Originally Posted By DlandDug As the late, great Will Rogers used to say, all I know is what I read in the papers...
Originally Posted By Bellella It'd be awesome to have another coaster, but I don't see why anyone would want to take out Maliboomer. Is it because it's too much like an atypical carnival ride, not special enough? Personally, if they're going to lose something, I think it should be that Monsters Inc. ride. I rode it once, and the effects were too much like what they had in there before- boring and tacky. When are they going to open Carsland? Getting a little antsy here!
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney Ah, my DD loves the monsters inc ride..lol. But I am excited to see the new carsland and so is she.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I would say monsters inc is more enjoyable than all the fantasyland dark rides put together imho.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> but I don't see why anyone would want to take out Maliboomer. << It was too big, too ugly, too noisy, and a brutal intrusion into an area they were going to great lengths to upgrade. And yes, it was a standard issue, off-the-shelf carny ride that was lacing in any charm or grace. Because it was visible from far away in every direction, it telegraphed a bad image to people a mile in every direction. As to Monsters Inc. - if you don't know the story ahead of time, you have absolutely no idea what's going on in that ride. Who are these guys in the hazmat suits? Who's that little girl and why does she have a sock on her back? Why are we in a japanese restaurant? Why is there a locker room next door? Speaking of doors, what's going on with all these doors? MI makes no attempt to convey a story, rather to drop the guest into a series of sets and vignettes that recall scenes from the movie. So even if you saw the movie, unless you committed it to memory, nothing makes any sense at all.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Couldn't you say that about all of Fantasyland's dark rides?
Originally Posted By HongKongFoooy malibumer is not a carnival ride. off the shelf, ugly and themeless yes but not carnival. carnival is something that can be easily packed up and moved from town to town. those blast up rides are found in just asbout every six flag, cedar fare, notts or paramount but not your county fourth of july carnival.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I suppose my compaint could apply to all the Fantasyland dark rides, except that those are classic fairy tales. Most people know the stories and characters from the time they were children. Monsters Inc isn't quite in the same league as Snow White, Peter Pan, Alice and Pinocchio. Wind In The Willows is marginal, but it isn't really important to have read the book or seen the movie to enjoy a wacky trip with Mr Toad. For me, MI is not a beloved movie. I saw it way back when, and pieces of it since then, and remember the gist of it, but I was visiting with people who had never seen it, and were immediately lost and bored with the entire ride.
Originally Posted By ni_teach Bellella said: but I don't see why anyone would want to take out Maliboomer. gadzuux said: It was too big, too ugly, too noisy, and a brutal intrusion into an area they were going to great lengths to upgrade. There was another reason to take it out, which is with the TOT now in the park what is the point of the Maliboomer? They are basically the same attraction and you can not argue that TOT is the better of the two.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh, yes I can argue that Tower of Terror is the much better of the two! Ever try to book a room on that awful Maliboomer, ni tech, duckling????
Originally Posted By HongKongFoooy ##They are basically the same attraction## just because they both go up and down? that is like saying chip and dale's nuthouse coaster and space mountain are basically the same since they are both rollercoasters.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle Maliboomer felt like a tower ride found at practically any other theme park in the world. It did not look or feel like a Disney attraction. There was nothing special about it whatsoever. To me, this was reason enough to remove it.
Originally Posted By CDF2 I see mention of RocknRoller coaster - is there enough room for that attraction? The footprint for that ride is a long tunnel leading to the actual coaster configuration - is there anything like that available in terms of space after they put in Carsland?
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'd say yes. They could locate the 'load/unload' area in the old H&D area - the current location of Flynn's Aracade. The flyway could run behind the Hyperion, probably sunken to still allow road access to the backside of the theater, with the showbuilding occupying the space above a buch of power transformers next to TOT. Add into the project a proper theater lobby area for the Hyperion, and this would nicely fill in the open space between Hyperion and TOT - both large scale buildings that could easily accomodate a third large scale building - dressed to complement it's neighbors on either side.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 What I like about that idea is that it would make it seem more like a proper Hollywood Street - Hotel next to this proposed third building, next to theatre. Not unlike the real Hollywood Blvd. (Hollywood Roosevelt next to storefronts, next to Egyptian Theatre.)
Originally Posted By Bellella Tower of Terror is WAY better than Maliboomer. You can sit back in relative comfort, you're mostly inside, you get more of a thrill, and you don't have to have those stupid plastic windburn shields over your faces, or whatever they were. It's no heartbreak to me if they take out Maliboomer. P.S. Seems to me that in the 10 years since DCA opened, they've been killing off or changing a lot of the original attractions. D-land never changed that much in its first decade.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...just because they both go up and down?< Well, from a conceptual standpoint, there's a lot of similarity between the Maliboomer and the ToT. The basic idea is you get raised up really high and then dropped really fast. Of course ToT provides much better theming, and if one of them had to go the Maliboomer would get most people's vote.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Of course ToT provides much better theming, and if one of them had to go the Maliboomer would get most people's vote.>> Funny, I've been on each attraction exactly once. They can kill both of them and I wouldn't shed a tear.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>D-land never changed that much in its first decade.<< I'm not even going to touch that comment with a 10 foot pole.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen <<>>D-land never changed that much in its first decade.<< I'm not even going to touch that comment with a 10 foot pole.<< Fine. Then I will. NO PARK Disney EVER built has changed this much in it's first decade. The unprecedence of that do over of the main entrance is something that now has to be acknowledged.
