Rumor Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath

TwilightZone

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Rk2k5 said:
In my opinion I think that they are going to either do something with Wall-E, Lilo and Stitch, or maybe even go back to the old plans with wreck it Ralph depending on how well it does in theaters.
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I think wreck it ralph is more likely than both of those options.
Wall-e, while well liked, was also well disliked due to people thinking it was too preachy. Not to mention the post-apocalyptic setting of wall-e is a bit too depressing for a disney park.
As for stitch, he's not super popular in America anymore. He seems to still be popular overseas though, considering that stitch encounter (it's like turtle talk or laugh floor, not alien encounter) is still open there.
 
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Not sure what they could do for Buzz that hasn't already been mentioned but for a Monsters Inc. replacement they could (assuming the IP holds) change up the show to be an underground supers lounge area with emphasis on super abilities and superhero jokes.
Call it: The Incredible Improv Comedy Club: It's Supers Silly!

Continuing that theme, they could turn Stitch Great Escape into Screenslaver: The RoboTerror of Tomorrow; a theater in the round encounter attraction based on the robotic baddie from The Incredibles II. Not that the IP fits Tomorrowland to a T, but I guess it could be adapted.

The best IP for the space, IMO is Wall-E but turning that into an enjoyable E, D or C ticket might prove challenging.
 
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Lensman

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MisterPenguin said:
The MK doesn't have a dry play space, so, turn it into that where families can cool off while kids let off steam. You can do a lot of cool, interactive futuro-techno stuff with light-up walls and floors. Put in a bar overlooking the play space with a glass wall to dampen the shrieking.
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Yeah! Or maybe it could be an updated version of Innoventions?

TwilightZone said:
Wall-e, while well liked, was also well disliked due to people thinking it was too preachy. Not to mention the post-apocalyptic setting of wall-e is a bit too depressing for a disney park.
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It's too bad because I feel like they could do something neat with the idea of the hoverchairs.

But maybe this is just that sort of problem space that will only find a good solution when Disney Parks gets back to its roots and comes up with an innovative attraction that fits into the space. You know, something like the mixed reality magic bench.
 
Spash007

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While thematically it's not perfect, I feel like you could get the Incredibles to fit in the SGE space. Have the premise be an award ceremony or something for them, when all of a sudden the lights go out, the seats shake and the robot breaks through a wall, floor etc. Chaos ensues with Jack Jack appearing all over the place, feeling the air go by you as Dash runs past, getting cold as Frozone appear, etc. I feel like a 3D screen would be best with Elastigirl, but not sure how/if that could work in that theater.
 
Coaster Lover

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Is there really enough room for a major attraction there AND an accompanying queue? I mean, the queue for Stitch is all outside (with the exception of what you may consider the first pre-show room [more of a holding area prior to the actual preshow]) and I remember the queue for Alien Encounter spilling out far into the mid-way when that was new. Unless they put in something with crazy high capacity, do they run into the issue that there would simply be no where to put that many people queuing? Is it possible to have a two story attraction so that a greater amount of the interior building can be used for queue or even such that the ground floor could be used for queue with the upper story being used for the attraction? If not, something simpler (a B or C ticket level attraction.. or even just a play area as previously suggested) would seem better suited.
 
Indy_UK

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HaydenHoya said:
While thematically it's not perfect, I feel like you could get the Incredibles to fit in the SGE space. Have the premise be an award ceremony or something for them, when all of a sudden the lights go out, the seats shake and the robot breaks through a wall, floor etc. Chaos ensues with Jack Jack appearing all over the place, feeling the air go by you as Dash runs past, getting cold as Frozone appear, etc. I feel like a 3D screen would be best with Elastigirl, but not sure how/if that could work in that theater.
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I think people are hoping that the current ride system totally goes and that it’s not just another overlay
 
Disney Maddux

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marni1971 said:
Nothing that would completely break the format used since 1971. Ralph was to have consolidated the interior holding area and preshow into a single queue space. That’s about it.
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So pretty much... it's safe to say the new attraction will somehow re-use the same theater format they've been doing since Christmas Eve of '71?
 
brb1006

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HaydenHoya said:
I agree there are a lot of M&Gs in MK, but they mostly focus on the younger, especially young girls, demographic. I would prefer an extra attraction as well, but I think there could be a market for a Wreck it Ralph type M&G. Heck, even the Incredibles depending on how this summer plays out. (Granted I have an issue with Tomorrowland somehow becoming synonymous with superheroes, but that's beside the point and would lead to a greater discussion of what in the world is Disney trying to define Tomorrowland as)
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I miss when character M&Gs at MK and WDW in general had more variety of characters to meet before the Disney Princess franchise existed.
 
Disney Maddux

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marni1971 said:
Probably. That’s what the building is designed for. Whilst Ralph had a different format in the theatres, they still existed in location and shape.
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What about the pre-show theaters? For WIR, wasn't the first pre-show theater going to become a queue line, and the 2nd one would've been the main pre-show before going into one of two theaters?

And for this new attraction, would it be the same as it is now, or like it would've been with WIR? And the new IP will probably be Incredibles if it does good in the box office? (Which, let's face it, we know it will).
 
marni1971

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Maddux Bloom said:
What about the pre-show theaters? For WIR, wasn't the first pre-show theater going to become a queue line, and the 2nd one would've been the main pre-show before going into one of two theaters?
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No. The layout was the existing holding area would be mainly standby queue, including the space beyond the automatic doors. This would have led into the area that’s currently the preshow (and the backstage space it also uses) for more queue. Stuff to look at, but no preshow as such.
 
Disney Maddux

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marni1971 said:
No. The layout was the existing holding area would be mainly standby queue, including the space beyond the automatic doors. This would have led into the area that’s currently the preshow (and the backstage space it also uses) for more queue. Stuff to look at, but no preshow as such.
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Then you would reach the end and brought into either one of two theaters, I assume.

Is that how it is looking to be with the new attraction? Or due to WIR most likely shelved, staying the same?
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Maddux Bloom said:
Then you would reach the end and brought into either one of two theaters, I assume.

Is that how it is looking to be with the new attraction? Or due to WIR most likely shelved, staying the same?
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Yep. At the end you’d have been sent to one of two theatres (and got your glasses on the way in for the 3D version).

Right now there is currently no new attraction. The space is stuck in development limbo.
 

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