Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway - Disneyland

Rich T

Well-Known Member
And two there is no telling if the DLR version will have any of these “issues”.
Yes. That’s why I said, “It can be fixed.” I love what they’ve done here. But from watching about 2 dozen ride-throughs (and pretty much spoiling the ride for myself) it looks pretty clear that the last car to leave the dance studio completely misses the animated set-up/warning for the factory. That needs to be fixed, whether it means providing more animation or simply re-pacing the animation that’s already there.
 

JD2000

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In a sorta bad way. The last car into the room is missing entire animated story points that set up what follows, especially in the volcano room and factory entry. This can be fixed, I’m sure. The story should make sense to all riders.
It is weird. There are even animations you miss by sitting in the front two cars.
 

Phroobar

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I’ve now watched a bunch of videos, and the strangest parts are the queue shots; it’s so weird to watch a vlog of vloggers vlogging other vlogging vloggers. Dozens at once!!!! 😃
They keep stealing from the original Disney version. It's pathetic.
 

No Name

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Runaway Railway implies something more thrilling than an absurdly slow-moving ride with screens. It doesn't seem to move any faster than The Great Movie Ride. Does it just reuse the same track or what, I can't tell.

Well neither had a track. But the GMR uses AGVs whereas MMRR uses LPS. Anyway they did change the layout quite a bit though. I agree it’s kind of slow.
 

Magic Feather

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In a sorta bad way. The last car into the room is missing entire animated story points that set up what follows, especially in the volcano room and factory entry. This can be fixed, I’m sure. The story should make sense to all riders.
It is weird. There are even animations you miss by sitting in the front two cars.
While this is an unfortunate issue, the ride system scrambles the order frequently enough to where one car isn't alway the one missing it. In fact, you pull into unload in a scrambled order (except I think the last train car stays as the last car). For instance, the second car is first out of carnival, and remains in the lead until the dance studio, where it goes to last place, then back into first after the factory.
 

DisneyLostBoy03

Active Member
A very clever effect in the ride has the machinery become trees at the end.

I'm liking what I've seen on this ride and might have to make a trip down Florida way soon.
Same here. I am thinking of planning my first Disney World trip for the future because of this attraction. I don't think I can wait 2 years for the Disneyland version to open, if it stays on track when it comes to its construction.
 

Rich T

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While this is an unfortunate issue, the ride system scrambles the order frequently enough to where one car isn't alway the one missing it. In fact, you pull into unload in a scrambled order (except I think the last train car stays as the last car). For instance, the second car is first out of carnival, and remains in the lead until the dance studio, where it goes to last place, then back into first after the factory.
The car that starts the ride in second position seems to get the worst overall experience. I’ve no problem with each car having different views snd seeing different animations, but no car should miss important story info or any major event. Multiple rides should not be a requirement to make sense of what’s happening; that’s simply poor design. But this can be fixed with additional animation and/or extending the ride time a bit so that the last car into a room doesn’t get that “sorry you’re late—Party’s over” feeling.
 

Rich T

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Wow. We must be watching a vastly different series of new Mickey shorts.

I watched a ton of them just last night (because they're charming and hilarious), and not a single one had any kind of "gross" moment.
By “gross” I’m referring to moments that are more Ren and Stimpy than Mickey: Close-ups of dry, cracking skin, rashes, infections, etc. Mickey doing out-of-character things like force-feeding Minnie by prying her mouth open.

What they’ve done is turn Mickey into Roger Rabbit: A well-meaning guy whose dimwitted, panicky reactions cause chaos.

In the early days, Walt & Co. realized that Mickey’s personality was likeable but not very funny. That’s why they brought in Donald and Goofy. They didn’t change Mickey’s personality, they changed his role to straight man of the comedy trio.

In the new cartoons, they’ve changed Mickey’s personality (and lowered his IQ) and thrown in more over-the-top pain gags and close-ups of fungus, rashes, etc.

It’s not bad, it’s just not Mickey Mouse.
 

Rich T

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This. I never watch videos of rides and wait to go on them in person. Surprised people like spoiling the surprise. I think Pirates would be boring as heck if I watched a video of it before I ever went on it.
I have no plans to return to WDW soon, and a lot can happen in a couple of years. I want to see how this ride works *now*. 😃 People like theme parks for different reasons. For some of us, the design, art and inner workings are the most fascinating part, and losing the “surprise” is worth the trade-off; it’ll still be fun in person.
 

mickEblu

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This. I never watch videos of rides and wait to go on them in person. Surprised people like spoiling the surprise. I think Pirates would be boring as heck if I watched a video of it before I ever went on it.

Agree with your basic sentiment but disagree on Pirates.
 

BayouShack

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Watched a POV again, this time following along with the blueprints. I didn’t notice the two scenes sandwiching the waterfall scene (jungle and underwater) are the same room!
The tech could do wonders to any or all of the DL/DCA dark rides. Let’s start with the Little Mermaid, Pooh, Monsters Inc, Buzz, and Roger Rabbit.
 

Rich Brownn

Well-Known Member
Watched a POV again, this time following along with the blueprints. I didn’t notice the two scenes sandwiching the waterfall scene (jungle and underwater) are the same room!
The tech could do wonders to any or all of the DL/DCA dark rides. Let’s start with the Little Mermaid, Pooh, Monsters Inc, Buzz, and Roger Rabbit.
If you watch the 360 video, there's even transition animation and the start of the "water" flowing down the pipe.... none of which the actual riders see because they are facing the opposite way!
 

DanielBB8

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The technology is amazing. I wonder what might be coming to California Adventure since a black box attraction was described to be at Hollywood Backlot. I will suggest a permanent attraction for Nightmare Before Christmas. Keep Haunted Mansion the same throughout the year.
 

JD2000

Well-Known Member
To emphasize my critique; one train car gets absolutely shafted during the transformation climax as they are unable to even really see it. Sorry, but you can’t possibly argue this is not bad design.
 

Phroobar

Well-Known Member
The technology is amazing. I wonder what might be coming to California Adventure since a black box attraction was described to be at Hollywood Backlot. I will suggest a permanent attraction for Nightmare Before Christmas. Keep Haunted Mansion the same throughout the year.
Better yet, a black box attraction that is themed to Haunted Mansion when the real one is overrun with NBC.
 

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