Originally Posted By Main Street Dad Imagine Dave Foley (blonde guy) is talking about Gadgets Go Coaster... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMYQyhjiYA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =MjMYQyhjiYA</a>
Originally Posted By crazycroc Um... I love Gadget's Go Coaster,and I don't look like Dave Foley. Why is so hard to believe that I love Gadget's Go-Coaster so much? Sincerely, Crazy Croc {Founder and President of the Gadget's Go-Coaster Preservation Society and Anti-Defamation League or GGCPS&ADL}
Originally Posted By bobsled rider when I was a kid (which was back when Gadget was still on TV) I really enjoyed this ride. I haven't ridden it in 12 or so years, but I remember how much I used to enjoy it and so I think it should stay. Kids like it and it doesn't take up much room so why not keep it? What I don't understand is why anyone would wait an hour or more to ride it. It's a B ticket at best.
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Originally Posted By StClairC I think we're all forgetting the best part about the Tiki Room.... Without the Dole sponsering, we would be without Dole Whips. That, alone, is reason to keep it.
Originally Posted By Sweeper Gadget is a nice, small coaster for kids to experience as their first coaster. Big adults who don't like it shouldn't stand in line. Just stating the obvious. And I'll take it over MM any day!
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "I love the Tiki Room just becuase it's Disney History.... I heard somewhere that disney cant touch the tiki room even if they want to becuase something in the contract, or something like that......" Yeah, I don't know where rumors like this come from, but it's definately not true. They have changed the Tiki Room shows at WDW and Tokyo Disneyland already. There is no "contract" for the show; Disney can do whatever they like with it. I'm just happy they've chosen to refresh the Disneyland show instead of change it out. Yeah, it's a little cheesy now, but it's still fun. It also gets more crowds these days since it got spruced up and has a nice, new sign out front. As for Gadget's Go-Coaster, I wouldn't mind if they renamed it Goofy's Go-Coaster, since Goofy's house basically got neutered. Plus, Goofy is known to everyone.
Originally Posted By grammy954 I hate the TIKI room at WDW - it just doesn't compare to DL. We go to there just about every visit - we always find ourselves smiling when we come out...
Originally Posted By gadzuux As mentioned earlier, 'tikis' small footprint means not much else could ever fit there - other than more retail, food and beverage. Part of its charm is how imaginative it really is in squeezing a family accessible attraction into such a tight location. Plus its direct lineage to walt himself really helps too. But the other attraction singled out - 'small world' - is monstrously huge, moreso than many people might realize. I've never been a fan of IASW, and I'm also a bit resentful about the enormous amount of valuable space that it swallows up whole. I don't even like the facade. There's so much potential to use that precious square footage for an attraction that dazzles - maybe even two major attractions if they were clever in the design. IASW is clunky and graceless in it's presentation. Boats trundle along in a blue PVC trough above a poured concrete slab and below an acoustic tile ceiling. And let's not even mention "that song". As with lincoln, people seem anxious to hold on to these aging attractions out of their own sense of nostalgia. Tikis? Fine, let `em stay right where they are. 'Small World"? It's an anachronism that demands too much of the park's most valuable asset - space.
Originally Posted By crazycroc I hope they tear out Small World and put in something cool like "Suite Life with Zach and Cody: Elevator Adventure", or "Hannah Montana: 3-d time travel Girl Party". Just as long as they leave Gadget's go coaster alone.
Originally Posted By kaiyendisney1 Many imagineers have run out of ideas, but they never ask others for ideas. . .
Originally Posted By Sweeper IASW is popular. Just because you may not like it doesn't mean it is in need of removal. It is not a museum piece like Mr. Lincoln.
Originally Posted By crazycroc You know, after deep meditation on the subject, I now think that they should leave IASW alone. Maybe put a Hannah Montana meet and greet near the entrance, or some animatronics of those wacky moptops, Zach and Cody in the ride.
Originally Posted By tiki tiki tiki tiki Yes, IASW is a dated, clunkety ol´ ride but I consider it the heart of DL. I can´t imagine it not being there. Walt was very proud of having put together a ride where all the children of the world sing the same song, each in their own language, in unison. I think it would be a sin to remove the ride... Walt simply would not like the idea. }:/ And, well, the tiki room, what can I say. I would just be terribly upset to see it removed. It´s always a must.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>Tikis? Fine, let `em stay right where they are. 'Small World"? It's an anachronism that demands too much of the park's most valuable asset - space.>> We differ in opinion here. I absolutely love iasw, as do many of the visitors at the Park. I always ride it several times during a visit. Go to a coaster park if you want big coasters or whatever it is you think would be a better use of that space. I'd rather see Innoventions bulldozed. Leave the ride with real charm alone.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice <<I'd rather see Innoventions bulldozed. Leave the ride with real charm alone.>> Amen! Innoventions should have been put to sleep in favor of a REAL attraction ages ago.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "Yes, IASW is a dated, clunkety ol´ ride but I consider it the heart of DL. I can´t imagine it not being there." I IASW is a solid attraction, and more importantly its message is just as relevant today as it was in 1964 when it was first created. What I think the attraction needs (the DLR version) is a major upgrade.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I will never quite understand why it is so important to some people that attractions that Walt Disney built be preserved. To me this runs counter to the creative spirit in which Disneyland was conceived. Walt Disney built things and took them out. He directed people to create things and when he was tired of them, or his designers concocted something better, he bulldozed them. Now, all these years later, people are justifying 40-year-old attractions that are well past their prime simply out of nostalgia.
Originally Posted By twirlnhurl ^Wait a minute. Nostalgia is what Disneyland was built on. Don't believe me? What is Main Street USA? That said, I too am not a fan of It's A Small World. It simply doesn't have the level of detail that I like in a Disney ride. That said, taking it out would be stupid. The ride is one of the top 5 most visited attractions in the park. It is almost certainly more popular then any of the mountains, even if the line length doesn't show it. However, I do think it is funny that It's A Small World is in Fantasyland. Kinda cynical, don't you think?
