Tomorrowland Speedway drops Indy

[Mr.EPCOT]

Well, then there's the other direction of crossovers - Pixar created the 2-D Buzz Lightyear cartoon and during the credits of many of their films - "Monsters, Inc.," "Ratatouille," etc. - they have shown 2-D versions of their characters.
If Disney really wanted you to think of Magic Kingdom's Toontown as the place in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" I think there would be something there actually from the film. My general feeling is they separated it from the movie by calling it Mickey's Toontown Faire. Even Disneyland's is actually called Mickey's Toontown, not just Toontown. Regardless, though, if "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" were a 2008 release, I would bet major money that the Pixar characters would be there. They are Toons. Toons live in Toontown. Just because one is drawn on a computer and the other is drawn on paper (then scanned into a computer!) doesn't make one less a Toon than another.

As far as the land in Anaheim, it is clearly based off of Toontown out of the movie, and our Toontown Fair seems intended as a country extension of central Toontown in Disneyland. I even seem to remember reading that the "Mickey's" was only added to the name once Eisner started annoying Spielberg. Once Mickey's Starland at the Magic Kingdom was converted to Toontown Fair three years after the land opened in California, if they wanted to distinguish the area from the Toontown realm they probably would have just kept the old name, or something else altogether.

As for Roger Rabbit being released with Pixar characters (and its more than possible the prequel/sequel could come back), who knows? I'm just saying I don't think WDI would want to put forth the idea to Guests of being in a combo 2-D/3-D world without it having been portrayed on film and/or television first. It is slightly possible that they might go with the 2-D Pixar representions, but I find that highly unlikely as you would be in a three-dimensional car, essentially sitting in one of the characters of the movie.

 

[imagineer boy]

I don't consider CGI characters toons at all. How dumb would that look to see 3-deminsional characters running around a 2-D enviroment? So please, keep the Pixar characters out of Toontown thank you very much.

 

[dxwwf3]

Part of my actually wouldn't mind to see this turned into a Cars attraction. Tomorrowland is more than likely going to go mostly Pixar anyways. And driving Cars themed cars would probably be very entertaining and they could use in car sounds, such as voices of the characters and whatnot. I am certainly against the over-characterization of the parks and lack of original, theme park sepcific attractions, but when something fits (such as Nemo and The Seas) I usually don't have a problem with it. Forcing things in simply for merchandise (SGE anyone?) really bothers me.

But I would much rather see a Carsland type of area added to the Studios. Until Ratatouillie came out, Cars was probably my favorite animated film and I would love to see Radiator Springs in the parks.

 

[Roxas]

Indy speedway is so out of date, they should remove the rails and make it into a go-kart track (Max speed 5 mph) such as the one in Legoland windsor. (If only americans weren't so litigious)

 

[EPCOT.nut]

Indy speedway is so out of date, they should remove the rails and make it into a go-kart track (Max speed 5 mph) such as the one in Legoland windsor. (If only americans weren't so litigious)

If only go-karts weren't so dangerous! I don't know if the foreigners that visit here could handle them safely. :lookaroun

:lol:

 

[Animaniac93-98]

If only go-karts weren't so dangerous! I don't know if the foreigners that visit here could handle them safely. :lookaroun

:lol:

How bad could the karts be if they only go 5 mph?

 

[EPCOT.nut]

How bad could the karts be if they only go 5 mph?

I dunno - have you heard the dumb questions guests ask at WDW? :lol: Maybe before being allowed to ride the karts, they need to correctly answer one question,

"When is the 3:00 parade?"