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Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway confirmed
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drew81
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Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway standby line closes before park closing
The nighttime show firework fall out zone impacts operations at The Chinese Theater.
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Magic Feather
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It’s an ops preference. You can walk into the courtyard for GMR during fireworks (I’ve done it many times, makes for quite the trippy experience). The most likely just don’t want to deal with the lower visibility (plus standby signs have to be turned off. If the really didn’t want to use the courtyard, they can also reroute the entrance to the OMD side, one use the side entrance to the theater. There is no unavoidable reason to close the ride for fireworks.
Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway standby line closes before park closing
The nighttime show firework fall out zone impacts operations at The Chinese Theater.
Schmidt
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No shame at all! Good point!
I know how they can hide the outside queue during the fireworks: Bring out the stage on wheels!
FigmentFan82
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I loved GMR, but not heartbroken over it. And to be fair, DHS is no longer a "studios" park as they've shifted to "making you believe you're in the movies" park (yes even though it's still called Hollywood Studios). But hey, my favorite ride was the backlot tour! RIP to that!
PizzaPlanet
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I don't think the GMR was originally intended to be educational, it only started to feel that way once they added all of the TCM adjustments.
JohnD
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That’s a lot clearer. The Graumans photo circled a fuzzy blob.
RSoxNo1
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I don't think Tonto's comment is unreasonable at all. I recognize that down thread Martin acknowledges that the attraction needs an update, but we're acting as if that update already happened and it was widely successful. I'd love to hear the guest satisfaction numbers for GMR from @lentesta and what (if any) drop off may have occurred after the changes towards the end.
I think most people on this site would agree that GMR needed a significant update, but doing that update in addition to M&MRR was the move. It shouldn't have been an either or situation.
It should also be noted that towards the end, adding Fastpass to GMR substantially increased the wait time for it.
CastAStone
5th gate? Just build a new resort Bob.
He used to be more visible. He gets covered up more and more with all the changes to the map in that area.
Theme song from Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway now available on Apple Music
You can buy or stream "Nothing Can Stop Us Now."
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And on Google Play...
Google Play Music is no longer available
Castle Cake Apologist
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In what way? There is absolutely no way you could take this entire attraction in with just one ride.
Luckily, it seems virtually nobody shares this odd opinion.
Parker in NYC
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Theme song from Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway now available on Apple Music
You can buy or stream "Nothing Can Stop Us Now."
And on Google Play...
Google Play Music is no longer available
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It's a cute ditty!
UNCgolf
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This is exactly it. MMRR looks great and I'm looking forward to riding it eventually, but the only reason to have it replace GMR was to save money. Didn't have to construct a whole new building, queue, etc. and also didn't have to spend the money necessary to update GMR. It was a lateral move for DHS rather than a forward looking one; the park still needs more attractions.
UNCgolf
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Maybe he thought he was posting in the Little Mermaid thread.
MrPromey
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Agreed! I don't see anyone arguing that this new ride shouldn't have opened or that what it replaced wasn't in serious need of updating - just that both should have happened.
Like the old ride or not, it was built on a scale that Disney seems to seldom do anymore (ROTR being a notable exception).
This new ride continues the trend where people will spend way more time waiting and way less time experiencing something while taking up the footprint of something that was a people-eater. For other examples, see Test Track, Mission Space (I'm assuming GOTG - although the footprint is growing signifgantly, in this case), JIYI.
Test Track for instance, is a great and popular ride but you can't deny that it's a short ride compared to what it replaced and once you're off it, you're off to go stand in another line or I guess as Disney likes to think of it, shop and eat.
As for TGMR, I don't know that anything beyond the final movie was ever updated. I think even the script they spoke was the same as it was in '89.
If they'd changed out some of the scenes and updated the animatronics and effects in the ones they'd kept over the years, this could have continued to be a great attraction.
Think about the updates that have been made to Spaceship Earth since it opened including this year's, MAJOR one. That's what this attraction needed and frankly, Hollywood Studios could have really used both attractions.
lazyboy97o
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You’re just being greedy and unrealistic thinking one of the world’s busiest theme parks should have a ride count in the double digits.
MrPromey
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Not that I think Disney should be giving people more reasons to crowd into the main park (I'm happy they're finally working to spread crowds to the other three more) but one awesome place would have been Main Street.
Some of us still remember when that area wasn't just a couple of giant stores and had some things to do.
They could have used the Main Street Cinema front as the entrance and the actual ride could have gone back where the theater area that never came to be was supposed to go. I'm sure the queue needs would have easily covered the distance needed to get people back there.
This would have of course, required some thought with the bypass but I'm pretty sure they could have come up with a satisfactory way to make a walk-over-under for the the un-themed piece of asphalt back there to make this happen.
Again, though, I'm not suggesting the Magic Kindom needs more reasons for people to show up there right now and I'm glad that they're working on the other parks but that's some place that I think would have been a good fit for this particular attraction.
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