If I could improve the Disneyland Resort...

[Big Disney Fan]

This is the first in a series of "improving Disney parks" threads, starting with the Disneyland Resort in California! If you have your own ideas to improve the parks, feel free to add to 'em!

Here are my updates (the first post will focus only on Disneyland):

DISNEYLAND
MAIN STREET U.S.A.
1. An Adventure In the Magic Kingdom: This is a new theater show at the Opera House. It will be a veritable montage of clips of all Disney parks worldwide, with Tinker Bell as your hostess!
2. Main Street Cinema: With the exception of Steamboat Willie, all the other screens showing Disney cartoons will be replaced by continuous showings of old theatrical trailers from Disney movies.

FANTASYLAND
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White's Scary Adventures will receive a significant revision, to focus less on the Queen/Witch and more on Snow White.
2. Peter Pan's Flight: Nothing majorly different except to make the figures move more fluidly and to replace the old two-seater ships with four-seaters.
3. Mad Tea Party: A canopy roof will be added to protect the ride from the elements.
4. It's a Small World: Nothing in the ride itself will be changed, but to allow for inclement weather, the canal outside the building will be covered in big long canopy roofs, a la Disneyland Paris.
5. Alice In Wonderland: Half the Caterpillar cars will be scrapped and replaced by bigger-capacity Cheshire Cat cars. His eyes and grin glow in the dark, so that when you pass by another such car, you can see them glow.

ADVENTURELAND
1. The Flying Carpets of Aladdin: This is a brand-new attraction, a direct lift of Florida's Carpet ride, where you board one of 16 flying carpets for a quick flight around Adventureland.

CRITTER COUNTRY
1. Splash Mountain: Again, the ride will be subtlely but significantly updated. More on that later...
2. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: To up the capacity of the attraction, I will revise the entryway to not be so secluded. Maybe I'll create big statues of the Pooh characters, pointing the way. The queue and load area will be completely indoors and look like the queue in Tokyo's Pooh ride. And the ride itself will receive a big update, too: the characters figures themselves will remain but the scenery will be revised to go from simple flats to actual 3D scenery, a la Tokyo's Pooh ride. In the end, the ride will certainly not be an exact duplicate of Tokyo's Pooh ride (it will be physically impossible for that), but neither will it be simply flat scenes.

MICKEY'S TOONTOWN
The entire land will be updated and expanded. More on that later.

TOMORROWLAND
1. Astro Orbiter: The rockets will be relocated to their proper position at the end of Tomorrowland's main drag and placed on top of the platform above the load area of the "new" PeopleMover.
2. The Incredibles: Escape Nomanisan!: Replacing Innoventions is this impressive new dark ride. Here, you meet Mr. Incredible and his family and try to help them in the battle to do two things: escape from the titular island and save the world from the threat of the villainous Syndrome!
3. Star Tours: With all the rumors of the Endor trip being replaced by other planets, I've been thinking of how to do this win-win style. I like the idea of keeping things fresh here, but I was thinking that with four simulators here, why not have four different trips at once, one trip per simulator, with a trip to a different planet on each one? This way the situation is win-win. In this case, I'm thinking of having a trip to Endor be on the first one, only to wind up at the Death Star (in other words, it's the same ride as always). The second simulator has a trip to Tatooine, where you witness a Pod Race. The third simulator goes to Hoth (the ice planet from Episode V). And the fourth flight is to Naboo.
4. PeopleMover: The PeopleMover is back in a guise of something new yet to be determined.
5. Tron 4D: Replacing Honey, I Shrunk the Audience is this brand-new immersive 4D experience, based on the 1982 Disney film, Tron. Enter the realm of the computer and join Tron as you help him battle against the wrath of the Master Control Program!

I will go into greater detail on the attraction improvements at a later date.

[dizfan]

Assuming we can just dream up anything regardless or if it's actually possible or not...

I would add the Liberty and Discovery Arcades (with different names) behind the Main Street stores the way it is at Disneyland Paris. I loved those, they were themed wonderfully and it will no longer be nessesary to open backstage areas when crowds are high.

[Big Disney Fan]

Here now is the next part of the improvement scheme...

DISNEY'S CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE
1. Back To Neverland: The old show on the process of animation, hosted by Robin Williams and Walter Cronkite, will return to coincide with the return of 2D animation.
2. The Great Muppet Movie Ride: Yes, at long last, the Muppet-based parody of the Great Movie Ride is finally coming into being! The movies parodied, according to an article by Jim Hill (see this link here (http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/ ... 18/90.aspx) to see said article), will include, but are definitely not limited to:

• Frankenstein (1931): With Kermit and Miss Piggy as the heroes, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as the mad scientist and Beaker as the giant monster.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): A movie version of the "Pigs In Space" skit on The Muppet Show. The movie here is called "Swine Trek". Here, the crew of the USS Swinetrek is battling space pi-rats.
• Peter Pan (1953): With Kermit as Pan, Janice (of the Muppets' house band, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem) as Wendy, Scooter as John, Fozzie as Michael and Miss Piggy as Tinkerbell.

There are all kind of punny touches every which way you look, plus a running gag in the form of Waldorf and Statler riding around in a golf cart. This will be a great ride for all.
3. Mickey's PhilharMagic: The WDW show will come to California through the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, replacing Muppet*Vision 3D.
4. Voyages of the Little Mermaid: At long last, a dark ride based on "The Little Mermaid" finally comes to life! It will look exactly like the ride seen on the PE DVD. It will be placed at Paradise Pier, possibly replacing Mulholland Madness.

What do you think of these ideas?

[dizfan]

The Little Mermaid ride and Philharmagic are already in the early stages of happening.

