The Imagineering Common Area - A Discussion Thread

[JokersWild]

Definitely Indy. They were my favorite movies growing up and I’m really excited to see another one. Even just hearing Sallah again was a big deal for me.

Side note, I just booked another Tokyo Disney trip for next month and I’m super jazzed about it. I think I’m going to miss HMH by a day, but I might try to go down a day early so I can see it.

 

[MickeyWaffleCo.]

Indy for sure for me, if only because it’s John Williams’ last movie.

 

[Suchomimus]

I’m going to join Space’s side and also say none of the above.
Transformers, I never was a fan and the last film I saw was Bumblebee; albeit the last ten or so minutes of the film because Spider-Verse had finished its runtime. But outside of that, there’s nothing that makes me want to watch anything from the films.
Speaking of Marvel, I think Love and Thunder is going to have be the last of the latest MCU entries, given how all their recent content has exemplified being about quantity over quality as well what’s been happening behind the scenes with the people in charge and that includes the treatment of the SFX artists.
Indiana Jones should’ve stayed as a trilogy. I’m just going to leave it at that.

 

[Lizzy May Bee]

I’ll join the crowd who’s uninterested in these lol, not a big movie watcher or fan of these franchises. If there’s any upcoming film I’m interested in it’s probably the Mario movie of all things

 

[Disney Warrior]

I’ll join the crowd who’s uninterested in these lol, not a big movie watcher or fan of these franchises. If there’s any upcoming film I’m interested in it’s probably the Mario movie of all things

Gonna have to agree with this, the Transformers ride at Universal is cool, but I'm not a fan of that franchise, nor am I a fan of Indy or GOTG

 

[tcool123]

I’ll join the crowd who’s uninterested in these lol, not a big movie watcher or fan of these franchises. If there’s any upcoming film I’m interested in it’s probably the Mario movie of all things

That’s valid the recent Super Mario trailer looked surprisingly decent and it managed to get a chuckle out of me! Perhaps this will continue the trend of video game movies being enjoyable successful romps!

 

[mharrington]

I've tried to do this in my own thread on the subject, but I'm getting nowhere there: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/magician-mickeys-madcap-mania-working-title.979143/.

I've tried to do a connecting dark ride themed to Magician Mickey at the Town Square Theater to go along with the Mickey meet-n-greet there. However, it seems that Mickey's House of Wonders over at Storybook Circus seems better. It's certainly more fleshed out.

Here's the thing, though, I was also thinking of duplicating the ride, either one, for Disneyland Paris and putting it over by a Mickey meet-n-greet there, which has a lot in common with the one in Florida:

It was suggested that I redo the meet-n-greet to be railroad-themed, given its proximity to the Disneyland Paris Railroad station, but I would think that any railroad-themed meet-n-greet would be mostly American in theme, and I don't want that. It was also suggested to give the meet-n-greet a "Mickey and the Beanstalk" theme, but there's already a store there called Sir Mickey's Boutique, which takes at least partial inspiration from that cartoon:

The only other alternative would be to do the meet-n-greet like in Shanghai, but it's all just a bunch of (often animated) paintings and such, with none of the posters seen in the queue of the meet-n-greet of today:


I suppose I could just have the ride completely overtake the meet-n-greet spot, which certainly would give more room to move around, but that would totally eliminate the meet-n-greet, and there would be no place else to put it.

What do I do?

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

So I just found out about the Toothsome Emporium at Orlando’s CityWalk. It was supposed to be Willy Wonka. I guess Universal Studios Japan was looking at adding a Wonka land. Reminds me of The Imaginarium project my team did!

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

So I just found out about the Toothsome Emporium at Orlando’s CityWalk. It was supposed to be Willy Wonka. I guess Universal Studios Japan was looking at adding a Wonka land. Reminds me of The Imaginarium project my team did!

It's a solid experience. Food has been decent my 2 visits, interesting interior and characters. The shakes are wild looking, though not the most practical, but still pretty good.

