News Disney Not Renewing Great Movie Ride Sponsorship Deal with TCM ; Attraction to Close

[marni1971]

Disney (and Cameron) are treating the Vekoma flying theater thing as the centerpiece of Pandora. The boat ride wasn't even confirmed for a while..

The flying theatre thing will be shorter than the boat ride.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

The flying theatre thing will be shorter than the boat ride.

Shorter than Soarin' or about the same?

 

[marni1971]

Shorter than Soarin' or about the same?

I.... have to careful... about some details.

 

[Bairstow]

The flying theatre thing will be shorter than the boat ride.

Well you'd think so.

"Living with the Land" is much, much longer than "Soarin" but these days there's no question which is the centerpiece of that pavilion.

 

[Phil12]

Shorter than Soarin' or about the same?

Soarin' is almost five minutes. Frankly, that's too long for the current generation. The average length of a pop song on the radio is 3 minutes and 30 seconds. More attractions will conform to this time period.

 

[Bairstow]

Soarin' is almost five minutes. Frankly, that's too long for the current generation. The average length of a pop song on the radio is 3 minutes and 30 seconds. More attractions will conform to this time period.

Pop songs were longer in the '60s?

 

[unkadug]

Pop songs were longer in the '60s?

Nope...in fact most were shorter.

 

[Phil12]

Pop songs were longer in the '60s?

No, not at all. Generation Z (i.e. the current generation) makes up 25% of the U.S. population. They are a larger group than the Baby Boomers, the Millennials or Generation X. They are the first generation to have grown up with social media and marketing studies show they have an eight second attention span. This is a prime marketing target for Disney. Attraction times will diminish.

 

[Cesar R M]

Phil, how can you be posting when you were just onstage yelling at Hillary Clinton?

Multitasking I presume?
Be online while throwing tomatoes.

 

[Cesar R M]

Don't worry. The average wait time for the new ride will be at least 16 minutes longer than GMR's to take up the appropriate amount of time.

That seems to be the Executives view of "sucess" I suppose.
Next they will remove all quick service restaurants and quick shots and setting them in the queues.
So you can eat a hotdog while you wait 4 hours for a 5 minute ride.

 

[Siren]

Don't worry. The average wait time for the new ride will be at least 16 minutes longer than GMR's to take up the appropriate amount of time.

Hi @MansionButler84! Very funny. But, I have got some great news for you! Dan just posted a new permit filed for DHS yesterday -- it's for two years and expires on October 31, 2018. And, a construction company is listed. So, there is a good chance that this could be for the new Mickey ride which means GMR could be spared! There is hope, so don't give up just yet.

No. Let's hope they don't cut further so it's Na'vi River Journey length. It should take longer to go on a ride than to eat a donut.

The boat ride is not that short. I totally love Living w/the land and the dark portion is very short. So, you have to give this a fair chance.

Six minutes is nothing to scoff at? Haunted Mansion etc are all incredible rides and ride times are not much above it... Sure Hunted mansion gets you with the rooms before but ride time is not huge and they are two of the best rides in my mind...

I don't need a 22 min ride that puts me to sleep...

Hi @gmajew! GMR is 22 minutes, if it is replaced with a 6 minute ride -- will you at least admit that this is a loss? Did you ever fall asleep on GMR? I don't think so, especially during that exciting shoot out scene.

Not to mention, this history of this ride. It was the very first ride in this park.

 

[Sped2424]

No, not at all. Generation Z (i.e. the current generation) makes up 25% of the U.S. population. They are a larger group than the Baby Boomers, the Millennials or Generation X. They are the first generation to have grown up with social media and marketing studies show they have an eight second attention span. This is a prime marketing target for Disney. Attraction times will diminish.

So we have found something more horrible than the dreaded "millennials" to blame society's downfalls on. Dope.

 

[Rteetz]

Hi @MansionButler84! Very funny. But, I have got some great news for you! Dan just posted a new permit filed for DHS yesterday -- it's for two years and expires on October 31, 2018. And, a construction company is listed. So, there is a good chance that this could be for the new Mickey ride which means GMR could be spared! There is hope, so don't give up just yet.

That permit is for toy story not a Mickey ride.

 

[gmajew]

Hi @gmajew! GMR is 22 minutes, if it is replaced with a 6 minute ride -- will you at least admit that this is a loss? Did you ever fall asleep on GMR? I don't think so, especially during that exciting shoot out scene.

Not to mention, this history of this ride. It was the very first ride in this park.

Maybe not bored but not overly entertained anymore either... Way more entertained riding pirates or hunted over and over again each trip maybe multiple times a day. Will not ever ride GMR more then once a trip.

 

[danlb_2000]

Well you'd think so.

"Living with the Land" is much, much longer than "Soarin" but these days there's no question which is the centerpiece of that pavilion.

... Circle of Life.

 

[themonkeyisthesultan]

... Circle of Life.

But only since they stopped selling Disney's Handwich.

 

[ford91exploder]

Pop songs were longer in the '60s?

No but the radio stations did not use 'Time Compression' so they could jam more ads into an hour then either so that 3 minute song is now something like 2:45 or 2:30 on radio and 3:00 everywhere else

https://www.rapmag.com/a/2000s/150-06/jul06/2686-technology-audio-time-compression

 

[Phil12]

So we have found something more horrible than the dreaded "millennials" to blame society's downfalls on. Dope.

Blame them? I applaud them! Speedier attractions are needed. These long and slow attractions of yesteryear need to be modified. Just imagine if they sped up Spaceship Earth so that the attraction only took 7.5 minutes rather than 15 minutes. Who wants to spend valuable time looking at the back of Wozniak's head or a newsboy's little butt? Of course with existing rides it may not be possible. But with new rides 2.5 to 3 minutes is more than enough time to tell a story.

In the words of an old Phoenician proverb, "If you can't tell the story in under three minutes, it may not be worth telling." I think we need to thank the Phoenicians.

 

[Bocabear]

Blame them? I applaud them! Speedier attractions are needed. These long and slow attractions of yesteryear need to be modified. Just imagine if they sped up Spaceship Earth so that the attraction only took 7.5 minutes rather than 15 minutes. Who wants to spend valuable time looking at the back of Wozniak's head or a newsboy's little butt? Of course with existing rides it may not be possible. But with new rides 2.5 to 3 minutes is more than enough time to tell a story.

In the words of an old Phoenician proverb, "If you can't tell the story in under three minutes, it may not be worth telling." I think we need to thank the Phoenicians.

I hope you are joking....

 

[Bairstow]

Blame them? I applaud them! Speedier attractions are needed. These long and slow attractions of yesteryear need to be modified. Just imagine if they sped up Spaceship Earth so that the attraction only took 7.5 minutes rather than 15 minutes. Who wants to spend valuable time looking at the back of Wozniak's head or a newsboy's little butt? Of course with existing rides it may not be possible. But with new rides 2.5 to 3 minutes is more than enough time to tell a story.

In the words of an old Phoenician proverb, "If you can't tell the story in under three minutes, it may not be worth telling." I think we need to thank the Phoenicians.

Your argument is silly.

The original Peter Pan's Flight was an opening day attraction and lasted about two minutes and a half. Surely the work of time travelers, correct?