EricJ
Active Member
The problem with Stitch's Great Escape and Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor isn't the films, it's the quality of production of these rides that people loathe. Tokyo Disneyland also has a Monsters Inc. attraction, but it is very popular and why? Because it is superior in quality and production. Disney has the ability to make a great attraction regardless of what film they use. TDO just chooses not to put the time, money, or effort into most of what they put out.
The Imagineers also got to think up the later popularity-tested foreign rides themselves, which they're rather good at. (Although DCA was just cleaning up Superstar Limo's mess.)
My point was, SGE and MiL...(er, maybe I'd better not acronym that) were both cases of giving the screaming Screamscape fans their bottle, and making rides that, well, weren't very well thought out, and didn't have much conceptual appeal.
Not to mention, which most fans skip over, that a building tends to be made for one purpose, and you can't "turn" a show building into a ride building without tearing it down from scratch. MI at MK Tomorrowland was going to end up as another show in Timekeeper's building, no matter what the fans wanted. (And, just off a side tangent, how exactly was that mythical "door ride" in fans' minds supposed to work?...Would we hang on to the door for dear life by our knuckles, just like Mike & Sully??)
Also, from what I've seen, Rapunzel is still very popular. People may not be storming down the barricades to see her, but there is still a demand in the parks for her. I find it funny how certain you are that Frozen's popularity will die down by Fall. I believe people said something similar, except they put the time frame in the Spring of this year. And here we are, in the middle of Spring, and the fever for Frozen is still strong. You may not like the film, but it's clear that it's it a chord with a majority of people. I'm not saying this warrants a ride in the parks, but Disney would be a fool to underestimate Frozen's popularity, in fact, they already have.
Tangled IS a Disney classic by whatever 90's definitions you want to apply, but Frozen is still coasting on a lot of outside factors. Not least of which being That Darn Song (and its cult that believes they're getting "life messages" from it), and some of it being fans who didn't see any Disney movie between Tangled and Frozen, and are in love with one movie formula. (I saw Wreck-It Ralph in the theaters, but how long are the lines for Ralph and Vanellope?)
Every marketed Disney Princess has to have a personality, to create identification with the little girls that fan-worship them; Rapunzel had one from the start, and she's here to stay.
The lines from Frozen seem to be more about fans making "pilgrimages" to show their cult-love for the movie, for whatever above reasons--I've seen the park characters finally nail down A&E's respective "personalities", but I'd guess most of the faithful line-fans couldn't even say what those ARE.
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