Just Brainstorming-Adding Disney Quest Games To Tomorrowland?

[Blackie Pueblo]

I asked this in another forum but I was thinking with the demise of Disney Quest next year why can't they move some of the games to Tomorrowland? Especially the VR games! With the failure of the Tomorrowland movie not going to add anything new to the area anytime soon wouldn't the Disneyquest attractions work good in the parks? I don't know where you'd put them but imagine the POTC game near the ride, i know thats not tomorrowland, or replacing Stitch's Great escape with the Buzz Bumpercars, but change it to Stitches space battle or something?

Granted maybe the lines would be long though.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Hmmm. Not sure. Would love to see them go somewhere (after getting updated), but was thinking Innoventions in Epcot.

 

[Bairstow]

I could see Fun Spot buying the Buzzpercars.

 

[Jon81uk]

The capacity of the DQ games would be way to low to cope in the MK.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Maybe its a draw for some...... But for me park time is valuable, with all Disney has to offer I'm not inclined to stand around playing DQ games. I could never understand why the arcade outside of SM was so filled with guests playing games. When DS wanted to stop and play the arcade games, I discouraged it. You can play video & computer games at home... Youre in Disney, do the Disney things that are waiting for you. Now its another thing if we're at the resort and he was looking to do something in the evening after the park day was over.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Hmmm. Not sure. Would love to see them go somewhere (after getting updated), but was thinking Innoventions in Epcot.

Yeaahhh...Just bringing it back to Square one....Not a good idea....

 

[BaconPancakes]

Those "games" are so dated that it would be embarrassing to put them in a place called "Tomorrowland".

 

[Bairstow]

Maybe its a draw for some...... But for me park time is valuable, with all Disney has to offer I'm not inclined to stand around playing DQ games. I could never understand why the arcade outside of SM was so filled with guests playing games. When DS wanted to stop and play the arcade games, I discouraged it. You can play video & computer games at home... Youre in Disney, do the Disney things that are waiting for you. Now its another thing if we're at the resort and he was looking to do something in the evening after the park day was over.

To give some perspective, back in the day I was an arcade-loving kid and spent a good bit of time checking out the Main Street arcade. To someone who likes arcade games, the machines aren't interchangeable, and the chance to see a cabinet you've never seen before and could probably never see back home is a pretty exciting opportunity. The one on Main Street indeed had a lot of really neat cabinets in the late '90s, including some electromechanical games from the '60s and '70s that I've never seen anywhere else.

I guess it was like how I never understood why my father was so interested in the locomotives that pull the Magic Kingdom trains around; to my thinking, we had plenty of trains back home that he could see.

These days, unfortunately, whoever selects arcade machines for Disney's several dozen arcades always seems to pick the same 20-30 machines for every single arcade, to the point that most of the arcades on property really are interchangeable. What kills me is when you see cabinet-sized versions of dumb cellphone games like Fruit Ninja.

Those "games" are so dated that it would be embarrassing to put them in a place called "Tomorrowland".

Yep. I think a lot of the novelty of DisneyQuest's arcade games wore off even after when Nintendo came out with the Wii, and tactile-input gaming, on a scale far beyond what Disney had been able to do, could be in every kid's home. Nowadays I can get a better 3D "flying carpet" simulation using my smartphone and a $15 set of Google Cardboard goggles.

I wonder who's going to buy up Disney's CyberSpace Mountain machines.
With a little retrofitting for modern screens and control software, someone could do something pretty fancy with that hardware.

 

[BaconPancakes]

CyberSpace Mountain was the ONLY good thing Disney Quest had going for it. I went there once and vowed to never return. I definitely won't be missing it once it is gone.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I think the best game that worked is Mighty Ducks Pinball Slam I hope they at least keep that and retheme it to Basketball slam pinball game for the NBA restaurant..I will miss hearing "All's fair. In this war of the bruises!"

 

[tonganprince]

They can be put in dinoland, just to keep up with theming.

 

[thomas998]

The capacity of the DQ games would be way to low to cope in the MK.

That would be my guess... I remember having to wait a pretty long time when Disney Quest was near capacity... I can only imagine if attractions were plopped down in MK that those times would make Mine Train look short... well assuming people would actually be willing to stand in line for 3 hours to play a video game.

Come to think of it I don't really see anyone standing in line for a DQ game if the line is more than 15 minutes when the other options for your time is to get a real attraction... We only used it when we were there and it was a big thunderstorm that made the other parks pointless.