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

[MisterPenguin]

In a world beset with increasing violence perhaps adding another "shoot-em-up" target ride is not such a great idea... Perhaps using the technology to "collect" things would be better... A little change in focus, but the same overall... I think as a society we have to get away from the "Shoot-em-up" culture...
Collect, create, inspire...

Aliens shooting abduction rays at farm animals!!!

See, there is a use for Home on the Range!!!

 

[marni1971]

Back when "they" were considering a name change for Tomorrowland

Circa 1992?

 

[𝐌𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝐖𝖊𝖇]

Circa 1992?

I was thinking 2016/17.

 

[marni1971]

I was thinking 2016/17.

Not officially AFAIK

 

[aliceismad]

The powers that be decided to add a Tron while leaving valuable existing space vacant, so they clearly have a different approach to the management of Tomorrowland than I would.

 

[larryz]

I never got to see this but I really enjoy the replacement. It's fun that the current ride switches up music and dances so that it's even a different ride in the same day. Then holiday music overlays go further

Sitting in a "dancing" car is enjoyable?

The bar has really dropped to a low level...

 

[lazyboy97o]

The powers that be decided to add a Tron while leaving valuable existing space vacant, so they clearly have a different approach to the management of Tomorrowland than I would.

That the world’s most visited theme park has abandoned and under utilized attraction, retail and dining space is just mind boggling.

 

[aliceismad]

That the world’s most visited theme park has abandoned and under utilized attraction, retail and dining space is just mind boggling.

Right? And we all know that buildings that are abandoned in place and not maintained will take much more money to fix in 5 or 10 years vs. now. Eventually it will cost less to demo a building and rebuild vs. renovating an existing building.

 

[pdude81]

Sitting in a "dancing" car is enjoyable?

The bar has really dropped to a low level...

I prefer the dancing cars to bumper cars, yes. They do a tiny bit of this in MMRR in the Daisy room also.

And IMO the dancing car ride is far superior to the Mater spin ride, even though both are probably C ticket level.

 

[The Aracuan Bird]

Tomorrowland should be all about space and robots and robots in space.

The Fox movie 'Robots' got decent reviews and could be an excellent aesthetic to follow and be a fun attraction with a robot factory shenanigans gone awry with split second misses and gags. And it's criminal that there's no WALL*E attraction in Tomorrowland.

For space, consider this: You know how MMRR was the first Mickey Mouse themed ride in the whole of Disney parks history? Why not Mickey and friends in space?

Yes please.

Mickey is the universal IP. They did tons of “Tomorrowland” stories with him around the opening of Disneyland.

 

[Disney Maddux]

I know, I know, necro.

But I'm just thinking... There were the rumbles of the WIR attraction being revived using the SGE setup, adding controllers to the harnesses and making it a more interactive attraction, and those rumblings were late 2019 IIRC, not long before Iger stepped down and things went quiet again.

Now with him back in and making a big deal about getting creative projects started again, it's got me thinking if we could potentially see the re-revival of this.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I know, I know, necro.

But I'm just thinking... There were the rumbles of the WIR attraction being revived using the SGE setup, adding controllers to the harnesses and making it a more interactive attraction, and those rumblings were late 2019 IIRC, not long before Iger stepped down and things went quiet again.

Now with him back in and making a big deal about getting creative projects started again, it's got me thinking if we could potentially see the re-revival of this.

All of the talk about "creative this and that" was about the Media side of the company, not Parks.

And people forget who was head of the Parks in 2019.

 

[Brer Panther]

If there was anything planned for the empty building that was once Stitch's Great Escape, chances are it was cancelled to fund the Splash Mountain retheme.

 

[TheGuyThatMakesSwords]

YAEB (yet another empty building)....
Check out the "MT LOT" billboard on main street . All of this fits, with the "New" WDW...
Dirty. No Staff. Everything broken, every other day...

 

[TwilightZone]

After the failure of Millenium Falcon, I'm hoping disney doesn't try yet another "interactive" button push attraction. Everything about WIR sounds terrible. Honestly I would tear the whole interior or building down and start fresh. Could be a nice spot for a dark ride.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

After the failure of Millenium Falcon, I'm hoping disney doesn't try yet another "interactive" button push attraction. Everything about WIR sounds terrible. Honestly I would tear the whole interior or building down and start fresh. Could be a nice spot for a dark ride.

a Darth Vader encounter would be interesting by using the same layout as Alien encounter,

 

[TwilightZone]

a Darth Vader encounter would be interesting by using the same layout as Alien encounter,

On one hand, yuck, I really dislike adding star wars when it already has its own dedicated land.
But on the other hand, I wouldn't really mind this either since it is kinda cool.

 

[Disney Maddux]

After the failure of Millenium Falcon, I'm hoping disney doesn't try yet another "interactive" button push attraction. Everything about WIR sounds terrible. Honestly I would tear the whole interior or building down and start fresh. Could be a nice spot for a dark ride.

Only problem is you have Cosmic Ray's and the two shops sharing the building, so teardown isn't really an option.

And as said before, the setup does have a lot of potential, and as seen with AE, can make for a great experience.

Also, I know this will never happen, but I still have a very foolish hope that perhaps some time, when the crowd level gets so bad to the point that they need something open to help absorb them, they reopen SGE for a limited time. There's still the second theater that could theoretically run the show if they needed it to.

 

[SteveAZee]

Only problem is you have Cosmic Ray's and the two shops sharing the building, so teardown isn't really an option.

And as said before, the setup does have a lot of potential, and as seen with AE, can make for a great experience.

Also, I know this will never happen, but I still have a very foolish hope that perhaps some time, when the crowd level gets so bad to the point that they need something open to help absorb them, they reopen SGE for a limited time. There's still the second theater that could theoretically run the show if they needed it to.

Given how much they tore down in Future World, it may be an option. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing...

 

[bcoachable]

It seems so weird, to me, to say in one hand - we are too crowded, but on the other, they could fit more people in by opening empty spaces such as this one, and adding a streetmosphere event here or there…. Lack of money isn’t really the issue. So that leads me to the thought that they actually prefer it to feel crowded in their parks. This then adds value to the Genie plus purchase, possibly? Idk… makes me frustrated - the way the parks are currently being toyed with…