Stitch's Great Escape! returns this weekend

Any updates?

Especially since the attractions imminent closure is upon us. At the worlds visited theme park, there should not be a shuttered attraction with no replacement... *looking also to you epoct*

Maybe if it was the worlds 9th or 10th most visited, we'd get something great.

Bulldozers would be overkill. This blight should be removed by one good Florida thunderstorm!!

Others like @marni1971 or @wdwmagic can probably comment more, but last I heard, things are shifting around on this project. We should see something new in Stitch's place by the 50th absolute latest more likely to be 2018-2019 ish.

Considering it's Disney, I think we're going to watch it be constructed over the next year.

So nothing for possibly, maybe the next few years. Is anything greenlit? ... guess Guardians is being shoehorned into here instead of them actually building something new. But it's better than Epcot I guess

It would be a better fit but I doubt we get the attraction we could have gotten, which is par for the course anymore.

In your opinion, is what's coming a better fit for Tomorrowland than the proposed Sugar Rush attraction? I'm happy to wait if it means an attraction that better complements its surroundings.

Agreed. Perhaps I'm biased but I always make a point to go see Stitch escaping.:D

Well, you wouldn't be the JT we all know if this wasn't your attitude, but I can't see how one would ever lead to another. It's not as if Disney doesn't have the financial resources to build, enhance, or refurbish all their parks. When they decide not to go forward with some park project, I assume that means they feel it's not the best use of their financial resources at that time, not that the resources aren't there.

If the cabanas prove a financial success to Disney, I don't see why anyone would expect them to take those new profits and sink them into an attraction or other idea that they could have done already. Instead, I would expect them to try to duplicate the success, either by making more cabanas elsewhere, or by finding other things that are like the canabas--high-end upcharge items that require small initial investments.

I know that Tomorrowland is a far cry from what it was in the early to mid 90s, but is it just me, or is Guardians a better fit here? Guardians takes place on several different alien planets (like the planet that Tomorrowland was supposed to adhere to), and it makes more sense for it to be there than MILF.

If Disney is so set on keeping the Collector, just turn it into one of his galleries. You can keep Skippy that way (and maybe even bring in Howard the Duck or Cosmo the Space Dog). I'm not sure what the exact plot of the attraction would be, but it could be something like "The Collector invites you to visit his collection of alien beings" or something, and different aliens could pop up where Stitch is now. It could be terror-and-seatbelt-free. Nothing even has to go wrong until the end of the attraction. The last alien that the Collector brings out could be Rocket or Groot (...or Rocket and Baby Groot). Warning alerts sound, seats rumble, The Collector says something about intruders, lights go out, you hear glass shatter, Star-Lord/Drax/Gamora's voices are heard, and when the lights come back- Rocket & Groot are gone. The Collector apologizes for the trouble, and you're ushered out the door into the gift shop, where you are surrounded by Baby Groot merch.

Other than having to make a few new AAs, hiring the GOTG cast, and getting rid of all of the seat restraints, this sounds like a win/win for the parks. We don't have to worry about it being in a location that it shouldn't be (the discussion about IP in Tomorrowland has passed), and Disney makes money selling Baby Groots.

Is there any other project in the works for TL? There seemed to be some hints that Ralph might be used elsewhere in the area....

There is a string of TL projects in the pipeline, this is just the most imminent, and whereas SGE's replacement should come by the 50th absolute latest, anything else semi-major will be the 50th absolute earliest.

Just thinking that the better the numbers the easier it is to convince the board. Purely a theory.