Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout announced for Disney California Adventure

[Curious Constance]

OK, lest I be deemed as someone who is always negative about this, I will admit that it glistens in the sunlight very nicely.

I still worry that seeing it up close, there's just not enough "stuff" added to the surface. I'm all for a power plant/fortress, as long as they do it right.

It's very glisteny and starting to look really cool. I think it'll be an improvement over the large, bland, beige corkboard that was there before.

 

[Phroobar]

Wait a minute. Are we now all switching our opinion of how this looks? Are we at that point were we start to praise this effort? Isn't that what we do around here? We start off hating the idea and the concept model. We watch it being built while making jokes. When it finally gets displayed we love it but wonder what is like inside. We wait in huge lines and post glowing reviews because its Disney! "Of its so much better than before! They should do this to DHS's version!"

 

[drizgirl]

Wait a minute. Are we now all switching our opinion of how this looks? Are we at that point were we start to praise this effort? Isn't that what we do around here? We start off hating the idea and the concept model. We watch it being built while making jokes. When it finally gets displayed we love it but wonder what is like inside. We wait in huge lines and post glowing reviews because its Disney! "Of its so much better than before! They should do this to DHS's version!"

That's certainly what it feels like to me.

I might end up being the last man standing.

 

[Professortango1]

Wait a minute. Are we now all switching our opinion of how this looks? Are we at that point were we start to praise this effort? Isn't that what we do around here? We start off hating the idea and the concept model. We watch it being built while making jokes. When it finally gets displayed we love it but wonder what is like inside. We wait in huge lines and post glowing reviews because its Disney! "Of its so much better than before! They should do this to DHS's version!"

I've always said they should do this to the DHS version. It makes so much more sense there.

 

[sedati]

I've always said they should do this to the DHS version. It makes so much more sense there.

How so?

 

[Disney Analyst]

I've honestly never minded how it would look... I've only ever minded the fact they were not building a dedicated, wonderful GOTG attraction, instead of taking away an already established/loved attraction.

 

[Practical Pig]

Wait a minute. Are we now all switching our opinion of how this looks? Are we at that point were we start to praise this effort? Isn't that what we do around here? We start off hating the idea and the concept model. We watch it being built while making jokes. When it finally gets displayed we love it but wonder what is like inside. We wait in huge lines and post glowing reviews because its Disney! "Of its so much better than before! They should do this to DHS's version!"

I haven't changed my opinion at all about how certain views of the front facade clash drastically with Buena Vista Street. I have looked for compensatory visual merit where I can, and found a little in the outside-the-park views, where it hardly matters. But even there, the weirdness stuck on the top clashes with the rest of that view.

 

[cheezbat]

I still hate the look. It's going to be out of place.

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

It can be the best looking building on the entire planet...but its still a short-sighted rush job removing a great attraction in favor of pushing more merch and promoting synergy synergy synergy.

 

[britain]

It can be the best looking building on the entire planet...but its still a short-sighted rush job removing a great attraction in favor of pushing more merch and promoting synergy synergy synergy.

Yeah but if it is the best looking building on the entire planet, I don't know if I mind merch & synergy.

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

Yeah but if it is the best looking building on the entire planet, I don't know if I mind merch & synergy.

Yeah, but people don't go on rides because they have pretty exteriors. My bigger problems though are just that when you think Guardians of the Galaxy...NOTHING screams out that it should be a drop ride. They'd honestly have been better off re-skinning Space Mountain (sacrilege I know, but it seems a more fitting base). If this does end up at DHS, they'd be much smarter to take on RnRC than the DHS tower.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Yeah, but people don't go on rides because they have pretty exteriors. My bigger problems though are just that when you think Guardians of the Galaxy...NOTHING screams out that it should be a drop ride. They'd honestly have been better off re-skinning Space Mountain (sacrilege I know, but it seems a more fitting base). If this does end up at DHS, they'd be much smarter to take on RnRC than the DHS tower.

I do agree, the ride profile itself makes no sense with the IP... An elevator falling in a haunted hotel? Makes total sense.

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

I do agree, the ride profile itself makes no sense with the IP... An elevator falling in a haunted hotel? Makes total sense.

TOT ride profile was brilliant. GOTG on the other hand...seems more like a textbook "square peg into round hole" scenario.

 

[sedati]

TOT ride profile was brilliant. GOTG on the other hand...seems more like a textbook "square peg into round hole" scenario.

Unless you take a look at the scene in the first movie where they escape (or break out) of the prison. Rocket commandeers a watchtower and sends it up and violently down. My assumption is in this ride, we are not in elevators, but are being loaded into the collection cases that are being moved into storage. Rocket takes over and again... chaos ensues.

What exactly was going on in Tower of Terror? Were ghosts controlling the elevator? What did lightning have to do with the twilight zone? Was there a reason those five were sent into the fifth dimension, or was it random happenstance (which is not a very Twilight Zone thing to do.) Why did they take us along? I get why the elevator dropped, but why did it go back up? Why did it continue to furiously shake us up and down (again, if this were true to the show there would be some clever message about society or humanity etc.) Why did it take our picture? Why does the elevator eventually stop? Most stories have a set-up, conflict and conclusion. This just ends. What did we learn about the fate of the five guests? About the fifth dimension? About ourselves? Why in an abandoned hotel is the gift shop still open and fully stocked?

By the way, I love- love Tower of Terror, but as with Epcot Center, these forums seem to force me to look at my beloved attractions with far more scrutiny and I'm afraid they keep falling short of what I remember them to be.

