Great Movie Ride Closing?

[Teebin]

Sounds like Disney is pretending DHS doesn't exist, but they are still selling tickets to it. A novel idea.

 

[Galaxy Defender]

Sounds like Disney is pretending DHS doesn't exist, but they are still selling tickets to it. A novel idea.

Not the marketing department. The more they shut down in the studios, the more they advertise the studios. From all the Star Wars advertising for the studio you would think the new Star Wars land was open.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

They're saying sometime next year for 2019

No way this happens in a year. Sounds like a two year project at least.

 

[Nick]

No way this happens in a year. Sounds like a two year project at least.

If it closed next year, it would be 2 years until 2019.

 

[Imperius]

Isn't the TCM contract until '18 though?

 

[belloq87]

No comment.

Fair enough! I just hope there's a little more to this than it just being a Mickey Mouse version of Ratatouille, which would be my concern. A Mickey Mouse version of Mystic Manor would get me very excited.

 

[Viator]

Fair enough! I just hope there's a little more to this than it just being a Mickey Mouse version of Ratatouille, which would be my concern. A Mickey Mouse version of Mystic Manor would get me very excited.

Perhaps, if we're seeing the technology from Pirates; wouldn't it be a better idea to compare the actual attraction to that (and Star War's, as that's rumored to have the same system too)?

 

[Nick]

Isn't the TCM contract until '18 though?

Yeah, that's why I have a hard time believing it'll close next year.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I get the gut feeling this is happening maybe because our Star Wars land had been delayed again and they want something else new for the 50th.

 

[belloq87]

Perhaps, if we're seeing the technology from Pirates; wouldn't it be a better idea to compare the actual attraction to that (and Star War's, as that's rumored to have the same system too)?

I don't know. Insiders who know about the Star Wars battle attraction have compared it to Ratatouille and/or Mystic Manor in approach, and marni1971 has said the Mickey attraction will likely be very similar to the battle ride.

I personally don't find Ratatouille and Mystic to be terribly similar beyond the fact that they're both trackless (as one is mostly screens/simulatory stuff peppered with sets, while the other is heavy on the sets and AAs, augmented with projection effects), but they seem to be used interchangeably by some as a point of reference to upcoming projects.

 

[Ryan]

They're saying sometime next year for 2019

Yeah, that's BS. Just poop flinging. It's not going down in 2017, Disney has to play out their contract with TCM and the park is still down rides.

It'll go down in 2019. (early in it)

I imagine the open date will be 2021... alongside SWL. :shrug:

 

[Nick]

Yeah, that's BS. Just poop flinging. It's not going down in 2017, Disney has to play out their contract with TCM and the park is still down rides.

It'll go down in 2019. (early in it)

I imagine the open date will be 2021... alongside SWL. :shrug:

I mean, Disney doesn't *have* to. They can and will get out of the contract if they really want to. Supposedly TCM has already been informed the the GMR will be closing.

 

[Captain Tragedy]

Chalk me up as excited if the rumor is true and it's done in a Mystic Manor kinda way. I certainly won't miss the CMs phoning it in with the spiels on GMR. Last ride was about 5 years ago and the CM playing the gangster was talking so muffled and fast that no one understood her. The best part of that ride is the theater pre-load with the movie trailers anyway.

 

[SeventyOne]

The best part of that ride is the theater pre-load with the movie trailers anyway.

Yup. Got cut in the TCM re-do btw.

I think if anything this ride proves predicting what will be considered "classic" movies 20 years from now is as difficult as predicting "the future." But for Poppins and Alien, the first 2/3 of that ride is given over to entire genres--not just movies--that pop culture has forgotten.

Also demonstrates that hiring non-Equity "actors" without any sort of an audition policy is a horrible idea. Cf. Jungle Cruise. For every Right Guard, you get two kids who are game but just ok, and two more who clearly do not want to be there anymore.

Hasn't a Mickey ride been one of the top guests asks for years? Seems a perfect place for it, at the end of a street celebrating 1920s-1930s Hollywood.

 

[Captain Tragedy]

Yup. Got cut in the TCM re-do btw.

Well, sonuva...just shows how out of the loop I am when it comes to Disney parks stuff, but seems clear that they're just going for a scorched earth approach to DHS in general.

 

[JungleSkip]

I'll just put it this way: The sources we've heard this from are normally very down on Dis and they like it.

With that being said, this still seems early in the process, and who knows what cuts may come, if it happens at all.

 

[Ryan]

I mean, Disney doesn't *have* to. They can and will get out of the contract if they really want to. Supposedly TCM has already been informed the the GMR will be closing.

Yes. And Disney won't be renewing. But I highly doubt they're gonna buy out the rest of the contract to keep someone from paying to keep a ride open in a park that desperately needs them.

 

[LiamRowbotham]

I hope there's some decent GMR shirts as it goes.

 

[hishedale]

No comment.

Spoken like a true insider.

 

[shiekra38]

I mean, there really isn't a Mickey ride anywhere...so I suppose it wouldn't be all bad...GMR is still stuck in the MGM days