I am an Epcot purist and I love the Guardians films and the ride as an awesome experience.
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News Test Track to be reimagined
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aladdin2007
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and yet the rat merch selection has dwindled in offerings this year, I don't know what they are doing but they had a lot more different things prior to choose from. The one small section of the store (still a stupid location for the merch) has very little now with only a few things to pick from....I know back to testtrack sorry.
osian
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I see it the other way around. Picking a specific IP is no less risky than an original concept, it's not guaranteed success, and it's not proven to be more successful than original.
Case in point: Galaxy's Edge. Not the biggest success with an absolutely gigantic IP.
Erm, and that hotel thingy.
Harmonious: designed solely to advertise IP.
And when the franchise goes out of favour or licenses expire...an expensive revamp.
The real reason, as has been mentioned before, is Iger who does not have a parks vision. The parks were successful in the first place without being totally IP. This is all about One Man's Vision. And it's not Walt's.
FiestaFunKid
Active Member
I personally agree with the spirit of all of this, the overall risk to Disney is miscalculated and even greater in the long term by over-focusing on IP. Essentially every ride I loved in the 80s/90s was based on decades old IP or none at all.
However, how leadership perceives personal risk is much different. These hyper-rising execs have been chasing these coveted positions their entire careers by managing various internal initiatives and promoting (and spinning when needed) them as success after success. They've taken extensive executive leadership training and are always focused on the next promotion - and what clear steps/achievements are needed in the short term to get there. They are unlikely to put this personal agenda (obsession at times) and the big $$ at risk by pushing for investment that could result in them owning blame without data backed reasoning and derailing their next move. Josh seems like a nice guy who loves the parks - but I'm not sure he is the rare leader who puts aside self serving motives for the long term vision of the parks.
ChrisFL
Premium Member
That is true
Schmidt
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Hagrids and Velocicoasters are great coasters, but that’s what they are. They are lightly themed coasters with wonky animatronics., especially Hagrids. Are they fun? Heck yeah, but for me they are coasters. To be honest Universal doubling down on Coasters for EPIC is a potential mistake.
I personally see Star Wars, TRON, GOTG , Pandora, and others as legacy type rides. To say otherwise isn’t exactly being fair.
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FiestaFunKid
Active Member
Agree on Velocicoster - but I'd say Hagrids is at least on par with Tron (and Mine Train) from a theming perspective.
See your point on too many coasters with little theming though - that is a Six Flagish MO. They weren't going to go the screen heavily route again, so maybe it pushed them here.
Schmidt
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I think that’s fair. For me the aesthetic that it brings at night is amazing and the ride is great or at least what’s there but it’s a bit short.
Bocabear
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I think it looks slick at night... by day it is a sore thumb in Tomorrowland... Visually does not feel like it is part of anything....and I think the storyline of the ride feels nonexistent... It could have been great at DHS because they could have had an entire land based on the Game Grid and then a jumping off place for things like Wreck It Ralph...
DisneyCane
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I generally think Tomorrowland looks much better at night (even long before Tron). That land and HM are the two areas in MK that rise to another level at night.
Jayspency
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Whenever I think of tommorowland at night I always think of the 1994 version. Am I the only one who thinks the sci fi aesthetic of that version is better than the current one
No you are not. Bring the Buck Rogers aesthetic back!
Energy has nothing to do with dinosaurs. That was a marketing campaign of Sinclair. Science had known that petroleum wasn't dead dinosaurs way before that. In the Ellen version of the ride, Nye had to admit the dinos had nothing to do with the history of energy, only that they 'were cool.'
Edutainment should have real, truthful education if it's going to be called that.
DisneyCane
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They were part of the ecosystem that led to petroleum even if it wasn't specifically the dinos.
All that reaching is going to leave stretch marks.
Centauri Space Station
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Jayspency
Member
The fact that they havent removed the marquee yet while having already removed the blue car from the marquee tells me that its just going to be reused. Also I notice that the entire interior track has been removed from the track frame (at least on the high speed loop track pieces)