Frozen ride replacing Maelstrom?

[Kman101]

Looks like FROZEN will get the Disney Ice on Tour treatment for now (and I assume Broadway at some point). Naturally they're shoehorning Mickey and pals in as well as Toy Story, Nemo and Lion King. I'd say people would go with or without the latter parts. Guess they gotta fill the time somehow.

 

[lazyboy97o]

"We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Extra Place to Cram Other Things."

 

[EricJ]

I'll leave this here because spirit broke silence during his vacation to tease some upcoming updates, in which he mentioned Frozen for EPCOT-
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/...be-leaving-in-july.884390/page-8#post-6105079
By the way- Would any of you happen to have a bucket that I could throw up in?

Sorry, I have a stronger stomach, as "Soon enough I'll be hearing good news" are the words officially sponsored by Wishful Thinking.

 

[Mike S]

Frozen should disappear from future plans for Epcot. Disappear, disappear!!! Back, back, over to Magic Kingdom!!!!

 

[Magenta Panther]

I think it's obvious with how popular this movie is worldwide that if a ride is made it would be cloned for almost all the resorts. Plus, with how connected everything is now compared to when Pooh was made, I doubt Disney would go cheap on our version of the ride while everyone else would get an amazing one. The rage in the fan community would be ENORMOUS. Maybe I'm just hopelessly optimistic about all this thinking that Disney would want to go big or go home for their most successful animated film.

You may be optimistic, but you are absolutely correct IMO.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I'll leave this here because spirit broke silence during his vacation to tease some upcoming updates, in which he mentioned Frozen for EPCOT-
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/...be-leaving-in-july.884390/page-8#post-6105079



By the way- Would any of you happen to have a bucket that I could throw up in?

Finally we have a use for the BAH at Disney Hollywood Studios!

Frankly, I'd take Spirit's take on Frozen in Epcot with a grain of salt. I think he's just picking up on the current narrative and using it to get attention. If he HAD anything, he could "let it go" now. But I'm betting he doesn't and he's just messin'.

 

[Mike S]

Finally we have a use for the BAH at Disney Hollywood Studios!

Frankly, I'd take Spirit's take on Frozen in Epcot with a grain of salt. I think he's just picking up on the current narrative and using it to get attention. If he HAD anything, he could "let it go" now. But I'm betting he doesn't and he's just messin'.

Hopefully (please for the love of god) it's just Anna & Elsa taking over the princess meal that's already there. If it's more than that, I'll bring the torches and pitchforks.

 

[EricJ]

Hopefully (please for the love of god) it's just Anna & Elsa taking over the princess meal that's already there. If it's more than that, I'll bring the torches and pitchforks.

Yes, it's only been six months since A&E were "Untested new-movie promotional characters" like Rapunzel & Flynn were. I suspect it'll just be bringing one or both of the "new princesses" into the Akershus mix at random, after they've already had their public Coronation to officially initiate them into the marketing.
No ride, but you can sit in an ice cooler, and I'll push you through WS.

 

[Tim Lohr]

They may or may not be coming to Epcot but Frozen will be coming to your local ice hockey rink

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/b...show-too-riding-a-blockbusters-wave.html?_r=0

 

[Kevo]

Haha! This would be something really fabulous:
A new 'Frozen' theme park at WDW!
http://www.totalorlando.com/blog/next-frozen-walt-disney-world/
Much better than a modest makeover for the Norway Pavilion, but a little 'imaginative' if anything.

 

[danlb_2000]

The degree to which they've screwed the pooch on this one is unparallelled. Minor and underwhelming character presence in the park, no attraction plans ready to go, minimal special food or drink offerings, and they can't keep merch in stock.

What happened to the days where the McDonalds Happy Meal toys showed up months before the theatrical release?

I don't think anyone had any idea that this movie would be as huge as it is. They can't very well spend the R&D money to start developing attraction in the hopes that the movie would be a huge success.

 

[wdwfan4ver]

Frozen should disappear from future plans for Epcot. Disappear, disappear!!! Back, back, over to Magic Kingdom!!!!

I don't know about that right now about back to the Magic Kingdom, I agree Frozen shouldn't be at Epcot though.

I question if there is more land for doing a Frozen attraction at the Magic Kingdom for Fantasy Land.

The other thing is Frozen can fit in DHS like Beauty Beast has since Frozen is going to Broadway like Beauty and the Beast has. Frozen being a stage show attraction isn't far fetched based Disney wanting Frozen to be on Broadway.

