Marvel coming to WDW?!?!

WDWResort

WDWResort

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WDW1974 said:
Yes. Can you believe it!??!? The Weatherman flexed his giant ... um ... muscles and UNI quivered and he traded Brent Musburger to NBC-UNI for the rights to all the Marvel characters. All of the twits were so right. All bow down to BOB!!!


OK, not really, but the thread subject still may well be true, my friends (and assorted crazies who can't quit me.)

Did that get your attention? Good. That is my reason for being, after all. At least that's what I hear frauds, addicts and con men say.

While Bob Iger lamented at the recent shareholders meeting in Chicago that TWDC would likely never be able to use its stable of Marvel characters (or the ones everyone knows and cares about) at its ATM in the swamps, there is one major exception that every fanboi sleeping in his Hulk boxers knows about.

Yup. I am talking about the characters from the second best Marvel film -- behind Deadpool, which doesn't count because it's not controlled by The Weatherman and not part of something called The Marvel Cinematic Universe -- namely The Guardians of the Galaxy.

Well, if current plans (and they are subject to change, but accurate as of this posting and that is all I can ever offer) follow through, sometime in either 2017 or 2018 you will get to experience a true GotG E-Ticket at The Corpse of The Disney-MGM Studios. Fast construction timeline you say. Or the Spirit is smoking on some bad Kissimmee weed you say?

Nope. Welcome to The Guardians of the Galaxy Tower of Terror. Yes. Really. Yes, Disney wants to destroy (or make over depending on how you look at it) one of its high points of creative product in the last 25 years to tie it to a BRAND that it can't even use to advertise and promote, in Florida that is.

You see, like almost everything these days, the genesis of this project is in Anaheim where ToT isn't an anchor of a park (DCA), just part of its menu of offerings. A park that can take full advantage of The Weatherman's acquisition spree (the only thing that marks his tenure as head of the world's largest entertainment company) and is planning a major Marvel addition right next door to an old hotel on Hollywood's dark side. WDI has pushed this concept heavily and TDA wants to do it badly.

Having to license The Twilight Zone IP from CBS, IP that most people not born prior to 1980 have little if any knowledge of -- just makes it even more attractive.

Let's forget that this is one of the best attractions Disney has ever built. We do have toon characters in Small World and Jack Sparrow soon to be in every Pirates attraction worldwide, so shilling IP by changing classic attractions isn't something Disney is afraid to do.

They want to market it as DL's 'BIG, NEW THING' for 2017 and the first of many new major Marvel attractions in DCA (and other parks not located in the Florida swamps) before The Star Wars Experience (oops, did I name drop prematurely? Happens with age!) debuts in DL in 12/18 . If they have their way, the current Anaheim ToT will close around the first oft the year and reopen before summer with an entirely new GotG based show, still (somehow I am told) centered on a haunted hotel from the 1930s. How? Who knows? Stitch and Buzz Lightyear belong in Tomorrowland, right?

The hitch right now is, naturally, WDW. They are interested in this, but they see it more as a temporary overlay to draw people into their moribund Studios park (the one they actively engage in deceptive advertising in because telling people that the real Star Wars stuff won't arrive before 2020-21 probably wouldn't be good for business). They (again naturally) are looking to cut the budget and the timeline because shutting the ToT next January might just finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back (hell, even 1-2 lifestylers might tell people to not visit for more than half a day out of their 11 day on property MAGICal $11,000 WDW vacations ). At DCA, this will be the gateway to Marvel BRAND Land and has to look and act the part. TDO is whining about money and downtime (they will soon count restrooms and ODV carts and Marsha the special needs CM at The ABC Commissary that thinks she does a great Daisy Duck impression as attractions).

But right now it looks like this has the momentum needed to happen on BOTH coasts provided TDO is willing to shoulder the costs and realize this will be a permanent change, not a summer marketing deal.

And, no, this means nothing at all regarding other Marvel IP ... and, no, I don't think UNI cares one way or the other.
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I hope someone started this rumor to find out who's been leaking info. This is just too absurd to even believe! ToT rethemed to GotG?? Cmon.
 
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asianway

asianway

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Tahu said:
Trying to remember if Doctor Strange is anywhere in Marvel Superhero Island. Because swapping out Rod Serling for Benedict Cumberbatch is actually believable and a story about a dimension hopping wizard guy would be way more simple and low effort to put in there versus a space show.

