"Theme parks are not a storytelling medium." -Marc Davis
The kind of story you want is not right for a theme park. Grizzly River Run already has a story: riders experience white water rapids. Could it use some animatronics? Absolutely! But the story is just as strong as Space Mountain's.
MB's a convoluted mess where the rider can never tell what's taking place. The screens are ugly and lazy. The exterior is ugly and ruins the entire resort's skyline. It's a massive downgrade from the brilliant storytelling of Tower of Terror. It's an insult.
As for the rest, the park is regressing and Grizzly Peak, its best ride, should not follow suit. And GRR is not old. It opened in 2001. And so what if it is old? Haunted Mansion's old. Pirates of the Caribbean's old. Splash Mountain's old. These are all better attractions than anything Disney's done in the last decade. Old does not mean outdated. Mission Breakout's outdated and it's only been around since 2017.
I can tell you really don’t like change.
GotG MB is funner then ToT, it is
You completely misregarded my point that most Disney Rides do not have a story. It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, etc. Most of the rides you'd consider classics or the best have no storyline. It doesn't need to have a storyline, a ride through a location is just as good, even better, as Mission Breakout, Incredicoaster, Radiator Springs Racers, Indiana Jones, etc.
You are missing the biggest point,
I bet most people who go to DCA who ride it may like it, but at the end of the day they don’t look back at it and even most of my family forgot it even existed until (me, the Disney-versal park hub creator) mentioned it.
Yeah the story may not be as I great as I sort of was wrong there (I admit it) but the main thing is that GRR is not a highlight of most people’s day and may forget about it and even though us people on the WDW Magic forums know and like it, most people won’t and it basically is free real Estate for Disney if it ain’t really remembered by most people like Tower of Terror it Radiator Springs Racers. Including they can easily make it a better ride through the amount of space it takes up as there is a lot of distance between things.
They removed Bug’s land because people don’t think of it as a highlight as it was a bad idea as the movie is fine. It was real Estate, free for them. They could have put a Marvel ride in GRR but they didn’t showing some worth to it.
But the thing is that DCA might be getting overhauled even more for another decade to fix the rest as the northern parts are (sort of) fixed. GotG MB is really likable and actually had a small budget and may not be perfect but is lots and lots of fun, it may not beat the theming if ToT but it does well.
Cars land is amazing even though some of the land is just merch stores and should be used as the rides there are ok besides RSR. It brought lots of people to the park and people love the ride.
Pixar Pier is the worst of these inclusions, it may fit in with the Californian theme more but it still is not finished and is fun, I don’t know if it is better then Paradise Pier yet. It fits well and is fun to look at. The Incredicoaster is s good ride with critical praise but I don’t think the same.
I never said GRR was not fun or should be, I have always just been saying that I bet Disney really wants to gut it now as they are getting desperate with Universal trying to become a bigger threat and DCA needing more rides. The whole Grizzly Peak area has been mostly unchanged since 2001 and only has the redwood play area (I think that is in it and I say it is). But Hollywood land has changed with new additions and removals (Super Star Limo, we won’t remember you).
Let me explain:
I was sad when ToT was going, I was sad when the Great Movie ride was going. But I don’t lurk on why it should not go and why, I think of the possibilities they have for it as it could be better or be more fun or enjoyable. Change is a good thing for some cases and I bet they are working on what could replace GRR as it has never remembered by certain people. I see what they can do with it as they can always make something better as changing GRR and maybe adding something new or just returning it could make me satisfied as they need to do something with it. Soon everyone will be going to Marvel land as the Spider Man ride is going to be awesome and the Avengers Coaster that is planned for phase 2.
GRR might become irrelevant and they just would have to do something with it. But things like SM or BTMR are inevitable as they always make people happy as they are amazing, GRR does not speak the same way to people, average people.
