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

[Bocabear]

In fairness, when have they ever really tried? Disneyland 1955 was really the only time a Tomorrowland attempted to genuinely predict anything, and even then it was still mostly reliant on demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies more than attractions based in an ever-expiring future. Since that version the Tomorrowlands have always been at good bit “out there”.

People like to talk about how “the Future always catches up to you” but forget that it’s never really caught up to Space Mountain. The trick is to do roughly what you said - create a vision of a Tomorrow that always was and never will be - only they need to really renew their commitment and double down on that with an attraction lineup that is fun, exciting, and unified around the actual theme. When they’ve done that it has actually worked. And more than once! But over time they dilute it and screw it up, and THAT is the issue.

The problem isn’t that Tomorrowland can’t work, it’s that they aren’t even trying to let it work.

That is it!! It did work for a brief time...

 

[UNCgolf]

Stitch is a breakroom now with tables in the queue area for CMs to sit at during break. Some water coolers in there too etc. Just a regular breakroom now. Theatre is still intact, and signs are still on queue walls and floors too. Pretty cool to see, but it doesn't seem like they're worried about asbestos, haha. At least this was the case as of a little over a year ago.
Besides, there are multiple signs throughout the tunnels warning that you may be exposed to asbestos. The buildings are so old I think they legally have to put up warnings. I would assume most of the park is the same, maybe that's how the rumor started.

Asbestos isn't really dangerous until it's disturbed, so generally people are fine to be somewhere with asbestos insulation/whatever else. If you're going to renovate, though, it makes sense to remove it.

 

[Ryandisney]

I feel like when they where buliding tron they should have just done a whole tomorrow land refreshment like asteros is a just a spinner that can go people mover Retrack that do the Tokyo Disney space mountain re theme buzz or update it replace the cars on speedway put something in the stich buliding also move the laugh floor to mgm and combine that buliding with the buzz update and finally update the carousel

 

[WondersOfLife]

I feel like when they where buliding tron they should have just done a whole tomorrow land refreshment like asteros is a just a spinner that can go people mover Retrack that do the Tokyo Disney space mountain re theme buzz or update it replace the cars on speedway put something in the stich buliding also move the laugh floor to mgm and combine that buliding with the buzz update and finally update the carousel

We would have been without Tomorrowland for roughly 14 years.

 

[Ryandisney]

We would have been without Tomorrowland for roughly 14 years.

Start at the front and work back and open it as u go

 

[Disstevefan1]

I have no idea but could it be when an attraction is closed, its not taxed as much as an open operating attraction?

Is it possible if Disney gets some sort of property tax break for the square footage for closed spaces like Stitch and WoL?

We know Disney loves tax write offs where they can get them.

 

[Bocabear]

I think everyone thought that when they were building Tron they were going to overhaul the look of tomorrowland....they started, then just ended up poainting everything white and gave up....
Surely there is an Imagineer that can create some cohesive harmony between the attractions that are currently there and replacement attractions for those that do not fit the theme of the ares... Speedway, Shuttered Stitch, Laff Floor...

 

[EagleScout610]

We would have been without Tomorrowland for roughly 14 years.

Yes but just think of how many photo ops you can put on the walls to charge people for. That's thinking the Bob way

 

[aladdin2007]

I think everyone thought that when they were building Tron they were going to overhaul the look of tomorrowland....they started, then just ended up poainting everything white and gave up....
Surely there is an Imagineer that can create some cohesive harmony between the attractions that are currently there and replacement attractions for those that do not fit the theme of the ares... Speedway, Shuttered Stitch, Laff Floor...

I feel like TDO is allowing local management to make poor choices in this land, instead of bringing in Imagineering. To save costs of course, hence why stitch is left empty. Unless something has changed TDO still has to pay and buy projects/changes from Imagineering, unless Burbank forces it. Otherwise its up to local decsion thus the reason why Tomorowland looks like a ghetto left to rot. No cohesion, no direction.... Only recent plus being the better peoplemover narration implemented last year, why someone got that right but doesn't get it about the rest of the area...is mind boggling. Disney World needs a new president already! We might see better changes if we got one.

 

[Rosso11]

I feel like TDO is allowing local management to make poor choices in this land, instead of bringing in Imagineering. To save costs of course, hence why stitch is left empty. Unless something has changed TDO still has to pay and buy projects/changes from Imagineering, unless Burbank forces it. Otherwise it’s up to local decsion thus the reason why Tomorowland looks like a ghetto left to rot. No cohesion, no direction.... Only recent plus being the better peoplemover narration implemented last year, why someone got that right but doesn't get it about the rest of the area...is mind boggling. Disney World needs a new president already! We might see better changes if we got one.

Exactly! This is what most people do not realize. It’s up to the management of Florida to make these changes. Jeff Vahle holds all of the power. Not WDI

 

[HMF]

Exactly! This is what most people do not realize. It’s up to the management of Florida to make these changes. Jeff Vahle holds all of the power. Not WDI

You can also thank Jeff for the Hatbox Ghost being in the wrong place.

 

[Purduevian]

It still blows my mind that Space 220 (~25,000sqft) went in EPCOT instead of the Stitch space (~31,000sqft if you include ice cream and store).

It could have shared a kitchen with cosmic rays, would have been cheaper to build, and given the park with the weakest TS another option.