D.Silentu
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Speaking of the score, I wonder who will compose the music for this version and if the Soarin' theme will remain a part of it.
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Disneyland celebrates the country's 250th birthday in 2026
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mlayton144
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I feel like the soarin score has passed into classic Disney lore , have to keep it
waltography
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I'd love for Michael Giacchino to try his hand at it. Bruce Broughton did a decent job sampling/reorchestrating Jerry Goldsmith's original for World, but I think Michael has a better ear translating theme park attractions into a more cohesive cinematic sound.
truecoat
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SuddenStorm
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It'd be awesome to get an updated America Sings. It'll never happen I know- but it'd be pretty awesome.
It's not like they're using that building for anything worthwhile anyways.
It's not like they're using that building for anything worthwhile anyways.
I wonder if the Star Wars exhibit is still in there.
TP2000
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Apparently you have to wait until the country actually turns, you know... 250, and the calendar turns over to 2026 to see it.
And it's going to be fabulous! Not quite as big as the 200th, which will happen for the 300th, but the 250th is shaping up fabulously from Disney and other big companies. I read just today that the Union Pacific Railroad is sending its incredible Big Boy locomotive and a special 250th patriotic trainset coast to coast for the 250th, etc., etc., etc.
This is perfection! But certainly, I can't be the only to realize that Puddy is not quite the Puddy from 1995 any more, can I? Let alone the Soarin' Over California purser he was in early 2001. Still, how great that they got him back for this patriotic 250th celebration!
Again, this is perfection. Short of bringing back an updated America Sings (can you imagine the 4th act covering Nirvana and Marilyn Manson and whatever heathens are currently crawling along the Sunset Strip?), I can't think of anything better Disney's parks could be doing for the 250th Attractions-wise. And on both coasts!
TP2000
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Another great idea from Burbank!
They can lean in to the "Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that created America..." for this TV special.
TP2000
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Here's my list of ideas for locales that Soarin' Over America should cover. I think it's important to show not just the natural beauty our great country was blessed with, but also the cities and structures that we built into greatness with grit and determination. Soarin' Over California already did this balancing act beautifully, but Soarin' Over the World not so much as it seemed to focus on structures rather than natural beauty.
I agree that this likely won't have the movies end with fireworks over their respective parks. Instead... I'd go with this lineup;
Opening Shot & Departure over Disneyland/Epcot
Waikiki skyline and Diamond Head, with outrigger canoes racing on the waves
Glacier Bay National Park, with a couple of cruise ships and a glacier calving
Seattle skyline/harbor with Space Needle, Mount Rainier/Olympic National Park in background
Golden Gate Bridge flyover
Grand Canyon
Glacier National Park
Mount Rushmore
Chicago skyline and Lake Michigan, beautiful summer day with lots of sailboats
Mississippi River traffic with St. Louis Gateway Arch (dare they go through it?)
Texas or Oklahoma cattle ranches
Farmland being worked and rolling hills of Midwest with a big city on the horizon (Cincinnati? Indianapolis?)
Boston harbor busy at dusk, with Faneuil Hall and the market house
New York City skyline a frenzy at night with Statue of Liberty
Finale' - Zoom down the National Mall with monuments and White House and capitol lit up, with fireworks exploding
I agree that this likely won't have the movies end with fireworks over their respective parks. Instead... I'd go with this lineup;
Opening Shot & Departure over Disneyland/Epcot
Waikiki skyline and Diamond Head, with outrigger canoes racing on the waves
Glacier Bay National Park, with a couple of cruise ships and a glacier calving
Seattle skyline/harbor with Space Needle, Mount Rainier/Olympic National Park in background
Golden Gate Bridge flyover
Grand Canyon
Glacier National Park
Mount Rushmore
Chicago skyline and Lake Michigan, beautiful summer day with lots of sailboats
Mississippi River traffic with St. Louis Gateway Arch (dare they go through it?)
Texas or Oklahoma cattle ranches
Farmland being worked and rolling hills of Midwest with a big city on the horizon (Cincinnati? Indianapolis?)
Boston harbor busy at dusk, with Faneuil Hall and the market house
New York City skyline a frenzy at night with Statue of Liberty
Finale' - Zoom down the National Mall with monuments and White House and capitol lit up, with fireworks exploding
Disney Analyst
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I'd like them to add a scene of them flying over their sister resort during the film (i.e. if Disneyland version, take them over Walt Disney World, Epcot version, take them over Disneyland).
TP2000
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I'd like them to add a scene of them flying over their sister resort during the film (i.e. if Disneyland version, take them over Walt Disney World, Epcot version, take them over Disneyland).
