Disney admits too many Pixar-based rides

[MVP]

why dont people just for get about it being pixar and just take it as Disney, its a Disney ride not pixar, Disney owns pixar so there!

[disneyreporter]

Well, according to Bob Iger, Ratatouille WILL NOT be getting an attraction at any of the parks, so I guess that's one less Pixar attraction to worry about. To tell you the truth, I was actually looking forward to the rumored Ratatouille coaster at DHS.

[One Swell Bear]

They do admit too many pixar rides but as a good thing.

My opinion on Pixar rides:
I ENJOYED Finding Nemo submarine voyage because i'm glad to see the subs working again! I am excited for Toy Story mainia in DCA but not in DHS.Block Party Bash looks cool, but DO WE NEED A PIXAR PLAY PARADE??!!?? WHY??!!?? It's just an excuse for Pixar!!! MILF belongs in DHS, NOT in tomorrowland. Carsland looks REALLY promising, especially the tire ride! I haven't see the finished version of "The Seas."
The rest of the pixar rides i don't care for.

I know Disney owns pixar, but I haven't seen anything original/ non pixar in a looooooooooong time!

[MANEATINGWREATH]

Pixar and Disney are basically one company now, and no matter what your opinion is, Pixar rides are going to be built forever, because recently only Pixar movies have been good, minus Enchanted which was total awesomeness. A good portion of the Pixar rides are great and like Pirates and Haunted Mansion, they have become a must see/do at a Disney park. When I went on an eighth grade Disneyland trip a few years ago, my friends and I planned our day a week ahead and I asked them to write down the best rides we should go on, and the first several ones they mentioned were based off a Pixar film. Pixar rides have captured a place in my heart and several others' and most visitors to Disney parks don't even notice the ride is themed to Pixar. I am sorry if you don't have the same opinions as me but Pixar will continue to "invade" the parks and we will all have to get used to it. I can reason with all of you though about tampering with classic Disneyland though.

[Mad About Mickey]

Originally Posted by Piglet

I'm trying to understand what people object to with the PIXAR rides. I love the Finding Nemo Sub ride--it is so much better than the old one, sorry to offend anyone. I love the Monster's Inc Ride, in fact my son loved it so much that we rode it about 5 times last month when we were there--ditto for The Buzz Lightyear ride. We saw Turtle Talk with Crush twice while we were there and we all loved it! All the Bug's Life rides and 3D movie in DCA are really fun and the PIXAR play parade is very cute. I just don't get all the complaints about PIXAR.

Agreed I don't understand what's wrong with the Pixar stuff. As long as they don't get rid of any of the classic stuff, who cares? I mean, since the beginning, many of Disneyland's rides were based on their popular movies. Pixar is a part of Disney, and all their movies are popular, so why can't they make attractions out of Pixar movies?

[AraBrokenDreamer]

Originally Posted by HMF

Its just kind of ironic so many people complain about too many Pixar based rides and Disney publishes a list of them.

Walt Disney Co. is VERY ironic when you look at it closely enough . It's why most of us try not to unless we're adept to that sort of humor.

Originally Posted by ryguy222

^I do agree, Pixar is great, and we have some good Pixar attractions, but the reason many dislike the attractions is because recently the only new rides we've been getting are Pixar, and many of us want things that Disney has created, or something that IS NOT movie based. I like the rides, but I'd like the Imagineers to start pulling ideas out of their own heads, not ideas from their colleagues down at Disney Studios. I want them to make something that only DLR has, and that Isn't in a Movie. A couple of movie based attractions are fine, (star tours, indy) but now there is one land devoted to a movie, and soon to be two at DCA.
And I know that everything in fantasyland was a movie, but those aren't original ideas from Walt. Cinderella wasn't created by Disney, and neither is most of the stuff in Fantasyland. Those are Generic Stories, and same with BTMRR, and HM, POTC those were all typical stories, not something like Cars. You could say were looking for a new spin on Classic Disney.

Couldn't say it better myself, and the thing on Fantasyland is totally true. While Pixar on it's own isn't too terrible an evil, when it's given the appearance of taking over the parks... well, you see what could happen.

Originally Posted by PeoplemoverMatt

I don't think anyone has said the rides that have Pixar movies as their theme are bad products. The rides themselves are fairly entertaining.

However, when the past 8 years or so have seen such an influx of these movies into the parks to the point now where they are almost everywhere you turn, it raises red flags in people's minds.

What also can alarm people is what has given way to make room for these Pixar-themed attractions. For example, DCA's Turtle Talk replaced One Man's Dream - a film all about Walt Disney's life and works. That one really rubbed me the wrong way. Heard all sorts of arguments over numbers and how Turtle Talk was so much better because it brought more people into the theatre, etc. I never bought it. If people won't go see a film about Walt, but they will to a show with a talking turtle, the problem isn't the Walt show, nor is the solution its replacement. But I digress...

