I know this will be met with a chorus of “they never like anything”, but Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway is honestly just OK.
Even if it didn’t replace The Great Movie Ride, Runaway Railway is a series of projection rooms with oddly shaped “animatronics” and an incoherent storyline. If this is the best Mickey Mouse ride they could come up with after 90 years, maybe they’ll be able to come up with something slightly more exciting with another 90 years of development time.
Despite advertising it as the advent of “2.5-D”, Runaway Railway is a mostly flat-walled rollick through confusing show scenes. The “animatronics” are jarring, reminiscent of something out of a fever-dream I once had. The Daisy figure is the most traditional of the bunch, and I can’t help but feel I would’ve liked the attraction a lot more if the rest of the characters were like her.
The scenes are chaotic, but not cartoon-chaotic, more like “we just threw stuff everywhere”. This isn’t quite Pirates of the Caribbean, where you’ll notice new things every time while also being able to digest what the hell the story of the ride might be. It’s poorly-staged overstimulation.
What does work, however, is the build-up. The queue is mostly untouched, keeping the charm of the Chinese Theatre interior. The pre-show rooms are well-decorated and the effect that brings us into the cartoon world is neat, (as is the little touch as you exit that reverses the process.) The ride portion is odd for a trackless ride, only taking full advantage of the tech for a few moments (like the stop in a dance studio.) For having a scene with a twister, it is really odd that the cars don’t travel fully around it. That just seems like Trackless Ride Design 101 to me.
There are cute touches, like the moving bell on the train, projection surfaces that turn into something else, and tiny details you’ll need multiple rides to see all of. That being said, I didn’t experience a “wow” moment that many of the best Disney rides provide.
The original song is nice, but probably not as memorable as those it was compared to in early announcements, like The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, or others.
After spending the weekend at Disneyland, the difference between the two resorts is crystal clear. Disneyland has Rise of the Resistance too, but it also has a plethora of classic attractions that remained through the closure of a BBQ restaurant and a petting zoo. Disneyland is also building Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway in a new space where no current attractions have to be lost. IMAGINE THAT: ADDING CAPACITY TO A THEME PARK!
At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, no actual capacity was gained, and Runaway Railway replaces a beloved classic in a park already short on things to do. Wait times in the park are mostly triple-digit for the headliners, so they now find themselves in a bind with heavily-marketed new rides and not enough space for the people who want to come see them. Who would have thought people would show up for new rides? What happened to Walt Disney World’s “blessing of size”? Instead, a unique idea was closed for a ride that will be replicated at Disney Parks around the world.
It’s well known that I dislike many Universal attractions for relying too heavily on screens, and it’s a battlecry yelled by most Disney fans, but now Disney is essentially producing the same thing: heartless, soulless, budget-conscious, projection-heavy 4-5 minute dark rides. I don’t hate screen-heavy rides because they’re at Universal, I hate them because they feel cheap, and aren’t the best a multi-billion dollar company can do. Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway isn’t the best they can do, and the lukewarm responses from some guests indicates that. The ride is fine, and it has a few neat tricks up its sleeve, but none of which puts this in the conversation for one of the better rides at WDW, and I’m not even sure that it’s the best dark ride in Orlando. It’s a cute-enough dark ride on the level of Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin, but that doesn’t need to be in the Chinese Theatre.
In the end, I believe Runaway Railway will be loved by some, forgotten by many, and hated by few. Nothing will ever make up for losing a vital piece of Walt Disney World’s character, but it probably could’ve been worse.
Load of rubbish.
You’re right, the new ride *is* a load of rubbish.
Well, let’s hope the Imagineers listen to the feedback, and find a way to improve it in a few years. Assuming they are finally given a budget to work with, of course. :/
Saw a few ride-through videos, granted while the audio quality wasn’t great on some of them, I had absolutely no idea what was going on during some of the scenes.
I couldn’t agree more Tom. I am very meh about the whole thing. The AA of M&M looked very odd to me and yes definitely relied on overstimulation. It was cute but it won’t be a must ride for my every trip here. Very much a shame to have removed great movie ride for it.
Thank you for your honesty. The Movie Ride should have never been replaced. Disney has too much money and too much land to be doing this to classic attractions.
