Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Black Box?

[T.Will]

A DisTuber called Alex the Historian on a podcast discussion hypothesized that Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway is the rumored and feared Black Box attraction. His arguments are the heavily used projections, lack of complex animatronics, and the use of trackless vehicles.
(Here's the link to a timestamped conversation on the idea).

Personally, I don't think MMRR is the true black box ride. This ride feels too permanent. Plus the argument is too flimsy and general. All sorts of attractions have been rethemed over the years for minimal budgets. I imagine the BBA would use the same tech as MMRR, but it being the BBA is as stable as San Andreas to me.

But what do you guys think?

 

[skiir97]

No way. Even though the ride does heavily focus on projections, I feel like the physical sets (such as the Daisy room) and the layout of "The City" scene is way to restrictive for this ride to be a "black box".

 

[fngoofy]

What’s going into the Wonders of Life pavilion is the “black box” attraction that will have different sections, capable of morphing to showcase IP or do prof of concept for new ride tech.

 

[HongKongFooy]

Creating an attraction black box style shows a lack of faith in the product.

It means that the creative teams know that what they are making is not a masterpiece, not a timeless attraction but something readily disposable.
Of course their description would be "adaptable" or "interchangeable".

There is no honor, none in planning for failure.

 

[Hakunamatata]

Creating an attraction black box style shows a lack of faith in the product.

It means that the creative teams know that what they are making is not a masterpiece, not a timeless attraction but something readily disposable.
Of course their description would be "adaptable" or "interchangeable".

There is no honor, none in planning for failure.

Or it could be the tech that allows an attraction to change over time. For Instance, the runaway railway could be changes slightly as the demand for new attractions requires. Change an “episode” and not the whole show.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I think Disney used the two technologies; trackless and projection, to open an attraction as fast (and maybe the cheapest) as possible.

using a lot of projection and being trackless does indeed make the attraction much less permanent; there is much less to dismantle.

 

[HongKongFooy]

Or it could be the tech that allows an attraction to change over time. For Instance, the runaway railway could be changes slightly as the demand for new attractions requires. Change an “episode” and not the whole show.

Yep, and if that were true then I would not call it blackboxing. Isn't blackboxing a scheme to do a widespread changeover, complete makeover like a theme/genre change inside the showbuilding(box); 'Box' and ride system stay but everything else changed out for the next flavor of the half decade.

Your description of the level of changes looks more like ordinary enhancing and plussing found in close to every aged attraction.

 

[marni1971]

It is not.