Another example is BLAB. While it is a good ride, BLAB went into a empty building vacated by Rocket Rods which forced out CircleVision. If it was me, I'd have restored the Circlevision rather than installing BLAB because I thought guests would get more out of the film(s) CircleVision could offer than a simple point & shoot the gun at the target ride. They did a good job with it, and it's fun shooting the gun, but to me, BLAB contributed to the dumbing down of the park experience that is one of the arguments against the Pixar rides.

While that frustration shouldn't be directed at the Pixar rides but at the ones who approve of the existence of the Pixar rides, I do agree that they are hailing a new age of a dumbed-down experience that has come about since the turn of the century and looks to continue into the future. Instead of a creative voyage through liquid space, we're now simply finding Nemo. Instead of having an eye-opening look at whatever they wanted to make a film about (or just import from Epcot - the new O'Canada show is actually pretty good!), we're shooting laser guns at Z targets. Instead of having the thrill of seeing and hearing a daytime parade on the level of Lion King Celebration, or even Parade of Dreams, we're hearing retread music in a parade that is so unimaginative they've had to resort to spraying everyone with water guns. I could go on but I think you get the idea.

Regardless of the theme, when the experience starting becoming dumbed-down compared to the past, especially to a well-educated about the past crowd like Disneyland fans are having had so much education during the 50th, people will notice. When they start popping up in several places, people will start becoming uneasy. When they intrude on places they shouldn't, like replacing a good film about the life & works of Walt Disney, people become alarmed.

This, I believe, is why people watch Pixar-themed rides with a very close eye, and have grown to feel like they're surrounded by them & the walls are closing in.

-- PMM

Yes, replacing DISNEY stuff with PIXAR stuff - and let me just say here that Pixar and Disney ARE two separate companies. Notice, they say Disney-Pixar, not just Disney. They also have totaly different feels to their histories, their loyalties, their talents, and their powers. They may be issued as the same stock now, but they are different, and we will likely always address them as such. Back to my point, now.

Replacing stuff about the history of the park, the history of the company, and the creator (not to mention historic rides) with nearly mindless Pixar rides is a red flag to most mindful Americans. We don't mind a few target practice games, but... you gotta know when to stop, and they don't.

Originally Posted by Mad About Mickey

Agreed I don't understand what's wrong with the Pixar stuff. As long as they don't get rid of any of the classic stuff, who cares? I mean, since the beginning, many of Disneyland's rides were based on their popular movies. Pixar is a part of Disney, and all their movies are popular, so why can't they make attractions out of Pixar movies?

They DID get rid of some of the classic stuff for Pixar rides. BLAB took the buildings of three maybe four attractions (one attraction was taken over for the QUEUE alone). And I understand using what's popular in the park. but you don't make a full-blown attraction for a three, maybe-four year stint (unless it flops, in which case it doesn't matter how long you meant it to last). They're massively changing the park to include a recently acquired partner company (again 'Disney-Pixar', not just Disney), and a lot of us are concerned wher they plan to STOP and allow the Disney company retain theirs and WDI's attractions.

I, personally, am not a big fan of Pixar. I'm a fan of the old-fashioned, traditionally animated classics (I was raised on the Second Golden Age Disney films, and I still think about the golden Trio at least ten times a day). This shows in what I want for the parks. Now, I'm not saying BLAB and Midway Mania should be torched in lieu of more traditional attractions. I'm just sayign I believe them to be somewhat... forgetting of where they came, in recent years. Make of that what you will.

-Ara

[One Swell Bear]

Originally Posted by MANEATINGWREATH

Pixar and Disney are basically one company now, and no matter what your opinion is, Pixar rides are going to be built forever

Very true. Pixar Place is needs to be at DHS since Disney owns pixar. Pixar is popular, which is why Disney is making so many rides, but It's annoying to hear every new ride has to be a pixar ride. I just want to see more than Just Pixar. For example, Toy story Midway Mania at DCA seems to go well theme with Paradise Pier, but was it necissary to have it at DHS-a theme park about film and TV-. .... no.... not really.

But not all Pixar rides are bad. I like the Nemo submarine ride, as i said, because I'm glad to see the subs agin in the lagoon. BLAB is fun to occasionally check out. Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor is just okay, but I would rather see it DHS than Toy Story Midway Mainia. There is more I could mention but I don't have the time.

[quesoboy88]

i agree with any1 saying that there's too many pixar rides! Not only r there entirely too many, now they're getting repetitve and using the same basic attractions....let me explain... we started out and got BLSRS which was ok and pretty fun...now we have Toy Story Mania...same exact concept only 4D and slightly dif characters....what?!? Then there was Turtle Talk and now there's the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor.....both interactive shows with the same technology....wheres the originality in that??? Sure there all @ dif parks but it's like they can't come up with new ideas themselves....what's up with that?