It's a Disney Parks General episode

>it's a Disney Parks General episode
They killed the Maelstrom for this?
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It brings in money.

Just look at the people inside. Small children. Suicidal parents questioning why they even had these children. They scream as soon as they see Elsa or Anna or Elsanna or some other bullshit from a cliched film that was systematically designed to draw in an audience of 5 and below.

The children scream and beg and yell, and their parents get closer and closer to offing themselves. They go on this. The biggest money magnet ever designed by Disney executives. Sure to draw in more people than the age-old, tired, and slightly spooky Maelstrom. Who care about it if it doesn't sell? Frozen is still going like hot cakes. The parents are helpless. They want relief from their pain as Let It Go blares louder and louder over the speakers, and the cries of the many young girls aspiring to be a carbon copy princess cliche.

The snow melts against the parents unblinking eyes. The girls are in awe, believing it to be magic. Believing the Elsa IS real and that she IS there spilling her melting ice upon them. The parents can see the snow blasters from miles away. They cringe as Olaf opens his mouth to say something retarded. The children adore and worship him. That one dude in the crowd is crying himself to sleep at night, unable to understand or comprehend why she's built a shrine to him in her bedroom or why she made him spend her college fund on a Olaf plushy half the size of her room.

Disney has done research. Marketing research. They know what kids like. Annoying mascots, lesbian incest, pop songs that play over and over, cultural appropriation, generic princesses. Frozen has them all. Norway doesn't. Soon, they'll tear down the pavilion and replace it with Frozen land. The children don't know shit about Epcot, or geography in general. It'll fly right over their heads. Meanwhile, the adults will feel it. The ever creeping feeling of death. Death by Frozen.

Wait until they replace the Tower of Terror with Guardians of the Galaxy.

tl;dr

>popular children's movie is bad and uninspired, and is decaying society because they should be thinking about Norway instead

The animatronics are top tier, though

There was something off about a few of them though.

I guess it's realistic, but something about Elsa's arm movements really threw me off.

>They should be thinking about Norway instead

> Marshmallow isn't a full animatronic

DROPPED

This, and the set design is on point, even with all the videos.

It's a damn good ride.

Ive been to disney world 7 times give or take and it fucking sucks

I dont think there is more than a single good rollercoaster. The aerosmith one is fun the first time but after that it loses its novelty

This.

Universal is infinitley better and even Disney knows it and tries to make itself similar, but no matter what it does they will always be too different.

Disney is a theme park for little kids

Universal is a theme park for grown ups.

don't bother shilling me until I see some concept art for Nintendoland

> ride is video game screens and then a big Kong head

Yeah, grown ups.

Is that an puppet or 3d animation ?

Looks slightly uncanny.

This is why i dont want kids.

They are fucking annoying.

I like frozen but... kids are ruining it slowly.

These threads just make me sad

Why?

Because I've only gone once and I was too young to remember much, and I doubt I'll ever be able to go again

The Norway ride, Maelstrom, while it was neat having a mythological ride based on a little-thought about country, the ride itself aged poorly. Bad effects, and clung to early EPCOT petroleum sponsorship advocating that the oil industry was this fantastic thing that would help everyone. (Even the Bill Nye Energy Adventure tries to sell Oil hard.)

I'It wasn't going to be much other than a refreshing of the current 'diorama' infrastructure in place - but I'm dissapointed they couldn't do anything more productive with the animations. Why didn't Marshmallow pop out all angry with spikes and throw the boat off the cliff? That would have been awesome.

Frozen was made for kids not you

>tfw someone told me the great movie ride was animatroic for the first time

i didnt fucking believe them

It's only about 6 minutes and even then it's an alright ride for being 6 minutes, im still waiting on what they do with the Jimmy Fallon ride because what the fuc

Theres no label for "Kids Only" user.

Speaking only to the California parks (I went in October so Harry Potter wasn't open yet), Universal always comes off as the most soulless corporate theme park I've ever been to. There's good stuff like Jurassic Park and The Mummy but nothing ever feels like you're anywhere but a tacky tourist trap.

There's little cardboard cutouts from the Apollo 13, then a live show about Water World. Who the fuck cares about half the actual properties in that park? None of them are themed nicely either they're just plopped down in random places.

Although, I think Halloween Horror Nights is top fucking notch (at least it was that year). I wasn't impressed by the daytime I spent there but as soon as six o'clock passed and you re-enter the park it's really impressive.

Alright, I'm going to Disneyland California for the first time in a few weeks. What do, Sup Forums?

