DHS Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway confirmed

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Disneyson

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I wonder if the ride will feature any continuity/throwbacks towards the Mickey Mouse shorts they're based on. I'm sure Gubbles, Mickey's poor constantly-in-danger fish will swim around in the ocean someplace. And I wonder if they'll make clever Disney in-jokes as the shorts themselves do (Cinderella in the French short, Reference to Walt Disney's model train set in the Tokyo short, Matterhorn gags in the Alpine short, Potatoland-style jabs, etc.)

The plot really seems to me a rip from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - the only main difference being that you're pulled away from a fiery inferno at the end instead of into it. I wonder if there will be any semblance of transitions that make any sort of sense in the attraction... and if anyone will really care?

Lastly, it doesn't seem like Donald gets in this one, because according to rumors even Daisy and Pluto have featured roles. Is that just a lack of info, do you think, or is Mickey trying to take back his starring role after being robbed in Philharmagic?
 

tirian

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Looks like a "cleaned up version" of Goofy and not the hobo version from the cartoons. Hope that turns out to be true...
Now that you can easily compare the old and new Mickey cartoons on Disney+, the new ones looks even worse. The classics perfected squash and stretch, fluidity, and a bounciness the new ones lack. There’s a reason they the classics looked like they did, and it wasn’t because they came from the forties. Disney (specifically Fred Moore) created that cartoon art style and everyone else copied it. The new cartoons are so badly animated, they might as well be on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon.

I won’t deny they’re hilarious: they are. But they could—and should—have been either completely new characters instead of Mickey, or have been a complete return to the zanier, pie-eyed Mickey from his early color cartoons. At least that still had visual appeal in motion.

To say the new art style is hideous is an understatement. There’s a reason merchandise has slowly swung back to classic Mickey; the new look didn’t sell well during Mickey’s birthday, and most of the merch and playsets ended up in outlets. Alas, Iger has mandated the ride uses this ugly style because it’s “his” Mickey, just like SWGE is boring and stupid because it’s “his” trilogy.

The ride will be amazing. I hope that one day after Iger leaves, WDI updates it to use an art style that’s actually fun to watch in motion.
 

brb1006

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Now that you can easily compare the old and new Mickey cartoons on Disney+, the new ones looks even worse. The classics perfected squash and stretch, fluidity, and a bounciness the new ones lack. There’s a reason they the classics looked like they did, and it wasn’t because they came from the forties. Disney (specifically Fred Moore) created that cartoon art style and everyone else copied it. The new cartoons are so badly animated, they might as well be on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon.

I won’t deny they’re hilarious: they are. But they could—and should—have been either completely new characters instead of Mickey, or have been a complete return to the zanier, pie-eyed Mickey from his early color cartoons. At least that still had visual appeal in motion.

To say the new art style is hideous is an understatement. There’s a reason merchandise has slowly swung back to classic Mickey; the new look didn’t sell well during Mickey’s birthday, and most of the merch and playsets ended up in outlets. Alas, Iger has mandated the ride uses this ugly style because it’s “his” Mickey, just like SWGE is boring and stupid because it’s “his” trilogy.

The ride will be amazing. I hope that one day after Iger leaves, WDI updates it to use an art style that’s actually fun to watch in motion.
At least they made Mickey funny again.
 

VaderTron

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I posted somewhere before that WDW are actively marketing discounts between March and May with emails specifically using this promotion of MMRR opening.

There will be a lot of very unhappy people if it turns out this won’t be open for the duration of the discount. I realise things change, but if they had any doubt as to the opening date they shouldn’t have used the ride in the promotion.
That would require Disney caring about their "guests". We took a family trip that my grandma couldn't make because her health took a turn for the worse. She ended up dying. When we asked Guest Relations if we could have a refund on her ticket they said no. They said she could try to use the value towards a future visit. We told her she died. They said they were sorry, but they don't give refunds.

Stay classy, Disney.
 

HongKongFu

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This just might be a first for Disney:

The attraction poster makes the ride look worse than it will be(I think).

Normally promotional material embellishes, accentuates and exaggerates what the ride will be. In this case it looks to debase the ride down to a forgettable C ticket(I think).

I have to assume that this attraction will be a bonafide E ticket headliner but that poster makes it look worse than a 1955 Snow White low tech bus bar painted flat dark ride.


A train underwater or in outerspace just ain't right.....even considering we be takkin cartoons here.
 

Tom P.

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That would require Disney caring about their "guests". We took a family trip that my grandma couldn't make because her health took a turn for the worse. She ended up dying. When we asked Guest Relations if we could have a refund on her ticket they said no. They said she could try to use the value towards a future visit. We told her she died. They said they were sorry, but they don't give refunds.

Stay classy, Disney.
I do not believe this story. Disney will give a refund if you claim someone coughed too loudly while you were watching the fireworks. I suppose any one individual cast member could "go rogue," but as a rule, Disney will refund anything if you squawk.
 

ChewbaccaYourMum

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I do not believe this story. Disney will give a refund if you claim someone coughed too loudly while you were watching the fireworks. I suppose any one individual cast member could "go rogue," but as a rule, Disney will refund anything if you squawk.
I secondly don't believe this. My cousin did, what I thought was the impossible, and got a refund on her annual pass after already having it for a couple months. She just complained she didn't need it anymore or something.
 

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