MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[Touchdown]

Six Flags and WDW are on two different levels.

Now, if you said Cedar Point, I would agree.

Type in www.cedarpoint.com and see what website you get redirected to.

 

[SamusAranX]

Type in www.cedarpoint.com and see what website you get redirected to.

If they ruin Cedar Point and Kings Island, Sux Flags better count their days

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Type in www.cedarpoint.com and see what website you get redirected to.

Reminding us of this is unecesary cruelty

 

[Purduevian]

Couldn’t remember the timeline - I’ve read Kevin’s book and even met him! Was there a full IP land before that? I guess bugs land technically?

Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySEA.

You also could kind of argue Mickey's Toon town in 1993...

 

[Gusey]

Couldn’t remember the timeline - I’ve read Kevin’s book and even met him! Was there a full IP land before that? I guess bugs land technically?

Nearly had Muppets Studios as its own land but we know how that turned out.
Toy Story Playland at DLP opened 2010 around the same time as Wizarding World, which kind of shows the IP only lands we could have ended up with

 

[DCLcruiser]

Type in www.cedarpoint.com and see what website you get redirected to.

 

[easyrowrdw]

It is also incredibly doable to block that sound out. I lived by an interstate for years and the county did a wonderful job making sure we never heard it, even outside in our yard. If little old Knoxville can do it, Disney can do it.

GO VOLS!!!

/off-topic

 

[BrianLo]

So how intrusive will those car sounds be in the line for HM, walking to Country Bears, or riding along the outdoor bend on Splash?

They are pretty good with soundscapes I find. I definitely visually notice Dumbo squatting in front of HM in Tokyo, but I don’t think I notice the soundscape.

The parade is going to be the disruptive one for all those attractions.

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Kind of makes you wonder what the parks would look like today if it hadn't been for Wizarding World.

ideally, the current (or not-so-distant-past) state of the parks should be (or should've been) an objective step up from the late Eisner era - less focus on trying to be like Universal and ride Harry Potter's coattails (naturally), more willingness to take risks and use more than what the higher-ups decree is the "flavor of the day" (like lesser-known IPs or shock! horror! more original Parks characters), a higher percentage of legitimately worthwhile additions, reasonable amounts of money being spent on both those legitimately worthwhile additions and desperately needed refreshes instead of being overindulgently blown on phoned-in "filler" attractions and unnecessary land overlays, no overcomplicated crowd management games...

take folks like Rasulo (who never really cared about the parks and would've gladly taken multiple glorified meet-and-greets over a world-class trip-defining E-ticket - does that sound at all familiar?) and that self-crippling "IP mandate" out of the picture, and we would be in a brighter spot than we're in currently. over the past two-and-a-half decades, the Asian resorts (Tokyo especially) have each received or come with the types of experiences that the domestic parks should've been getting too over that same period

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

GO VOLS!!!

/off-topic

Trigger warning next time omg

 

[HMF]

ideally, the current (or not-so-distant-past) state of the parks should be (or should've been) an objective step up from the late Eisner era - less focus on trying to be like Universal and ride Harry Potter's coattails (naturally), more willingness to take risks and use more than what the higher-ups decree is the "flavor of the day" (like lesser-known IPs or shock! horror! more original Parks characters), a higher percentage of legitimately worthwhile additions, reasonable amounts of money being spent on both those legitimately worthwhile additions and desperately needed refreshes instead of being overindulgently blown on phoned-in "filler" attractions and unnecessary land overlays, no overcomplicated crowd management games...

take folks like Rasulo (who never really cared about the parks and would've gladly taken multiple glorified meet-and-greets over a world-class trip-defining E-ticket - does that sound at all familiar?) and that self-crippling "IP mandate" out of the picture, and we would be in a brighter spot than we're in currently. over the past two-and-a-half decades, the Asian resorts (Tokyo especially) have each received or come with the types of experiences that the domestic parks should've been getting too over that same period

Putting Rasulo in charge of parks made as much sense as it would to give me creative control over a video game company.

 

[Pizza Moon]

It even just looked empty man

Very, though now without the gondola the restrooms next to Space look so bad

 

[Pizza Moon]

Yes, it’s a purposefully dumb take because I’m sick of people putting words in my mouth or calling me stuff to dismiss me in the same way. It’s hyperbole, it’s obviously such an outrageous take that it borderlines on nonsensical. Not to mention that he started it by saying that I was bad for getting rid of stuff that “all abilities can enjoy” which is straight up a falsehood that even a moment of reflection would have told him that TSI is not “all inclusive”

What’s stopping TSI from being made wheelchair accessible? Are you serious man? Have you went on the island or just forgotten all the tight hallways/corners, stairs, uneven terrain etc. This would be a major construction project that would require large machinery and millions of dollars easily for an attraction that people did not attend. Spoiler alert, Disney knows almost precisely how many people went to the island, they almost certainly have gotten loads of complaints from parents that either they or their kids could not have fun with the others on this island

I don’t think people have an issue with your take itself (tho there’s nothing wrong with experiences that everyone can’t do aka the challenge trails in Shanghai), but your ridiculous insinuation that the other poster isn’t in favor of inclusive experiences.

 

[Pizza Moon]

But there are posters saying the parks are basically empty and the waits are insignificant. How does one reconcile this?

It isn’t true lol.

They’re very busy on peak days…

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

I don’t think people have an issue with your take itself, but your ridiculous insinuation that the other poster isn’t in favor of inclusive experiences.

Of course I didn’t actually mean it like that, it was a ridiculous statement to parody the statement that I for some reason just don’t care about attractions that suit people of all abilities because TSI definitely didn’t.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

it was a ridiculous statement to parody the statement that I for some reason just don’t care about attractions that suit people of all abilities

When was that statement made?

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

When was that statement made?

I'm ngl tbh I think I more took it that way than it actually being made that way and I do apologize in hindsight. Either way I did not mean to insinuate that you in any way actually have a problem with children with physical disabilities. It was an attempt at hyperbole.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

Of course I didn’t actually mean it like that, it was a ridiculous statement to parody the statement that I for some reason just don’t care about attractions that suit people of all abilities because TSI definitely didn’t.

I generally agree with your take that TSI probably needed to go. As a matter of fact I think you and I generally feel the same on a lot of ongoing projects.

But man you’ve really, really got to change your approach to how you communicate those thoughts. Sometimes people come out swinging and you gotta swing back (lord knows I have), but you do sometimes start confrontational when there is no confrontation currently happening.

I feel you’d get better conversations going with just relaxing a little bit, man. You have good things to say, but how you say it does matter.

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

I generally agree with your take that TSI probably needed to go. As a matter of fact I think you and I generally feel the same on a lot of ongoing projects.

But man you’ve really, really got to change your approach to how you communicate those thoughts. Sometimes people come out swinging and you gotta swing back (lord knows I have), but you do sometimes start confrontational when there is no confrontation currently happening.

I feel you’d get better conversations going with just relaxing a little bit, man. You have good things to say, but how you say it does matter.

No, I agree. I've found myself going out swinging when I don't have to be, this one was from a bit ago when a very difficult situation was happening in my real life and I was just lashing out. Now, that doesn't explain some of my other times but this one was 100% that. I was just upset at the world at the time.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I generally agree with your take that TSI probably needed to go.

I think most of the purists would have been fine with a Disneyland style compromise - as long as the river, riverboat, and a few icons could have stayed - losing the larger river and island would have been an acceptable loss for a large expansion.

While part of me misses the original layout at Disneyland, the new scenery and route is definitely better for both the railroad and riverboat. And of course the fort there had long been closed so there were no AA chickens to cry over.

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