15 changes I would make to the WDW resort

[ChrisFL]

Simple changes...because we could all come up with radical ones. These are in no specific order:

1. Replace Stitch's Great Escape with um, anything at this point

2. Update Space Mountain with as much as possible from DL's version

3. Seek out more innovative companes for the Innoventions pavilion, it just isnt very good right now

4. Add a new country and ride to the World Showcase (for once in 20 years)

5. Replace Dino-Rama at AK with some real Dinosaur exhibits and add the old rumred excavation coaster (could make it similar to the Indy coaster at DLP or TDS)

6. Add a flume ride to AK, Kali river rapids isn't enough. There's a lot of themes possible for it

7. Put in a new Indiana Jones ride at MGM based on the era of Indy 4

8. Move the "One Man's Dream" exhibit from the back corner of MGM and put it where it belongs, on Main St. USA

9. Beg, Bargain, Plea do whatever to get George Lucas to make a much bigger Star Wars presence at MGM, the possibilities are endless

10. Update the Soarin' film, or make one for each theater, so each experience is different. Also, make the new film DIGITAL, would improve the look of it as the existing film is already showing some age.

11. Promise to never EVER put a show like High School Musical in the middle of TOMORROWLAND again!!!

12. Make the Indy Speedway cars electric and give them engine sounds in the car's audio system instead of real lawn mower engine sounds

13. Put an eatery in the old Fantasyland Skyway station, its a beautiful but nearly useless stroller parking area now, but it could be used for much more.

14. Put a new attraction in the Wonders of Life pavilion instead of making it a convention hall

15. Give Restaurant Akershus (at Norway) at least one meal without being all Princesses

 

[TripTime]

Great ideas!!!!

 

[yitbos96bb]

1) Some of us really like Stitch's great escape!

2) Agreed 100%

3) I would wait until Siemens finishes their updates along with Spaceship Earth before commenting.

4) Agreed

5) Some people like Dino-Rama... but another E ticket ride in Dinoland or AK in general would be AWESOME.

6) Agreed... Kali was a big letdown to me... kind of boring. A Flume would be awesome in Camp Mickey and Minnie

7) Agreed

8) Agreed

9) Agreed... Missed the boat on this but better late than never... a complete remake of Star Tours... make it more spiderman esque or have 3 different stories, etc.

10) Can take it or leave it... Love it as is now.

11) Agreed... WHY was this not at the Studios?

12) Agreed

13) Or bring the Skyway back (Cheap jerks)... but yeah some kind of repurposing.

14) Agreed

15) Agreed


And to add one more, bring the Nemo subs or something similiar to Animal Kingdom... Maybe some kind of glass bottom boat ride or the subs in the river around the tree of life, would be awesome.

Simple changes...because we could all come up with radical ones. These are in no specific order:

1. Replace Stitch's Great Escape with um, anything at this point

2. Update Space Mountain with as much as possible from DL's version

3. Seek out more innovative companes for the Innoventions pavilion, it just isnt very good right now

4. Add a new country and ride to the World Showcase (for once in 20 years)

5. Replace Dino-Rama at AK with some real Dinosaur exhibits and add the old rumred excavation coaster (could make it similar to the Indy coaster at DLP or TDS)

6. Add a flume ride to AK, Kali river rapids isn't enough. There's a lot of themes possible for it

7. Put in a new Indiana Jones ride at MGM based on the era of Indy 4

8. Move the "One Man's Dream" exhibit from the back corner of MGM and put it where it belongs, on Main St. USA

9. Beg, Bargain, Plea do whatever to get George Lucas to make a much bigger Star Wars presence at MGM, the possibilities are endless

10. Update the Soarin' film, or make one for each theater, so each experience is different. Also, make the new film DIGITAL, would improve the look of it as the existing film is already showing some age.

11. Promise to never EVER put a show like High School Musical in the middle of TOMORROWLAND again!!!

12. Make the Indy Speedway cars electric and give them engine sounds in the car's audio system instead of real lawn mower engine sounds

13. Put an eatery in the old Fantasyland Skyway station, its a beautiful but nearly useless stroller parking area now, but it could be used for much more.

