Mickey and Minnie keep you out of trouble as riders are taken through twists and turns, all set to “dazzling visual effects.” In addition, the ride will be chock full of Hidden Mickey’s that the designers hid in “surprising places.” Riders then literally step into the movie screen to board Goofy’s train. The ride will take you through the screen into a Mickey Mouse short where “anything can happen.” The animated short film begins with Mickey and Minnie getting ready for a picnic while Goofy tries his hand at being an engineer. The Runaway Railway will feature an original story like the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, It’s a Small World, and The Haunted Mansion. “We will join Mickey and his friends in their world.” “Mickey and Minnie are getting a state of the art attraction with a theme song,” Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Bob Chapek said. Film reports out of D23 that the attraction will be closing on August 13, 2017, to make way for “Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway”, which will take riders into a Mikey Mouse cartoon! With details below, we take a moment to thank the Internet for preserving ride-throughs of the “Great Movie Ride” (in 60FPS!) for future generations. Disney’s (Mostly) Unsuccessful Attempts at an Alien Attraction I hate to see my childhood die but this is one attraction that is never busy and takes up a tremendous amount of space, and what they plan on replacing it with has been a long time coming. It wasn’t all too exciting but it’s special in that it’s the last remaining attraction of MGM Studios which has since been renamed to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. They’d interact with the famous movies from Wizard of OZ to Raiders of the Lost Ark, while the entire ride was surrounded by staple Disney animatronics, including Ripley in Alien. It was designed to take an audience into the famed history of MGM with a tour guide leading the way. The ride’s entrance is the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, with the attraction being a mix of show and tell. The dark ride pulled from one coast and brought the glamor of Hollywood all the way to Florida. I visited Walt Disney World’s MGM Studios the year it opened (1989) there wasn’t much to do at the newly launched theme park, although one way to beat the heat was to jump onto the “Great Movie Ride”. It’s always difficult clinging onto nostalgia even when you know it’s time to let go.
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