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In terms of already established rides, Pinocchio's daring Journey (Magic Kingdom), Tarzan's Treehouse (Magic kingdom), Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin (Hollywood Studios), Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular (Hollywood Studios) should be at Walt Disney World.

Now there are Disney movies that have yet to receive an attraction like:

Bambi
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty (Florida only)
101 Dalmatians
Mary Poppins
The Jungle Book
The Rescuers
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Mulan
The Incredibles
Cars (Florida only)
Enchanted
Ratatouille
Wall-E
Up
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled

what about those films?

This thread belongs to the Disney Theme Parks section of the board.

I personally think that this should be in the Disney Theme Parks board. Hopefully somebody will move it.

Anyway, not every Disney animated film is perhaps well suited to a ride. Films with particularly colourful settings and characters tend to work better in a theme park setting as opposed to films set in quite down-to-earth characters and settings. Hence why a film like Alice in Wonderland has half a dozen attractions based on it while the likes of Lady and the Tramp or Bambi don't (not that there's anything wrong with those films, obviously).

The only classic Disney films that would suit a theme-park attraction well yet haven't done anywhere so far are The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins and possibly The Three Little Pigs (if we're allowed to include shorts). The Renaissance films used to have an unhealthy lack of attention with regards to attractions, but with the Fantasyland expansion, this looks like it is being rectified, at least in Florida. Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella obviously have some eponymous castles dotted around the globe, but I think that some more things could be done with those stories. Something based on Tangled would also be an apt inclusion, though it's still early days.

just move the Monsters' Inc ride to America.

Or are we not allowed to include rides from Euro/Tokyo/etc?

This is still a Disney discussion topic either way so I'm just wondering some of those Disney films I listed do not have an attraction.

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From my personal standpoint, I would love to see rides in the parks based on Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, and Nightmare Before Christmas.

However, I think the Disney parks really needs to concentrate as well on making original attractions. I love properties based on Disney films, but that seems to be all that Disney is concerned with any more: if it doesn't have a character, don't bother building a ride around it. From the time Disneyland opened to around the mid 90s, Disney was all about making original attractions in their stateside parks. Look at completely original attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Carousel of Progress, the Enchanted Tiki Room, Journey Into Imagination, Spaceship Earth, Space Mountain - you don't need to have a ride based on a prexisting character property to make a great attraction. The last real original ride that I can think of that Disney World has gotten was Expedition Everest about six years ago.

I love having characters in the park, but I'd like to see an equal mix of both original attractions and film based ones, instead of every new ride having to be based on a smash hit film.

I've often wondered why Disney hasn't just taken off on the whole Toontown idea and made a whole park to it at Disney World. I mean, there they could make endless animated feature film rides and endless meet and greets based on houses and so on for these characters. They could bring the Roger Rabbit ride to FL, which is one of my favorites from DL, as well as create a villain related area (which has been a dream of mine since as long as I can remember).

That's a great idea, singerguy04.

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Probably one reason one theme park destinations (Dland/WDW/Paris/the Orient) have attractions the others don't -- aside from space, timing and target audience (esp. overseas) -- would be a financial "carrot on a stick" one.

Because of where I live, our family visits WDW. But things like Disneyland's Mr. Toad, Cars Land, and Toontown are cause for us to want to make the trip to another Disney destination, which could mean more $$ for the Disney Company. I'm not being cynical, it's just what I perceive to be a factor.

I'm still baffled by the fact that Disney hasn't created an indoor Magic Carpet Ride coaster. It's possible to create clouds indoors. They use water in multiple ride. Soarin uses projections. I'm sure there is a clever way to make a coaster into a sensory experience and make it beautiful all at the same time. I mean, if you watch the scene, they may be singing a ballad, but riding that thing would be heart stopping. Maybe develop a new style of seating that makes it feel as if youre sitting on in it. Who knows. I've always wanted to see them get creative and do something on a massive scale with that. A beautiful roller coaster. Is that too much to ask for?