The Great Movie ride vs Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway poll

Which is the best ride?

  • The Great Movie Ride

    Votes: 140 61.7%
  • Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway

    Votes: 87 38.3%

  • Total voters
    227

"El Gran Magnifico"

Mr Flibble is Very Cross.
Tough question. Trackless vs Track. Disney Theming vs Classic Movie Theming. I like the trackless aspect. But I liked the Classic Movie Theme and CM interaction. My vote kinda sways to to MMRR right now - but that's probably because of the "newness". I've ridden it half a dozen times. I think over time GMR will be the stronger of the two but the issue with GMR is they didn't do enough to keep it fresh.
 

HouCuseChickie

Well-Known Member
I couldn't vote when this first came out because I hadn't experienced MMRR. Now that I have, I can without a doubt say that MMRR is a win for me and a major improvement over GMR.

It probably doesn't help that I've always thought that GMR was a miss, as far as attractions go. I'm also kind of surprised when I see all of the love for it too, because I remember many people classified it as a dud in the early days. It wasn't until the announcement about it closing and being gutted came out that I saw all of this love for it. Our first visit to MGM was in 1991, we waited a LONG time to ride GMR, and we just weren't impressed. As a FL resident at the time, Universal became our go-to movie park because rides like this at MGM just weren't a draw for us. It wasn't until we had kids, who were too short to ride a lot of the Universal stuff, that we started going back to the park (as DHS). GMR became something to ride because there wasn't a ton to do and there was never a long wait. There was some nostalgia tied to GMR, but in this case, I feel like MMR is just a superior attraction and no amount of personal nostalgia is going to change that for me.
 

harryk

Well-Known Member
Finally got to ride MMRR and it does not deserve to stand where GMR stood. Should have taken up real estate in magic kingdom.
Can't say I disagree. and The updated cartoon drawings of Mickey and other Disney characters are an insult to Walt. In DisneyWorld the characters should be drawn as Walt would have them.
 

Goofnut1980

Well-Known Member
The thing is in my opinion, MMRR is cute and well done. But to go from a nice relaxing (maybe needed some updates) attraction that lasted 30 mins, to something that lasts 3 minutes is kind of sad.
 

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