Expedition Everest: The Last of its Kind?

[Damon7777]

Nicely explained, FigmentJedi

 

[ryguy]

I would consider the Mickey runaway train attraction going into the great movie ride something fairly original. At least its a Disney IP.

 

[geekza]

Hopefully not the ride they used to have in Kings Island? That was not a great ride.

It was pretty great right after it opened and they bothered using all of the effects. Sadly, maintenance on it pretty much stopped as soon as it was open and once an effect broke, it never came back. It lost more and more each year it was open. Paramount really didn't know how to maintain attractions.

 

[TwilightZone]

I would consider the Mickey runaway train attraction going into the great movie ride something fairly original. At least its a Disney IP.

All ips disney is using now are disney ips.
Unless you meant classic disney ip of course, but even then we have 7 dwarfs mine train.

 

[21stamps]

It was pretty great right after it opened and they bothered using all of the effects. Sadly, maintenance on it pretty much stopped as soon as it was open and once an effect broke, it never came back. It lost more and more each year it was open. Paramount really didn't know how to maintain attractions.

That’s sad to hear.. I don’t think I was visiting at those times. I’d fly in everytime a new ride would open. I’m so glad that I got to experience Son of Beast, with the loop... and without any injuries.

 

[geekza]

That’s sad to hear.. I don’t think I was visiting at those times. I’d fly in everytime a new ride would open. I’m so glad that I got to experience Son of Beast, with the loop... and without any injuries.

You're definitely lucky on that one as Son of Beast ended up costing Paramount a fortune. It wasn't long after that debacle that they sold the parks to Cedar Fair.

 

[ryguy]

All ips disney is using now are disney ips.
Unless you meant classic disney ip of course, but even then we have 7 dwarfs mine train.

Yeah I was thinking IP's Disney actually created not acquired.

 

[disneygeek90]

I hate to break it to you, but dinosaur is an IP ride. It's based on a sub-par movie from 2000, think avatar before avatar.

I hate to break it to you, but the original Dinosaur ride was not IP based. They brought in the "IP" theme of the movie character a couple years after opening, which honestly doesn't really effect the ride much.

 

[TwilightZone]

I hate to break it to you, but the original Dinosaur ride was not IP based. They brought in the "IP" theme of the movie character a couple years after opening, which honestly doesn't really effect the ride much.

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I think there's enough evidence to show that the Dinosaur movie was in the imagineer's minds when making CTX. They were probably forced to include the iguanodon and carnotaurus by Eisner so it can tie into the film more easily and get that merch money.

They were co-developed together, to such a point that Countdown to Extinction was an early working title for the movie.

Eisner wanted a much more thrilling take on the Dinosaur Safari plans, which lead to the EMV, and he also remembered that Animation had their own Dinosaur film project that was shelved a couple of years earlier. So between cashing in on the dinosaur fever in the wake of Jurassic Park and wanting some synergy going on with the parks, the movie was put back into production to help promote the theme park and Eisner wanted Animation and WDI working in tandem on their respective dinosaur projects, to a point where you see early animation from the movie being used in the preshow . The name change was about removing all doubt of the connection.

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[LUVofDIS]

I sure hope not...the non-IP based rides are what distinguished Disney from all the others since the coaster renaissance began in the later 80’s

I just don't see it, it is the total ride experience, I will agree, if the Imagineers rely on the IP to make the ride, than yes, they missed the mark. I rate a ride on the ride, Original theming, experience and design hold a much greater value to the ride than whether it is an IP ride or not. I feel this is one reason Universal is getting it wrong. Many of their attractions seem to base themselves or other existing attractions in the same park. They have an abundance of 4D rides that feel the same to me. Even the sequence of events. If there was just one attraction based on the 4D than it would be amazing, but after four or five it gets boring to a degree. That seems more lazy than whether it is an IP or not.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I just don't see it, it is the total ride experience, I will agree, if the Imagineers rely on the IP to make the ride, than yes, they missed the mark. I rate a ride on the ride, Original theming, experience and design hold a much greater value to the ride than whether it is an IP ride or not. I feel this is one reason Universal is getting it wrong. Many of their attractions seem to base themselves or other existing attractions in the same park. They have an abundance of 4D rides that feel the same to me. Even the sequence of events. If there was just one attraction based on the 4D than it would be amazing, but after four or five it gets boring to a degree. That seems more lazy than whether it is an IP or not.

Disney is in danger of doing both: reliance on IP and repetitive ride systems...Time will tell.