Disney Movie Attraction

[jjharvpro]

If you were a Disney Imagineer, and wanted to take a movie and make it into an attraction, what movie and what type of attraction would it be?

 

[redshoesrock]

I'd do Tron (or Tron Legacy I suppose) and make a mild coaster based on a motorbike coaster design and call it TRON: Lightcycle Racers. Put it indoors, have it all neon-ed up like Tron, no big hills but a launch and a lot of zooming around corners ala Space Mountain. Have the building be Flynn's Arcade, the queue goes into the backroom where you watch the pre-show where you all get zapped by the "bring-you-into-the-digital-world-laser", then have the rest of the queue look like the electronic digital world. You hop on your lightcycle and race on the game grid. Exit into the real world where there really "is" a Flynn's Arcade with DDR and Tekken and all that jazz coupled with the merch shop where you can buy your glow-in-the-dark frisbees (I mean..."Tron Discs"), t-shirts, etc. Throw it in Tomorrowland.

And for those of you who scratched your head at "motorbike coaster design"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MZOTvTB9Io

 

[Krack]

In another life, I will work at WDI and design the greatest James Bond E-ticket (for DHS) in the history of theme parks - one part Temple of the Forbidden Eye, one part Great Movie Ride.

 

[brifraz]

In addition to the Tron:Lightcycle Racers from Redshoesrock (great idea and well thought through, by the way) I would go with the following:

Wall-E - a relatively simple dark ride (in the SGE space?) telling the story of Wall-E but with some relatively high tech animatronics for the characters.

Fantasia - indoor water ride based on Sorcerer's Apprentice. Not quite of the scope of Splash, but somewhat similar in design and with lots more chances to get a little wet (instead of one big soaking) as the animatronic brooms dump water very close to your vehicle.

Princess and the Frog - not an attraction, but certainly a table service restaurant at POFQ. I mean, that's easy, isn't it?

Monsters, Inc. - I have this great idea for an indoor coaster something like the doors room.:lookaroun

None of these ideas are remotely thought out, they are just things that I think would be cool and I would like to ride.

 

[Thrill Seeker]

Tron: Lightcyle based ride with a vehicle that can go at high speed and uses an EMV style motion base through a highly immersive world.

Up: Using an updated version of the Peter Pan ride system, soar in the sky with Carl and Russell as they adventure to South America. It would be an immersive dark ride.

Halo: I know it's not a Disney property, but imagine an EMV style ride with detatchable guns where you fire at advanced anamatronic figures complete with lots of special effects and an explosive finale. It would be the best shooting gallery style ride ever built.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I'd build a dark ride based on Narnia - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Guests would sit in benches shaped like thrones, and face what looks like an enormous, elaborately-carved wardrobe. The massive doors would open, and we (the guests) would enter what looks like a closet filled with fur coats, which then turns into a twilit wood covered in snow, with only a lamp-post for illumination. We'd pause at a scene of Tumnus the Faun and Lucy standing by the lamp-post, and, as snow falls all around us, we hear Tumnus telling her: "While you're here in the Land of Narnia, young Lucy Penvensie, you must beware of the White Witch!" Lucy says, "Who is the White Witch?" And Tumnus says: "Why, it is the White Witch that has all of Narnia under her spell. Thanks to her, it's always winter here, but never Christmas. Think of that!" We'd hear (and feel) a sudden gust of cold wind, then we'd hear the White Witch's evil laughter. Then Lucy would say: "How dreadful! Is there no-one who can stop her?" Tumnus: "Only Aslan, the Great Lion, King of the Beasts and Lord of the Wood, can stop her. But he hasn't been seen in Narnia for a long time. Who knows if he'll ever return"? Once again we'd feel and hear the wind, then another laugh from the Witch. Then suddenly, we'd hear a lion's roar, and the trees would light up with Christmas lights. Lucy would say, "What's happening?" And Tumnus replies: "Oh! It's him! Aslan HAS come! He's brought Christmas to Narnia at last! Aslan is on the move! Come on, we've got to follow him!" And as he says that, WE'RE on the move, out of the wood and heading towards the Witch's ice palace. We'd rush through it, (it's a very cold and spooky place) see her wave her wand and turn creatures to stone, hear the howls of wolves, then go through a tunnel and we're in Narnia in spring, with a great battle between the Witch's forces and Aslan's army going on all around us. We see Lucy, Susan, Edmund and Peter all fighting various horrible monsters. Then we pass a scene where Aslan is roaring at the White Witch. As we pass it, we hear another roar, a scream from the Witch, and all is darkness. Then light returns and we see the inside of Cair Paravel, with Lucy, Peter, Edmund and Susan sitting on their thrones, surrounded by characters like Tumnus, the Beavers, centaurs, unicorns, and other creatures. The Kings and Queens welcome us to Cair Paravel, inform us that the Witch has been defeated and Narnia is free once again. Aslan himself bids us goodbye, and we return to the Wardrobe and exit back into the real world.

This ride would be placed in Beastly Kingdom. Unfortunately, one is as likely to be built as the other. But it's fun to think about.

 

[CaptainWinter]

Great thread, OP.

I think Up is perfectly suited to a Forbidden Journey treatment. (I'm pretty much recapitulating what Thrill Seeker said a few posts ago.) KUKA on tracks. Sort of like Peter Pan's Flight, but set during the daytime and more thrilling. You could pass through various tableaus from the film: initial launch of the house, over the city, into a thunderstorm, a glimpse of Paradise Falls, air chase with the flying dogs, final triumphant arrival at the falls.

Easy as pie. Just need a billion dollars or so.