Re-furbish Tomorrowland in the 2020's!........please?

[Minnie-Mickey]

How many enjoy "Stitch's Great Escape" compared to "Alien Encounter?"

Back at the time, so many guests were begging for Disney to "please close AE and replace it with something else."

SGE is something else.

We never did the first version so I cannot comment. We do have a huge stitch fan at our house. I mean huge so we are swayed. We brought home the giant stitch that took up most of the plane seat.

 

[Justin Mendoza]

The first thing I'd seriously want them to take care of is the theming...I find it to be completely charmless. It just seems like some outdated idea of a futuristic cityscape and it dates itself instantly.

Monsters is a great crowd eater, and is consistently entertaining, whereas Buzz has simply not aged well, but is also a crowd eater. the Speedway will most likely never disappear (or at least in the foreseeable future because it can hold so many, and attracts so many children and parents. Lastly, I truly think Carousel deserves a major refurb, even for the simple fact of polishing it up, giving it a little refresher.

I would even be okay with them replacing the Stitch ride with a completely different Stitch ride, or changing small things about the Speedway to help it blend in a bit more. Maybe throw the theming back to its retro feel, which seems like the most effective way of making it somehow timeless. It makes me sad because I always wanna go and feel like I'm in the future, but it just always feels like 2003 in WDW's Tommorowland...

 

[PetePanMan]

IMO it needs an update. What was once at least a bit futuristic is now looking a bit old and travelling carnival'sh. Although I know still favorites for some, I would start with replacing speedway, astro orbiter and people mover (and probably CP while they are at it)

 

[theone74733]

Speedway needs to be switched over to natural gas, or whatever DL's Autopia runs on...those fumes are nauseating at WDW! Carousel needs a refreshing, esp in the last scene. Stitch needs to go. Laugh floor is fun, don't see that going anywhere. As for all that land behind tomorrowland that someone shared, sure def could be used... but potentially could be area not deemed to be solid enough to build on... i.e. sinkhole.

Shouldn't Tomorrowland Speedway feature solar powered or electric powered cars because this is currently the technology of tomorrow? It is ironic how the cars on the street today are more updated than this ride.

 

[Tomh]

I wouldn't mind seeing some updates. Stitch . . . as far as I am concerned, that can go. Buzz, I think just a refurb. It is relevant, just needs to work. Carousel of progress, I would be very sad to see that go, I think it needs some tlc, but should stay. The speedway . . .. kids LOVE it, but it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing to see it reimagined, perhaps with electric cars which seem much more in keeping with today's vision of the future.

 

[swim mom 29]

I don't view Buzz Lightyear and TSMM as the same ride. Sure their shooting rides and both Toy Story themed..but both completely different. If anything needs to be changed in tomorrow land it needs to be the Speedway. All that land being used, they could easily convert it into 2 different attractions over there. They also definitely need to remove Stitch and the laugh floor is a fun attraction, but I agree with changing it out for something different. For Tomorrowland I would pretty much only keep Buzz, Space Mountain, and Carousel of progress.

And if we're getting rid of similar rides..the 2 Dumbos, Aladdins Magic Carpets, and Astro Orbiter are essentially all the same

I completely agree about the speedway. That ride takes up so much space and it isn't really themed to anything Disney- that ride would fit (and does) at any theme park (I think Cedar Point, up here in Ohio, has 3 car rides like this). Two Disney-fied rides instead would be a huge plus.

 

[PSUGuy]

The issue is that Tomorrow Land was Disney's vision of what 'tomorrow' would look like from a 1970s perspective. A real re-furb would involve imagineers looking ahead 25 years and creating that 'tomorrow'. With the rate of technological change, it's likely to be obsolete before construction is finished.

Bill From PA

 

[Yummy]

To me, it's the speedway that needs to go, or be updated. So bad for the environment! It's an anachronism in a land supposed to represent "tomorrow"... I like Buzz, maybe a refurb wouldbe nice. And the Monsters inc Laugh Floor is one of my favorites! I did it 4 times in the same day on my solo trip, and it's different every time. Also, large capacity attraction to compensate for the crazy lines are necessary. And Stich is just a waste of Tomorrowland real estate

 

[Dreamport]

GOOD!
And, I really wish (Carousel of Progress) was exactly the same as it was in 1964!

"Updates" have often been proven, time and again, to be disappointing.
Some, downright TRAGIC!

Consider the current version of Epcot's "Journey Into Imagination."

Robo, if I could "like" your comment more than once I would!!

 

[Dreamport]

I don't know if I'd want a complete overhaul of Tomorrowland, but a face-lift certainly wouldn't go unappreciated. Yes, we have the 'retro' theme of what Tomorrow should have been like from a 1950s perspective. I think I read somewhere one of the other Disney Parks has theirs decked out in the ideas of Jules Verne, sort of Steampunk-ish. Something like that would be neat. Mom and I finally watched the movie with George Clooney and she commented on how she could see where Disney could have replaced Stitch with a ride/show based on it. Asking and hoping for change is definitely risky, though. I still mourn the original Imagination ride (obviously, note my screenname.)

 

[HatboxHaint]

No one with children between 3 and 12 would/should vote to do away with the Speedway. Buzz may be showing some age, but it is still fun. I wouldn't mind updating Carousel of Progress, but never, under any circumstances, should it removed, or the concept changed. There's nothing wrong with Astro Orbiter. There isn't much different that you can do with that space.

