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

Sharon&Susan

Sharon&Susan

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Just curious is Laugh Floor space bigger than what Great Escape uses? Could make Laugh Floor a dark ride like what they did with all the other old Circle Vision theaters world wide and turn Great Escape into a new venue for Laugh Floor or some new theater show.
 
owlsandcoffee

owlsandcoffee

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Sharon&Susan said:
Just curious is Laugh Floor space bigger than what Great Escape uses? Could make Laugh Floor a dark ride like what they did with all the other old Circle Vision theaters world wide and turn Great Escape into a new venue for Laugh Floor or some new theater show.
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They're comparable in size, although I think if you include everything that isn't Cosmic Ray's the GE space is bigger. I've been fiddling around with those layouts for a while and can probably answer that question better later.
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Sharon&Susan said:
Just curious is Laugh Floor space bigger than what Great Escape uses? Could make Laugh Floor a dark ride like what they did with all the other old Circle Vision theaters world wide and turn Great Escape into a new venue for Laugh Floor or some new theater show.
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marni1971 said:
Pardon the crudeness - I`ve been having new PC migration issues but here`s a size comparison someone asked about. Not taking into account structural issues like support beams and the like.

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Bocabear

Bocabear

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Sharon&Susan said:
Just curious is Laugh Floor space bigger than what Great Escape uses? Could make Laugh Floor a dark ride like what they did with all the other old Circle Vision theaters world wide and turn Great Escape into a new venue for Laugh Floor or some new theater show.
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There is also a HUGE expansion pad that used to be the Galaxy Theater and is now a parking lot... If they really wanted to add another attraction, the space is there... without having to tear out Laugh Floor...though honestly I would rather see a circle vision attraction back in the Circle Vision Theater... What about a circle vision Hubble Telescope Galaxy tour? Something actually space and future themed... Plus a new Dark Ride theme to anything but Monsters Inc and Toy Story...
 
Max Duane

Max Duane

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Bocabear said:
There is also a HUGE expansion pad that used to be the Galaxy Theater and is now a parking lot... If they really wanted to add another attraction, the space is there... without having to tear out Laugh Floor...though honestly I would rather see a circle vision attraction back in the Circle Vision Theater... What about a circle vision Hubble Telescope Galaxy tour? Something actually space and future themed... Plus a new Dark Ride theme to anything but Monsters Inc and Toy Story...
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Disney+ has a lot of NatGeo content, so maybe they could get a decent film about space from there. Interject Wall-E or some IP as a “host” to introduce the movie if they have to, but it’d be a nice little replacement to escape the heat.
 
uncle jimmy

uncle jimmy

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Here's a couple Disney related IP's that I could think headlining a replacement show for SGE:
-Flight of the Navigator
-DreamFinder presents...
-WallE presents...
-Big Hero 6
-A Wrinkle in Time characters
-Artemis Fowl

I wonder thou if a replacement for SGE will come online before a Space Mountain refurb happens?
 
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Strollin' Stu

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champdisney said:
One has to wonder if Disney is already considering repackaging Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin to coincide with Pixar’s next years release of Lightyear.
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I wouldn't doubt it! The fact that Space Ranger Spin is still up and running is a miracle. Not only because it sticks out for being the only Toy Story ride not in Toy Story Land, but also because that ride is old and in need of some TLC. Perhaps they're waiting to refurb it in time for the new movie.
 
champdisney

champdisney

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Strollin' Stu said:
I wouldn't doubt it! The fact that Space Ranger Spin is still up and running is a miracle. Not only because it sticks out for being the only Toy Story ride not in Toy Story Land, but also because that ride is old and in need of some TLC. Perhaps they're waiting to refurb it in time for the new movie.
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As soon as I saw that reveal trailer a few months ago, I thought to myself, this is what they’re going to do with Space Ranger Spin!! After all of the years of clamoring for the removal of BL: SRS because of “too much Toy Story around WDW”... I will actually be okay with this. It will continue to be tied to Toy Story but only by association.

In our world, we know where Buzz Lightyear comes from BUT in the world of Toy Story, the upcoming film will serve as the source from which Buzz Lightyear came from. Making the property familiar but also something entirely new. It all makes sense.
 
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fgmnt

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A CEO that had spent any time trying to understand what to add to MK Tomorrowland and WDW as a whole over the last decade, while still catering to IP, would have landed on building an E-ticket dark ride like ROTR in Tomorrowland in the South building + expansion pad based off the Guardians of the Galaxy, and a black box simulator in the north building. Instead you have a copy of a ride from somewhere else that sticks out like a sore thumb, an ancient B/C-ticket arcade shooter ride you have convinced guests is a D/E ticket, a theater show that does not fit the theme of the land by any stretch of the imagination, and a dead theater.

Oh well!
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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fgmnt said:
A CEO that had spent any time trying to understand what to add to MK Tomorrowland and WDW as a whole over the last decade, while still catering to IP, would have landed on building an E-ticket dark ride like ROTR in Tomorrowland in the South building + expansion pad based off the Guardians of the Galaxy, and a black box simulator in the north building. Instead you have a copy of a ride from somewhere else that sticks out like a sore thumb, an ancient B/C-ticket arcade shooter ride you have convinced guests is a D/E ticket, a theater show that does not fit the theme of the land by any stretch of the imagination, and a dead theater.

Oh well!
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I'm not sure Iger (I'm only talking about him because Chapek hasn't had the job long enough to have much effect on this stuff yet) had any input on what was built/is currently being built beyond the vague IP mandate, especially since he was mostly interested in/focused on the media side.

They're big ticket capital expenditures, so it's possible he was involved to an extent, but CEOs don't usually make those types of decisions -- they might be involved in signing off on the final plan, but I wouldn't expect them to be very involved in anything leading up to that. That's more the purview of the parks leadership (which means Chapek could deserve more of the blame unless Iger was hands-on for a CEO, although even then I would expect some of the decisions were made at a level below him and he just signed off).

I'm not defending Iger or how the parks have evolved under his leadership, just pointing out that CEOs would usually be at least one step removed from that level of decision making. The CEO could certainly get involved if he or she wanted (Eisner seemed to be pretty hands on, at least at certain times), but that's not really their job description. They'd be more likely to sign off on a specific amount of money going to parks and it's up to the parks leadership to determine how to spend it.
 
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Rich Brownn

Rich Brownn

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uncle jimmy said:
Care to share your thoughts on a replacement, rather than ding mine non-monsters/ Toy Story ideas?
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Not dinging yours. I'm just saying Disney rarely will base a ride on a flop. Its why we never got the "Island At The Top Of The World" ride in the70s. Or "Dick Tracy" ride. Artemis was hated by pretty much everyone - fans, critics, public. The dodged a bullet by skipping theatrical release. (Fowl sits at 8% on RT which is by far the worst reviews any Disney film has ever gotten.) As for ideas, the space is really suitable for another show-type experience. Not necesarily using the Mission theaters, but it's really too small and akward a layout for a decent ride.
 

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