Steel City Magic
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never fear, the Tolkien estate supposedly wont even entertain the idea of selling to Disney. Supposedly Tolkien was of the same mindset ala Saving mr. Banks in that disney would destroy his property.
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DAK AVATAR breaks ground
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MOXOMUMD
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Oh I know that. Tolkien didn't want his characters to be "Mickey Moused" but that's a topic that has been kicked around more than a playground soccerball and I won't bring the discussion up again here.
Steel City Magic
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I am genuinely excited for the new construction. I think that it will be pretty awesome. not a big fan of avatar but excited all the same. More attractions > not. I was just comparing that orcs and elves /Middle earth would be just as comparable a fit in AK as Navi and Pandora. Of course they'll knock it out of the park (pun intended) I'm sure.
Soarin' Over Pgh
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I have a "something is better than nothing" attitude regarding Pandora.
And I refuse to think of it as "Avatarland" as the movie was crap, the characters were crap... the story was crap. For my own piece of mind I've stripped it down to the environment only.
That being said, I've come to accept Pandora.
And I refuse to think of it as "Avatarland" as the movie was crap, the characters were crap... the story was crap. For my own piece of mind I've stripped it down to the environment only.
That being said, I've come to accept Pandora.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I was reading through some old issues of Starlog magazine recently and in the February 1979 issue there was an article about the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings that had this quote in it...
"Although Bakshi announced plans to film Rings three years ago, he has been tracking down the film rights since the 1960s. "It's a movie I've been trying to do for ten and a half years," he explains. "A lot of people touched it before me. Disney Studios had it first and they couldn't pull it off. It was a problem for them. To be true to Tolkien was not to be true to Disney. I think that the Disney people realized this right away. Tolkien is not in the Disney tradition. They could have watered it down and filmed it, but so what? With all the battle sequences and the death of the ores and the kind of drama and fatality that's in The Lord of the Rings, you just can't approach it in the tradition of youth films. "
Soarin' Over Pgh
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Very true. Disney would have murdered the book(s) in movie form. I doubt they would have been able to do one let alone capture all the action in several novels.
And it'd be insulting to see Gandolph Mickey.
Matt_Black
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I think you mean "awesome".
Soarin' Over Pgh
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Matt_Black
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Yeah no, pretty sure I don't.
Yeah, you're right. Scrooge McDuck should be Gandalf.
Figment2005
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You are aware that this is exactly how Disney is going about Pandora right?
MOXOMUMD
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Uhhhh, no.
Matt_Black
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Uhhhh, no.
YES.
Steel City Magic
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i vote the wizard from fantasia?
doctornick
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Yen Sid
My guess is vertical construction will start by the end of the year
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I expect we will see some noticeable work in the next aerial photo we get.
matt9112
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msteel
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matt9112
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so it cant fly on all our hopes and dreams? =P