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If Ellen was Re-Filmed
- Thread starter WondersOfLife
- Start date
I'm telling you guys... The beginning of the new PIXAR dino movie trailer resembles the first dino scene very similarly!!
JohnD
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So Ellen's Energy Adventure opened in Epcot in 1996 and has remained unchanged ever since. (When I mean unchanged, I don't mean lost effects and animatronics.. I mean the entire concept of the attraction) That's just about basically 20 years. The attraction can take in up to about 1,000 park guests. Even today, with only about two and a half "boats" filled per ride, that's still a few hundred people... And that is a few hundred people sitting on a 45 minute screen-based ride that is nearly 20 years old.
Even if the dino-scenes were up to par and the film was in HD in its current state, it would STILL be dated. Much of the information given throughout the attraction isn't even relevant anymore. Sets and props feel dated such as the phone Ellen pulls out in the pre-show or the overall un-updated Jeapordy gameshow set.
Now to the main point of this thread... If EEA was completely re-filmed, but the concept was still the same such as the storyline, the characters, the game show, and the script (The parts that wouldn't need updating), would the attraction still work? If it wouldn't work, why not?
Would the current version of Ellen's talk show not have as much pull?
Is Jeapordy a game show that's just not popular anymore?
Would another gameshow work, say, Family Feud featuring Steve Harvey?
Is Bill Nye really ready to retire completely from Epcot's park presence?
When I say re-film.. I mean upgrading sections of the script and scenes that are no longer accurate.. Updating dated props and sets.. Ect.
I realize that most would just see a complete overhaul of the attraction. But would the attraction still work if it was just re-filmed and upgraded? Explain your reasoning
Ellen is more dated than the dinosaurs. "No videoTAPING". Really? Also, it's one glorified 45 minute episode of Jeopardy stuck in a 1990s time warp. It needs some serious work.
If they just update it, it's still the same ride with different movie sequences in the same rooms with dinosaurs in-between. Hate to say it, but the ride vehicles and everything are too out-dated. Time to start over with something fresh.
ShoalFox
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- Yes
The traveling theatre CAN still work. Just like @marni1971 said, the building needs a show that uses it correctly and to the fullest extent.
Communicore
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That cordless phone and Trebek date this thing more than the Exxon Valdez and ancient energy sources used in the original UoE lol
Chef Mickey
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Exactly...people can a lot more easily date things in popular culture versus potentially outdated facts and events about energy. I bet more people under 30 could identify Kim Kardashian than they could the Vice President of the US.
wdwtopten
Well-Known Member
The problem with this attraction is that you basically watch a movie, ride in a boat, and then watch another movie in a boat. And you spend ~40 minutes doing so.
There needs to be something to make the whole experience *special*. Something interactive, something fun. The "dark-ride" part of the attraction is pretty lame, by today's standards. Let's make it something closer in experience to Small World, or Pirates. In fact, Pirates could be a good template for it.
I think something like this would be cool:
- Ditch the dinosaur plot line. In fact, come up with a totally different story/plot.
- Start the attraction with an intro film.
- Then load in to the boats and enter a very immersive dark-ride. This should be longer than it is now, twice as long, perhaps.
- End the attraction with a short video wrapping everything up.
- The total ride time would be something like 15 minutes. (5 minute video intro, 13 minute ride, 2 minute video wrap-up).
Communicore
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I'd like to have it re-themed to a boat!
When I was little, I always thought that the cars were actually boats when we went into the dino scene... It always seemed like you're floating along a river. At least, that's what I thought.
Berret
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
In my opinion, I like the ride experience as it is. I love Jeopardy, enjoy the Ellen jokes even though I've heard them dozens and dozens of times of ride throughs, and a good message. KNRG news time: BONG! I know lots of people are saying the ride should be completely overhauled, and perhaps it should be. However, one of the things I enjoy most about it is to be able to sit down for 45 minutes and just relax with my family and experience the ride. I would not at all be on board with changing it away from that. I can be as impatient as anyone, especially at Disney, wanting to do everything I can, but something about that ride has always been..a breather ride for me, I guess you could say. That's my opinion on it.
wdwtopten
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When I was little, I always thought that the cars were actually boats when we went into the dino scene... It always seemed like you're floating along a river. At least, that's what I thought.
Yeah, I've ridden the ride many times.....and up until right now I always thought they were boats. :-/
That's my opinion as well, but wishing just for an upgrade to certain small outdated props, lines, film quality and animatronics. Just a big refurbishment of the current version would make me so happy.
Communicore
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If this was changed, hopefully it does not use real people, but CGI animation lol
FettFan
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I'm telling you guys... The beginning of the new PIXAR dino movie trailer resembles the first dino scene very similarly!!
That probably has little to do with Epcot, as the Primeval World Diorama was originally created by Walt for Ford's Magic Skyway at the 1964 World's Fair.
It was then moved to Disneyland where it remains to this day.
Epcot's diorama is practically a clone, many of the dinosaurs are the same...except while Epcot has the Elasmosaurus, Primeval World has a family of Triceratops.
Communicore
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I'd rather have a Primeval World, than Primeval Whirl lol
That probably has little to do with Epcot, as the Primeval World Diorama was originally created by Walt for Ford's Magic Skyway at the 1964 World's Fair.
It was then moved to Disneyland where it remains to this day.
Epcot's diorama is practically a clone, many of the dinosaurs are the same...except while Epcot has the Elasmosaurus, Primeval World has a family of Triceratops.
I know all of that. Not really exactly was I was implying, though. That scene's design in the PIXAR movie could have been designed based on the inspiration of the diorama scene.
AJScooch
Member
I think a great way to refurb this would be to swap out Ellen and Alex with Phineas and Ferb. You could incorporate many of the ideas that the boys did in the show and it would fit very well with the theme of energy. Plus, it would give some kids hosts that they would know as well.
JordanNite
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IGER.