 

[Kevo]

I don't think anyone had any idea that this movie would be as huge as it is. They can't very well spend the R&D money to start developing attraction in the hopes that the movie would be a huge success.

Totally agree.
The movie has been fabulous, but so impossible to expect the success it really ended up as.
I read a blog once that explained the fierce pressures that the divisions of Disney are under with entirely separate budgets etc. Sure Disney Parks will be all over it like a rash and probably were as soon as the movie critics had spoken, but to turn a good movie into a great park attraction is a 5 year project most likely.

Disney don't do that kind of thing to pooches anyway do they?

 

[Mike S]

I don't know about that right now about back to the Magic Kingdom, I agree Frozen shouldn't be at Epcot though.

I question if there is more land for doing a Frozen attraction at the Magic Kingdom for Fantasy Land.

The other thing is Frozen can fit in DHS like Beauty Beast has since Frozen is going to Broadway like Beauty and the Beast has. Frozen being a stage show attraction isn't far fetched based Disney wanting Frozen to be on Broadway.

There's plenty of space north of Fantasyland. If they don't use that land they could also use the circus tents area. I think someone posted a picture in this thread showing that a show building the size of Mermaid's can easily fit there.

 

[jdmdisney99]

There's plenty of space north of Fantasyland. If they don't use that land they could also use the circus tents area. I think someone posted a picture in this thread showing that a show building the size of Mermaid's can easily fit there.

My two cents...
-move PhilharMagic to Town Square theater
-put a Frozen ride there
-move PPF to the Speedway lot
-put a Tangled ride there
-put an Alice ride in Cosmic Ray's
-add an actual circus show hosted by Mickey and friends to Storybook Circus
-put two rides (Beauty and the Beast + Sleeping Beauty) and a new theater between FLE and Railroad
-build pathways over the access roads from Belle's village, SBC, and around HM in a new Sleepy Hollow area (w/ a ride)
Done.

 

[bhg469]

My two cents...
-move PhilharMagic to Town Square theater
-put a Frozen ride there
-move PPF to the Speedway lot
-put a Tangled ride there
-put an Alice ride in Cosmic Ray's
-add an actual circus show hosted by Mickey and friends to Storybook Circus
-put two rides (Beauty and the Beast + Sleeping Beauty) and a new theater between FLE and Railroad
-build pathways over the access roads from Belle's village, SBC, and around HM in a new Sleepy Hollow area (w/ a ride)
Done.

So where are all the attractions for teens and older?

 

[EricJ]

My two cents...
-move PhilharMagic to Town Square theater
-put a Frozen ride there

(So, how many years do you think it'll take to bury the fan myth of "Putting a ride in a show building"?...Ten? Twenty? Our conceivable lifetime? )

-put an Alice ride in Cosmic Ray's

Nobody....TOUCHES...Cosmic Ray's.

-add an actual circus show hosted by Mickey and friends to Storybook Circus

(...Ho ho, you might want to ask Walt about the last time HE tried that at Disneyland!)

 

[jdmdisney99]

So where are all the attractions for teens and older?

Sleeping Beaut would be a roller coaster (think dark kingdom w/ Maleficent's castle up above).

 

[jdmdisney99]

(...Ho ho, you might want to ask Walt about the last time HE tried that at Disneyland!)

If you are referring to this...

Walt Disney tried a circus in Disneyland in December, 1955, six months after he opened his park. He went to great expense decorating the area and hired the best performers he could find, then got the Mousketeers to do commercials for it and called it the Mickey Mouse Club Circus. Every day there was a circus parade up Main Street USA to the circus grounds behind Fantasyland. It was a massive failure and Walt vowed never to try a circus inside Disneyland again. He was quoted repeatedly that circuses exist in the real world, and people don't come to Disneyland to see stuff they can see in the real world.

“We went out on a limb and put in a circus for Christmas season. Although it was a great circus ... It is something that can be seen without coming to Disneyland. We need things that are unique -- things that are ‘Disneylandish'" - Walt Disney, January 25th, 1956

I think TDO should have listened to Walt and gone with the Pixie Hollow or Wonderland concepts to pair with the 7DMT.

That was a REAL circus. I'm saying an extravaganza of mischief and mayhem with Disney characters having their own acts. For example...
As Donald attempts to charm some snakes, his nephews creep in and take the snakes out of the baskets and climb in themselves. Donald gets frustrated and...
Something like that. :shrug:

 

[steamboatjosh]

I hope that they really are looking at those designs for The Snow Queen ride that Marc Davis made for inspiration with the Frozen ride. Those were absolutely gorgeous. It seems like they put that in there for a reason.