They need to stop looking through these eyes and more through the eyes of the guests that go to the parks to have a fun time and explore worlds they can't anywhere else. Agrabah is not the Middle East. It may be inspired by it, but it is still very much a fictional location.
I will point out that Splash Mountain was exactly what people wanted, one of the most beloved attractions in all WDW. Yet, it is now history. It seems to matter little what Most guests like, but what All guest can accept.
If Agrabah shouldn't be equated with the Middle East, doesn't that also mean that Arendelle shouldn't be equated with Norway?
You're preaching to the choir about Splash. I maintain the belief that it should not have been "removed" when there are dozens of attractions not up to par with guest expectations. As fans, we either choose to live with it, or we start vacationing elsewhere. While I still love WDW (and intend to visit when there are deals), the latter is becoming easier to do given the lacklustre additions as of late (and the ones in the pipeline). I was hoping for some more interesting stuff with this expansion, but it seems they are going the "predictable" route.
Absolutely. That ride should not have gone in that pavillion. Maelstrom was in need of a major update, but the path they chose was incredibly lame and safe.
Right. I was hoping for ambitious risk taking projects that add visual diversity to the park. I'm not sold on Villains based on concept alone, but it still fits this description and could pay off MASSIVELY.
There is this discussion about the Little Mermaid show at Hollywood Studios.
Exactly. I want new and exciting and “risky” attractions for the biggest expansion ever done to the park. That’s the only way to really excite me.
Frozen 2 while not as “good” in the eyes of many did not bomb in any way whatsoever, though.
But is the whole ride the boat parked in front of a dome screen, and moves like an EMV ? or can it be a traditional flume too, and then go into a room with the dome screen, do its sequence and then move out of the dome screen?
If these diagrams were ever intended to be used with the Splash Mtn looking idea seen in the original AK concept art, then presumably the boats would have to be able to dynamically connect and disconnect to that rocking mechanism. Otherwise I would figure a big drop like that would be fairly impossible.
While it's inevitable that some things would be cloned every now and then, as I've said in another thread, I would argue that every castle park needs at least one or two exclusive major draws to call their own. The Magic Kingdom, in its current state, is lacking on that front, especially when its closest comparison - a park that started out cloning a lot of its DNA - now has four, soon to be five, unique major attractions (or takes on attractions) to itself.
It's especially evident when most of the international resorts have gotten or will get more thematically fitting mini-lands devoted to Frozen and they had a perfectly fine alternate concept to use without tainting EPCOT's soul. For the film that dethroned The Lion King as the highest grossing animated feature film, they should've shot for the moon and given New Fantasyland the major attraction it sorely yearned for
I believe it's meant to be the latter
Please, no more screen-based trackless dark rides. Runaway Railway and Ratatouille are bad enough.Remember that image with Imagineering testing out a pre-vis ride thru of a decidedly Coco-based attraction a few years ago? Well, what if, hypothetically we were getting that. And instead of the costly and massive footprint of a Soarin 2.0 Alebrijes Flight E ticket we would get a Soarin-esque ride sequence combined with classic darkride movements within a souped up, projection-heavy C-ticket dark ride. Could the BBT Coco attraction be a variation of the "black box" flex ride attraction concept?
Somebody on this site did a pitch for an Aladdin dark ride where the "Friend Like Me" sequence was represented by the riders going inside the Genie's lamp. If they ever actually did an Aladdin dark ride, I think they should totally do that.
Tamatoa WOULD make a pretty cool animatronic... with our luck, though, they'd probably just have him on a screen.
Ah, jeez, you make a good point. They put a disclaimer in front of it on Disney Plus... they probably consider it too problematic to build an attraction for.
Every animated Disney movie should have a disclaimer at this point… certainly Moana should as well.
Frozen Ever After is Iger’s historic myopia towards the park and general risk aversion made manifest.
They really are. Definitely not as good as they could/should have been. Railway especially. And that's coming from a fan of the modern Mickey shorts. Rat is successful but still lacking. I think the tech is fine they just haven't done it justice yet.
Yeah...that would ruin the natural realism of the park.
It shouldn't but now that Disney now has Morocco isn't it now on the same scope as Norway..
Unfortunately I think they were pushing for IP at Epcot instead of having Magic Kingdom have the very first World of Arrendale which would been so epic for the US first. Hong Kong Disneyland of course would still have the best because of the mountain landscape. For them it's like easier cost of replacement is better than building from scratch (domestic parks only nowadays).
Your going to have something new, something new big, but your still going along have somethings that Disney knows works and will bring the crowds, kids, families. If anything of a Villains land is considered promised then Disney also wants to incorporate something additional for kids, families that wouldn't be interested in the much more adult teen Villain expansion.