 

[JokersWild]

It’s been five days and I’ve already extended by TDL trip to three days (literally only so I can see HMH lol) and somehow snagged a Magellan’s reservation. If crowds are ok this trip might be better than my last.

 

[tcool123]

Community Question

Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

 

[MickeyMouse10]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

I think it's a bad fit for the park, unless they are changing the front section to Despicable Me. Because they already have an attraction across the street. It seems a bit monotonous (or miniontonous) to put another one, which doesn't even plus the original.

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

I'm a bit yes and no on this one. Minions is not in my list of top IPs, but I think it's good to keep a family friendly one here, and seeing some of the potential details and possibilities with who is working on this it looks really interesting. Since they are going with a full on mini minions land with monsters Cafe being redone too, it makes sense.

Will have to see what the capacity ends up being (don't think it will be great), but think the park really could've used a higher capacity dark ride in this spot, maybe even in conjuction with a redo of mayhem too. Bit of an odd flow for the park here, which I guess it already was.

 

[tcool123]

I think it's a bad fit for the park, unless they are changing the front section to Despicable Me. Because they already have an attraction across the street. It seems a bit monotonous (or miniontonous) to put another one, which doesn't even plus the original.

I believe its part of creating a Minions land at the front, and likely as a way to have a kids area as most of kids zone gets razed next year.

I'm a bit yes and no on this one. Minions is not in my list of top IPs, but I think it's good to keep a family friendly one here, and seeing some of the potential details and possibilities with who is working on this it looks really interesting. Since they are going with a full on mini minions land with monsters Cafe being redone too, it makes sense.

Will have to see what the capacity ends up being (don't think it will be great), but think the park really could've used a higher capacity dark ride in this spot, maybe even in conjuction with a redo of mayhem too. Bit of an odd flow for the park here, which I guess it already was.

Agreed a high capacity dark ride would have been needed, and honestly for the front location makes logical sense. The flow of the park has always been off with the Main Street being Hollywood, but its tucked to the left while Minions now acts as the "Main Street" due to being in front of guests.

 

[MickeyMouse10]

Upgrading Universal

Much like Epcot, Universal Studios has lost it’s way. Some of the things they have been adding have been great (Harry, The Simpsons). But they have unnecessarily gotten rid of many of their classics (Jaws, Back to the Future, King Kong) when they could have just added to the park. With my new...

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I would have probably rethemed the whole area to various Illuminations IP's. It seems limiting to just do Despicable Me. Perhaps it's just a momentary attraction though, like Camp Minnie Mickey. Until they can come up with something bigger and better.

 

[Lizzy May Bee]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

I feel like anything could’ve replaced Shrek 4D and it would’ve been fine but I have trouble seeing how it’s gonna be different from the other minions ride

 

[Disney Warrior]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

I like the minions movies but what type of attraction would it be? If it were a simulator/dark ride there has to be some differences between it and MM. I also think that this attraction could’ve been themed to a different IP to better distinguish it (perhaps Secret Life of Pets, TMNT, Sing, or Sesame Street if SeaWorld didn’t own the American theme park rights to that IP)

 

[spacemt354]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

It's a bit repetitive - I get Minions is popular but I don't think it helps establish an 'entrance' for USO. It continues the park's cluttered themes and lack of cohesion, in many ways it will need a bigger overhaul than DHS to even start to make sense.

 

[TwilightZone]

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Universal Orlando today has officially announced Villian-Con: Minion Blast as the replacement for the former Shrek 4D. In your opinion is this s good fit for the park, if not what would you rather see in that spot?​

I think its alright, my hope is that it will give an excuse to replace Minion Mayhem with something else, since the ride system hasn't aged the best. But I don't really mind the idea of a full on mini Minions land

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

As with many who have already voiced something, I'm a bit underwhelmed by another Despicable Me attraction. With the use of screens (and some set pieces), it looks like they are aiming for something more like Toy Story Mania, but the park already has Men in Black. I suppose, though, a ride is an improvement over a show.