Prepare yourself for fucking awful heat and huge ass crowds.

you might scoff at the Cars ride for the ip alone but its seriously one of the best things unique to that park, and you'll want to get fast passes for it as soon as possible as its the most popular attraction at the moment.

I expect the worst. What rides are essential, though?

>Amerifats clap after the ride is over

robot with the facial features projected onto the head. this is the same trick disney uses in the haunted mansion for the singing busts.
(a significantly more advanced version of this anyways)
youtube.com/watch?v=FF4FfVVhUMI

Indiana Jones, Cars, the new Matterhorn, Tower of Terror is not only a good ride but you better get to it before it gets retarded space superhero theming. Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean is a must at every Disney Park since they're so different everywhere.

Is this already open?

It opened today. Ballooned to a 300 minute wait time and then proceeded to close for everyone except fp+ people.

Pirates in Shanghai is probably the best mix of screens and physical sets I've ever seen

youtube.com/watch?v=ocfICXNq6Fo

>Indiana Jones
>Matterhorn

I really want to disagree, but it being that user's first time I guess it's acceptable.
Indiana Jones just jostles you around and the Matterhorn is so jerky that it messes with my back every time I try and go on it.

I would also add Jungle Cruise to that list.

Ayy thanks for the suggestions, anons. I'll be sure to try to get to these.

I don't know how long your going but keep in mind it's probably going to be packed so you may not be able to do everything unless you're staying for multiple days.
Also get a Dole Whip Float.

I wonder if that would ever transition here, sorta when do you think rides like Pirates and Haunted Mansion would actually have to end their run or would need an major update?

This is way better than that shitty Maelstrom which was a magical boat ride through oil rigs, some trolls and some more oil rigs.

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

What do you mean already? The ride has been in the works for a hell of a lot longer than intended.

Is he still at the theme parks?

>We live in the reality where there's a chance that, within the next decade, an animatronic Donald Trump will give a speech about America in Disney World
What strange times these be.

Nope. He has been removed from both Magic Kingdom's Festival of Fantasy parade and Mickey's Friendship Faire castle stage show. All gator jokes have been removed from the Jungle Cruise also. There were rumours that Disney was going to remove the scene of the Croc eating Captain Hook in Peter Pan's Flight but I think backlash stoopped that one.

It's cute, but man that "projecting a face onto an animatronic body" thing is getting old.

Like, it was neat at first, but by now we've all seen Jack Sparrow, we've all seen the characters in Storytime with Belle, they clearly know how to make convincing animatronic figures.

It just looks weird, because they end up with a bright glowing face that only looks good from one angle.

...

The Olaf animatronic alone is pretty great though.

I also don't get the Marshmallow part, why does he breathe smoke on you?

it's a commentary on modern society

>King Kong ride is two projection screens and a Kong head that doesn't do anything
Riveting stuff.

I love Universal's rides, but Disney has them beat with pure theming and atmosphere.
The only thing Universal has that gets close to that level of Disney magic is the Harry Potter section and maybe Springfield.

Kids are the target audience.
You're delusional if you think the opinion of the adult audience matters in the slightest when it comes to what Disney does with their Frozen brand.
Notice how the Frozen ride is a sing-along dark ride you can bring an infant on and not a badass rollercoaster centered around lesbian incest porn.

I've always looked at it like this; Disney has top-tier theming and atmosphere, but the rides are pretty standard.

Meanwhile Universal is a notch above freaking Six Flags when it comes to theming, but the rides immerse you like nobody's business.

>Star Wars ride at Disney, you're in a... travel agency that's flying to Endor.
>Jurassic Park Ride at Universal, you're attending John Hammond's new theme park when things go HORRIBLY WRONG!
>Space Mountain at Disney, you're on a rocket in space.
>The Hulk Rollercoaster in Orlando, you're visiting the lab of Dr Bruce Banner as he tries to cure himself of the Hulk, until... OH NOOOOO!

Like, Universal works hard once you're inside the ride, but Disney perfects everything OUTSIDE the ride (there's a few exceptions of course, like the Tower of Terror and Aerosmith coaster).

>That skeleton turning into Jack Sparrow
Fucking witchcraft.

Where is Hans?

>Jungle Cruise
Top fucking tier ride, , try to go on late at night, it's fucking hilarious.

Like, when it was made, it was totally sincere ("oh my, look at those natives! And the mighty elephants!"), but now the joke is "look at these jank animatronics, we're use these things to practice improv comedy". It's brilliant.

What was he saying?
I remember the pre-release info saying that he'd be singing along to Let It Go and everyone would have a little laugh.

Shoveling shit back in the Seven Isles.

