Armchair Imagineering: Five Disney Movies That Absolutely Should Have Been Tapped For Rides By Now, So Why Haven't They?

I think the title about says it all.

Okay, fine, I'll write a proper intro.

It can be instructive to examine which Disney films get tie-in rides (or other major attractions, as opposed to character meet-and-greets, parade units, etc.) and which ones don't. Quite some time ago, I grumped about how the Pixar movies get the gold star treatment in the parks, while the films of the Disney Renaissance that actually pulled the animation studio back to the prominence it has enjoyed for a solid generation are largely ignored. The so-called Golden and Silver Ages are well-represented, naturally, while the less-ambitious projects of the Sixties and Seventies are mostly sidelined. Lately, the high-profile live-action IPs Disney has bought are getting the lion's share of the attention from WDI.

The facts are what they are, but I'm sure we can all think of movies that we wish had been turned into rides, but which have been rather inexplicably skipped so far. Here are five of mine, in no particular order.

Okay, fine, in chronological order of release.

Imagineering Theory: Princess's Interesting Dark Ride

Last week, I noted that there are actually very few Princess rides in the Disney theme parks (because it's hard to make a good ride out of a love story) and then did a little analysis of the two that do exist in the Disneyland Resort: Snow White's Scary Adventures and The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure. This week, I thought it might be fun to follow up on the first bit. Which Princess movies would make good dark rides? How best to translate the themes and settings of a given movie into a quality ride?

It promises to be an interesting intellectual exercise, at any rate, so let's get going!