 

[MisterPenguin]

What exactly was going on in Tower of Terror? Were ghosts controlling the elevator? What did lightning have to do with the twilight zone? Was there a reason those five were sent into the fifth dimension, or was it random happenstance (which is not a very Twilight Zone thing to do.) Why did they take us along? I get why the elevator dropped, but why did it go back up? Why did it continue to furiously shake us up and down (again, if this were true to the show there would be some clever message about society or humanity etc.) Why did it take our picture? Why does the elevator eventually stop? Most stories have a set-up, conflict and conclusion. This just ends. What did we learn about the fate of the five guests? About the fifth dimension? About ourselves? Why in an abandoned hotel is the gift shop still open and fully stocked?

Why does an elevator open up to the outside? There's no door to the outside on elevators. And if it's just opening up randomly around the building, why doesn't it open up into a bedroom since they're so plentiful in a hotel?

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

Unless you take a look at the scene in the first movie where they escape (or break out) of the prison. Rocket commandeers a watchtower and sends it up and violently down. My assumption is in this ride, we are not in elevators, but are being loaded into the collection cases that are being moved into storage. Rocket takes over and again... chaos ensues.

What exactly was going on in Tower of Terror? Were ghosts controlling the elevator? What did lightning have to do with the twilight zone? Was there a reason those five were sent into the fifth dimension, or was it random happenstance (which is not a very Twilight Zone thing to do.) Why did they take us along? I get why the elevator dropped, but why did it go back up? Why did it continue to furiously shake us up and down (again, if this were true to the show there would be some clever message about society or humanity etc.) Why did it take our picture? Why does the elevator eventually stop? Most stories have a set-up, conflict and conclusion. This just ends. What did we learn about the fate of the five guests? About the fifth dimension? About ourselves? Why in an abandoned hotel is the gift shop still open and fully stocked?

By the way, I love- love Tower of Terror, but as with Epcot Center, these forums seem to force me to look at my beloved attractions with far more scrutiny and I'm afraid they keep falling short of what I remember them to be.

Sorry you feel that way (especially about Epcot Center).

I propose this question: If they were to build a GOTG ride from scratch, would it resemble ANYTHING close to TOT? My guess is no.

As for what the TOT was all about...I honestly think you're reading too much into it. Nothing in the Twilight Zone was ever really explained to satisfy someone looking for "closure". The ride (to me at least) was you setting foot into a haunted/bewitched hotel frozen in time (minus the gift shop of course). You learn about what happened when lightning struck the place back in the 30's (a freak accident??) and you're more or less exploring it yourself in the present. Then you enter the elevator and, uh-oh...ITS HAPPENING AGAIN! There's no rhyme or reason WHY these things occur...but regardless, its happening, and you either have fun on it or you don't.

Why does it take your picture??? come on...that's the stretchiest stretch ever. Why does Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, and Buzz Lightyear take your picture???

 

[Earl Sweatpants]

Why does an elevator open up to the outside? There's no door to the outside on elevators. And if it's just opening up randomly around the building, why doesn't it open up into a bedroom since they're so plentiful in a hotel?

Because that part of the hotel got zapped by lightning and destroyed.

 

[Professortango1]

How so?

The design of the attraction opens it up to more physical scenes (5th Dimension Room, bottom of drop shaft, unload area) whereas the DCA version doesn't have those open areas. Mission Breakout also fits the DHS park much better than DCA. DHS will soon have a land for Star Wars, a land for Toy Story, and a Land for Muppets. Having a Superhero themed land with Guardians fits a lot more in the park flow than having such an attraction in a park devoted to Nostalgic California.

 

[mickEblu]

Yeah, but people don't go on rides because they have pretty exteriors. My bigger problems though are just that when you think Guardians of the Galaxy...NOTHING screams out that it should be a drop ride. They'd honestly have been better off re-skinning Space Mountain (sacrilege I know, but it seems a more fitting base). If this does end up at DHS, they'd be much smarter to take on RnRC than the DHS tower.

Or Star Tours. That would of been my vote for so many reasons.

 

[mickEblu]

Unless you take a look at the scene in the first movie where they escape (or break out) of the prison. Rocket commandeers a watchtower and sends it up and violently down. My assumption is in this ride, we are not in elevators, but are being loaded into the collection cases that are being moved into storage. Rocket takes over and again... chaos ensues.

What exactly was going on in Tower of Terror? Were ghosts controlling the elevator? What did lightning have to do with the twilight zone? Was there a reason those five were sent into the fifth dimension, or was it random happenstance (which is not a very Twilight Zone thing to do.) Why did they take us along? I get why the elevator dropped, but why did it go back up? Why did it continue to furiously shake us up and down (again, if this were true to the show there would be some clever message about society or humanity etc.) Why did it take our picture? Why does the elevator eventually stop? Most stories have a set-up, conflict and conclusion. This just ends. What did we learn about the fate of the five guests? About the fifth dimension? About ourselves? Why in an abandoned hotel is the gift shop still open and fully stocked?

By the way, I love- love Tower of Terror, but as with Epcot Center, these forums seem to force me to look at my beloved attractions with far more scrutiny and I'm afraid they keep falling short of what I remember them to be.

Lol oh cmon. We could do this with every attraction? Why are we sitting in hollowed out logs on Splash Mountain? Why is a CM with a Disneyland name tag helping me into the log? Lol. But seriously, the point is that the Tower was a purpose built structure designed for a specific concept. GOTG:MB Is not. It was designed to meet synergy goals and sell more Marvel merch. Which is fine but create something new, don't cheap out and re skin a fan favorite.