CosmicRays
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I wish! Would be awesome.
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MK Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath
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VR at first. Then 3D. And finally 2D.
Too small.
JustInTime
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The other site stated Merchant of Venus will be turned into the exit of the ride. Whatever that may end up being.
Monster's or SGE? I don't think either are large enough for a dark ride, unfortunately.
Creathir
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If you could somehow connect both spaces with a bridge, that would be plenty for a huge dark ride.
GymLeaderPhil
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Costly, but they could squeeze a Alice in Wonderland sized dark ride utilizing the space above and below the current ground level of SGE.
A Laugh Floor replacement could also easily extend into the backstage outdoor foods building and parking lot behind it if they needed space.
A Laugh Floor replacement could also easily extend into the backstage outdoor foods building and parking lot behind it if they needed space.
peter11435
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Buzz kind of limits the ability for laugh floor to expand into those spaces
Very true. Both the Terrace and IYHW buildings were add ons to the original CV building.
Can a modern Disney pull off small dark rides? I'd assume there's both design and compliance challenges to overcome. Disney keeps going bigger with their darkrides for whatever reason. But if we're talking a smaller footprint; it does make me wonder about that "Black Box" concept that was discussed earlier.
Movielover
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Pardon my crudeness, I'm away from my Photoshop PC. I know it would not be this simple but this red square is roughly the same size as the entire Transformers facility at Universal. This is just fun to speculate about and again, putting a darkride in this spot would be very difficult, but possibly a different company would come up with a clever solution to squeeze in a ride, que, shop, and utilities...
Depending on how the utilidor is laid out underneath they could also do a tunnel connection. Either way would lead to some interesting results.
Transformers is two stories, that's how they make it fit.
Constraints for our armchair imagineering...
I've scoped this out earlier and got similar numbers:
SGE: 18.4k sqft / .42 acres
Snacks and shops: 9k sqft / .2 acres
Total: 27.4k sqft / .64 acres
Peter Pan: 13.5 sqft / .31 acres
So, yeah, you could have a repeat of one of the shortest and lowest capacity dark rides in that space.
For comparison, Buzz is .55 acres.
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Movielover
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Correct, no reason why they could not do that here, or even put the second level down on the utilidor level. You could really play with that space to fit a ride in there. Will Disney do it? Most likely no, but its fun to armchair...
Sure, but that would mean a full demolition and rebuild.
I'm sure Disney would prefer to make something fit existing architecture.
Although... a full rebuild might wind up being cheaper than all the retrofit kludges.
Although... a full rebuild might set off a real estate tax increase...
Anyhoo, my archmair imagineering says to take over the entire building including Cosmic Rays for a nice, long dark ride. Then beef up and keep open Tomorrowland Terrace and add another QS by the restrooms. No one will mourn the passing of the stage.
Crudeness pardoned
sadly there’s no Utilidor there. It’s further east.
The obvious armchair solution is to rework Tomorrowland into an Arcadeland. It seemed to be going that way. You could do the Space-themed Pizza Planet (and arcade) anything WiR (though preferably something tied to Hero's Duty and the Cybug alien swarm concept and NOT Sugar Rush) and then of course TRON, another arcade game. Not sure if going Pixel adventure land vs World of Tomorrow land is a great idea but it seems the logical choice nowadays. Tomorrowland's always been a mixed bag anyway.
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If only. But that's not Disney's MO.
I'd welcome Timekeeper and A.E. back in heartbeat.
I'd welcome Timekeeper and A.E. back in heartbeat.
UNCgolf
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Good reason to go ahead and eliminate Buzz, which is old, bad, and doesn't really fit in Tomorrowland anyways.