jt04
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I'm using round numbers and including a portion on infrastructure in that. It wasn't meant to be literal.
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Rumor Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath
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I'm using round numbers and including a portion on infrastructure in that. It wasn't meant to be literal.
Has she ever asked you why Epcot is a Disney park without any Disney characters in it?
Bender123
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Nope. Outside WS and Soarin', she pretty much didn't understand how they could call it a theme park...She liked it for shopping and food, but there wasn't much else of note to her. Her order for parks is (best to least): Studios, Epcot, MK, AK (she liked the rides, but hated the crowds and heat...you cant escape it there).
WDWTank
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WoL and HISTA and Animation areaI don't deny that a lot of things are no longer. Many of those things were quite good, but perhaps some remembered more fondly through nostalgia glasses rather than because of quality (). But many of them were replaced.
One way to look at was was lost and replaced or not replaced is to go through the map of WDW and put your finger on a spot where there is currently no ride/attraction, but there used to be. What comes to my mind is:
But even then, the presumption and inside info is that there will eventually be a replacement for them.
- SGE
- Innoventions
- Main Street (electric night parade)
- Planet Watch
Other 'empty' places have their replacements currently in construction:
So, where else is there in all of the parks where there's something missing that doesn't have a replacement? Where are the empty spots where an attraction once existed but has no replacement?
- Back Lot Tour
- Car Stunt Show
- GMR
- Energy
Then there is the consideration of whether the replacement was an upgrade or a dud? Everyone agrees the current Figment falls into the category of dud. The M&G of Launch Bay is a bit of a downgrade from the animation class. While people mourn the poor placement of the new MMRR and GotG, it's generally agreed that the quality of the ride replacing them is an upgrade. Back Lot Tour to one of the SW E-Tickets may be a wash, but a SW E-Ticket certainly beats a car stunt show. The loss of Horizons is a bit complicated because of sponsorship and structural issues. I would think everyone would agree Pandora is much much better than camp Mickyminnie.
Then there are places you can point to where there is now, or soon to come, a brand new attraction not replacing anything:
I'm loathe to mention the Cars show coming to DHS because I have little hope it'll be good.
- TRON
- Ratatouille
- TSL
- Poppins Ride
- a bunch of other rumored attractions
Disney Maddux
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Would two of these attractions reuse aspects from Body Wars or CC?
(At least CC since Buzzy still works?)
Bender123
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Buzzy does not still work...he "exists", but those systems have long since been removed or rotted.
Disney Maddux
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Did you see the thing about them testing him, and he (for the most part) worked just fine?
The insiders who have said there *may* be attraction(s) going into have not said what type of attraction except to say Body Wars ain't coming back.
It wasn't debunked, Disney decided not to greenlight the proposed WiR replacement for SGE.
Bairstow
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Well that's what I'm asking- isn't the source of that rumor the upcoming Void thing they've developed.
Nope. Two separate things. Void does void stuff. Disney would not be doing a VR ride.
It would be like saying that Void's Star Wars VR adventure is the source the Disney's going to build a Star Wars land. Two different companies leveraging the same IP, only in Ralph's case, Disney didn't go through with the proposed Ralph attraction.
Disney Maddux
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Thanks!
(Also, I just realized I asked this in a thread about SGE, where literally everything but SGE is being discussed, goes to show how far off-topic we've gotten huh?)
Bairstow
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That isn't what I'm talking about.
The Void's involvement with Disney extends beyond merely leveraging their IP- the current Star Wars program involved a significant amount of cooperation to the extent that they had actors and sets from the Rogue One production making things for use in the experience. Presumably, the Wreck it Ralph program is receiving similar cooperation from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and I would expect the intro short film to be produced directly by WDAS, in addition to custom audio and dialogue recorded.
What I'm wondering is whether the work being done both by Disney and the Void for this project was mistakenly assumed by someone to be intended for an in-park VR experience, and that misunderstanding, possibly passed from person to person, was the source of the rumor.
I don't know of any more ways to say 'no' to this question. Sorry.
Bairstow
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And I'm still not sure you understand the question.
LukeS7
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Based off of comments from insiders on here, they were always separate projects. They just happened to complete one and can the other (or at least postpone it).
So, you're not accepting an answer of 'no'?
lazyboy97o
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Since this is Disney:
- 83 gallons of Sherwin Williams Duration paint
- 12 replacement astragals
- 16 2x2 ceiling tiles
- 21 linear feet of speed rail
- ½ roll of TPO
- 3 roller coaster wheels
- 1 promise of a dying Bing Bong figure