Refurb speedway into an indoor multilevel track with electric cars, techno music and black lighting. Theme it with some Outspace IP or Tron or something like that. Making it multilevel could free up land for attractions.

 

[HatboxHaint]

I don't know if I'd want a complete overhaul of Tomorrowland, but a face-lift certainly wouldn't go unappreciated. Yes, we have the 'retro' theme of what Tomorrow should have been like from a 1950s perspective. I think I read somewhere one of the other Disney Parks has theirs decked out in the ideas of Jules Verne, sort of Steampunk-ish. Something like that would be neat. Mom and I finally watched the movie with George Clooney and she commented on how she could see where Disney could have replaced Stitch with a ride/show based on it. Asking and hoping for change is definitely risky, though. I still mourn the original Imagination ride (obviously, note my screenname.)

Move Scifi drive inn to tomorrow land!

 

[HatboxHaint]

I like Buzz and I get good scores there. But I voted to redo Tomorrowland also.
I'm okay with the carousel but redoing the last scene could be good idea.
Stitch - do something else. I liked the original Alien Encounter but I understand that small children were terribly frightened so do something else.
Monsters Comedy Club- It's not that bad but I could never figure out how that ties in to Tomorrowland?
Speedway- PLEASE get rid of that thing and put on 3 new things in all the space it takes up.
Space Mt, Buzz and TTA- just keep them the same. I did like the old Timekeeper attraction and not sure why they got rid of that one.

Monsters inc should be moved to the studios.

 

[SpaceMtnGirl]

I wouldn't mind the "today" scene of CoP to be updated. (Updated kitchen/furnishings, clothing style, etc.) And yes, new seats would be great!

Stitch can certainly go!

Everything else can stay the same, in my opinion Tomorrowland is my favorite place in all of WDW, especially at night.

 

[jamesez]

A challenge is almost any renovation to the buildings will take the peoplemover out of service for the duration, and the peoplemover is always busy.

 

[JimmyV]

GOOD!
And, I really wish it was exactly the same as it was in 1964!

"Updates" have often been proven, time and again, to be disappointing.
Some, downright TRAGIC!

Consider the current version of Epcot's "Journey Into Imagination."

While I am in general agreement, the concept of a great big beautiful tomorrow is lost when the final scene features a girl holding ski boots from 1985; the ovens are from about the same era, and grandpa talks about "laser discs". I like the idea of keeping the scenes from the past. But the future, (or the present, for that matter) should change and evolve from time to time. We are now at the point where the "future" scene is as far back in our past as the first (or maybe the second) scene was to the people in 1964. That sort of defeats the purpose of the attraction. I don't think it was ever intended that the show would close with viewers looking at life 20-30 years in the past.

 

[JimmyV]

I wish Tomorrowland weren't just a vast sea of colored concrete with no shade.

I agree. I don't think anyone envisions a future where architecture no longer incorporates natural materials, relying instead on sterile, dystopian steel and concrete. The future lies in renewable resources. Not the building materials used in Tomorrowland.

 

[jrt1176]

The Speedway is one of my niece's favorite rides. She loved it when she was 6 and still loved it on her 10th birthday.

It takes up room, but there is still space to build as shown in the map.

I will admit before taking my niece I would probably agree with getting rid of the speedway because I had not ridden it in decades! But, anyone with young kids would probably disagree.

I even noticed some teens and older people riding it last trip...

 

[Robo]

While I am in general agreement, the concept of a great big beautiful tomorrow is lost when the final scene features a girl holding ski boots from 1985; the ovens are from about the same era, and grandpa talks about "laser discs". I like the idea of keeping the scenes from the past. But the future, (or the present, for that matter) should change and evolve from time to time. We are now at the point where the "future" scene is as far back in our past as the first (or maybe the second) scene was to the people in 1964. That sort of defeats the purpose of the attraction. I don't think it was ever intended that the show would close with viewers looking at life 20-30 years in the past.

Don't think of it as "today."

Consider that scene, as all of the other scenes, frozen it it's own time.

We don't NEED a scene that tells us about "today's tech" (we all HAVE today's tech.)
Just look at what was considered state of the art when that last vignette was first created.

I don't need them to reshoot the end of the Wizard of Oz to include a scene when the Wizard gives Dorothy an iPhone to FaceTime with Glinda, the good witch.

I can appreciate the magic of the work... as it stands... a very special example of the creativity of the producers at the time.

 

[JimmyV]

We don't NEED a scene that tells us about "today's tech" (we all HAVE today's tech.)

I think what we NEED is for the final scene to depict the theme and purpose of what the creators intended. If that was to depict the "future", then it should do that. If the creators intended the final scene to depict the "present", then it should do that. If the creators intended it to depict 1970, (or the 1964 vision of 1970), then it should do that. The third option would result in a static tableau. The first two options necessitate periodic change. Personally, I don't know what the original intent was. But I am sure that Disney does. The fact that the final scene has not remained static hints at one of the first two options. Either way, currently the final scene fails all three options. It isn't the present. It isn't the future, and it isn't 1970 as seen through the eyes of someone attending the 1964 World's Fair.