News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[danlb_2000]

Not sure they can do anything completely in secret due to the requirement of permits.

Permits are so vague these days that there may have been permits for a new attraction without us every knowing it.

 

[geekza]

Did you ride it though?

It. Was. Awesome!

I did not. While I'm sure it was a different experience, it can hardly be considered a "special enhancement," in that it wasn't something that added to the original theme or related to Halloween in any way.

 

[Rteetz]

Permits are so vague these days that there may have been permits for a new attraction without us every knowing it.

Aren’t you a professional permit decipherer though?

 

[PizzaPlanet]

Aren’t you a professional permit decipherer though?

They must be on to him after the big gondola discovery...

 

[HauntedPirate]

Aren’t you a professional permit decipherer though?

Permit Whisperer

 

[tomast]

I would really prefered a break it ralph atraction with the tomorowland arcade mixture. Tron?? really?
Thats the best the can come with? SpaceMountain + Test Track + lame Ip

 

[nickys]

Permits are so vague these days that there may have been permits for a new attraction without us every knowing it.

I don’t believe that for a minute. Maintenance, maybe. A new attraction? It wouldn’t get past your expert permit-sensing radar.

 

[danlb_2000]

I don’t believe that for a minute. Maintenance, maybe. A new attraction? It wouldn’t get past your expert permit-sensing radar.

Intentionally or not, for the past year or so Disney has been obfuscating their permits more and more. This is why I changed how I handler permits now since 95% of them no longer show anything helpful.

 

[Mike S]

"But Mr Mike S, were we successful because of good maintenance, or because of synergy with our movie characters?" asked the suit.

You only had Fantasyland with synergy initially.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

You only had Fantasyland with synergy initially.

One-way synergy, yes.

But Fronteirland was much more intense synergy. Davy Crockett was one of the most popular TV shows of the time. A TV show made specifically to synergize with the Fronteirland portion of the park.

 

[lazyboy97o]

You only had Fantasyland with synergy initially.

You don’t synergize with duds.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

Trees are torn down, track is torn up.

 

[tparris]

Trees are torn down, track is torn up.

Well that was fast. I wonder are they planning on slightly rerouting the track for Tron?

 

[GlacierGlacier]

Well that was fast. I wonder are they planning on slightly rerouting the track for Tron?

Maybe.

The removal of the track is for construction equipment to move back and forth safely. But after the construction is done, who knows

 

[Kman101]

Most of that merchandise is finding it's way to the discount rack. As most people anticipated, the demand for Avatar merchandise is limited at best. The banshees were seemingly a flash in the pan success but that has certainly tapered off. They've been at the outlets as well.

Doesn't help it's mostly ugly merchandise ... a lot of Everest merch is at the outlets too.

 

[Dizmentia]

Doesn't help it's mostly ugly merchandise ... a lot of Everest merch is at the outlets too.

Most of that merchandise is finding it's way to the discount rack. As most people anticipated, the demand for Avatar merchandise is limited at best. The banshees were seemingly a flash in the pan success but that has certainly tapered off. They've been at the outlets as well.

I was in Animal Kingdom and the Vineland Disney Outlet this past week. And I visited Pandora a few months after it first opened. It is interesting to see what is happening with the merchandise. The Outlet had the big latex creature figures, generic mugs, generic bags, and Direhorse action figures. In the park, the plush toy line seems to be popular still. The banshees were available at different stores in Animal Kingdom. There was a brand new tall, adult Navi plush that "Just Arrived" for sale at Island Mercantile and WindTraders. I actually bought it. It is similar to the Jack Skellington plush that's been for sale, with limbs that can be posed. I saw a family pushing one of the plush in a stroller with their kid that same day.

 

[HMF]

One-way synergy, yes.

But Fronteirland was much more intense synergy. Davy Crockett was one of the most popular TV shows of the time. A TV show made specifically to synergize with the Fronteirland portion of the park.

There is a difference between being based on a generalized theme that could cross-promote a specific IP compard to the current obsession of specifically building around a particular IP.

 

[tomast]

There is a difference between being based on a generalized theme that could cross-promote a specific IP compard to the current obsession of specifically building around a particular IP.

Yeah, there are diferent scopes on ip-theming. You can build a "Animation area", you can build a pixar pier/land or you can build a Toy Story land.
On the first you can mix&match many IPs and non-IPs atractions, on the second one you can still mix Ips but with the condition they are all from Pixar and on the third one you can only put Toy Story atractions. And the 3 of theme could be build with one specific atraction in mind

 

[GlacierGlacier]

There is a difference between being based on a generalized theme that could cross-promote a specific IP compard to the current obsession of specifically building around a particular IP.

I fail to see how that is relevant to my post. Fronteirland is still an implementation of synergy - albeit a much more successful and preferable implementation. I was correcting the statement that Fantasyland was the only one originally which was synergistic.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Doesn't help it's mostly ugly merchandise ... a lot of Everest merch is at the outlets too.

There was an initial rush, like any new thing, but there are few attractions/properties in the park that drive merchandise. A ride's popularity doesn't mean the merchandise for the ride will be popular.