14. Put a new attraction in the Wonders of Life pavilion instead of making it a convention hall

15. Give Restaurant Akershus (at Norway) at least one meal without being all Princesses

 

[Uncleromulus]

All good suggestions. For #6 maybe they could find some use for that "River to Nowhere" at the AK. When AK first opened they had a very VERY short boat ride there. Now just a boat full of characters sails around from time to time.
Kali could have been a much better attraction--just making it half again as long with another "major" get wet drop would have been nice. They COULD have easily done that--but chose not to.
And #8--at one time I think they did have a Walt Disney movie at the beginning of Main Street. In the arcade or theater next to Tony's(??)
One Man's Dream certainly belongs at the MK, for sure.

 

[yitbos96bb]

I assume by river to nowhere, you mean the one surrounding the Tree of Life in Discovery Island? They did have a couple of incarnations... straight ride, critter cruises, etc.

All good suggestions. For #6 maybe they could find some use for that "River to Nowhere" at the AK. When AK first opened they had a very VERY short boat ride there. Now just a boat full of characters sails around from time to time.
Kali could have been a much better attraction--just making it half again as long with another "major" get wet drop would have been nice. They COULD have easily done that--but chose not to.
And #8--at one time I think they did have a Walt Disney movie at the beginning of Main Street. In the arcade or theater next to Tony's(??)
One Man's Dream certainly belongs at the MK, for sure.

 

[jkid721133]

Rather than respond to your suggestions (which are all good) I'll make one i would like to see but probably never would due to $$$$.

I would love to have a section in Magic Kingdom that would be a magic Kingdom museum, that would have props, displays, vehicles, etc from retired MK rides that have been replaced or taken down. I would love to see some of the artifacts from 20000 leagues, Mr. Toad, maybe one of the skyway cable cars, etc. Think of when you get off of the Backlot tour you enter the prop room with stuff from movies past (some that come to mind are whoopis Sister Act 2 dress that was in there, Madonna dress from Evita, etc). But, instead of movies make it a big building in MK with a lot more exhibits and only about "retired" disney attractions (captain EO, Food rocks, Alien encounter,etc). It could give a description of each ride, how long it was there, etc. You could name it the yesterland museum or something like that.

Again, I think a lot of disney's decisions come from the want to keep things fresh and modern with Disney's new movies, etc. But, I would love to see a real life MK museum that would appeal to people who are no longer in their teens but still continue to come back to MK year after year.

 

[Uncleromulus]

yitbos:
I think that's the river..
Our little cruise was one where there was a lady CM on board showing off spiders.

 

[Peter Pirate 2]

As for Stitch it seems to me that since it is up and running and still attracks guest, why bother with changing it when other things seem much more important?

Re: Dinorama, I think the best solution (again, since it's already there) is to enclose the ride (at least one of the tracks) to make it a scarier dark coaster...A bit like RnR.

A Flume ride needs to go Epcot. There is nothing there to cool you down (the Brother Bear Canada rumor was the one I liked). A new Country (or TWO) is absolutely necessary.

Star Wars and Soarin' I agree with.

Re: High School Musical, maybe Tomorrowland isn't the right place but they absolutely have to feed this phenomena.

Agree with the rest.

I'd add that I think AK needs to refocus on actual animals. I'd love to an Australia addition with some type of hook like KS.

Also, MGM needs another brilliant stage show to finally replace the awesome Hunchback show that was removed for no sound reason.

 

[rocketriter]

Get rid of the Hat! -- and then create an all-new dark ride for Mr. Toad.

 

[yitbos96bb]

Maybe do a Disney museum at the new shopping complex near DAK that will go up in the next few years OR do one at DTD or a standalone building.

Rather than respond to your suggestions (which are all good) I'll make one i would like to see but probably never would due to $$$$.

I would love to have a section in Magic Kingdom that would be a magic Kingdom museum, that would have props, displays, vehicles, etc from retired MK rides that have been replaced or taken down. I would love to see some of the artifacts from 20000 leagues, Mr. Toad, maybe one of the skyway cable cars, etc. Think of when you get off of the Backlot tour you enter the prop room with stuff from movies past (some that come to mind are whoopis Sister Act 2 dress that was in there, Madonna dress from Evita, etc). But, instead of movies make it a big building in MK with a lot more exhibits and only about "retired" disney attractions (captain EO, Food rocks, Alien encounter,etc). It could give a description of each ride, how long it was there, etc. You could name it the yesterland museum or something like that.

