Marvel coming to WDW?!?!

[Phicinfan]

You can speculate all you want, which is fine, but you were disagreeing with my statement "There is NO indication that Star Tours will be moved to Star Wars Land", which is correct, there is currently nothing that indicates it's moving.

It's sort of like the Iron Man going into the DL ST rumor. Lots of speculation about it because in some ways it makes sense, but there is no evidence that it's actually being considered.

Lets add, the fact all Disney has done is cost cut on these projects, and why would you move ST into SWL or SWE as it is currently called, when you will be adding the Falcon ride anyways? Much better to retheme it to add even more new attractions to the rest of the park.

 

[Bill Cipher]

Lets add, the fact all Disney has done is cost cut on these projects, and why would you move ST into SWL or SWE as it is currently called, when you will be adding the Falcon ride anyways? Much better to retheme it to add even more new attractions to the rest of the park.

My suggestion was that a new ST was built in SWL/SWE and that the old building would be rethemed, possibly to Guardians. As for the Falcon ride, I think it will be more similar to Pirates of the Carribean: Battle for Bucaneer Gold at Disney Quest than Star Tours.

 

[danlb_2000]

You've got the definitions of indication and evidence wrong. Logic is indicating and acting as evidence that ST will be moved. It may not be the most sound evidence, and it definitley isn't as sound as an insider confirming, but it is evidence nonetheless.

Phrase it how ever you like, there is no reason to believe it's being moved. I really don't want to get into an argument about this, I am just trying to prevent speculation from growing legs and becoming rumor.

 

[danlb_2000]

My suggestion was that a new ST was built in SWL/SWE and that the old building would be rethemed, possibly to Guardians. As for the Falcon ride, I think it will be more similar to Pirates of the Carribean: Battle for Bucaneer Gold at Disney Quest than Star Tours.

If they were going to do this I think it would have been part of the original announcement. I also think if they wanted ST to be part of SWL they would either find a way to connect it around Muppets, or simply remove Muppets.

 

[Kate F]

It isn't SSE either (thank god!)... I can't really say much more. I will say that I am of the opinion that if I had to pick between GotG going into ToT, and the attraction that I have heard it is going into, I would pick the one that I have heard it is going into, although I wouldn't be happy with either choice.

Do you know if there's going to be an announcement anytime soon?

 

[aaronml]

Do you know if there's going to be an announcement anytime soon?

I wouldn't expect anything too soon. Most likely it wouldn't be announced until the 2017 D23 Expo if I had to guess.

 

[Cesar R M]

no rumors on where things going with GOTG?

 

[marni1971]

no rumors on where things going with GOTG?

Plans are firming up.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

I hope that it's placed in the appropriately themed park.

 

[asianway]

Plans are firming up.

If what I heard is true, my reaction is halfway between "meh" and "could be worse"

 

[Phineas]

Trying to wrap my head around this possibly coming to Epcot.....could this be something reminiscent of Captain EO and moving into the Magic Eye theatre? Space traveling crime fighters to the sounds of the 70's/80's?

You know, I was having trouble wrapping my head around them coming to Epcot in any cohesive way until you said this. That's really the only way I can see them logically fitting in-with a spiritual successor to Captain EO.

 

[Chef Kronk]

Plans are firming up.

Plans aren't for GotG at WDW's ToT, correct?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Plans aren't for GotG at WDW's ToT, correct?

Plans have progressed pretty far along a different path, thankfully. Although there are still discussions of removing The Twilight Zone and just having the Tower of Terror. Plot would largely stay the same though. Just no Rod. Could be as simple as a new preshow and voiceover--the change could happen overnight.

 

[marni1971]

Plans aren't for GotG at WDW's ToT, correct?

As far as I know, no. Thankfully.

 

[MichWolv]

It isn't SSE either (thank god!)... I can't really say much more. I will say that I am of the opinion that if I had to pick between GotG going into ToT, and the attraction that I have heard it is going into, I would pick the one that I have heard it is going into, although I wouldn't be happy with either choice.

I'm going with Great Movie Ride as my guess.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Fine with me. Everyone just calls it tower of terror now anyways.
Could happen overnight- likely will take 4 months

Sad, but true. But that should be enough time to replace the rugs, right?

 

[JustInTime]

Plans have progressed pretty far along a different path, thankfully. Although there are still discussions of removing The Twilight Zone and just having the Tower of Terror. Plot would largely stay the same though. Just no Rod. Could be as simple as a new preshow and voiceover--the change could happen overnight.

Different path? Is it still potentially Rockin' Roller Coaster? I heard that one a while ago but dismissed it because of the TOT rumors.

 

[dizneycrazy09]

As far as I know, no. Thankfully.

Maybe they actually listened to the fans on this one...? I know I made my absolute disdain for the idea quite clear in my numerous emails and phone calls.

 

[Mike S]

Plans have progressed pretty far along a different path, thankfully. Although there are still discussions of removing The Twilight Zone and just having the Tower of Terror. Plot would largely stay the same though. Just no Rod. Could be as simple as a new preshow and voiceover--the change could happen overnight.

This was the whole reason why I started watching The Twilight Zone...

 

[aaronml]

Maybe they actually listened to the fans on this one...? I know I made my absolute disdain for the idea quite clear in my numerous emails and phone calls.

I hate to break it to you, but TDO/TDA doesn't at all care about nostalgic fans' (such as myself) opinions. The story told by the numbers is that upset nostalgic fans are the "vocal minority" and that despite people saying that they'll "cancel their AP", they rarely do. Look at what happened with Maelstrom and FEA... that just gave TDO/TDA management all the more reason to ignore angry nostalgic fans when changing a classic attraction.

EDIT: Just to clarify, the GotG ToT in DHS is absolute dead, at least currently. I'm just saying that their leaving the ToT alone has very little to do with us nostalgic fans.