Like imagine a projection mapping crazy version of the Fifth Dimension hallway like some kinda modern CG version of this.
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Strange has been an Avenger for years, he's off limits
 
wm49rs

wm49rs

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chris chris said:
While I hate the idea of losing ToT, it makes absolute sense to trash it if a Marvel land were to take its place. Are guests going to come for one ride thats been around for ever, or come for a whole new well themed land? I don't see disney losing money from trashing Mr. Toad, or Maelstrom.

ToT won't fit in with the parks future theme of acquired companies, unless theres an Old Hollywood land (but really what else would go there? The street performers?)
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You mean like the theming along Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards? No idea where the idea of "Old Hollywood" might have come from....
 
Atomicmickey

Atomicmickey

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This has destroyed my day. And it's early.

Seriously, the only two things I have seen here that make
even a whit of sense are:

1) Drag this disease out into the light so that it can be seen and killed.
2) Someone started this "rumor" to find who's leaking info.

I would have said the same for Maelstrom/Frozen, of course. That's the scary part.

I do think it could be more trouble than it's worth to even enhance/overlay the exterior
of the huge building, and that gives me hope.
 
Smiddimizer

Smiddimizer

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chris chris said:
While I hate the idea of losing ToT, it makes absolute sense to trash it if a Marvel land were to take its place. Are guests going to come for one ride thats been around for ever, or come for a whole new well themed land? I don't see disney losing money from trashing Mr. Toad, or Maelstrom.

ToT won't fit in with the parks future theme of acquired companies, unless theres an Old Hollywood land (but really what else would go there? The street performers?)
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Is that a theme? Acquired companies?

"Welcome to Disney's IP Repository"
 
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doctornick

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Tahu said:
Trying to remember if Doctor Strange is anywhere in Marvel Superhero Island. Because swapping out Rod Serling for Benedict Cumberbatch is actually believable and a story about a dimension hopping wizard guy would be way more simple and low effort to put in there versus a space show.
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Dr. Strange is one of those characters that is in a gray area IMHO. He's not really directly linked to any of the used characters at Uni, but there are some tenuous connections. It would have to be up to the lawyers to figure it out.
 
hopemax

hopemax

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marni1971 said:
Nothing more to add than what's been said. It could happen.

Lunatics are running the asylum.

Sad. Sad. Sad.
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I just want to be clear, yes or no question, not asking for anymore details, had you heard about this prior to Spirit's post? Do you guys have different sources?

Just because this is an awfully big pill to swallow, especially if you haven't already "taken the red pill," regarding Disney's management. Coping mechanisms kick in, and people start looking for reasons not to believe. Like, it's just "blue sky" or a game of telephone and a GotG ride is replacing something else, or Spirit is just stirring the pot, or it's a way to find a leak.

Independent confirmation should make it harder for people to deny. This goes for anyone with inside sources have you heard about this yes/no?
 
FigmentForver96

FigmentForver96

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WDWResort said:
Because it makes no sense. A drop ride themed to GotG? Think about that. Nothing about it makes sense. I'll eat my words when it (& if) happens. For now, I'm not buying it.
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When did things that Disney did make sense? I know a lot of people, myself included, put stock in what Spirit says but he hardly has been wrong. I doubt he came here just to be funny and even if we don't like to accept it, obviously someone in Disney thinks this is a good possibility. There have been other insiders who have also come forward and said its ready to go and WILL happen in Anaheim.

Nobody is more angry about the thought of this then me. It is one of the stupidest things they've even considered doing in years.
 
WDWResort

WDWResort

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FigmentForver96 said:
When did things that Disney did make sense? I know a lot of people, myself included, put stock in what Spirit says but he hardly has been wrong. I doubt he came here just to be funny and even if we don't like to accept it, obviously someone in Disney thinks this is a good possibility. There have been other insiders who have also come forward and said its ready to go and WILL happen in Anaheim.

Nobody is more angry about the thought of this then me. It is one of the stupidest things they've even considered doing in years.
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You know, you're not the first one who's told me today they've backtracked their statement because of who said it. Now you're really beginning to get me worried. Its kinda really hard to believe.
 
flyerjab

flyerjab

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What gets me is how Spirit talked about the Disney execs that would try to tout this as a new E-Ticket. It wouldn't be new unless they absolutely gut and start from scratch. It would be a reskin - a big one - but a reskin nonetheless.

It's the equivalent of taking your car, getting it painted, and trying to act like you have a new car. It is not a new car.

Honestly, I like a lot of what WDW has to offer. But this would not make much sense to me. The entire look of this part of DHS as you stare down Sunset Blvd. is almost perfection as far as theme parks go. I love how that tower just frowns down at you, daring you to step inside. And the palm trees that line the street...having a reskin of ToT sitting there would simply not look right. An almost perfect aesthetic would be destroyed.
 
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