rioriz
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I rode it 5 times straight many times and I can't help to Agree. My fav. ride in the park but damn that hold up b4 the big drop can be anti climatic. However I give them props for running so many trains at one time
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Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway - Disneyland
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Stevek
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I think you are correct. Appears the open area will be the new marquee/entrance and there is an opening on the building itself right behind this opened up facade.
mickEblu
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Doesn't look very impressive to me either but it sounds like people that ride it seem to appreciate the movement in that scene.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Looks like crap to me. They replaced scenes from Casablanca, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Wizard of Oz loaded with robots with screens and projections of ugly cartoons.
Jones14
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It’s just fun. The whole ride up to that point is one death-defying event after the other, so to pull into a dance class after all that is absurd (in a good way). Plus, Daisy is the best looking animatronic, and the conga movement tosses you around a surprising amount.
I’d be sad to see it go from Disneyland’s version. It’s not the most ambitious part of the ride, but it’s charming.
chadwpalm
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Yeah, that's the Five and Dime entrance that they demolished. I would have bet money on the entrance being at City Hall, but I guess I would have lost that bet.
mharrington
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So does this mean that the Gag Factory is no more, meaning no more conveyor system (which was rarely working anyway)?
Disney Irish
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I suspect it'll become the new exit gift shop from MMRR.
mharrington
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It probably will. My guess is you will enter in what used to be the Five and Dime and exit out through what used to be the Gag Factory.
Actually, I just thought of something: given (if the concept art is an indication) that the queue will be full of objects from the classic cartoons (kind of like movie props)...
...is it possible that the exit store could be similar, if not identical, to the Gag Factory? In this case, however, it would not be gags, but just props. Maybe it could be called the Prop Warehouse or something?
Disney Irish
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That is one possibility. It'll be interesting to see it all come together.It probably will. My guess is you will enter in what used to be the Five and Dime and exit out through what used to be the Gag Factory.
Actually, I just thought of something: given (if the concept art is an indication) that the queue will be full of objects from the classic cartoons (kind of like movie props)...
...is it possible that the exit store could be similar, if not identical, to the Gag Factory? In this case, however, it would not be gags, but just props. Maybe it could be called the Prop Warehouse or something?
DisneyLostBoy03
Active Member
The current state of the Five and Dime and The Gag Factory for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
ToTBellHop
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Just rode MMRR again today. I think it’s a wonderful ride, personally. Family agrees.
mharrington
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Looks like it's definitely going in where the Five and Dime once stood. I wonder if that tiny strip of skyline facade is being spared. Or have they just not gotten rid of that yet?
Again, I have a feeling that the Gag Factory (what's left of it) will be the new store at the exit. Like I said, it could extend the prop concept in the queue. It looks like the main building will be spared, just with a new entrance to the store.
mharrington
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It also looks like the neighboring Toontown Skool and Laugh-O-Gram Films facade buildings are scrapped as well. That's a shame, as I believe the Laugh-O-Gram Films window is the only one in the entire park that refers to Walt Disney: "W.E. Disney, Directing Animator".
DisneyLostBoy03
Active Member
It was unfortunately. Hopefully with the new El Capitoon facade they can make a new Walt tribute on it. It would be a good fit since it is a movie theatre.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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That's why Disneyland will always be the better park.
mharrington
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And like I said, if the concept art of the queue is an indication, that could carry over into the new store replacing the Gag Factory. Maybe call it the Prop Warehouse or something.
DisneyLostBoy03
Active Member
Hopefully that will be the case.
mharrington
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I had previously thought of what if they had brought the ride to Tokyo. Everyone agreed that it would be extremely difficult (indeed, almost impossible) to do so, given that their Toontown is pretty much hemmed in on all sides. From a view on Google Maps, I realize that it is almost impossible to do that ride in Tokyo (at least in Toontown; maybe they could do it at DisneySea (maybe at the American Waterfront, I don't know)). The layout there is also mixed up differently than Disneyland's:
The entrance to the Five and Dime in Tokyo would never work here, given that that building off to the right is for the Pooh ride there. I also think that that strip of road there may be used for parades, especially that wall up there across the path casting a shadow, which must be a gate of some kind.
So it would be a shame that Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway would not be able to work in Tokyo.
The entrance to the Five and Dime in Tokyo would never work here, given that that building off to the right is for the Pooh ride there. I also think that that strip of road there may be used for parades, especially that wall up there across the path casting a shadow, which must be a gate of some kind.
So it would be a shame that Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway would not be able to work in Tokyo.