Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway - Disneyland

[NateD1226]

I think it was @mickEblu said that the queue should be Mickey and Minnie House! I think this would be the perfect way to transition into the ride! Minnie and Mickey leaving to go shoot a movie. Then you enter @bshah365 idea of a movie studio. The flow of all of it works perfectly.

 

[bshah365]

Does anybody know if there are any audio animatronics planned in the works or if the entire attraction will be screen based?

 

[NateD1226]

Does anybody know if there are any audio animatronics planned in the works or if the entire attraction will be screen based?

I think at the D23 presentation they didn't mention an AA. In the WDW M&MRR thread I haven't seen any news about any AA

 

[CHOX]

True, it is 4 acres without the Eastern gateway... but all you would get is the ride and the eating complex if its to the same scaling. With the Eastern Gateway you'd have more room to fill that area out a bit.

I'm still scratching my head for IP that would work. It's really just the usual suspects (Pirates, Indiana and Jungle Book) - for various reasons those make no sense. Mermaid, but I don't think it would really work without being live action and again...

Or 20K leagues, but alas...

A treatment with Black Panther perhaps, Namor definitely. So maybe that's not totally a crazy spot after all.

20K Leagues would be amazing for a giant ride like Pirates.

 

[DanielBB8]

That's terrifying. But also explains some things.

I have my own And Yet...

And YET!... Even if the bulldozers move in next month, Disneyland's version of Mickey's Runaway Railway behind Toontown won't be opening until Christmas, 2021 at the very earliest. Summer, 2022 is more likely.

What the heck are they going to do about park capacity in the next three years when massive crowds in a booming economy descend on Disneyland to see Star Wars Land???

Is it actually possible the executives running TDA are really this bad at their jobs?

How does this even pass the logic test? People descend on Disneyland for Star Wars Land. It has nothing to do with Runaway Railway and to think it will peel away traffic from Star Wars Land makes no sense. There’s plenty of things to do already at Disneyland and I presume the existing rides may actually have some relief due to high demand at Galaxy Edge.

 

[dennis-in-ct]

And it will have been 15 years since they added the last C Ticket dark rides (Buzz Lightyear '05 and Pooh '03).
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When were the NEMO subs opened?
I thought they were the last ride opened at DL.

 

[bshah365]

When were the NEMO subs opened?
I thought they were the last ride opened at DL.

Nemo opened in 2007 while Buzz opened in 2005.

 

[TP2000]

When were the NEMO subs opened?
I thought they were the last ride opened at DL.

'07, but it was just a retheme of an existing 1959 attraction. It didn't add anything to the ride capacity of the park; if anything the long-term park capacity slightly diminished because the new version of the ride is longer and the same eight ride vehicles travel slower around the same track than they did from 1959 to 1998.

Although, because the Subs were closed for so long, 1998-2007, you could make an argument that when they reopened with a Finding Nemo theme they were a "new ride". But for the purposes of overall park capacity and long-term statistics and the decades-long scale we are discussing, it was really just a long refurbishment.

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

Does anybody know if there are any audio animatronics planned in the works or if the entire attraction will be screen based?

There will be AA's of some sort (not many, but some) in the WDW version, I would imagine the DL version would be similar if not the same.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

How does this even pass the logic test? People descend on Disneyland for Star Wars Land. It has nothing to do with Runaway Railway and to think it will peel away traffic from Star Wars Land makes no sense. There’s plenty of things to do already at Disneyland and I presume the existing rides may actually have some relief due to high demand at Galaxy Edge.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Disneyland must have been around a lot longer than I thought...

Nope, the year is still 1955. The 1900’s.

 

[TwilightZone]

These arguments are irrelevant to this thread. Does anybody have any speculations on what the façade/queue could look like for DL's version of Runaway Railway? It has to seamlessly compliment the rest of the land and also match the story of the attraction itself...

I think for a competition I made it still the chinese theater, but a crazy toony version of it. Both classy and silly at the same time. I think this would make for a happy medium, assuming disney wants to copy EVERY aspect of MMRR.

 

[mickEblu]

I think it was @mickEblu said that the queue should be Mickey and Minnie House! I think this would be the perfect way to transition into the ride! Minnie and Mickey leaving to go shoot a movie. Then you enter @bshah365 idea of a movie studio. The flow of all of it works perfectly.

Yeah that was me. Thanks, I thought it would be a clever way of layering the attractions. I’d imagine they could find a way to include the movie theatre facade in front of the new show building that will be located where backstage is currently but what do I know? I have no idea what they layout is back there.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Yeah that was me. Thanks, I thought it would be a clever way of layering the attractions. I’d imagine they could find a way to include the movie theatre facade in front of the new show building that will be located where backstage is currently but what do I know? I have no idea what they layout is back there.

But how would that work since there are already Mickey and Minnie's houses in Toon Town and not next to the 5 and dime store

 

[Disney Irish]

Yeah that was me. Thanks, I thought it would be a clever way of layering the attractions. I’d imagine they could find a way to include the movie theatre facade in front of the new show building that will be located where backstage is currently but what do I know? I have no idea what they layout is back there.

I've been thinking what if they do it the other way around. You walk into the movie theater queue, ride the attraction, and then exit out into Mickey's house where you can line up for barn studio M&G or just exit.

Didn't we talk about that scenario at one time?

 

[mickEblu]

But how would that work since there are already Mickey and Minnie's houses in Toon Town and not next to the 5 and dime store

I came up with the idea before the five and dime rumor came up recently. When rumors were that Mickeys/ Minnie’s houses or Roger Rabbit would have to go to accommodate the Mickey ride.

 

[mickEblu]

I've been thinking what if they do it the other way around. You walk into the movie theater queue, ride the attraction, and then exit out into Mickey's house where you can line up for barn studio M&G or just exit.

Didn't we talk about that scenario at one time?

I don’t remember talking about this scenario but it sounds like it could work and definitely makes more sense now that we know where the entrance to the ride will be. Obviously a few things at Mickeys / Minnie’s Houses would need to be reconfigured but doable.

 

[Disney Irish]

I don’t remember talking about this scenario but it sounds like it could work and definitely makes more sense now that we know where the entrance to the ride will be. Obviously a few things at Mickeys / Minnie’s Houses would need to be reconfigured but doable.

Wouldn't be too hard. Have the exit covered so you don't see backstage, and have it with projection mapping of some sort. Basically showing something like you are coming back out of the screen. And then have it open into the barn studio area, where if you stay right you get into line for the M&G. And if you go left you basically go through Mickey's house in reverse and out the front door. The M&G folks would merge into Mickey's house at some point and again exit out the front door.

 

[THE 1HAPPY HAUNT]

Wouldn't be too hard. Have the exit covered so you don't see backstage, and have it with projection mapping of some sort. Basically showing something like you are coming back out of the screen. And then have it open into the barn studio area, where if you stay right you get into line for the M&G. And if you go left you basically go through Mickey's house in reverse and out the front door. The M&G folks would merge into Mickey's house at some point and again exit out the front door.

My only problem with that is say you do get in line to meet Mickey at the barn once you get off the ride, is that the Mickey you meet is the traditional Mickey and will look nothing like the Mickey you just saw on the ride since they are using that more modern style which I can't stand at all.

 

[brb1006]

Okay, but when was your last visit to Disneyland? You didn’t answer my question lol. Not sure what the east coast and WDW have to do with what I asked.

Because WDWMagic is mostly geared toward WDW visitors.