>backpedaling this much after some inbred midwestern hillbilly's ignorance

You seriously have to be fucking retarded to think gators might be friendly.

Zootopia made more than Frozen, right?

When's Wilde Times?

To be fair, it's not like they let their kid go pet the thing.
It was night time, it was hiding in the water, it grabbed their baby.

I view it as more of a freak tragedy than anything else. More importantly, it was heavily publicized. The last thing they want guests to think of while at the Happiest Place on Earth is a baby getting torn apart by a gator.

I figure it'll all be back in the park in a couple months, once the public has stopped talking about it (same as how they probably aren't gonna be advertising Movies on the Beach at the Grand Floridian for a while).

I don't see the problem.

Rode Maelstrom on its final day, it's understandable why Disney decided to do this. Maelstrom was severely under-maintained because Norwegian companies were no longer sponsoring the pavilion.

Changing it to Frozen is not only going to keep the pavilion funded, but bring in more crowds into Epcot.

Also, Maelstrom was a doomed concept the second the Norwegian sponsors wanted stupid shit like oil rigs in the ride. Should've just let Disney done their own thing and had it entirely troll themed with music by the Sherman Brothers.

You don't need to be actively injected into the story all of the time. It gets tiring and samey after a while. And where do you get off calling Star Tours a generic travel agency to Endor thing? It's just like Jurassic Park: You go on vacation only for things to GO HORRIBLY WRONG and ending up in a Rebel/Imperial dogfight. The Star Tours reboot is even more "Pulling you into the story" to the point where it literally pulls someone into the story and declares them a Rebel spy.

A bunch of rides at Disneyland are also single-rider if you're by yourself. Matterhorn, Splash, Indiana Jones, California Screamin' and Radiator Springs Racers are the main ones I think.

If you're there at rope drop, beeline it to Space, and either ride it or get a fastpass for later, then beeline it to Frontierland. Nobody goes to the left in the mornings.

Oh don't get me wrong, I love Disney shit, it just feels like Universal sticks closer to the tone of their properties than Disney.

That Rebel Spy shit is top tier though, I got picked the first time I ever rode Star Tours.
>tfw Darth Vader considers you a big enough threat to the stability of the Empire that he comes to apprehend you himself

This.
Most things have reasonable efficiency when it comes to getting people through, but Space Mountain is ALWAYS at least an hour wait (considering the docking process is so slow and it's always open, rain or shine, especially now since it's got Star Wars theming).

>why does he breathe smoke on you?
Meant to be snow I think.

Here's the video I was going to initially post, but Olaf is broken, and also Anna and Kristoff's faces are Frozen
youtube.com/watch?v=NVrU8H7l864

>Zootopia made more than Frozen

No.

Frozen: $1,276,480,335
Zootopia: $1,012,150,383

>tfw got pod racing 5 out of the first 7 times I've been in the new version.

It's fucking unfair, Hoth is by far the best one of the bunch.

>I figure it'll all be back in the park in a couple months, once the public has stopped talking about it (same as how they probably aren't gonna be advertising Movies on the Beach at the Grand Floridian for a while).
yup

So is the Hulk coaster open again?

Wait it has different settings? I only went once while I was there and got Hoth, I thought it was the only one.

>I view it as more of a freak tragedy
>Getting killed by a gator after going into the water at night in Florida in a lake surrounded by signs that say don't go into the water
>A freak tragedy
A freak tragedy would be a gator killing someone in Splash Mountain, this was just your every day ignorant parent.

There are a bunch of branches on it with multiple options that are selected.

You get first either:
>AT-AT's in Hot
>pod racing in Tattooine
>wookiee battle in Kashyyyk
>now you can also get Jakku, which doesn't make sense since it has a Finn cameo in something that is supposed to take place before the OT

Then you get either:
>Naboo
>battle above Coruscant
>unfinished Death Star with Boba Fett chasing you

It's going to replace Splash Mountain I'll bet.

It's fucking stupid Disney still keeps the ride open but doesn't acknowledge the movie a single bit. They hate the Song of the South and everything surronding it now. Splash Mountain is just wildly popular.

The best way to remedy this would be to revamp it to be more Zootopia themed, since it already has a fox and a rabbit. All they'd need to figure out is how the whole "falling down a waterfall" bit is supposed to fit, but that's what sequels are for. Or they could bullshit something completely unrelated to the original film. They've done it before.

Make it a ride through the Rainforest section.

Put nick and judy in the rainforest district. There we go.

Still better than six Flags. The Batman rides are just ordinary coasters with some bat themed shit lying around on the ground near the entrance.

