Showing posts with label Theme Parks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theme Parks. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Poll Results: Theme Parks and Happy Meal Toys

 Which theme parks have you been to?
Disney World
 79(55%)
 
Disneyland
 62(43%)
 
Another Disney Park
 25(17%)
 
Universal Studios Orlando
 58(40%)
 
Universal Studios Hollywood
 35(24%)
 
Six Flags Parks
 73(51%)


Where would you like Power Rangers to be?
Nick Hotel
 29(15%)
 
Nick Cruise
 28(15%)
 
Universal Studios
 93(50%)
 
Another Theme Park
 36(19%)
 
All of Above
 80(43%)

What sort of Theme Park Attraction would you like for the Power Rangers? (At any given park)
Rollercoaster
 82(42%)
 
Enclosed 'Dark' Ride
 62(32%)
 
Indoor Stageshow
 79(40%)
 
Outdoor Stageshow
 76(39%)
 
In a Parade
 56(29%)
 
Meet and Greet
 87(45%)
 
Martial Art Demo
 61(31%)
 
Game-like Ride
 67(34%)
 
Museum of History
 120(62%)


Do you like the Power Rangers Samurai Happy Meal Toys?
Yes
 88(38%)
 
No
 63(27%)
 
Sort of
 65(28%)
 
Better than MMPR 2010
 48(21%)

 
Will you get a happy meal for Power Rangers Samurai toy?
Maybe One
 101(56%)
 
Just Toy, no meal
 28(15%)
 
Some
 24(13%)
 
All of Them
 51(28%)

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Just Ideas: Possible Power Rangers Theme Park Attractions?

Here is my own renditions and ideas. This by no means for sure will happen or are official. Nor have I heard any rumors or truth about any real ideas. Feel free to add comments on your ideas. I have a poll going on right now and when the results come out, I will either reiterate these ideas or link to this post. These are also the options from the poll.



Rollercoaster

Got the idea from the Hulk rollercoaster. I'm not a big fan of rollercoasters, but I can imagine that the cars can be in different colors as the rangers and be like a rainbow coaster. And maybe have a select villain.



Enclosed 'Dark' Ride

A ride like the ones at Disney (Small World, Peter Pan, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.) or the Spider-man ride at Universal Islands of Adventure. The ride can be 3-D like Spider-man or be like the ones I mentioned before with animatronics that barely move. They can tell a story. It could be of any select Power Ranger team, I vote for Mighty Morphin. since it is the best known. Most rides go from room to room, the first room could have Rita escaping the dumpster, second have Zordon telling Alpha to get five teenagers and we see the morphed Rangers appear, the third can have the Rangers fighting a monster or Goldar and fourth Megazord battle and fifth could have Zedd and Green Ranger and so on.



Indoor Stageshow

The Stage show Saban had in 1995 could be replicated or made better inside a housing stadium like Disney has for their stage shows, which are virtually all gone but the ones I grew up with where Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid in MGM Studios. I like air conditioning. And having it indoors, it can have special effects or 3-D. And this show can have different Rangers from different teams and being in-suit, they can have different voice actors. They can take the plot of Super Legends where Zedd returned.



(RPM in Philippines)



Outdoor Stageshow

Disney Hollywood Studios only had the Rangers in a parade and meet and greet, but back when it was MGM Studios, there was Ninja Turtles and they had a outdoor stageshow and then they did a meet and greet. As we said before, Sentai has plenty of stageshows and most of them are outdoors and they do pyrotechnics. Outdoors could also have a slight arena roof.



(Mystic Force and Dino Thunder in a foreign market)



In a Parade

The only thing Disney had them do was participate in the Car parade in Hollywood Studios. I have covered this many times before as they had one member from a different team and would rotate members, having a member of a new team replace one from four years before, for example Mystic Pink replaced Pink Time Force Ranger.



Meet and Greet

After the parade and at different times in Disney World Hollywood Studios in Orlando, the suited Power Rangers would sign autographs. To start out again, Saban will probably have all 5 Samurai Rangers and then slowly add a new member from a new team replacing another. I do wish they would have like Samurai Red, MMPR Pink, RPM Black, Jungle Fury Yellow and Operation Overdrive Blue.





Martial Art Demo


What I was thinking of was in-suit but an outdoor thingy where they train kids with simple marital art things and have an actual Martial Arts person be the host and explain.



Game-like Ride

In Disney World Magic Kingdom there is this Buzz Lightyear ride where you go in cars and have to zap targets. So maybe each looks like a zord and you have targets from different series, like one room has putties and Lord Zedd is in command at a park or cave and another has Cylcobots and Ransik is the boss inside a cityscape and another has Grinders and Venjix (a giant tube) in his headquarters, etc.





Museum of History

Ah, I want this so much. I imagine a big space with several rooms, it doesn't have to be as big as an actual musuem but it would be awesome to see suits in cases. They wouldn't have to have all the suits of each rangers but at least a few from each team. Or maybe all the helmets. I mean, there are some fans that have one helmet from each team. Not only suits and helmets of the team but like with Sentai that has Megazords, villains, and vehicles.







Monday, August 29, 2011

History of Power Rangers at Universal Studios



For almost five years, the Power Rangers were at Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios in Orlando (2005 to 2010). But that is no longer the case. For those who just clicked on this from google and not familiar with this, Disney owned Power Rangers from 2002 to 2010, now it is owned once again by the original owner Haim Saban. I've read online that many parents miss the Rangers and their kids want to see them. So far Saban has not announced them at any parks as of yet. Because Power Rangers are now airing on Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon Studios used to be at Universal Studios Orlando and some characters did frequent there, some fans believe the Rangers might move over there. It is yet to be announced.



Saban has had the Power Rangers appear at Universal Studios before. For Lightspeed Rescue in 2000, the actors appeared at Universal Studios Hollywood, California for 2 days and their bikes were there for a while. Now, yes these were no staying theme park attractions.



Also I remember reading an article back in 1994 that the original cast of MMPR (Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, Walter Jones, etc.) also made an appearance---they made five shows and there was a big crowd. Now, yes these were no staying theme park attractions. The longest thing at a theme park the Power Rangers have ever had was in Walt Disney World. Another theme park-like thing there is the Nick Hotels and Nick Cruise where the Nickelodeon characters appear at.