News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

Rich Brownn

Rich Brownn

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Bocabear said:
The Disneyland version with it's two drops, Skeleton caves, Blue Bayou prologue all add up to a much more engaging experience... Having grown up going to WDW, I was blown away by my first ride on the Anaheim version... Why didn't they build the same length attraction? And it would have been amazing in the 70s to have had a Blue Bayou type indoor restaurant...or themed more appropriately to Blue Lagoon like the Paris version. The other thing that is not mentioned is the Shanghai has an EXTENSIVE Pirates LAND surrounding the ride...Restaurants, Theater and show, Ships pulled up in a harbor with a coast littered with old shipwrecks... This all adds to the experience. While WDW has more of a Pirates area than Anaheim, it pales in comparison to Shanghai and Paris.
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We were never supposed to have Pirates,so no room was set aside for it (Ours was to be the Western River Expedition). When people kept asking where Pirates was WRE got canned and
as much as they could squeeze in they did. Plus the Imagineers always hated the way you had to trudge back up to the lagoon at the end so that was cut too.
 
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vikescaper

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Has there been any word on if the Tomorrowland BGM will change once Tron opens? Other sites have posted videos with the Tron BGM playing and it sounds out of place in comparison to the current Tomorrowland loop.
 
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DCBaker

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Smiley/OCD

Smiley/OCD

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vikescaper said:
Has there been any word on if the Tomorrowland BGM will change once Tron opens? Other sites have posted videos with the Tron BGM playing and it sounds out of place in comparison to the current Tomorrowland loop.
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And they are going to have to change the narration on the steamboat also because it makes mention of Chickapin Hill…
 
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James Alucobond

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J4546 said:
It does kinda seem like 2 paths but I wonder if the not underpass path will be for guests.
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Yeah. The pathway definitely seems to have an organic opening that doesn't lend itself to being blocked easily, and the path is more manicured than a typical backstage pathway, but I was assuming that was simply because it would still be visible to some degree while entering the underpass. Seems weird that they would route guests directly past that service building, especially since they went to great lengths to hide it from the overpass with an elevated planter. Also, the path currently just kind of haphazardly intersects with the ramp toward the Speedway, making me think it's only supposed to look stage-ready from a distance (see terminus in third tweet above).
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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_caleb said:
Now, I’m looking at these photos and I’m wondering why they crammed TRON into that space.
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This is probably my biggest issue with it.

I don't think TRON is an especially good ride and it's definitely not what the MK needs -- it needs a long, people eating attraction, not a 60 second long ride with average at best capacity -- but hey, it's a new attraction at the MK that isn't a replacement, so that's not a bad thing.

But the placement just doesn't make any sense, especially with the canopy and plaza. That canopy is supposed to be a centerpiece, not something tucked back into a corner that's only visible from a couple of places. If TRON was going to go there, they should have made more significant changes to the design so it would be a better fit. It almost feels lazy.
 

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