Indiana Jones

[Enchanted Voyager]

Why havn't they used any theming from Indianna Jones? Adventure Express is kinda on the boaderline of it, but not enough.

[Player]

cause disney mgm owns the rights.

[Enchanted Voyager]

When did they buy them, I thought Indiana was a Paramont franchise?

[Player]

When did they buy them, I thought Indiana was a Paramont franchise?

hence the indiana jones ride at disney mgm. Paramount could do Chicago Jones?

[BoddaH1994]

To my understanding, Paramount did make the films and do own the rights to those films, but sold the ride concept to MGM.

[Kenban]

As I remember it George Lucas also owns part of the rights and he only allows Disney to do rides based on his movies.

[jzarley]

Paramount produced and distributed the Indy movies...they don't own the rights to them (or have they ever). George Lucas maintains ownership of ALL rights to the Indy series as well as Star Wars.

Lucas licensed the rights to use both for theme park attractions to Disney for a few reasons. First and foremost, he was a big fan of the Disney parks--having been a lifelong fan of Disneyland. Secondly, he had a pretty good friendship with Michael Eisner going back to when Eisner was in charge of Paramount when Indy was filmed.

Intellectual property rights are a complicated business. Unfortunately, just because a studio films and distributes a movie doesn't mean they "own" it. And, negotiating "theme park rights" as part of a package is a fairly new practice (within the last ten years or so...)

Joel

[Jasper]

AE is a semi Indiana Jones ride. It would attract a lot more people if it were an Indiana Jones ride.

[CoastersRZ]

And one big reason why he wanted Disney to have the rights for his Star Wars and Indy franchise, is because he knew they had the capital and ability to make the attractions live up to the standards he set in the movies. Word on the street is that the Indiana Jones Stunt show at Disney MGM studios may be removed to make way for an indoor Indiana Jones Dark ride, similar to the one found out at Disneyland.

[jzarley]

Yeah, I'd heard that rumor about the Indy stunt show at Disney-MGM as well... Did you see the feature on jimhillmedia.com that showed how originally there was supposed to be pretty much a "mini-Indiana Jones Land" at MGM? Pretty cool...

Keep in mind that when Lucas decided to grant theme park rights to Disney for IJ and Star Wars Paramount Parks didn't even exist then. Not that it would really have mattered...CoastersRZ is right--Disney has the resources to make sure they're done right. (Not only that, but you reach a much larger audience through Disney than any other park chain...)

Regardless of the source of AE's theme, I'm still a big fan of the ride. I still think it's the second best mine train ever built (the first being Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at DL and MK!). I ride it everytime I'm at the park, which is something I can't say for all the coasters (Vortex & TG).

It's funny that I always think of the years during Carl Linder's ownership as the "dark years" (and in terms of maintenance, cleanliness, etc., it was...), but two of the best attractions ever came during that time...AE and PT!

Joel

[Skippy]

Forget it, anything Lucas is given to Disney, just like everything Speilberg is given to Universal (doesn't matter if Paramount produced it or what ever, these guys own all the rights to their movies) I heard at one point in time after Lucas finished Star Tours he tried to convince his good buddy Speilberg to have Disney make his movies into rides because they were the only ones who could pull it off but Speilberg was so impressed with what he saw Universal doing while he was their filming his movies that he decided to partner up with them instead and he still doesn't regret it till' this day (especially after he finished Jurassic Park The Ride)