. Last time I went thru it, the roof was leaking.
It was my 3 year old daughters favorite ride, she wanted to ride it multiple times when we were there. Also a nice break for parents lol
We do have some metrics that point to both of those films being particularly popular due to the streaming figures. While Encanto is still relatively new, it was by far the most-streamed movie in 2022 and had all the other attendant success with the music, etc. In the case of Coco, it was the twelfth most-streamed movie in the US in 2022 and was also in the top twenty the previous year. While newer Pixar films Turning Red and Luca were higher, it seems Coco is still being watched by more people on Disney+ than any of the films from the Pixar franchises like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Cars, and The Incredibles they've already brought to the parks. That suggests there's a market out there for more Coco!
Toy Story 4 plus the parks being obsessed with Toy Story meaning it is used in seemingly everything has actually made me loathe the franchise.
Nah, I feel similarly. I'm fine with Coco coming to Magic Kingdom. But Encanto feels like it fits a lot better. I think it helps that Encanto is an animated musical that's actually from Disney's animation studio. I don't mind Pixar in Magic Kingdom, but I don't think their stuff is as natural of a fit as the mainline Disney stuff.
I really feel the same, though it's hard to know why regarding Toy Story 4. I didn't think it was a bad film, but it just seemed to finally derail the franchise to a point of zero interest for me. And I hate Forky.
Encanto has been right there to click on every time ive opened D+ since they put it on there. Absolutely has something to do with the large streaming numbers.
You’re talking about an attraction that ended up costing $150 million. That’s too expensive to mass produce and should have had a lot more to show for it.
I think the bulk of it went to the exterior and queue.
No, the one in California ended up costing that much after trying to fix it multiple times.
You can blame Potter
Rat exists in a themed land... the France Pavilion. And in the plaza it's in, it was built to match the movie's art style.
Cosmic Rewind and Tron are stand-alones…
…vastly better than what is being done down the street…faster and cheaper…
I still think a Halloween Town would be cooler than a Villains Land. But if we HAD to go with the Villains Land idea, an Oogie Boogie ride has potential (maybe a flat ride based on his giant roulette wheel?).
Hans, Bellwether, Robert Callaghan (I might've spelled his name wrong), and... most of the twist villains, honestly seem like they'd be hard to make attractions for anyhow. And apparently Bellwether is also going to be the main villain of the Zootopia Dinosaur retheme, so there's that too.
It was certainly successful enough for Disney to greenlight MORE live action remakes (refresh my memory, was Cruella greenlit before or after Maleficent was released?).
I'm still convinced that they blew most of the ride's budget on the animatronics and then had to make do with what little they had left. The "climax" might as well have just had a giant neon sign reading "SORRY, FOLKS, WE RAN OUT OF MONEY".