I won’t get to ride it until December so maybe I’ll eat my words then, but I somewhat disagree (respectfully of course). While it might not be the most exciting ever or Rise of the Resistance level, what I think it does well based on YouTube POV’s is capture the spirit of the cartoons. And to that I would say, I think this is aimed to be more of a family ride. I think this is something kids will LOVE. My only complaint was the tornado as well. It just didn’t look right to me given how much went into the rest of the ride. The first word that came to mind when I saw your video was “adorable” and for what it is, I like it. But everyone is different and I totally respect your opinion and that I might be in the minority here.
Great review, Tom! I appreciate that your review essentially states, “I like what I like… and this…? meh!”. I too enjoyed the Great Movie Ride, but… even with it’s fantastic animations, it did seem dated (to me). Still, I look forward to the new ride! LOVE WDWNT!
“Disneyland is also building Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway in a new space where no current attractions have to be lost. IMAGINE THAT: ADDING CAPACITY TO A THEME PARK! […] What happened to Walt Disney World’s “blessing of size”?”
This is a fair point, and worth exploring.
It seems WDW has an aversion to clearing new land for park attractions – I’m not talking about transit and the Skyliner – and instead feels the need to re-purpose everything. Even heavily-marketed new originals (Runaway Railway, Toy Story Land, Galaxy’s Edge, Pandora – the World of Avatar & Frozen Ever After) are all re-purposed spaces. While few will miss Camp Minnie-Mickey, the Streets of America, or even the Backlot Tour, you assume a risk taking beloved favorites like the GMR and Maelstrom away for unclear reasons.
In fact, you could make the argument that the last big “original” in WDW is Expedition: Everest (of course overlooking New Fantasyland as a repurpose of what once was, adding minimally to capacity). This is ongoing as well, with Cosmic Rewind and the Play Pavilion being the current examples and Spaceship: Earth going dark soon as well.
There is some hope though. Remy will take up new real estate in France, as will Tron Lightcycle Run (though you could find fault that they are simply shipping over existing attractions). If the Cherry Tree Lane area comes to fruition in the UK, that will be an original AND in a new space.
The fact that a Mary Poppins attraction excites me at all makes the point: WDW fans want new rides in new areas, and more capacity!
Agreed, with all of this. I’m been trumpeting the same points to Disney (through surveys and such) and friends/family. They have a lot of places where they can add on rides without taking away others and causing massive gridlock. I mean, they could have put Runaway Railway where the now useless Star Wars Launch Bay is and built out behind it!
I will disagree with you on Pandora though. It was like 90% a build out expansion. They removed one tiny theater and moved the Lion King show that was in the corner of the land (where the gift shop/quick service food is now). Everything else was a legit expansion.
Also…after all the same crap they have been doing with EPCOT and Hollywood Studios, I DO NOT trust them to pull off a full Mary Poppins ride, even though they have plenty of room backstage for expansion, and they could finally prove me wrong, I’m certain that they will just use the tiny sliver of land already there for an interactive meet and greet/house tour.
2000’s Disney: “Get Chapek-ed!”
I hate that they went with the new animation style instead of classic animation for Mickey and Minnie. I don’t like the new Mickey Mouse shorts on the Disney channel. I call them angry Mickey. We prefer the traditional animation.
AMEN!!! I HATE the new animation style! I call it “Ren and Stimpy Does Disney”. Give me Classic Mickey animation and not this crap!
I agree…hate the new animation that Disney is using. Of course…gasp…I am not a Mickey or Minnie fan so that just adds to the issue. I also loved The Great Movie Ride and believe they should have renovated and updated it instead of losing it. This means one less ride for me at Hollywood Studios.
It doesn’t even fit in holly wood studios , they should have put it in the circus area in magic kingdom
It’s very ‘Ren and Stimpy’ like. I used to work Security at Yacht and Beach on a graveyard shift for an6 month bid. The cartoons play 24/7 in the lobby. I got to watch them all multiple times.
Agreed. We don’t like this animation style either. It’s kind of gross.
Suzanne you are dead on. They could have mixed the designs. It’s ok to cater to the new generation but let’s face it, even the youngest of fans know and love the classic characters look. No offense, but this isn’t Tokyo WDW. We don’t need an anime Mickey themed ride.
I agree completely.
Accurate.
Well said!
A very fair and honest review. Thanks, Tom!
It’s an amazing attraction with great use of projections. It keys into the Mickey shorts it is emulating perfectly and is tons of fun for folks of all sizes. The pre-show was amazing and the concept of a train was really cool without giving anything away. Looking forward to riding it many times in the future.
