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NEW Tower of Terror Drop Sequence...and more...
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Bdis86
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The name of the park is currently "Disney-MGM Studios." The name of the park will be changed to "The Walt Disney Studios Florida" if and when the Great Movie Ride is taken out or redone. It is the only thing in the entire park that has anything to do with MGM, with the exception of the Sci-Fi movies that they show at the Sci-Fi Drive-In Theater, but that can easily be changed. The company "MGM" is a takeover target for Disney right now, along with "Pixar" and "Jim-Henson". Disney will take over one of these companies within 1-2 years, as stated by Michael Eisner. If Disney takes over MGM, the Studios name would change very soon, because "Why would you have joint studios if one owns the other?" Anyway, Viacom owns CBS, which owns the Twilight Zone name, not MGM. MGM is it's own company. You may notice that there are only about 4 scenes in the Great Movie Ride that are from MGM. The Wizard of Oz and Casablanca are not included, as they are owned by Warner Brothers now. Indiana Jones and Star Wars are LucasFilm. The only MGM stuff is "Singing in the Rain", "The Searchers", "Alien", and "Tarzan." These could all easilly be changed to a Disney or LucasFilm Film. Anyway, there is still talk of removing the Mann's Theater Front and making the Mickey Hat the entrance to a new ride replacing the Great Movie Ride, or redoing the GMR to an animated type ride showing parts of Disney Animation, and using Dynamic Ride Vehicle 2 Vehicles, developed by Disney for rides like Dinosaur. When will this happen you ask? Right after the end of the 100 thing. How likely is it that at least something will be done to the GMR? 100%.
Pioneer Hall
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I really don't want to see the GMR taken away. It is a family favorite, and MGM doesn't really need another thrill ride.
Pioneer Hall
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The studios has one less fastpass attraction than Magic Kingdom. So there another one wouldn't do anything to help the distribution. Plus taking away GMR for a thrill ride, would start to kill out the family theme. It would begin to turn the Studios in to an IOA (and we know how well they are doing).
how does one honestly know they are doing anything with the Great Movie Ride. We can all speculate, but I have not even heard mention from anyone truly looking into this ride...Star Tours seems like the much more probable site for major refurbishment. As for the Great Movie Ride, even if it were to change, becoming a thrill ride...I suppose it's a possibility, but I think it would be quite challenging to showcase that many movies on a thrill-ride...I think they would be happy with just an E-Ride...not necessarily thrilling...just with a more innovative way of showing the films.
Pumbas Nakasak
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Wouldnt it be more prudent to build something new before something else is taken away? Every park is now running with reduced attractions. There will come a point when WDW is no longer value for money. Every park has some space lets hope its used effectively.
Bdis86
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Disney has confirmed that it will be changed in some way or another, not saying that it will be taken out, but it is a good possibility. As for Star Tours, Lucas doesn't want it changed untill after he is done with completing his episodes. So, that won't change for a while.
when disney replaces attractions, it is for budget reasons (no longer "cost-effective" to keep the attraction open), when disney builds a new attraction without replacing another, it is for expansion purposes (obviously), and disney does not feel, it seems, that their developed parks are in dire need of expansion...so we get new stuff, not necessarily more stuff...Animal Kingdom being the obvious exception...b/c it's younger than the others...by the way, it's good that there is a lot of open space...that was the big problem with Disneyland...there wasn't any...so it took 46 years to get enough room to open a second park...disney world can afford to have massive parking lots...
adr315
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The last 2 times i went to MGM (Feb, and Dec), GMR had walk on lines, or like a 5 minute wait in the big "movie theater" part of the queue...they were only using 1 of the 2 big vehicles that travel together for passengers (theyd send the other empty....???) and the CM "actors" were less than convincing actors. I used to love this ride, but i have to admit, its extremely outdated, and im reminded about how bad of a state it is when i see the horrible Ripley animatronic in the Alien section....i see this ride disappearing once the 100 years ends.....problem is, i dont see how Disney could be working on so many attractions at once (Beastly Kingdom?, Mission Space, Philharmagic, JII, ToT DCA, ToT Paris, Disneyland Hong Kong, the Disneyland 50th Anniv. ride makeovers, etc etc etc)...but, hopefully they can pull it off....i can definately see an ERV2 ride system going in, maybe with a villain theme (which would pretty much eliminate any chances of us getting an Indy ride)....and i see this happening, b/c at MGM, everytime i go, i see more and more costumed villains walking around, and practically no "heroes"....lets see what happens
Pioneer Hall
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Fantasmic the ride...:lookaroun
now that I think of it, there was only one car at a time when we went...which kinda irritated me, because you ALWAYS stopped at the gangster scene...and never at the Wild West scene...also, John Wayne's animatronic had no audio and Gene Kelly was completely turned off...
Tom Morrow
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They were running only one car back in November too. GMR just doesn't draw enough crowds to run both lately, I guess. Which is annoying, because I like the bank robbing scene better than the gangster scene. It wasn't until last November that I realized GMR is in a pretty bad state, and I probably wouldn't mind if they totally redid it. I think they should use a Spiderman type ride, but have you go through famous movie scenes, just like GMR.
BTW, somebody mentioned that they maybe send the front car empty, but they can't do that because the cars are piloted by your guide. One time, they were using the front tram to train a guide, and he was having trouble controlling the tram and stopped it, and our guide had to slam on the brakes when coming around a corner.
BTW, somebody mentioned that they maybe send the front car empty, but they can't do that because the cars are piloted by your guide. One time, they were using the front tram to train a guide, and he was having trouble controlling the tram and stopped it, and our guide had to slam on the brakes when coming around a corner.
I don't see how there can be another ToT rehab cause the cars already drop randomly meaning each ride isn't the same. What else is there to do?:hammer:
I went in Feb and the line for GMR was longer than ToT in some points but I can see how the ride needs an update but I don't think they will do it soon because the film clips at the end was updated with newer films. Most likly this rehab will not happen till for a while. Disney renovates heavily every couple of years. The last time was 98/99 season w/ AK, Pooh, RnR, etc. We are in another expansion time with Mission Space, Phillarmagic, etc. Expect Beastly Kingdom and a renovated GMR in 4-5 years.
I went in Feb and the line for GMR was longer than ToT in some points but I can see how the ride needs an update but I don't think they will do it soon because the film clips at the end was updated with newer films. Most likly this rehab will not happen till for a while. Disney renovates heavily every couple of years. The last time was 98/99 season w/ AK, Pooh, RnR, etc. We are in another expansion time with Mission Space, Phillarmagic, etc. Expect Beastly Kingdom and a renovated GMR in 4-5 years.
Pioneer Hall
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When I went before Christmas the line was out by the sorcerer hat. And they were using both cars.
Fear every drop is random. I know for a fact that there is a computer that randomly decides what kind of drop sequence there is. Some times the car goes up some times it drops when you enter the drop shaft. I've had drops that lasted 3-4 short drops and 2-3 full drops or it could be the opposite you never know. ToT used to be be once in the drop shaft you go up and you drop that's it. Then two drops were added, then three, but you always went up and down, full drops. What we have now is the car drops a little then goes up drops, shakes all that stuff. If you ride ToT then get on it again the drop sequence will be different. There really isn't much of a way to make it more random.