DCA, Future Expansion
Topic: No Walt in new DCA?

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51	mawnck Sat 4/19/2008 7:59a	How about a theater that shows old Disney features? It's so crazy, it just might work!
52	ceot3k Wed 4/23/2008 3:33p	For my first post on this board, I'll start with a quote from Peter Griffin: "I got an idea...an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about." What to put in the Carthay Theater building? Given its iconic location in the new DCA, it has to be something thematically cohesive to the new entry area (i.e. not another random placement like Monsters Inc.) What about a little-discussed dark ride concept from the mid-70's plan for Circusland at Disneyland -- Mickey's Mad House. I've seen it described only as an unusual black-and-white ride celebrating the days of ragtime music and the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons -- seems like something that would be thematically in the right neighborhood at least, and it's a ride, not a film or an exhibit. Something a little more substantial (and repeatable) befitting the prominent location. I'm picturing something along the lines of a Mr. Toad or Car Toon Spin. You'd enter the Carthay building, and the indoor queue tells Walt Disney's life story up to the point he came to California (this would be a compact version of the Walt Disney Life Story concept WDI just apparently abandoned). No AA's (the idea of an AA Walt is probably just too weird - like a robot Jesus at church) but some tasteful sepia-toned photo walls recreating key milestones - Walt leaving the midwest for the promise of California; he and Lily on the train with the mouse that inspired Mortimer/Mickey; Walt and Roy and Ub Iwerks toiling over an animation board in their earliest studio (I know Roy didn't toil but stay with me here), shots of the old Hyperion lot, and references to essentially all the early Walt Disney creative output in the years leading up to Snow White (which, of course, premiered in the very building you're now standing in...) The ride itself would be like stepping into Steamboat Willie or the other early black and white shorts -- Plane Crazy, Gallopin' Gaucho, etc. I've always had trouble picturing exactly how the Mickey's Mad House idea would look, but it seems like doing a dark ride in all black and white could be an interesting design challenge. Maybe it's a combination of 3D sets with projections so the images really have the bounce of that early b&w animation. Is it all white with black outlines, or all black with white outlines? It wouldn't look like any other dark ride, that's for sure. Maybe it's a ride through 1920's LA and early Hollywood, populated Toontown-style by Mickey and the early animated characters, or maybe a more literal representation of scenes from the shorts. Very fast paced, very kinetic visually. Maybe by the last scene, everything blossoms into full color, and you have all the early Disney characters making their "first" appearance to the world. Whatever the story line, it would transport you to a unique time in American cultural history and would kind of punctuate the entire Walt Disney's California theme being introduced by the Plaza and the Carthay Circle Theater.
53	oneyepete Thu 4/24/2008 9:42a	^^ I think your idea sounds very interesting. But, from what I've been reading on other threads lately, others on here wouln't like ti because it is "too much toon" oriented.

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