>Wait until they replace the Tower of Terror with Guardians of the Galaxy.

The most mindbogglingly awful idea Disney has ever made

The fox and bunny animatronics would be the least of their concerns, the ride itself is too much of a beloved classic to get replaced. Not to mention the extreme refurbishment it would take to turn a swampy briar patch into something resembling zootopia and it would need more songs than Try Everything since most of Splash Mountain is a musical ride.

Nothing is worse than Six Flags when it comes to themed rides.

I'm expecting Zootopia to end up in Animal Kingdom. They need more then just Avatar to make it a full-day park

>Go to animal kingdom
>Holy shit, so excited for Dinosaur after dark
>First time riding in years
>Wait, why can I see the mechanical bits on those pop up dinos
>That carnosaur isnt as scary as I remember
>Didn't this ride used to be way darker?
>Why the hell does the good dinosaur lifting the tree at the end look like a fucking drag queen?

When did Dinosaur get so lame?

Well, at least the DHS version is safe thanks to Universal.

>The most mindbogglingly awful idea Disney has ever made

That would still be dedicating a fourth of Animal Kingdom to fucking Avatar.

>Disney is a theme park for little kids
>Universal is a theme park for grown ups.

That's the dumbest thing I've read all day

>Avatar
Who thought that was a good idea again?

Doe anyone even remember/care about Avatar anymore?

Ok I know it sounds dumb but I was at the parks recently and saw the work they were doing and to be honest, it looks pretty damn good. Miles better than Camp Minnie Minnie at least.

I'm thinking if they were to ever add Zootopia anything, it would be in Animal Kingdom.

And I would want the train that travels through the city.

You'll never get both and the sweet Boba chase scenes. Why do you even live?

They were desperate after missing the train on how ridiculously successful HP land turned out to be, (apparently all Disney pitched to Rowling was a single ride like Toy Story Midway Mania but with wands), in the end it single handedly elevated Universal's parks to Disney levels in terms of attendance and popularity.

Avatar at the time broke every single box office record and appeared to be the most popular movie of all time, nobody thought that every single person that saw it would forget about it a year later.

And in the end everyone is more hype for the upcoming Star Wars lands than about anything Avatar related.

>Miles better than Camp Minnie Minnie at least.
It's not hard being better than fucking nothing.

>"Kids are the target audience"

They killed Extra-terror-restrial for some stupid Stitch thing.

To be fair, it was way too fucking scary. They should have never allowed anyone under 10 in it.

Louis was never a regular character at the parks in the first place. He only ever appeared during special events.

I'm going to need sources on some of this shit.

>There were rumours that Disney was going to remove the scene of the Croc eating Captain Hook in Peter Pan's Flight but I think backlash stoopped that one.
That would require having to temporarily close the ride for refurbishment. They would be mad to do that at the beginning of summer considering Peter Pan has been one of their most popular rides.

Let's be honest. Letting a two year old swim by himself in a lagoon at night is fucking retarded. Even if there was no threat of gators, there would still be a likely chance that the kid could drown himself and the parents wouldn't notice right away because it's dark.

He started becoming regular a few months ago at Disneyland. With the Rivers of America closed for Star Wars construction, they've docked the Mark Twain Riverboat and had it function as a bandstand and meet and greet with Princess and the Frog characters

emperors new groove "wrong lever" slide when

There's no point in complaining about Finn being anachronistic, all the scenes are from completely different points of Star Wars history.

who /dolewhip/ here?

one of the only park foods worth getting

My must have Disney snacks are:
-Dole Whip (Magic Kingdom)
-Citrus Swirl (Magic Kingdom)
-American Dream (Epcot)

I really want to see Yzma and Kronk as meet and greet characters during their Halloween parties. That has so much potential to be hilarious.

Soon, I think they are still working on the new queue line and entrance but the coaster itself is all back together and doing test runs daily so I would guess it should be back open like the first or 2nd week of July

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It looks too rushed.

Good points:
The queue looks cool, at the start it looked tacked on but the middle was nice esp going into the trading post.

Olaf animatronic animation was great. Nice gags with sven the, Esla showstopper was very well done.

Kids will go Bananas for this ride and its not a bad ride but...

The Bad

Its pretty darn obvious its a rush job, good moments but too many dead spots with projection trying to cover it

Still not sold on projection animatronics. Eslas face at the end is painfully color mismatched like a mask. Anna given nothing to do but greet guests. No story but a greatest hits music ride. No changes on the track from Melstrom seems just like a repaint, giant snow monster underwhelming.

In other parks it might be great but this is Disney. and its near embarrassing how rushed this seems to cash in

4/10