So true. This ride has two strikes against it, as I see it.
1. The creepy style of these newer Mickey shorts is off-putting compared to the classic version of Mickey, and it doesn’t feel like Mickey is the same guy as the one fighting Maleficent down the street. I sincerely hope that this style of Mickey doesn’t replace the classic Mickey found everywhere else. Can you imagine how terrifying a walk-around character of THIS Mickey would be? I wonder if they would include his teeth.
2. Replacing the Great Movie Ride: Why could they not build this attraction on Mickey Ave, perhaps replacing the completely obsolete and regularly deserted Star Wars Launch Bay? This seems like a perfect attraction for what was once called Mickey Ave. Even if the Great Movie Ride was as obsolete as many people have said it was, it still packed in the crowds. Also, it introduced parkgoers to classic cinema treasures. Just because the average guest “doesn’t care about The Public Enemy or Alien” doesn’t mean the ride should cease to exist in this park. The Great Movie Ride had other unique aspects to recommend it…live actors, great animatronics, stunning interior theming. And it’s gone, replaced by a ride that could have been put somewhere else.
Such as shame.
Good stuff! You hit the same points I mentioned above. That whole area with SWLB used to be called Animation Courtyard! They could have re-emphasized that brand by adding Runaway Railway with Little Mermaid and (if they had to) the Disney Junior show already there. All animation! It was like low hanging fruit already there for Disney!
They could have added a new ride and then (shock!) added some new scenes to the already awesome Great Movie Ride since they now own like 70% of the IP out there. Keep some classics like Casablanca, Mary Poppins, and Singing in the Rain…and then add new scenes from like…the Muppet Movie, Guardians for the Galaxy, Avatar. I mean…c’mon.
I agree 100% and all the people on twitter that is saying its fantastic, good for them. It’s not, it’s nonsensical. It adds 0 capacity to a park that needed it desperately. It doesn’t have to be better than Rise but the Mickey Mouse ride based on the company icon should be endearing and with heart. It lacks that,its sad and a poor use of this technology. Billed as timeless and a memorable song and its no more than a 1 and done. Better luck on the next one I guess.
People “loving it” are only doing so because they want to brag about riding it early but if the overall vibe is its lame it will ruin that pathetic need of theirs to feel special.
Or, ya know, people really do love it.
I think you really need to put this in perspective. The Great Movie Ride was beloved–by some. Others like me thought it was shamefully ignored by the powers that be and, as a result, unbelievably frozen in time and hopelessly outdated. Cringe-worthy in more than a few parts. This isn’t a case of like being replaced with like. This is a case of it had to go being replaced with even if it’s not great it’s much better.
You can update rides, I wouldn’t have been adverse to changing some scenes.
I agree with you. We went on TGMR back in 2014 and even then it was woefully outdated and laughable in tech. The kids that were with us just didn’t get 90% of it. And that’s the problem in general. Had they update just would have been outdated a year or two later. The generation now wants things instantly- this is not 30 years ago whenTGMR first opened and the internet did not yet exist.
I think this was a huge improvement (I’ve only seen videos) and this can indeed be updated easily.
I happen to like this version of Mickey fine (and I’m 62). Why do we need to be stuck in the past anyway? And unlike Universal, where screening is literally just screens, here it’s used to it’s fullest and fun potential. I’m looking forward to it coming to Disneyland!
I’m not surprised. When we visited WDW we had the misfortune of accidentally watching some of the new (?) cartoons in our room and were appalled at the animation and the stories. It was hideous and downright gross in a lot of it. We weren’t planning on giving this ride any time on future trips.
I also hate Universal’s dependency on screens. We were so excited as Potterheads too go on Gringotts and then were terribly disappointed for that reason. If I wanted to watch TV I can just do that at home. I hope Disney steers away from it but I doubt it with how much cheaper it probably is to make.
Rode it today and it was amazing. So much fun, so much to see, and it was beautiful. My daughter’s new favorite ride. My whole family got off with a huge smile and talking about how great it was.
Tom why do you only approve the comments that agree with your take?
While you may not enjoy the ride, it was a necessary step for the studios as outside of TSM there is no ride that the whole family can ride.
There are definitely contradicting comments here. We only delete offensive ones.
