News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[lazyboy97o]

Considering the SFX coaster basically bankrupted them and the whole company was sold off last year, I wonder if Disney could've bought the patents for the ride design.

They’re still in business. Patents protect a specific process. It’s why anyone can buy a flying theater even though Disney owns the patent on the Soarin’ system.

 

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

suspect this is going to be themed as well as Grizzly River Run, which is one of the best rapid rides in the world, and one of the most beautifully themed.

Going on Grizzly while reading this lol

 

[trainplane3]

They’re still in business. Patents protect a specific process. It’s why anyone can buy a flying theater even though Disney owns the patent on the Soarin’ system.

Fair enough. It kind of seemed like they were but everything pointed to them closing down.

 

[K&KDizFreaks]

Does anyone think this will be anything less than a massive pile of trash in the middle of MK. All terrain cartoon autonomous vehicles navigating elevation changes. Going how fast? Ugh They can’t even get LED lights to work in the concrete at Epcot. It is one thing to build a stinker, it is another demolish perfection. Bob has systematically removed Walt from Disney. Those trains will be offline for how many more years?

 

[ednamodedarling]

Struggling to visualize how a dirt road ride track will be drivable with all the florida rain. The upkeep on this attraction will be astronomical. Still looks fascinating to me though! Looking forward to seeing it come together.

 

[JoeCamel]

Struggling to visualize how a dirt road ride track will be drivable with all the florida rain. The upkeep on this attraction will be astronomical. Still looks fascinating to me though! Looking forward to seeing it come together.

Disney "dirt"

 

[Jayspency]

There's so many red flags with this ride and yet they're still going through with it. Its either they only care about shareholders or Iger just has a massive ego.

 

[UNCgolf]

Struggling to visualize how a dirt road ride track will be drivable with all the florida rain. The upkeep on this attraction will be astronomical. Still looks fascinating to me though! Looking forward to seeing it come together.

It'll definitely be concrete or some other kind of durable material that's just painted/sculpted to look like dirt.

 

[JSouth25]

There's so many red flags with this ride and yet they're still going through with it. It’s either they only care about shareholders or Iger just has a massive ego.

I think both of these things are applicable.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Its either they only care about shareholders or Iger just has a massive ego.

It’s a terrible move for shareholders - a waste of money. If cars need to be in MK update the speedway.

 

[peter11435]

Struggling to visualize how a dirt road ride track will be drivable with all the florida rain. The upkeep on this attraction will be astronomical. Still looks fascinating to me though! Looking forward to seeing it come together.

It won’t be an actual dirt road ride track. Just like KSR doesn’t have a dirt road ride track.

 

[Stripes]

Must be why all the latest attractions operate so flawlessly

Notice the part where I said, “very recently.”

WDI has very recently hired a bunch of extremely talented people in the Ride Engineering department.

 

[marni1971]

What’s wrong here — the ride system, the location, or *gestures* everything?

Location.

 

[Brer Panther]

How likely is it that this is going to be Iger's Rocket Rods?

 

[Dranth]

Looks like it could be interesting if they would just stick it somewhere else.

 

[Creathir]

Location.

Guaranteed the bean counters internally view this as the perfect solution.

1. Gets rid of a controversial topic/area with Tom Sawyer
2. Prime real estate in the most visited theme park in the world
3. “New ride!!!” / Press boon
4. Increased merchandise potential

Of course the bean counters don’t care about thematic consistency, story telling, the art of negative space, nor the dynamics a quiet part of the park brings to the table.

Burbank is full of useless suits, and lacks creative direction who understands the intent of the parks. The Bobs have been a complete disaster on this company…

 

[Timothy_Q]

"this won't be fun because you won't be driving it" is such a funny statement

considering you know... that's how 99.9% of rides are

 

[marni1971]

Guaranteed the bean counters internally view this as the perfect solution.

1. Gets rid of a controversial topic/area with Tom Sawyer
2. Prime real estate in the most visited theme park in the world
3. “New ride!!!” / Press boon
4. Increased merchandise potential

Of course the bean counters don’t care about thematic consistency, story telling, the art of negative space, nor the dynamics a quiet part of the park brings to the table.

Burbank is full of useless suits, and lacks creative direction who understands the intent of the parks. The Bobs have been a complete disaster on this company…

5. Sell the queue jumping tickets for it to the max.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I am appalled, this looks to be nothing more than a giant ugly dirt monster rally pit plopped down in the Magic Kingdom..

Well yeah, if you only look at the test video that has none of the thematic elements and think that's exactly what it will look like in MK and refuse to look at the concept art that includes snow capped mountains and geysers and other National Park elements.

That makes you entirely correct!!

 

[Creathir]

5. Sell the queue jumping tickets for it to the max.

So when do the paid toilets come online?

Even better, maybe they will start limiting portions of the park for crowd size, or you can buy an “upgraded” guaranteed access ticket?