Lokheed
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Not so much the mine ride, but yes the filmmaker wants to come back again in a few months and see how Ben is doing once the ride has been closed for a while.
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Snow White to Close Thursday, May 31
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aladdin2007
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And they have the monsters inc dark ride. So yeah we are being had when it comes to dark rides.
Lokheed, my wife and I read your story about the 2000th ride a while back. Your son's story was the first thing we thought of when it was announced that the Snow White's Scary Adventure ride was going to be replaced. I'm very happy to hear that Disney is doing something for him!! We actually wrote a "to whom it may concern" letter shortly after the announcement recommending that they try to do something special him. It is really great to hear that they are.
menamechris
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Me too! I plan to get in line just before park closing to take one of the last rides...
RSoxNo1
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This ride was much better when it was "Snow White's Scary Adventures", but I will still sorely miss this classic ride.
The ride is currently called Snow White's Scary Adventures.
puntagordabob
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Lokheed
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Correct. The version in Tokyo is just called "Snow White's Adventures", but the other three currently operating version of the ride are all called "Snow White's Scary Adventures". The WDW version was called just "Snow White's Adventures" from the time the park opened up until the 1994 rehab, when it was made substantially less scary but had the word "Scary" added to the title.
aladdin2007
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Agree with you all the way there, but it seems now that Disney considers meet n greets to be attractions. :brick:
Not really. As a general rule park management hates the things because their labor rates are through the roof and their guests per hour rate is quite low. They exist for one reason. The lion share of guests waling through the gates every day want them.
puntagordabob
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They should of put an artificial flooring over the ride and closed in the rest that couldnt be covered...and then in time remove the meet and greet and reimagine a new dark ride with the exisiting track....
They probably will do something similar to that, but I would not count on it becoming a dark ride again until there is another location that can replace it.
aladdin2007
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That was the plan I thought too, but then I read recently that the track is going to be ripped out, so...:shrug:
COProgressFan
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I know you've said this before, and it's true to some degree, as TDO clearly would rather not pay the labor.
But they cost virtually nothing to set up or create. Minimal upfront capital, and...voila, you can promote a new "experience" for guests. It would take decades of paying for the labor of meet 'n greets before you'd ever come close to the cost of building, and then maintaining, a new attraction. Why do you think Rasulo wanted meet 'n greets as part of the FLE rather than the mine train ride?
It depends on the attraction. If you are talking about something on the order of Big Thunder then you would be correct. A dark ride similar to Snow White is incredibly inexpensive to build and maintain. Well themed Meet n Greets also have a good bit more in them from a construction standpoint than you think and the maintenance on them is pretty high. If you have kids you have experienced first hand how just 2 of them can destroy a house in the blink of an eye. Now imagine a space where a few thousand a day make their way through. Imagine all of those sticky fingers on the walls and all that popcorn and coke that will be ground into the floor. Right now just the queue on Snow White needs a good daily scrubbing. When it turns into a meet n greet every square inch of the place will need a good daily cleaning.
Clever Name
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I’ve seen traveling carnivals that have better dark rides than Snow White’s Scary Adventures. WDW can only look back upon this attraction with shame. The sooner it joins Mr. Toad the better. This is a step in the right direction! :wave: