Elias1901
Suitcase and a Dream
- Joined
- Mar 7, 2014
- Messages
- 492
Alright, so, I have no idea if this was the correct place to post this... so if it is in the wrong section, please forgive me! I recently had a thought of a (probably way too late) possibility that Disney could’ve considered to “plus” the journey around the Walt Disney World Railroad (especially with how long it’s been closed, they could’ve used this extra time). But of course, there’s like... ZERO chance that Disney would ever care enough to do something like this... pandemic or not...
Anyway! Those who have been on the Disneyland Railroad before will know how much more “full” of an experience it is in comparison to what you see along the way on the Walt Disney World Railroad (perhaps inside Splash Mountain and viewing the backside of Big Thunder aside). Now, what I thought could’ve been cool is if when Disney closed Ellen’s Energy Adventure to make way for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, instead of scrapping all the dinosaur animatronics that were inside the show building, they could have potentially tried to give them a new lease on life by relocating many of them to a new show building display tunnel they could’ve built along the Walt Disney World Railroad line much in the same vein of the Grand Canyon and Primeval World diorama at Disneyland (just without the Grand Canyon portion). With as many animatronics there were in the Universe of Energy’s diorama, they could’ve potentially just done a larger dinosaur-centric version of the Disneyland diorama.
At first I had the thought they would put it between the backside of Space Mountain and Main Street Station like the Disneyland version, but that probably wouldn’t be adequate enough space and would stick out since you can see that walking from the Contemporary and such, plus the land level and grading are kind of strange over there. But I thought about the rest of the route and seem to recall that from the point you pass the Big Thunder area and travel around the top left corner of the park before heading to the Fantasyland station, there was a big swampy area of nothingness that they could develop into something like this to actually give more of a scenic point along the train route.
I adore the railroads of the Disney parks and really wish Disney would give more TLC to the WDW journey with the amount of space they have along the line. However, since Ellen shut down in 2017, there’s a very good chance that Disney has destroyed almost all (if not all) of the dinosaur animatronics without giving it a second thought, wether they were scrapped for parts or for other reasons.
So, like I said, I know that even if they had the means to and there was no pandemic, they wouldn’t bother with such a thing... but I kind of just wanted to float this concept out there and see what others thought of it. I don’t know... I think it could’ve been a fun enhancement to repurpose some classic EPCOT figures, give a little wink and nod to the Disneyland Railroad, and give some more scenic purpose to WDW’s railroad.
Likewise, I’m not expecting much, but I hope the train tunnel they’re building through the TRON building has some cool wrap-around projection effects or something (kind of in the same vein as the old PeopleMover Through the World of TRON back in the old days in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland). That would be pretty cool to all of a sudden feel like your train gets uploaded to the grid or what have you and starts to appear like it’s traveling at a faster speed and has light cycles zooming alongside and all around you and all of that... but, knowing the Disney of today, I’m sure that’s too much extra effort/money and it will just end up being a standard train tunnel to pass through the site without bothering to embrace the fact it is, in fact, passing through the attraction.
But yes, with the railroad being closed for so many years now, it got me thinking about all this stuff... thoughts??
Anyway! Those who have been on the Disneyland Railroad before will know how much more “full” of an experience it is in comparison to what you see along the way on the Walt Disney World Railroad (perhaps inside Splash Mountain and viewing the backside of Big Thunder aside). Now, what I thought could’ve been cool is if when Disney closed Ellen’s Energy Adventure to make way for Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, instead of scrapping all the dinosaur animatronics that were inside the show building, they could have potentially tried to give them a new lease on life by relocating many of them to a new show building display tunnel they could’ve built along the Walt Disney World Railroad line much in the same vein of the Grand Canyon and Primeval World diorama at Disneyland (just without the Grand Canyon portion). With as many animatronics there were in the Universe of Energy’s diorama, they could’ve potentially just done a larger dinosaur-centric version of the Disneyland diorama.
At first I had the thought they would put it between the backside of Space Mountain and Main Street Station like the Disneyland version, but that probably wouldn’t be adequate enough space and would stick out since you can see that walking from the Contemporary and such, plus the land level and grading are kind of strange over there. But I thought about the rest of the route and seem to recall that from the point you pass the Big Thunder area and travel around the top left corner of the park before heading to the Fantasyland station, there was a big swampy area of nothingness that they could develop into something like this to actually give more of a scenic point along the train route.
I adore the railroads of the Disney parks and really wish Disney would give more TLC to the WDW journey with the amount of space they have along the line. However, since Ellen shut down in 2017, there’s a very good chance that Disney has destroyed almost all (if not all) of the dinosaur animatronics without giving it a second thought, wether they were scrapped for parts or for other reasons.
So, like I said, I know that even if they had the means to and there was no pandemic, they wouldn’t bother with such a thing... but I kind of just wanted to float this concept out there and see what others thought of it. I don’t know... I think it could’ve been a fun enhancement to repurpose some classic EPCOT figures, give a little wink and nod to the Disneyland Railroad, and give some more scenic purpose to WDW’s railroad.
Likewise, I’m not expecting much, but I hope the train tunnel they’re building through the TRON building has some cool wrap-around projection effects or something (kind of in the same vein as the old PeopleMover Through the World of TRON back in the old days in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland). That would be pretty cool to all of a sudden feel like your train gets uploaded to the grid or what have you and starts to appear like it’s traveling at a faster speed and has light cycles zooming alongside and all around you and all of that... but, knowing the Disney of today, I’m sure that’s too much extra effort/money and it will just end up being a standard train tunnel to pass through the site without bothering to embrace the fact it is, in fact, passing through the attraction.
But yes, with the railroad being closed for so many years now, it got me thinking about all this stuff... thoughts??
