DHS What should they do with Animation Courtyard?

[Centauri Space Station]

FYI... DL has two boats for ROA. The paddlewheel is used both for guests to ride, and also when Fantasmic runs on select nights. The pirate ship is different, and was not running when we were there a few weeks ago. DL also still has the canoes and the transport to TSI (which was renamed on many of the signs).

Yep and they are the only boats on property. Meanwhile WDW has the TTC boats, boats to MK resorts, boats between Contemporary and wilderness, World showcase boat, boat between Epcot, dhs and the resorts and the disney springs to DS resorts.

 

[Bocabear]

I don't count the transportation boats as an attraction.... Next thing you know they will start counting the busses as a new ride...lol

 

[dmw]

I don't count the transportation boats as an attraction.... Next thing you know they will start counting the busses as a new ride...lol

It is interesting to note that Monorail is an attraction at DLR (park ticket required to ride), but strictly transportation at WDW. Oh, and you can ride in the front with the monorail cm again at DLR

 

[Bocabear]

The scale of the Disneyland Monorail is completely different... it is not the transportation system we have here at WDW... it is scaled as an attraction....and goes directly into Tomorrowland... On the outside they appear the same, but when you actually ride the DL Monorail you understand...

 

[dmw]

The scale of the Disneyland Monorail is completely different... it is not the transportation system we have here at WDW... it is scaled as an attraction....and goes directly into Tomorrowland... On the outside they appear the same, but when you actually ride the DL Monorail you understand...

not sure why you are implying I have not ridden the DL monorail... I used to live in SoCal and have ridden it many times, including when it used to have a stop at the DL hotel.

Since it appears you have ridden both, I'm sure you are aware that the DL monorail can be used as transportation to get quickly from DLR to Downtown Disney for dining, and then back into the park. We actually did that on our most recent DLR visit three weeks ago.

 

[Bocabear]

not sure why you are implying I have not ridden the DL monorail... I used to live in SoCal and have ridden it many times, including when it used to have a stop at the DL hotel.

Since it appears you have ridden both, I'm sure you are aware that the DL monorail can be used as transportation to get quickly from DLR to Downtown Disney for dining, and then back into the park. We actually did that on our most recent DLR visit three weeks ago.

It was not a personal remark on whether or not you had ridden the DL monorail, I was saying the scale of the Disneyland Monorail makes it feel more like an attraction...almost like a toy in comparison to the WDW monorail which is more like public transportation....and yes, We would usually take the monorail into the park... The Disneyland monorail, due to it's scale is also more stylized... I really like it....

 

[MouseEarsMom33]

The thing is, we’ve seen that Disney does have enough faith in these smaller franchises to invest in them outside of merch. Rockin is being rethemed to Muppets. Country Bears got an update rather than simply being replaced with a marketable IP. Figment is simply biding his time

Or is it that Disney is trying to appease some of the fans? I think Muppets went to RnRC because they needed a replacement for Aerosmith and they knew Muppets fans would be unhappy with the Monsters Inc plans. Could they have saved Country Bears because they knew they were getting rid of the Shooting Gallery and RoA?

 

[Agent H]

Or is it that Disney is trying to appease some of the fans? I think Muppets went to RnRC because they needed a replacement for Aerosmith and they knew Muppets fans would be unhappy with the Monsters Inc plans. Could they have saved Country Bears because they knew they were getting rid of the Shooting Gallery and RoA?

I don’t really think any of those things are connected by anything other than wanting to do new things with Frontierland. A goal that from what I understand has taken many different forms over the last 5 years. First came Tiana’s with a rumored retheme of pecos bills to Tiana’s palace then came the the beyond big thunder plans in 2022 which were still being workshopped and while they were deciding what to do with that they decided to quickly repurpose an old idea as a stopgap (country bear musical jamboree) and then the cars thing was decided upon as the big thing that would truly change Frontierland forever (for better or for worse)

 

[The Leader of the Club]

Or is it that Disney is trying to appease some of the fans? I think Muppets went to RnRC because they needed a replacement for Aerosmith and they knew Muppets fans would be unhappy with the Monsters Inc plans. Could they have saved Country Bears because they knew they were getting rid of the Shooting Gallery and RoA?

Even if it is just appeasing fans, Disney recognizes that these properties are popular with fans. If Disney didn’t see value in the Muppets they would have weathered the storm closing MV3D without retheming an E-Ticket. Rockin probably would have been rethemed to Powerline or something.

As for Country Bears, I don’t think that comes from appeasing fans of Splash, ROA, or shooting gallery because most of them are indifferent at best to the changes. Nobody who is upset about IP replacing things like ROA and Splash is happy about the Country Bears singing Disney songs. This change was done because there was a mandate from WDW to make the show more relevant and WDI decided that the bears needed to stay. If Disney didn’t think there was value in keeping the bears, they would have gone out the door with Tom Sawyer and Br’er Rabbit.