EPCOT Explorer
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5 think it's the Pixar-ization of the parks is what people would have a problem with.TL already has one too many Pixar attractions.
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Tomorrowland Speedway drops Indy
- Thread starter mousermerf
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Maybe you are thinking of the Cars ride at DLP.
Disneykidder
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Adding a Mater car, McQueen, Doc, etc, would be neat with speakers with saying from them. That would totally Disneyfy it!! (not really a word)
CThaddeus
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Disneyland's is themed more to the Chevron cars in the commericals -the ones animated with clay.
aladdin2007
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Disneyland's is themed more to the Chevron cars in the commericals -the ones animated with clay
Oh okay yes those were the ones I was thinking of, I knew they were happy and colorful looking. Thanks for the clarification. I guess they wouldnt theme Disneyland's to CARS anyway since california adventure is getting the big new cars land e ticket ride.
Oh okay yes those were the ones I was thinking of, I knew they were happy and colorful looking. Thanks for the clarification. I guess they wouldnt theme Disneyland's to CARS anyway since california adventure is getting the big new cars land e ticket ride.
Ringo8n24
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You said it!!! I would like to see a "Cars" theme...Lightning McQueen type cars, but Nascar would be so cool.
ChrisQ
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I'm a pretty big NASCAR fan (Go #9), but I couldn't agree more. It would be an odd juxtaposition no matter what land you put it in.
That said, I'm not that much of a fan of the speedway, either.
imagineer boy
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Glad the see the Indy theme is dropped. What they really should do is give it a futuristic cosmic highway theme to make it fit into tomorrowland better. It could make the cars electric, have the cars be futuristic looking, have neat scenery like alien billboards, hitch hiking robots, the works. It has so much potential! Of course, knowing Disney, they'll probably just make it into a Cars land like everyone else has been mentioning. 
ChrisQ
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That would be fun...just go all out and make it campy.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
Excellent idea, after all the ride is as enjoyable as F1, and hes tall enough to wear a mouse suit too.
photoflight
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that was my first thought. But, sorry - mine has to be a red Ferrari! :lookaroun
Animaniac93-98
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They could theme the ride to the Disney TV episode "Magic Highway USA". (You can see some of it on youtube). That would make it fit in with Tomorrowland, but the Toontown idea I think is better. That way the walkway from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland wouldn't be as crowded.
nemofinder22
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I wouldnt really say Autopia is themed to the Chevron cars more like Autopia cars/Chevron cars in the queue and some billboard/signs here and there.
What I mean is the actuall Autopia car isnt themed to a Chevron car.
I think word has it that the Chevron sponsership is up in a few more years and Honda maybe the new sponser with electric cars nothing for sure just what I'v read.
Perhaps both can get new cars and MK's get a refrub.
ilovejr71292
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you see by my name where my heart lies!
Go #88!
But I would love to see something a little faster paced put in place, like why not an actual speedway? Where you could go a little faster than two miles an hour while getting whip lash from the idiot behind you?
Go #88!
But I would love to see something a little faster paced put in place, like why not an actual speedway? Where you could go a little faster than two miles an hour while getting whip lash from the idiot behind you?
Mr.EPCOT
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If there wasn't already an abundance of cartoon properties in Tomorrowland, I'd love to see the Speedway rethemed to Cars, it could really work, but now that'd just tipping the theme towards Fantasyland East even more. I also agree that theming it to NASCAR would just be wrong for the Magic Kingdom overall.
And as for integrating it into Toontown, not a bad idea, but I don't think that wouldn't really work, either, because asking the Guest to perceive Toontown as a world of 2-D cell animated characters and 3-D computer generated characters combined would be kind of weird.
I'd say the best bet is to give it a DL/HKDL-style overhaul, just rename it Autopia and give it all the appropriate fixins'.
And as for integrating it into Toontown, not a bad idea, but I don't think that wouldn't really work, either, because asking the Guest to perceive Toontown as a world of 2-D cell animated characters and 3-D computer generated characters combined would be kind of weird.
I'd say the best bet is to give it a DL/HKDL-style overhaul, just rename it Autopia and give it all the appropriate fixins'.
CThaddeus
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Weird like, say, "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse," "My Friends Tigger and Pooh," "Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas," and of course the most popular example of 2-D/3-D crossover currently in the Magic Kingdom - "Mickey's Philharmagic?" I don't see the difficulty in connecting the 2-D world with the 3-D one. Disney crosses it over all the time now.
Mr.EPCOT
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I get where you're coming from, but in those cases they are strictly 3-D. If you added Cars or any other 3-D animated venue to Toontown, you'd essentially be asking the Guest to imagine a Toontown world where 2-D and 3-D characters coexist next to each other. That hasn't been shown in any movies or anything. I'm assuming WDI wants you to imagine you are in Toontown as the realm is shown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and that doesn't include 3-D. If they want a Toontown with both, I would assume that they'd want some show or something out there that showcases them co-existing, say a 3-D Woody visiting the 2-D House of Mouse, for example.
CThaddeus
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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.