Lies.. I will screen shot my comments that are pending and post them on other boards for all Disney fans to see how you run this site
You should probably find something productive to do with your time.
Tom, as should you, bashing disney because of your love for an old ride that was way passed it prime is absolutely ridiculous.. *screen shot…
I’m “bashing” (calling a ride OK is bashing now as the fan community gets emotionally softer) Disney because I hold them to a quality standard. I don’t believe the people who come will think this is great, I think it will be met with an “that’s cute” and it will last 15-20 years and then be gone for the next IP they want to promote. The Great Movie Ride needed to be updated and I never said it shouldn’t have been.
Giving a billion dollar company a pass for substandard attractions is something I can’t seem to understand. They could have spent a few bucks for full animatronics. They said screw we’ll give them the cheapos and they’ll eat it up. We’ll raise the prices and they’ll fall in line like sheep. Congrats, you are exactly the person they are catering to now. And people like Tom are the bad guy now because they call them out.
Well, that’s clearly not true based on the comments approved on any post mentioning LGBT.
It has to have cursing, derogatory language, or be very disrespectful to not be published.
Slinky Dog Dash as well, or by whole family, do you mean a ride without a height requirement? Because I feel that every ride in the park can be enjoyed by the whole family once they reach the height. Even Rock’n Roller Coaster.
I’m all for honest reviews, but this article felt more like the author was ticked-off that the Great Movie attraction was closed and didn’t give Runaway Railway a fair chance. While I would have preferred that Runaway Railway was in the classic animation style and not the modern style, I think that it looks like a fun attraction with some innovative features, and I’m excited to see it when it open in Disneyland.
I just came back from Disney World last Sunday so we narrowly missed riding this ride (cant complain though because we got on Rise of the Resistance!). I personally loved the Great Movie Ride but was open to change. This however is so awful. First of all the animation and the animatronics are awful and scary looking and just dont look right at all. I also agree that it’s too much screen use which I too also hate about Universal Studios. Its lazy. Also, I watched ride through videos and they all were very difficult to watch. They hurt my eyes and I couldn’t keep up with everything that was going on. After halfway through the second right through video I had to quit because my eyes hurt so bad and it made me queasy and dizzy. I dont typically get sick or dizzy from rides so I thought this was so strange….. does it cause dizziness and overstimulation in person as well, or was this just a result of the video?
Even though The great movie ride felt kind of outdated, this new ride is a downgrade compared to it.
Scathing. I love it. Hopefully Disney will start listening. They seem to be running into a major identity crisis. Parks are packed, lines are too long (for real this time), and the average family is being priced out. It’s great that adults attend but this all should mostly be about families and children. Disney is following the money and losing their soul. Your review touches on a trend towards an overall lackluster product, shoved into a tight space, priced at top dollar that fewer and fewer people can actually experience (see RotR) even when they spend the money and time to be there. Walt would be disappointed.
It doesn’t really matter how good or bad a ride is, though. When a ride opens, regardless of if it’s a new space or inheriting a former attraction, or if it’s awesome or crappy, it’s going to bring in the crowds. This ride was always destined to pack them in, and honestly, Hollywood Studios needed this kind of attention. That park was the black sheep of Disney for the longest time, and nobody really wanted to go there until Toy Story Land and Galaxy’s Edge…all they had for rides was Star Tours, Tower of Terror, GMR (until it closed), and Rock’n Roller Coaster. That was even less to ride than Animal Kingdom prior to Avatar. And if you think that Rise of the Resistance and Mickey would mean that the other rides would have no lines, you’d be surprised. While Mickey had 3 hour lines and everyone was boarding up for RotR, Smuggler’s Run had 2 hour waits at the same time Slinky Dog, ToT, and Rock’n Roller had 90 minutes wait concurrently. I can guarantee that there will be no walking space in Magic Kingdom next year once Tron opens.
Are you kidding me? Maybe it won’t go down as the greatest new ride, but it does go back to our foundation, Mickey Mouse!! Great attraction for the big cheese, Our boss
I thought this was an impressive new use of innovative technology, and a big step for Disney and it’s future in creating attractions. That being said, i completely understand your thoughts and opinions. I just disagree. I think this is a phenomenal ride.
Three things that fell short based on the videos I watched 1) The first two windows in the locomotive are not lighted while the sides are 2) the goofy animation in the locomotive doesn’t match the shape of the opening 3) The trackless vehicles should have been spinning around the twister
Are you a fan of the new shorts?