What's interesting about that list, after I'd pontificated about natural beauty vs. manmade, is that I really struggled with what to show of much of the South and Mid Atlantic. Even the Midwest. They have natural beauty, but it's not the type that looks impressive looking down on it. It's just too flat out there. And we'd already done flyovers of cattle and farming equipment in Texas and Ohio. How do you capture the beauty of flat as a pancake South Carolina or Alabama or Indiana? Even Michigan and Pennsylvania are flat, flat, flat thanks to that giant ice sheet over them 15,000 years ago.
I was going to add Niagara Falls to help that upper Midwest, but realized we were already doing New York and the Statue of Liberty (which is technically New Jersey) and that the Empire State was well covered.
You could do Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter, and the mansions along the seawall, but that is pretty scaled down for a Soarin' shot. The smallest manmade thing that still plays well is something the size of the St. Louis Arch, or the Space Needle. Otherwise, you need huge manmade things like the Golden Gate Bridge or New York Skyline or National Mall to make an impact in that IMAX format.
I really struggled with what to do with at least a dozen states in the Midwest and South. Even Florida is not much fun aside from flying over a theme park. Oof.
Figments Friend
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It would be great to see Boston represented, as it is the ‘Cradle of Liberty’ and has a strong connection to the very creation of the America we know.
I mean, we kicked out the British first hand!
Gotta be enough to earn a place in the film.
New York of course is a given inclusion, how could it not be.
It’s iconic and is immediately thought of whenever anyone thinks of the USA.
Boston however deserves to be acknowledged as well for a film related to the 250th Anniversary of our country.
It would be a plus to include it, just for history sake.
No other city comes close to the history and connection to establishing what America became, except maybe Philadelphia.
Beantown all the way, baby!
Make it so.
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I mean, we kicked out the British first hand!
Gotta be enough to earn a place in the film.
New York of course is a given inclusion, how could it not be.
It’s iconic and is immediately thought of whenever anyone thinks of the USA.
Boston however deserves to be acknowledged as well for a film related to the 250th Anniversary of our country.
It would be a plus to include it, just for history sake.
No other city comes close to the history and connection to establishing what America became, except maybe Philadelphia.
Beantown all the way, baby!
Make it so.
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Disney Analyst
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Let's make it easier for you. Fly over Disney properties only.
Aluani, Disneyland, Disney Studios, Disney World, Whatever location they always film in Georgia, Disney ABC HQ in New York. End film.
TP2000
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Oh, geez, that's hysterical! I hadn't even thought of that.
But what's scary is that you just know there's an exec or two somewhere in Burbank who thinks that's a good idea.
TP2000
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It would be great to see Boston represented, as it is the ‘Cradle of Liberty’ and has a strong connection to the very creation of the America we know.
I mean, we kicked out the British first hand!
Gotta be enough to earn a place in the film.
New York of course is a given inclusion, how could it not be.
It’s iconic and is immediately thought of whenever anyone thinks of the USA.
Boston however deserves to be acknowledged as well for a film related to the 250th Anniversary of our country.
It would be a plus to include it, just for history sake.
No other city comes close to the history and connection to establishing what America became, except maybe Philadelphia.
Beantown all the way, baby!
Make it so.
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Agreed. I think the flyover of the harbor needs to have circa 1773 tall ships in the shot. Heck, they could even have them be the historical recreation groups that New Englanders love and they could be all dressed up and throwing crates of tea into the harbor! That's not a bad idea if I do say so myself.
The Boston harbor is so pretty and historical, and the skyline has grown so much, that it's an easy choice to make.
But definitely Boston and New England must be represented in Soarin' Over America. It's where we got our start!
truecoat
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Try the north shore and specifically, Split Rock Lighthouse north of Duluth. Check out this video for some footage.
And the Bob Iger building!!
Figments Friend
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Is Bob going to narrate this , too…?
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Distorian
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I agree with a of this list. St. Louis skyline and the Gateway Arch with a steamboat paddling along the Mississippi is perfection. Would be fantastic to get it to end on a home run in Busch Stadium, ala Michael Eisner's golf ball. Based on my own personal travels and cultural, geographic, and historic knowledge, these are some of the locations I would personally like to see in this attraction, in no particular order:
Rocky coast of Maine, closing in on the Portland Headlight
Lamar Valley, following a herd of bison
Flying over the Rocky Mountains in either Glacier National Park or Maroon Bells
Great Smoky Mountains with the haze of dusk/dawn
Waimea Canyon with the mist of Waipoo Falls casting a rainbow
Following an airboat through the bayous of Louisiana or the Florida Everglades, hopefully with a shot of some alligators
Going up the Rio Grande at Big Bend National Park
I know there's endless more that could be included. The United States is such a vast, diverse, and beautiful land that it would be wise to shoot dozens of scenes and have a randomizer, ala Star Tours.
As a current resident of Michigan and a former resident of Pennsylvania, I can confidently say Pennsylvania is not flat. The rolling hills of Pennsylvania's countryside are beautiful, especially in Autumn. Speaking of Autumn, a scene flying over Vermont in the Fall would be grand.