I get that. My issue is that if you were to ask me if I’d want an original Adventurer, original Space adventure or original Haunted Hotel attraction (without the Twilight zone theming) over Indy, Star Tours/ ROTR and TOT I’d pass on all of them. As a father, if you asked me if I wanted an original Snow Queen ride or a Frozen ride come to DL I’d go with the latter as it’s fun to live through your kids eyes and see them get excited about characters and movies they love come to life. There are probably few scenarios where I’d pick the non IP version of a concept over the IP version in 2025. Perhaps it’s an impossible exercise and we’ll always choose the version of an attraction we know and love vs the unknown but for example how can you not go with Indy and Star Wars for those themes?
With that said, I’d love to see fewer single IP lands and for parks to go back to more broadly themed lands.
I think the most important thing is not if it’s IP or original but how the attraction is executed. For an IP attraction, is it a boring, passive, linear book report or are they just giving us some of the broad strokes and having us live out the adventures from the film in an attraction that still feels like an original experience?
