SplashJacket
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In general, what notable attractions were designed for cloning?
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lazyboy97o
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The Haunted Mansion
Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters / Laser Blast
Extra TERRORestrial Alien Encounter
A lot of Disney-MGM Studios might count since for a moment Eisner wanted one everywhere
denyuntilcaught
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Really surprised at Mission: Space. All other attractions that you and lazyboy mentioned make total sense - even Alien Encounter.
But Mission: Space? Which park would the clone(s) even have gone to?
JackCH
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1) where was mission space supposed to go? I never knew that.
2) Lion King seems so perfect for AK I’d be surprised if it’s not at least an option to dupe
I don’t recall. But Eisner was beyond miffed when it didn’t take off as hoped. Cloning it went out the window.
JackCH
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Hehe. “Take off”
cjkeating
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TBH... it would be better than what is there now.
denyuntilcaught
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That's super interesting if at all true. Wouldn't make sense from a local audience perspective IMO - lacks repeatability for DLRs local base, too intense, on top of all the other known M:S issues, etc., but as usual, appreciate Eisner's creative thinking.
WaltWiz1901
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How about option D: None of the above?
Cars Land at DCA should stay as a DCA-exclusive. The unoriginal, unimaginative, and limited think they need to clone rides and lands around the world.
Regarding the subject of to clone or not to clone, while there are certainly attractions that the public has come to accept as essential classics the park experience wouldn't be complete without and would want to see in a newly built park (and most of them have been estimated elsewhere on the forums), it's one thing to meet those expectations and a whole other thing entirely to (want to) clone attractions and lands purpose-built to give a park an identity to call its own or prop up a creatively and/or critically floundering park (as Cars Land undoubtedly was).
It's also one thing to make necessary changes to a replicated attraction to make it adapt to its new surroundings better and a whole other thing to just clone it lock-stock-and-barrel...which Disney has largely lost track of in its (unnecessary) quest to chase the Wizarding World
Animaniac93-98
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lazyboy97o
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Toy Story Midway Mania! is a bit of an odd one because its origins are very much as a Disney’s California Adventure exclusive and yet it ended up not only at Disney’s Hollywood Studios but even opening their first. The whole “under the bed” conceit is thinly there to make it work at Disney’s Hollywood Studios but so much effort was put into barely making it work but making it for Paradise Pier. Then there was the whole fight over the name where Walt Disney Imagineering wanted and installed Toy Story Midway Mania! because that was its intended location but marketing dubbed it Toy Story Mania! which better suited the two park and video game synergy.
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Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
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Is it really a "new" Jessie statue if the same mold has been used all around the world multiple times?
TrainsOfDisney
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Disney…. Stop trying making Jessie happen.
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lazyboy97o
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You don’t call anything you purchase new because it’s not a one-off custom item?
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
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Sure I do. But come on, can't we have a Toy Story themed area where Jessie isn't holding lights? It reeks of homogenization.
nickys
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By that measure none of Tron, Rise, Smuggler’s Run, Remy, MMRR were new at WDW either.
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
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Well, MMRR was new at WDW, but yes, I do wish all of those other things were more different from their original incarnations. I appreciate the color difference in the rocks of Galaxy's Edge, but Space Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain are better examples of how two parks can have the "same ride" but still have it be different.
I'm very opposed to homogenizing the Disney Parks. There should be uniqueness.
