Today there is this whole ridiculous notion of movies “deserving” a ride. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride is based on a dud and the complete flop Alice in Wonderland has two attractions. Even Peter Pan was not quite the success that was hoped. Not every movie necessarily translates well to a ride. Even the Beast’s Castle is a mystery that is mysterious because it is so lifeless and large parts unseen. If anything it would probably be better suited as a walkthrough like Les Mystères du Nautilus than a ride through the same empty corridors.
Thats sort of how Pooh’s Hunny Hunt works. The whole premise of exploding the traditional Fantasyland dark ride was taken literally. The vehicles start off in a chain on a limited path and their free movement builds until they go crazy in the Heffalumps and Woozles scene.
Not really. Most of the creative leads have some sort of creative or artistic background. Jim Clark, who has been in a lot of the promotional material, has an education in writing but has been a producer for most of his career. Christ Merritt has an education in character animation and has worked as a designer and art director.
There is plenty there with BATB to make a great attraction. Start the ride escaping the wolves outside and/ or in the dark foyer with Lumiere and Cogsworth whispering. Then the West Wing. We hear the Beasts growls and maybe he even startles us along the way to keep the suspense building. Go down a hallway peek into Belles bedroom quickly with her saying she wants nothing to do with the Beast. Then Be Our Guest. Next a library scene. Then “Something there.” Next the ballroom scene with the actual Beast. Onto the invasion and to where we Ultimately look outside to see Gaston And Beast fighting outside at the top of the castle during the storm. Transformation scene and then insert in whatever cheesy ending you want.
Sounds a lot better then the ride through I saw. If this is too expensive (which I can’t see why it should be) than I’d rather have a C or D ticket that feels like a complete ride experience with an emotional arc (or just any sort of drama/ suspense in general) and not a sing along ride.
You can say that the ride I described isn’t what they were going for but you can’t blame the lackluster result of what they built on the source material.
I think the Disney IP rides have been hurt by the acquisitions of Star Wars and Marvel. They seem to have no intention to include anything scary, weird or mysterious with the Disney stuff now. Like they re saving all that stuff for the other IP now. They re not including Anything in the new Disney IP rides that make them feel like adventures or compete experiences. Just cookie cutter SING A LONG song rides.
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