No, but I also am not sure that the comedy in this even matches most of those. It feels toned down in comparison.
Despite the reaction on #DisTwitter, I appreciate the honest review. And completely agree about the differences in WDW & DL – makes no sense why WDW is reluctant to actually add capacity.
I’m scared now of what they’ll do to Spaceship Earth. . . Oh God! What if they shorten it to 5 minutes too?? We already know they’re going to projection map the hell out of it.
Maybe they’ll redo Spaceship Earth’s history through time with all anime! Wow, wouldn’t that look great…….err…..ok
Fixing the very first room would be a start. I’ve always enjoyed the ride, but the “beginning of time” is in desperate need of a makeover. And a projection screen that actually works. Unless you’re an owl, there is no way to actually see the woolly mammoth and prehistoric men projection. It’s incredibly dark and faded.
Something else for the “its a great family ride” crowd. My kid hates this version of Mickey. He watches MM Clubhouse, Mickey’s mixed up adventures, Mickey and the roadster racers. Thats the Mickey he knows and loves. They don’t even show this Mickey on Disney Junior. That says a lot about whom this version of Mickey is catered for. So in the next 10 years when this version of Mickey has run its course the ride will be dated and quickly. Shame they are so out of touch with their fan base.
I agree with this review. I thought the exact same things when I watched several of the videos of the new attraction online: lots of projections in mostly empty rooms with very few physical props and audio animatronics (which Disney created!). Is it too late? I don’t think so. Although it is new I could envision more Daisy Duck type audio animatronics being dropped in here and there. I also imagine (based upon watching online videos as well) that the new attractions to soon open at EPCOT “Ratatouille”: lots of video projections and movement through rather empty rooms.
So it’s like Fast and Furious at Universal. What a terrible concept and execution for a ride. That could have been an ‘ultra fast Soarin’ in small Charger-sized cars. Now it’s “sit anywhere but the outside edge and all you can do is enjoy the AC for a few minutes.
I don’t think anything at Disney is that bad lol
Completely agree!!
Disney literally owns fox now… The Movie ride never had to leave. Just sayin… replace scenes with classic fox owned properties through the years. (Not dissimilar to Epcot ball. Don’t gut the whole thing but replace pieces of it.)
The chorus isn’t necessarily “they don’t like anything.” My issue, Tom, is that this is basically the same review you wrote for Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Sunken Treasure and Remy’s Kitchen Nightmare. I honestly just think you are not the right person to review screen-based rides because you just don’t like that ride format.
There’s a reason Tokyo axed screen-face animatronics and is building a bunch of IP rides with physical sets, and its because they don’t ask WDI to drastically cut budgets. The screen-faces began as a neat idea for the Dwarves and Cars, but it was used after that as a budget-conscious alternative. People go to theme parks to be immersed in another world and screens are often not immersive. Screens should only be used where necessary, like they are in Rise of the Resistance for the most part. Otherwise, it’s just a way to tell a story cheaper.
I rode it yesterday on Opening day, me and my group absolutely love the show it’s based on, and we loved the ride. Yes it’s heavy on projection technology but the use of the holograms with animatronics were 100x times better than what Universal is doing. I wish the ride was longer, but we didn’t leave disappointed. The Great Movie ride is definitely missed but most in our party never rode that so they enjoyed it for what it is.
A couple minutes into the ride I thought why didn’t they make this into Fantasia the ride? The new story wasn’t necessary and is very choppy. Fantasia would have melded with these effects beautifully.
I was always just thinking what kind of idiots would seriously rip out the iconic great movie ride and think anything could be put in its place. The reality of it is great movie ride could have had some new technological upgrades and maybe a couple of redesign scenes but the best part was every time I went to Florida I always thought one thing I have to do is go on great movie ride now I don’t really even need to go to that whole park except for tower of terror.
I haven’t been on the ride but I have seen the POV videos and other than the effects you mentioned (dance studio, entrance and exit), I wasn’t impressed. I’m sure families will love it. Here’s an idea, bring back the Back Lot Tour, with Catastrophe Canyon and end it with the GMR! We who love Disney expect more. If the Imagineers need help, I’m for hire. 😁
Once again, Corless shows off his incompetence and “unscrupulous” reporting in an effort to get clicks.
