Originally Posted By TTA Lee, does JHM pay you to use you as a rumor aggregate, or is there some form of quid quo pro I'm missing?
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself Would Geyser Mt. even work in Florida, what with the high water table and all? Seems tricky to me.
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself >>Lee, does JHM pay you to use you as a rumor aggregate, or is there some form of quid quo pro I'm missing?<< lol I recieve no payment
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Would Geyser Mt. even work in Florida, what with the high water table and all? Seems tricky to me.<<<< ....I hope not. Heh.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Water table is a bit lower in the northern part of Fla, though. Isn't MK at 100 feet?
Originally Posted By TTA <<lol I recieve no payment>> Might want to hop on that. I've noticed more and more lately that as goes your posts, goes Jim Hill. Post something on the MAGICal site about how Project Gemini is coming back, and wait a week or so, and we both know JHM will have an exclusive article (cause/effect in action) about Staggs and Cockerell combining forces to push it through....
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer We can check the sign on the Train Staion...and yes, 107 sounds right.
Originally Posted By Manfried Of course this idea is being leaked by Imagineers trying to play politics outside the company just like they do inside. No, it is not to gauge support, it is to fan support. Judging by some of the comments it might be working. At least this attraction idea has some merit, unlike some others.
Originally Posted By leemac <<In talking to a Disney 'pal' earlier today, two words were uttered when I discussed all the fanboi chatter on the subject of something coming to Frontierland: Geyser Mountain. Not that said friend thinks it is coming anymore than I do. Just that Disney already has designed the attraction (it was planned for DL for a time and also rumored for DLP as well) and it uses a ride system they have used for years. Also, it takes a relatively small footprint and (by some folks' logic, not mine at all) has stronger male appeal and no toon tie-in.>> Good grief - back again? This one really is as dead of the dodo. And it didn't use an existing ride system - the caging of the vehicles in the launch shaft was very different to ToT - and one of the main reasons that WDI engineering hated this project - they couldn't get the coaster trains to couple/decouple inside the shafts quick enough. That said engineering also hated the clunkiness of the ToT coupling process (as do I from a show perspective) and that project still went ahead ("You are about <<clunk>> to discover what lies beyond <<clunk>> the fifth dimension, <<clunk>> beyond the deepest, darkest corner of the imagination <<clunk>> . . .<<please wait a minute!!>> in the Tower of Terror."). The main development work for MK expansion has always focused on two of the three remaining E-pads - namely Tomorrowland (and the truly awful robocoaster nonsense that everyone got their knickers in a twist over) and Adventureland. The latter has always been of more interest from a guest flow perspective.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>The main development work for MK expansion has always focused on two of the three remaining E-pads - namely Tomorrowland (and the truly awful robocoaster nonsense that everyone got their knickers in a twist over) and Adventureland. The latter has always been of more interest from a guest flow perspective.<<< So I guess there would be some truth to Raging Spirits?
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Pray no, it is a rubbish attraction. Very poor indeed. But compared to the last 20 years, that would be a good fit with the MK.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Hah! It's kind of a uncreative cop out for me....but I would not complain if it were added.
Originally Posted By leemac <<So I guess there would be some truth to Raging Spirits?>> Seriously who comes up with this stuff? There is 1% chance that Raging Spirits will come to MK - it doesn't even come close to fitting the mission statement of the park and everything has to fit these days. The likelihood of ever seeing any type of thrill attraction at MK is slim to none. The Adventureland pad is big - there are a host of possibilities.
Originally Posted By MPierce Why don't they build something dedicated to Princesses. How about Tea Time with Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Rapunzel. A slow moving, slow loading endlessly boring adventure meeting, and having Tea with each, and every Disney Princess. With an Express Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at the exit. Where your little Princess can receive a complete make-over, and outfit of her favorite Princess she just had Tea with. Every little 5 year old girls delight, and the total dread of every person containing an XY chromosome. You can never have to much of a winning franchise, and it fits right in with the Magic Kingdom mission.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Seriously who comes up with this stuff? There is 1% chance that Raging Spirits will come to MK - it doesn't even come close to fitting the mission statement of the park and everything has to fit these days. The likelihood of ever seeing any type of thrill attraction at MK is slim to none.<<< Really? No thrill to come to MK at all? I find that VERY odd, sorry. What of Tron, if it's realized? What of other concepts?
Originally Posted By leemac <<Really? No thrill to come to MK at all? I find that VERY odd, sorry. What of Tron, if it's realized? What of other concepts?>> Thrills don't fit the mission statement of the Magic Kingdom. It would have to be an exceptional property to make it pass the gatekeepers. Thrills can exist in the other three parks. Tron is a Disneyland property only - the attraction is being developed solely for that park. There are no plans to bring it to WDW.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> Thrills don't fit the mission statement of the Magic Kingdom. It would have to be an exceptional property to make it pass the gatekeepers. Thrills can exist in the other three parks. Tron is a Disneyland property only - the attraction is being developed solely for that park. There are no plans to bring it to WDW.<<<< You would think that R/D Costs would be cut, and this would be perfect for WDW. Maybe this also explains why SM got nothing in the thrill department?
Originally Posted By Lee hisownself >>Maybe this also explains why SM got nothing in the thrill department?<< Hah! SM got nothing in the anything department. Blue ribbon winner for worst refurb in the history of refurbdom.
