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

Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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HeroOfWDW said:
I'm proud to say I went yesterday before it closed to be seasonal. It was my last time in the ride and it was quite emotional. RIP Stitch, I loved you when no one else did. Now I gotta prepare for the hate I'm going to get from this post
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Nah, there were good things about that attraction. It looked awesome, and the AAs were well-done. The problem was the scripting and the concept. It's a shame those couldn't be fixed somehow, but I guess it wasn't possible. Glad you got a last look before Sugar Rush moves in.
 
Daveeeeed

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Since Disney is so set on using ips, why not use Alien? Like seriously have an age recommendation of 14+ Or something, and not allow any children under that to ride alone. I know it's a Fox ip, but they're using Avatar. Alien Encounter I guess was supposed to be based off of it, but that is what this land needs, another planet sci-fi feel. That plus laugh floor replacement with let's say Wreck it Ralph Simpsons style, cop and space updates, a new dark ride, relandscaping, buzz new interactive queue and ride updates, and relandscaping throughout the land, and something done with the speedway long term would make this go from a bomb of a land to one of Disney's best.
 
Bairstow

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David2319 said:
Since Disney is so set on using ips, why not use Alien? Like seriously have an age recommendation of 14+ Or something, and not allow any children under that to ride alone. I know it's a Fox ip, but they're using Avatar. Alien Encounter I guess was supposed to be based off of it, but that is what this land needs, another planet sci-fi feel. That plus laugh floor replacement with let's say Wreck it Ralph Simpsons style, cop and space updates, a new dark ride, relandscaping, buzz new interactive queue and ride updates, and relandscaping throughout the land, and something done with the speedway long term would make this go from a bomb of a land to one of Disney's best.
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Because having a scary alien attraction in that space was a guest services nightmare the first time?

Also because half the point of leveraging an IP is to get all the profits from the merch the IP will hopefully sell. The avatar thing was a weird exception made out of desperation and prior to the ip-buying spree, but in general Disney would rather not cart off a large amount of every action figure sale and hand it over to 20th century fox.
 
Daveeeeed

Daveeeeed

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Bairstow said:
Because having a scary alien attraction in that space was a guest services nightmare the first time?

Also because half the point of leveraging an IP is to get all the profits from the merch the IP will hopefully sell. The avatar thing was a weird exception made out of desperation and prior to the ip-buying spree, but in general Disney would rather not cart off a large amount of every action figure sale and hand it over to 20th century fox.
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That is true, but if you want. High quality attraction sometimes ips like Alien are better than nonnips if the ride has an original story. Like Avatar it will only be enhanced by the ip, nothing was sacrificed because of it. Same with Alien. Different than shoehorning ips where they shouldn't go than something like Frozen.
 
Bairstow

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David2319 said:
That is true, but if you want. High quality attraction sometimes ips like Alien are better than nonnips if the ride has an original story. Like Avatar it will only be enhanced by the ip, nothing was sacrificed because of it. Same with Alien. Different than shoehorning ips where they shouldn't go than something like Frozen.
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I'm honestly not sure Alien would have worked as well in magic kingdom attraction.
The thematic world they created was barely tonally appropriate as it was.
The Alien IP, if they're being faithful, offers next to no opportunities for humor, which is essential for getting away with presenting something as scary as Alien Encounter ended up being in a place like the Magic Kingdom. Plus, the entire pseudosexual overtone of the films would need to be completely dropped.

I'm not saying that you couldn't make a great theme park attraction out of "Alien" (and there's been a couple around the world over the years), just that an attraction based on the films would likely have been inferior to what they ended up doing for that space in that park.
 
Daveeeeed

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Bairstow said:
I'm honestly not sure Alien would have worked as well in magic kingdom attraction.
The thematic world they created was barely tonally appropriate as it was.
The Alien IP, if they're being faithful, offers next to no opportunities for humor, which is essential for getting away with presenting something as scary as Alien Encounter ended up being in a place like the Magic Kingdom. Plus, the entire pseudosexual overtone of the films would need to be completely dropped.

I'm not saying that you couldn't make a great theme park attraction out of "Alien" (and there's been a couple around the world over the years), just that an attraction based on the films would likely have been inferior to what they ended up doing for that space in that park.
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True, but to be frank and honest ips are sadly never going away from that land, so by having a combo the best ones should be chosen. Alien or something else sci fi works much better than monsters inc etc.
 
Bairstow

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David2319 said:
True, but to be frank and honest ips are sadly never going away from that land, so by having a combo the best ones should be chosen. Alien or something else sci fi works much better than monsters inc etc.
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Yeah, that's an unfortunate symptom of Universal's triumph with Wizarding World. It's going to be a long time before park management is going to be able to resist the siren song of Butterbeer and "pop cone" sales.

We'll see Tomorrowland attractions based on garbage IP like Treasure Planet and that CGI cartoon about that space toddler and his pet ostrich before we get something like Alien encounter or Timekeeper again.
 
FigmentJedi

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Bairstow said:
Yeah, that's an unfortunate symptom of Universal's triumph with Wizarding World. It's going to be a long time before park management is going to be able to resist the siren song of Butterbeer and "pop cone" sales.

We'll see Tomorrowland attractions based on garbage IP like Treasure Planet and that CGI cartoon about that space toddler and his pet ostrich before we get something like Alien encounter or Timekeeper again.
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Treasure Planet's a wonderful film, how dare you list it next to Miles!
 
Matt_Black

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Tahu said:
Treasure Planet's a wonderful film, how dare you list it next to Miles!
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Treasure Planet is great. Miles, I think you're being somewhat unfair. While it's not as good as Sofia the First or the Lion Guard, it's a perfectly serviceable introduction to sci-fi for kids. Plus, it's got Mark Hamill as a comic relief bad guy. Fun!
 
Grumpy4196

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If you must have IP in Tomorrowland then Jimmy Neutron would have be a decent fit. The worst thing about Miles is the annoying theme song.
 

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