His opinion means NOTHING.
In fact, this whole site is the least respected on on the internet. Unless you LIVE for 50 pictures of food.
Wonder why they never get invited to media events?
Yet here you are
Weird, the people i spoke to who are not salty great move ride stans, loved the ride. huh
Opinions are opinions, none of them are “right”.
I’m really enjoying your reporting style lately. I have to 100% agree with you on everything that you mentioned in this article. I won’t reiterate what you mentioned, since it basically mirrors my feelings, but I do want to address the clone in Disneyland and the other Disney parks. Housing MMRR in the existing GMR structure appears to have limited some of the ride vehicles movements, although they did miss out on a neat opportunity during the tornado scene. Do you believe that the ride experience will be “better” in the other parks? As they are building new structures to house them and don’t have to worry about the spacial constraints that a preexisting building come with.
My second question for you is, do you believe that Ratatouille will be a similar ride experience to MMRR?
It will sadly be the same everywhere.
Not sure if someone already mentioned this, but did Disney use the same cars from the Great Movie ride? They appear to be the same size. If that is the case, it really is cheap.
Uhhhh, no…
Just rode it- I loved every minute of it. Author of this article sounds like someone stuck in the past. I too hate all the screens at Universal, and this ride was nothing like those. It’s whimsical and fun and the great movie ride was archaic and falling apart. Good riddance to it and I’m super excited to ride the Runaway Train again and again!
Give this 5 years and it will look just as old and dilapidated given current maintenance lol
Little late to the conversation but…We rode it and liked it overall, 7.5 out of 10 maybe but for us that’s all I would have given The Great Movie Ride. The real takeaway for me is that I will specifically request to be in the first or second train car when/if I ride it again because you can see very little in the back car and the first audio-animatronics of Mickey and Minnie look AWFUL. I mean AWFUL. My niece and nephew had no idea what they even were until we sped passed them and you see them for like a half second. Soooo weird. In the room with the volcano, we didn’t even get to see that room at all. They put you in the water room so quickly I thought to myself ‘oh I guess we see the volcano after the water part’ but when we turned around it was completely gone. When we entered the dance scene I thought they were going to reverse the cars so we could be first and see more things but they immediately switched us back to the fourth position and we could see nothing again. In my opinion, this is worse than what happens at Soarin’. I’m dead serious. The last car sucks. Cute ride overall but request one of the front cars.
This is the first ACCURATE review of this ride I have read. Thank you for saying what I was thinking as I exited the ride! Unlike Rise of the Resistance, it felt like everything on Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway was happening around you and not “to” you. It made no sense, it was not 2.5D whatsoever, and I can barely even remember how the new song went. As a lifelong Disney Theme Parks fan, it fell below expectations.
Corless would prefer the addition destruction of central Florida habitat and wildlife loss for new attractions.
This is the spinniest spin I’ve heard on anything I’ve ever said lol
I rode it today & exited not knowing how I felt. I must have ridden GMR 500x growing up. I was familiar with the areas they kept so it felt like a cheap overlay.My 2 younger kids gave it a 9/10. My 12 year old got off the ride and said “what was with Mickey’s face?”
“This isn’t quite Pirates of the Caribbean, where you’ll notice new things every time while also being able to digest what the hell the story of the ride might be.” To be fair, WDW’s version of Pirates basically has no story either and just sends you into a series of rooms that are only slightly interwoven, and then just dumps you out in the most immersion-breaking way they could. Also, they didn’t get rid of Great Movie Ride just to replace it with this, they got rid of it because TCM refused to renew their contract after the death of the longtime host for the network.
This ride was in development before the TCM deal even got inked.
I was soooo excited when this ride was announced. Mickey is my fave and the Disney icon. What a great idea…except this is not a Mickey attraction..it is childish anime’ mouse certainly not Mickey. It is so far removed from the classic mickey it is not even on my radar to bother. Never mind the weird faces and misguided effects..um no it is not on my list unless its a walk on and even then? hmmm
I’m gonna have to give it a couple more goes, but I really enjoyed it on opening day. I also really enjoy the new Mickey cartoons, so… But, I think it’s largely a personal thing. I didn’t get to ride GMR enough to really have strong feelings for it other than that it felt abandoned and outdated by the time I had ridden it a dozen times in my life. There’s no “wow” in MMRR, but there’s joy.