Rumor Frontierland Shootin' arcade to close and replaced with DVC Member lounge

ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Raineman said:
Maybe you can smuggle some of those drinks out and sell them for a buck or two to us sweaty, unwashed masses in Frontierland. Might help you pay for your annual DVC dues and points.
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A couple bucks?
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$8 but I accept Venmo.
 
erasure fan1

erasure fan1

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EricsBiscuit said:
At the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, which takes up almost the entire OC convention center, there are many vendors who sell shooting arcades. They wouldn’t sell them if they didn’t make money. Also, if kids playing with guns is such a big deal, why are there countless video games which are full of violence and shooting? I’m not against them, but I’m just pointing out that “society” doesn’t seem to care much at all.
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This is a good point. The problem is, how many times has it been updated? If I remember just once in the early 80s to make it infrared instead of pellets? The tech could be updated, it could still look and feel old timey, and make it more interesting to play. It's a ongoing Disney issue.
 
disneyC97

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I'm a DVC member and unhappy about this change for many of the reasons others have noted. At the very least it reduces the MK attraction count by 1 and removes a small atmosphere attraction that Disney parks typically do well. If there was an attraction replacement here or elsewhere, fine, otherwise this is a net loss for the regular guest. I never saw no one using it. It provided fun (and shelter) for me, my sister and her children during a rainstorm a few times in recent trips.

That said, since this is a done deal, I'm curious about what the lounge will be like. We've used the one at EPCOT, but there you have a beautiful space beneath the glass pyramids of Imagination, not sure if they will have windows here or what sort of feature besides a room with some free soft drinks and snacks, might make it special. I doubt it will be a space I feel the need to stop in.
 
pdude81

pdude81

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disneyC97 said:
I doubt it will be a space I feel the need to stop in.
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Have you ever been to WDW in the summer? I think you will enjoy the break from the heat, and can likely bring your sister and her kids in with you for a break from the weather there, along with an AHA water or some Pibb Xtra.

I assume they are going to theme the inside of this and it won't open until MVMCP season, but that's just a guess. Have there been any rumors on when this space will open?
 
Bocabear

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Aren't there other spaces that are currently vacant that could have hosted the lounge? Wasn't there a sponsor lounge in Space Mountain, Enchanted Tiki Room, If You Had Wings? I don't know if these spaces have been converted to other things during the last 50 years, but they were there at one point...If the Pirates Bar is moving to Tortuga, why not in the old Pirate's League?
While I hate to lose the shooting gallery, a DVC lounge would be much more appreciated by me and countless others. Yes! we need attractions, but the lounge would be a great perk... Hopefully we will get some new and better attractions...
 
Beacon Joe

Beacon Joe

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I have many fond memories of the shooting gallery as a child in Disneyland, and then later at Disney World. Shooting with my parents, having competitions with my brothers. We still talk about it if we go out shooting silhouettes at the range.

This removal and replacement is so flipping lame and lazy, it's mind-boggling. But it's also so downright lazy and uninspired it's to be expected.

ETA: While I know my brothers and I will still occassionally reminisce until our deaths about making the ghost riders appear or making the tombstones creak or shooting the buzzards... I am perfectly certain that my own kids will never once reminisce about that halcyon day they they sat in a DVC lounge and got one "free" pack of gummy bears per hour or when they used a Coke Freestyle.
 
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pdude81

pdude81

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DisneyFanatic12 said:
Would it have been better if it went in an unused space? Yes. Have I seen the Shooting Arcade empty almost very singly time I walked past? Also yes.
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Sure there are other places this could have gone. But this was basically unused when you had to pay for it, and sparingly used when free.

And I hope that the other unused spaces prior posters were talking about get better attractions than Freestyle machines and an XBox or two.
 
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disney_NYC

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Who remembers the smaller version of the shootin’ arcade that was in the Contemporary Resort game arcade room in the early 80s? We stayed at the Polynesian in December 1981 but hit that arcade, and there it was in the back corner of the room. Only other thing I specifically remember about that arcade was that it had a fire truck driving game for two people, with one driving the back of the ladder truck. My performance was similar to Kramer’s on Seinfeld.
 
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