Again, I think a lot of disney's decisions come from the want to keep things fresh and modern with Disney's new movies, etc. But, I would love to see a real life MK museum that would appeal to people who are no longer in their teens but still continue to come back to MK year after year.

 

[GrumpyFan]

All great ideas!

I think one that was missed might be an expansion of th monorail. If not a monorail, perhaps a smaller type of light rail trains.

I especially like the idea of adding another country and ride to Epcot/World Showcase. Although, I think they could actually add at least two other attractions.

 

[NeverEnufWDW]

What the hell does this thread have to do with Rumors and News ? Mods, please move or kill.

 

[GrumpyFan]

What the hell does this thread have to do with Rumors and News ? Mods, please move or kill.

Why such harsh language?

 

[EUROPACL]

What the hell does this thread have to do with Rumors and News ? Mods, please move or kill.

[MOMS VOICE] WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS [/MOMS VOICE]

 

[ChrisFL]

What the hell does this thread have to do with Rumors and News ? Mods, please move or kill.

Honestly, it doesnt but if the mods feel the need to move it somewhere feel free.

As for my reasoning, it's because there aren't many places to put this type of thread...the Theme Parks board is more for vacation planning and questions. Here is where we have the critical thinkers about Disney.

Maybe we should make a new forum for discussing the good/bad aspects of Disney in recent history/present?

 

[lilallybean]

First thing I would have to do is get rid of Sounds Dangerous!!! Our family did not enjoy this one at all! The new Narnia 'show' also needs to go! Make it more less commercial for the new movie, and more of a ride or actual show.

 

[ChrisFL]

I havent even seen (or heard) Sounds Dangerous yet, maybe thats why I didnt add it.

I remember the old movie that was about sound effects, with Chevy Chase and something about "death of a salesman"

 

[adabob]

Good Ideas

 

[surfergrl31]

Honestly, it doesnt but if the mods feel the need to move it somewhere feel free.

As for my reasoning, it's because there aren't many places to put this type of thread...the Theme Parks board is more for vacation planning and questions. Here is where we have the critical thinkers about Disney.

Maybe we should make a new forum for discussing the good/bad aspects of Disney in recent history/present?

I think dis should start a new board where all of us can post our ideas for disney. Then disney could pay them a small % and we could have a huge dis meet! Seriously I think there are a few things I would like to see at disney and would like to have a place to put these ideas without feeling like I am posting on the wrong board. That's the stroy of my life always posting on the wrong board.

 

[Sabres2008]

I havent even seen (or heard) Sounds Dangerous yet, maybe thats why I didnt add it.

I remember the old movie that was about sound effects, with Chevy Chase and something about "death of a salesman"

Was Martin Short in that? I only saw that one once too!

Anyway, I like your ideas. I never thought about the fact Epcot does not have a traditional "cool-off" ride. Good point. Also, while there has not been a new attraction added to WS in 20 years, we do have some movie updates and such, which is nice. I do agree, though, that a new dark ride or something would be nice.

I agree many things need to be changed, but I must agree with one post that said to put attractions/shows in empty buildings and such before fixing errors like Stitch. This is particularly true of MGM, where there are literally vacant theaters (what a waste) which are huge, and see a lot of traffic. I think MGM has huge gaps which reek of poor show.

Thankfully, from what I've been reading on other sites, it seems MGM will see a lot of love the next few years, starting with Midway Mania and the Star Tours refurb.

I like this discussion, and agree that it would be out of place on the Theme Parks board, which usually has threads like A) "Convince me to Wear Crocs" or B) "Tell me if I can do three parks and get back in time for my ADR?"

Other Disney boards have critical discussion areas, and I think it would be a nice idea for the "heavy-hitters" to have an area to discuss other issues with The Walt Disney Company.

Great thread and ideas, Chris!