Will WDW ever build Big kid thrill rides?

Mattdaddy4321

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Was at Disney for 8 days recently. Don't get me wrong I love it there but is it me or do they need a couple of rides that really get the juices going for the big kids? I found myself getting on tower of terror multiple time just to get the juices going. Hopefully they will build some more in the future cause after walking around all over and watching all those shows u need something to get u going.
 

JWG

Well-Known Member
They should absolutely do this, some ideas:
A runaway mine car train.
A flume ride with a big "waterfall" drop
A rollercoaster with inversions themed to rock 'n roll music
A rollercoaster that goes -wait for it- backwards
A rollercoaster in the dark
A randomized "multiple drop" free fall attraction, even better, one that drops faster than gravity because it's not really a free fall but pulley like system

Give me a call Dis peeps... I've got it figured out.
 

HM GhostHostess

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Well its not a ride, but they used to have the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter at the Magic Kingdom. That was considered one of the scariest and most thrilling attractions Disney has ever built. What if, somehow, they brought it back?

Also, what about Dinosaur (aka Countdown to Extinction)?
 

wedenterprises

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They should absolutely do this, some ideas:
A runaway mine car train.
A flume ride with a big "waterfall" drop
A rollercoaster with inversions themed to rock 'n roll music
A rollercoaster that goes -wait for it- backwards
A rollercoaster in the dark
A randomized "multiple drop" free fall attraction, even better, one that drops faster than gravity because it's not really a free fall but pulley like system

Give me a call Dis peeps... I've got it figured out.

 

wedenterprises

Well-Known Member
All are nice rides but be honest are u extremely thrilled from them? answer is NO. They are entertaining but I haven't gotten off them saying holy **** that was insane. 1 holy **** ride would be nice that's all. I love Disney but I know I'm not the only one that thinks it needs one like that to top them off.

It will most likely never happen at a Disney park. They'll always build thrills, but they're not going to try to break speed or height records. They pumped up the thrills in M:S and a ride like that alienates the audience.
 
Go to Disney Paris - Space Mtn has a launch and goes upside down 4X. Plus they have Rockin Roller Coaster and an Indy Jones coaster that goes upside down - also a big Thunder Mtn that is like way faster and fun than ours in the states. Not sure why Paris with only 2 parks have so many thrill rides? California Screamer in DCA is a good ride but I would rather have some theming with my thrills. Really stoked about the new Transformer ride & Harry Potter rollercoaster at Universal - Mummy, Spiderman, Forbidden Journey, Rocket, are already some of the best thrill rides in the world.
 

Patricia Melton

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Well, I don't know what you mean by "big kid". Do you mean that literally...like for teenagers (big kids) or do you mean for adults who are "kid at heart"?

Personally, I think there is a difference between the two...and I also think that Disney should build at least one E-ticket ride that would appeal to each group. My suggestions are:

A. Maleficent Coaster: in Fantasyland, on land reclaimed from demolishing the Speedway. Make this one for teens...and theme it as Prince Phillip racing through the thorn forest and ruins and battling the Maleficent dragon. Include lots of fire special effects in greens and yellows like in the movie, with that haunting score. The queue would be themed as a forest of thorns and the show building would have Maleficent's castle at the top.

B. Time Travel Coaster: in Tomorrowland, on the other half of land reclaimed from the demolished Speedway. Have this one be for older teens/adults (kids at heart) and have it be more intense than Space Mountain...with the theme being that it's a rocket that travels through time and you skip through different eras before rocketing to another one. Early life on Earth. Dinosaur age. Asteroid impact. Ice Age. Wild West. Distant Future. What's fun about this is that you could do a little homage to all the lands of WDW in just one ride (especially if you had a medieval pit stop in there). Theme the queue area like it's a research center where all the relics being collected from this time traveling are being examined so that guests will get more insight into the time periods they'll be traveling through before they ride the ride (so have display cases showing artifacts...and also have animatronics or video renderings of the animals that were found in those time periods).

C. Tron Coaster: Also for Tomorrowland, if the time machine idea is not good enough. This would be for older teens/adults and would be like you were zapped into the Tron game.

D. Adventurer's Club E-Ticket: Not a coaster, but something that would make you feel like you were on an adventure with the Adventurer's Club in Adventureland. This could be for teens. The show building would actually be built so that an Adventurer's Club Restaurant would be on the second floor or adjacent so the theme of the ride would be strengthened with the adventurers in the new club. The ride could be a mission that the club sends new recruits on...to investigate something or to capture some animal like a sabertooth cat or something from the jungle. Take the Jungle Cruise but remove the water and have it go at high speeds racing through jungles on the hunt for something, and have mythical animals be leaping out and scaring you the whole time.

E. Rapunzel Runaway Mine Car: There's a scene in Tangled where they have just left the Snuggly Duckling and end up in a cave...and then they get pushed out by water and end up in an area with mine cars and tracks...that can be expanded into a Rapunzel ride. Not sure where they would put it though because the Tangled bathroom area has no room for a ride like this. But to me it seems like a nice bridge between Fantasyland and Frontierland. When I watched Tangled I thought about that...because it was like the Rapunzel and Flynn characters left Fantasyland (the Snuggly Duckling) and then crawled through Frontierland-like tunnels and ended up in a desert looking area like the old West/Thunder Mountain. Too bad the entrance to a ride like this can't be built in Fantasyland next to a real Snuggly Duckling and then the show building would spit you out in Frontierland near Thunder Mountain somehow, using all that wooded land that's along the Rivers of America. I personally think it would be very cool to be deposited in a whole other land when we left the ride...but I wonder if that would be too disorienting for people who would be waiting for their friends to get off the ride and they'd be surprised that the ride deposited them on another side of the park.

I love thinking up new ideas for rides. I wish I had the know-how to be an Imagineer. My husband loves building model trains and I've tried here and there to get him to make one that's based on an idea of mine for a ride but he's never interested in doing this. He has his hobby (the trains) and I have mine (armchair imagineering!).
 

Ignohippo

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Was at Disney for 8 days recently. Don't get me wrong I love it there but is it me or do they need a couple of rides that really get the juices going for the big kids? I found myself getting on tower of terror multiple time just to get the juices going. Hopefully they will build some more in the future cause after walking around all over and watching all those shows u need something to get u going.


Agreed, and IMO, DHS should be that park. It's uniquely suited to have more of the thrill rides.
 

afar28

Well-Known Member
They should absolutely do this, some ideas:
A runaway mine car train.
A flume ride with a big "waterfall" drop
A rollercoaster with inversions themed to rock 'n roll music
A rollercoaster that goes -wait for it- backwards
A rollercoaster in the dark
A randomized "multiple drop" free fall attraction, even better, one that drops faster than gravity because it's not really a free fall but pulley like system

Give me a call Dis peeps... I've got it figured out.
Those are very good ideas. You should really try to contact disney about those ;)
 

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