Originally Posted By Westsider Is this called Toy Story Mania or Toy Story Midway Mania? Al Lutz has said repeatedly that the ride is going to be called Midway Mania in DCA, and Toy Story Mania in WDW. But all I've ever seen from official releases is that the title is Toy Story Mania. What's the real name for DCA? Is Al Lutz right with Midway Mania? He's been right alot in the last few years, but I can't find any official Disney reference that doesn't call the ride just "Toy Story Mania". Only in Al Lutz updates is the DCA version of the ride called Midway Mania. bean, do you know anything about this name game?
Originally Posted By bean the official promotional name do to the YOMD campaign is Toys Story Mania. It serves Jay Rasulo's multi park resort under the Disney Parks banner. WIth that said the plan is to have the original name for the attraction in DCA. Toy Story Midway Mania.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer ^And that said, that is what TDA wants (Mindway in its name). On the other hand, everything that has come out of the Disneyland Resort Marketing/PR department and signage around DCA has "Toy Story Mania!". For example, the new DCA Guide Maps have "Toy Story Mania!" listed, and they were released the second week of January of 2008. I think the final decision has not been made, but based on my "gut" feeling, TDA is going to lose out, and "Toy Story Mania!" will be the final name for the attraction.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "Hans, do you enjoy Buzz?" Not in its current location. It is completely out of place. The ride is okay. If I were about 15 years old or younger I'd probably love it.
Originally Posted By bean I think you may be right Darkbeer. I also have a feeling that at the end WDI and TDA might end up loosing against Jay Rasulos and WDW's management decision. The only other alternative would be to play along with the name until the end of the YOMD celebration and then when DCA gets its new identity changed to what was wanted
Originally Posted By lesmisfan well that would bite since i have seen some of the cms that are opening toy story mania wearing shirts that has that states that its toy story midway mania and they also have some sort of card that says the same thing.
Originally Posted By AaronInCal It's going to have "Midway" in the name. Hopefully the sign will go up pretty soon and everyone will finally have the proof.
Originally Posted By bean Aaron that is the plan like i said before and WDI wants it that way. TDA also wants the Midway on the attraction as well as some prominent people in Burbank. Other higher management in WDW and marketing is pushing to have Anaheim remove the midway. That is why i sort of agree with Darkbeer that they might get their way.
Originally Posted By oc_dean "Midway" is so appropriate .. given the area it sits in. To have the exact same names just for the sake of being ALL ONE Disney planet .. just seems silly. If that's the case ... then why is the Buzz lightyear attractions have different names at DL and WDW?
Originally Posted By bartholomewneff What say you John Lasseter on the subject? If he's as powerful as we keep hearing he should have placed a call to Iger to tell Jay and Co. to lay off his projects in Disneyland.
Originally Posted By bean "If that's the case ... then why is the Buzz lightyear attractions have different names at DL and WDW?"" They were not built at the same time during a stupid global promotion for "Disney Parks".
Originally Posted By FerretAfros But one was built during that time, and would have been quite easy to name it with the existing name. Instead, they went with the TDL/DLP name, instead of using the MK name on all of them. I really don't care what they are all called, since most people refer to them as "Buzz Lightyear" and drop everything else. Personally, I like to call it the drive-by shooting ride. : )
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I hope that I am wrong-but TSM sounds like another Buzz to me." Careful. I got snapped at for making that same observation.
Originally Posted By bartholomewneff It uses Pixar characters. It is a shooting game. But it's in 3D and puts guest in a zany and creative shooting gallery that is usually different each time you go in. Not to mention it will have different theming for the Halloween and Christmas holidays. It's a very fun, imagitive plussed D ticket. Buzz is a nice plussed C ticket. But if you want to say that because it uses Toy Story characters and there is competitive shooting involved it is like Buzz then so be it. Everyone can be the judge once it opens. Perhaps we should start refering to Cars Land as just test track and autopia with talking cars from now on too.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Wait...this will be changed for the holidays? That's kind of neat. I haven't heard anything about that yet, but it seems easy enough to do. Once they have the basics of the attraction work, I think it would be easy enough to change out the images, while keeping the motions of everything on the screen the same (throwing rings at Christmas Trees instead of bottles for example). The change over would probably be able to be completed in a night or two, which would also be really cool. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it sure would be fun to see.
Originally Posted By bartholomewneff It's true. This is no rumor. They already are planning on holiday themed differences. Halloween and Christmas being the ones mentioned. All they have to do is change out the program which can be done overnight. So when they switch to Christmas season the ride will have an entirely different experience if you come back that next day.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "But if you want to say that because it uses Toy Story characters and there is competitive shooting involved it is like Buzz then so be it." Well isn't that exactly what they are? No one will be able to firmly say that the two rides are similar enough to be redundant or not until later this year. What is being observed here at the moment is that the new experience SOUNDS too similar to Buzz Lightyear. To the extent that I, for one, question whether a trip to DLR to see it is warranted.