[Big Disney Fan]

The Little Mermaid ride and Philharmagic are already in the early stages of happening.

But in the case of TLM, I hope it's anything like the dark ride found on the DVD.

[Loomis]

My only suggestion is to move the whole thing closer to Sydney.

[dizfan]

The Little Mermaid ride and Philharmagic are already in the early stages of happening.

But in the case of TLM, I hope it's anything like the dark ride found on the DVD.

I think the only difference is the ride vehicle and ride system. But the story will have to remain similar.

[Owlzindabarn]

California Adventure:

Find a space, and return America Sings to the park. Cool idea, isn't it?

Disneyland:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Restore some of the "bawdy" animation that was removed a few years back. Have a replica of Keira Knightly's head added on the girl in the barrel who lost her nightie.

Skyway: Bring it back even though they'd have to cut open the Matterhorn again, which always looked funny to me.

Big Thunder Mountain: Have it slow down a little toward the end, and restore most of the "Rainbow Caverns' from the Mine train ride, as a grand finale.

Sleeping Beauty Castle: Re-open it, but as a hotel for honeymoon couples only.

Star Tours: Either update it, or take it out. We've...all...seen it.

Splash Mountain: Take out the stupid photo booth thing at the end and sell Song of the South dvds there instead.

Peter Pan Flight: Reduce the long, long wait in line by not allowing Michael Jackson to ride it again, ever.

The Emporium, and other shops in general: Have them sell less character crap and more intriguing gift items like they used to. The whole park is beginning to look like a big Disney Store with rides.

More Ideas:

Have Disneyland Park & California Adventure enjoy one gated admission: just make it one big park. Who are they fooling anyway...C.A. is just a great big extension of the regular park, anyway you look at it. Why do they make people choose??

Thaw out Walt Disney, have him get back to work and kick some butt.

[Big Disney Fan]

Thaw out Walt Disney, have him get back to work and kick some butt.

He hasn't been frozen; he's been cremated.

Anyway, I have created a list of updates for Disneyland's Splash Mountain. Before I mention them, though, I'm trying to keep them inside the existing track without changing things too much physically:

1. The ride's soundtrack will be revised thus: the music on the outside as you cruise the outside of the mountain is in the country-western style, but will change to the orchestra style as you enter the mountain.

2. As you go up the first lift hill, you pass by Brer Frog giving you some parting words, just like he does in FL and Japan. He says things like, "Some folks 'round here say Brer Rabbit's lookin' for adventure, but I say he's headin' for trouble," "Mark my words, that young Brer Rabbit scamp is gonna put his foot in Brer Fox's mouth one o' these days," and "If you ask me, sooner than later, that Brer Fox and Brer Bear's gonna catch that Brer Rabbit for sure."

3. As you pass along beside the big drop, you will hear an Uncle Remus-style narration (but this time being narrated by Brer Frog) beginning to tell you the story: "Welcome to a joyful adventure down into the Briar Patch." It's at this point that the orchestral music takes over.

4. Before going down the first drop, you hear Brer Fox saying from his home (a sign points to the location), "That big ol' rabbit won't get away this time. I'll catch him sure!"

5. Passing by Brer Rabbit and Brer Turtle outside the Briar Patch, you pass by Brer Fox and Brer Bear looking at them across the water. Brer Fox says something like, "So Brer Rabbit's lookin' for some adventure, eh?" and "Alright, Brer Bear, this time we're gonna catch that Brer Rabbit for sure." The reason why Brer Fox says "...this time..." is so to reflect the hasty rabbit trap where we first see the the two rogues.

6. As you pass below Brer Rabbit on the railroad trestle, he says to Brer Fox and Brer Bear, "You boys can't catch me! My Laughing Place is where I'm bound."

7. The hitchhiking alligator has a guitar.

8. As you descend the waterfall into the Laughing Place, you hear the sound of branches breaking as the tree housing the place gives way, followed by Brer Fox and Brer Bear screaming as they supposedly tumble over the falls, followed by a loud splash.

9. Brer Frog and Brer Turtle are now seen in the Laughing Place scene, singing "Everybody's Got a Laughing Place". The frog is seen eating honey from a beehive and laughing while the turtle reclines on a small fountain of water.

10. After you pass by the Burrow's Lament scene and before you pass by the vultures, you see Brer Bear with a red nose (from getting stung by the bees). He says one of three things at random with an evil laugh: "You better be sayin' good-bye to Brer Rabbit," "I shoulda knocked his head clean off," and "He said it was a Laughing Place and I ain't laughin'."

11. As you pass below the vultures and make your way up the hill, you hear Brer Frog narrating, "It sure looks like Brer Rabbit's time had done run out for sure. He done used up his whole bag o' tricks."

12. As you make the wide turn in the river to reenter the mountain, you pass below squirt guns disguised as sapling trees on the bridge. Guests on the bridge over the Splash Mountain river can have the opportunity to try and spray you from up there.

13. Much of the return into the mountain is now covered and protected from the elements.

14. The screen displaying your picture being taken of you going down the plunge is back on again.

15. During this same scene, Brer Frog is heard saying, "Well, that Brer Rabbit sure learned his lesson. And so did Brer Fox. And it's like I always say: you can run away from home, but you can't run away from trouble; they're ain't no place that far."

Well, what do you think of my ideas? I'm also going to put the soundtrack alternations, the Remus narration, Brer Frog and Brer Turtle inside the Laughing Place, Brer Brer before the vulture branch and the sapling tree water cannons into the version in Tokyo Disneyland as well. In that case, the narration and dialogue will all be translated into Japanese. What do you think of my ideas?