EPCOTCenterLover
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This is my bet as to where it goes as well.
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Mickey Mouse LPS Ride - Blue Sky Plans for DCA
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deix15x8
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Especially since NBC is the official broadcast partner for all the recent and future Olympics, including the 2024 ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they even chose to put the Today Show and other broadcast entities right in the park claiming the Hollywood backlot captured LA. It's historic that this year for the first time in Rio they aren't even using the Olympic Broadcast Center for some of their main Olympic coverage. They've purchased a building near the beach to use as a TV studio instead. So it would no doubt be a huge time for Universal Studios Hollywood while Disneyland would experience the equivalent of a media blackout.
Travel Junkie
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Yes, Universal Studios would play a big part of the games. Makes sense with NBC being the rights holders. From the announcement of Universal's 5 year plan.
"Two additional stages will be built at the complex if Los Angeles is awarded the Summer Olympics in 2024. If so, the lot would be the site of the international broadcast center, according to the bid proposal from LA 2024."
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/un...d-soundstage-theme-park-expansion-1201795566/
Californian Elitist
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Exactly. The plan is to use the backlot, that alone will give Universal more exposure.
HauntedMansionFLA
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I hope the United States never host the Olympics again. Just probably over one billion just on security. LA has the facilities to host it. Too much $$$$$$Uh oh. You probably weren't alive in 1984, were you?
It's one of the most famous stories from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics; Disneyland was dead. No one showed up. They were too afraid of the crowds and the traffic, so they avoided LA like the plague that summer. True story.
Californian Elitist
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A failure of the Olympics, should it come to Los Angeles, wouldn't fall on the entire country.
Ah, I understand what you guys are saying now.
Keep in mind this is being developed for DHS first and foremost, to be placed in "Hollywood Land" as it were. That's why I am saying this is inappropriate for Paradise Pier... not that Mickey Mouse is inappropriate for Paradise Pier, but the ride they are designing is not with Paradise Pier in mind.
It also wouldn't remotely fit. This is twice the size of Mystic Manor.
They could conceivably go completely back to the drawing board entirely, but a clone of what DHS is getting would need to be drastically altered and no longer be much of a clone at all.
I don't know though - maybe that is the plan.
HauntedMansionFLA
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If LA is awarded the Olympics, do you think Iger will want to be man in charge since his Disney days would be long gone.
Back to the Mickey Mouse Ride, sounds like a terrific ride
The 60th attendance bump for starters.
I know the popular opinion is everyone hates Chapek, but he's a big part of the reason. Staggs was completely limp when it came to getting anything approved. Chapek gets what he wants, he seems to demand big quality and can finagle WDI to produce on a schedule. However, what he wants often doesn't align with what some people here want. But, in my opinion, it's better than being a pushover or the tightwads before him who happily let Disney Parks circle the drain.
I think most people would honestly be championing the man if he didn't come up from marketing and wasn't driven by the brand. He's very good for the parks long-term... but in a very different way from the 'WED' era parks and anything that doesn't have massive synergy potential.
A sect of fans really lost their credibility in Chapek's view when they petitioned so heavily for Aladdin. It was a really inane battle (one whose core arguments I still don't comprehend - I at least get the Star Wars and GoTG ones) and now he's completely decided all the online backlash doesn't matter.
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I'm with you. Until the until the IOC gets their act together I say US cities should stay out of it. LA is a great city and doesn't need the Olympics. The Olympics need LA.
TP2000
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What a great point, and one we haven't really seen online. It makes a lot of sense, and I would tend to agree with you there.
Staggs was limp, and as Spirit likes to remind us he was the "man of anemic personality". I'm sure it had nothing to do with his weird dietary requirements he placed on himself or his waifish figure. He never really got much done. Bruce Vaughn seems to be in the same category, both professionally and aesthetically. It's probably a good thing they have both been thanked for their service and shown the door.
I can only imagine what Chapek thinks about these online superfans signing useless Change.org petitions over stage shows and drop rides at theme parks. I'd like to buy Chapek a glass of 15 Year Dewar's and hear his thoughts on all this, man to man. I imagine those opinions are saltier and more level-headed than any Youtube Lifestyler or Change.org signer could ever stand.
TP2000
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Bingo. What happens in Rio the next two weeks might shut down the silly bid from LA to host the Olympics in '24. The Germans were smart to back out last year. Give it to Budapest (why not?) for '24 and wait for the IOC to come back down to earth.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Wait, this rumor spawned from a rumor they are replacing The Great Movie Ride with some sort of ridiculous Mickey Mouse ride? No way! I can't say I'm surprised. That amazing attraction features loads of non-Disney films such as Alien, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain and even The Public Enemy! Awesome! I think the only reason that masterpiece is still around is because TCM stepped in and sponsored it. Cheaper to keep it running with a new sponsor than destroy it all and put in a new attraction...for now. It will be a shame if we lose that one.
In all the years Walt was around, he never put an attraction in Disneyland that actually starred Mickey and the gang. There's something to be said for that.
In all the years Walt was around, he never put an attraction in Disneyland that actually starred Mickey and the gang. There's something to be said for that.
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Masterpiece? I nearly spat out my chicken pot pie. There's no way you can be serious with this comment.
Maybe Walt didn't, but his brother Roy did.
Edit: According to Wikipedia the concept for The Mickey Mouse Revue dates back to a 1962 interview where Walt said that the Imagineers were working on an AA attraction featuring "all the Disney characters"
Maybe Walt didn't, but his brother Roy did.
Edit: According to Wikipedia the concept for The Mickey Mouse Revue dates back to a 1962 interview where Walt said that the Imagineers were working on an AA attraction featuring "all the Disney characters"
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GiveMeTheMusic
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Fortunately for us, there's nothing in DCA the Mickey attraction can replace that it won't upgrade. Can't wait to see this here at DCA and I hope the stars align to make it so sooner rather than later.
George Lucas on a Bench
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I love The Great Movie Ride. I thought you were all aware of this? It's exactly the kind of Disney attraction I adore. Massive, detailed slow-moving dark ride filled with Audio-Animatronics. That one and all the EPCOT Center dark rides like Horizons and the World of Motion are the closest we've ever gotten to an attraction on the level of Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Oh, sorry. I had no idea. Still, calling TGMR a masterpiece is a bit generous, no?
GiveMeTheMusic
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I think it WAS a masterpiece. By the late 90s it had aged and not well, which is no ones fault but Disney. In an ideal world, they'd update and refresh GMR regularly and keep it great instead of letting it rot like they have. #MakeTheGreatMovieRideGreatAgain
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I remember riding TGMR for the first time a year after it opened and feeling underwhelmed. The Munchkinland sequence is amazing, but the rest of it? Meh.
FigmentForver96
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The ride was a masterpiece and a true example of what Disney can do. That was the Disney that took risks and built amazing new rides that were different. Much different from the brand company now that just uses the hottest IPs to make their rides and good luck with them actually adding anything rather than replacing it. Take in the live acting mixed with the AA's and you had some pretty cool effects that no other ride had pulled off. You never saw a ride that celebrated the classics of Hollywood much like The Great Movie Ride did.