Friday, May 22, 2009

Mickey Mouse Dark Ride and Meet & Greet

There has been the consistent outcry for remodels of Disney's California Adventure, Tomorrowland, and Mickey's Toontown. Here is one of about five solutions. A Mickey Mouse Dark Ride.

Toontown:


Minnie's House will be demolished to make way for Mickey's Movie Barn queue and load station structure. The complex will evoke a similar experience when inside Mickey's House for the meet and greet starting from the Movie Barn exterior to the movie screening room. The gardening, carrot/gopher, and chicken gags will be relocated from the original plans of this structure. The old photo-op sets for Steamboat Mickey, The Band Concert, and Sorcerer Mickey will be redesigned in this queue. The movie that is currently shown may have to add scenes like a safety video similar to "Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye". But Indy has more motion than this attraction will have.

Minnie's House:


Minnie's Backyard:


Minnie's Microwave from Florida:


Mickey's House will still be intended for Meet and Greets. The path inside Mickey's House after the laundry room will be redirected to Mickey's garage. The garage will relocate closer to the streetside making less driveway space. When guests walk from the laundry room towards the garage, the garden theme will resume with the gardening, carrot/gopher, and chicken gags. Guests enter Mickey's Garage and await their turn inside his Movie Trailer to meet the mouse himself in his dressing room. The space inside the garage between the trailer and garden will determine the number capacity of people in groups entering the trailer. Once the meet n greet is over, the guests will walk out past the garage and back into the street. Mickey's House kinda acts as a weenie into that part of Toontown, Mickey's Neighborhood.

Mickey's House:


The dark ride itself will occupy the rest of the Mickey House building behind and under the Toontown hills and signage. Chip n Dale's acorn pit and treehouse will be demolished and used for the new dark ride. Perhaps as a maintenance bay.

The dark ride system will be recycled from Critter Country's "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". That ride system evokes a "bounce" which would contrast to Roger Rabbit's spins. The ride system is also able to perform tight turns especially at the load station, so I don't believe space is much of an issue. A problem with that attraction now is that it takes up too much space for its own good. The unused queue space for that attraction I think will have a similar size in Toontown and will be used more.

Disneyland's Winnie the Pooh:


The attraction will also SLIGHTLY evoke DCA's Superstar Limo:
YouTube Video by ParkHopper

The plot for the dark ride is (Peg Leg) Pete has stolen the film reels from Mickey's/the Disney vault and intends to change history by putting himself in Mickey's famous film roles so he himself can be the hero and get all the fame, fortune, and public affection. Guests ride in either limos, movie trucks that carry equipment to different locations, or toon cars designed for either Mickey, Donald, or Goofy. Pete blasts your car tires which explain why you keep wobbling along.

Guests will ride through Steamboat Willie, The Band Concert, The Brave Little Tailor, and Sorcerer Mickey. Then we jump out of the film reels and crash into Minnie's house (relocated gags like dishwasher, stove, oven, and self-opening fridge. We ruined her pie as it is now all over her new dress), Donald's house (Donald is in his famous fighting pose yelling and Pete says "What did he say?"), and Goofy's house (he gets knocked over and falls into a pit screaming his famous yodel). We finally crash back into Mickey's Movie Barn with Pete wrapped up in film strips. Mickey explains that Pete made everyone a star. Without his help, the gang wouldn't be where they are today. Pete is grateful.

The Disney character Audio-animatronic will use the same model as Tokyo DisneySea's Sinbad's Seven Voyages.

Ride exit between the current Mickey and Minnie House.

EDIT: Mickey's Neighborhood renamed "Uptown Toontown" to reflect "Downtown Toontown" of the major changes.

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