Norway Pavilion Frozen construction - Frozen Ever After ride

[GhostHost1000]

They aren't issuing any FastPasses for Anna & Elsa at Magic Kingdom after 5/26. Does this give any credit to the 5/27 opening rumor or do you think there will be no Anna & Elsa presence in the parks at all from 5/27 - mid-June?

I would be shocked if there was no Anna and Elsa presence in the parks during that time... let's hope for the 5/27 opening date...which would make sense to open and work out and issues before the summer crowds begin to appear the week or 2 afterwards

 

[cornandacobb]

Frozen 2 will do huge box office business whether it is good or not.
Disney learned their lesson when they did not put Toy Story 2 in the theatres. Cost them tons of $.

Don't forget Return From Witch Mountain (1978...$16MM)...sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975...$20MM). Adjusted to today they would be $61MM and $85MM respectively.
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EDITED TO SAY "OOPS!!!!!" My bad. I always had it in the back of my mind that Toy Story 2 never hit theatres. This was before I had children of my own so I guess my memory has failed me miserably. Reading up on it, it was originally slated to be a DVD release before Disney changed their minds. My bad. My apologies. Carry on.

 

[redfarmer06]

Frozen 2 will do huge box office business whether it is good or not.
Disney learned their lesson when they did not put Toy Story 2 in the theatres. Cost them tons of $.

Don't forget Return From Witch Mountain (1978...$16MM)...sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975...$20MM). Adjusted to today they would be $61MM and $85MM respectively.

Toy Story 2 was in theaters...I remember seeing it with my family..

 

[WDWFanDave]

They aren't issuing any FastPasses for Anna & Elsa at Magic Kingdom after 5/26. Does this give any credit to the 5/27 opening rumor or do you think there will be no Anna & Elsa presence in the parks at all from 5/27 - mid-June?

I wonder if it's related to the restriction for how far out you can book FP?

 

[glvsav37]

Toy Story 2 was absolutely in the theaters.

Originally it was supposed to be a direct to video, but they loved the storyline so much, they pumped extra money into it to add the additional minutes into it to make it a full length feature.

 

[cornandacobb]

Sorry. I edited my post above about Toy Story 2. I was mistaken and I apologize.

 

[glvsav37]

its all good!!

 

[Ripken10]

Frozen 2 will do huge box office business whether it is good or not.
Disney learned their lesson when they did not put Toy Story 2 in the theatres. Cost them tons of $.

Don't forget Return From Witch Mountain (1978...$16MM)...sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975...$20MM). Adjusted to today they would be $61MM and $85MM respectively.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EDITED TO SAY "OOPS!!!!!" My bad. I always had it in the back of my mind that Toy Story 2 never hit theatres. This was before I had children of my own so I guess my memory has failed me miserably. Reading up on it, it was originally slated to be a DVD release before Disney changed their minds. My bad. My apologies. Carry on.

toy story 2 is Pixar...came out in 1999, Disney had not bought them outright yet.

 

[Ripken10]

Frozen 2 will do huge box office business whether it is good or not.
Disney learned their lesson when they did not put Toy Story 2 in the theatres. Cost them tons of $.

Don't forget Return From Witch Mountain (1978...$16MM)...sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975...$20MM). Adjusted to today they would be $61MM and $85MM respectively.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EDITED TO SAY "OOPS!!!!!" My bad. I always had it in the back of my mind that Toy Story 2 never hit theatres. This was before I had children of my own so I guess my memory has failed me miserably. Reading up on it, it was originally slated to be a DVD release before Disney changed their minds. My bad. My apologies. Carry on.

And neither of the Witch mountains are part of the Animated collection as I was referring to.

 

[Ripken10]

The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000 and Winnie the Pooh (2011) are all part of the official "classics" cannon.

Frozen 2 will not be direct to video.

I did forget about The Rescuers, Fantasia and Winnie the Pooh. Fantasia being the biggest omission.

 

[witandwander]

I wonder if it's related to the restriction for how far out you can book FP?

I have been closely watching The Dibb and even with my 60 Day window + 10 vacation days, there were still no Anna & Elsa OR Cinderella & Rapunzel FP available after 5/26. Anna & Elsa is hard to come by, but Cinderella and Rapunzel should definitely be available if nothing was changing. They must be moving Anna & Elsa to Norway and changing the princesses in Princess Fairytale Hall (probably splitting Cinderella and Rapunzel and adding the visiting princess "friends"). The question is whether the move to Norway will be immediate (on 5/27) or whether there will be a time Anna and Elsa will not be in MK and Norway (5/27 - Frozen Ever After opening in mid-June).

@spiritofNorway Thoughts?

 

[gleepy]

The question is whether the move to Norway will be immediate (on 5/27) or whether there will be a time Anna and Elsa will not be in MK and Norway (5/27 - Frozen Ever After opening in mid-June).

It certainly seems plausible for the M&G and retail to open on 5/27 and wait until mid-june for the attraction.

 

[GhostHost1000]

I'm hoping for a June 1st Frozen and Soarin' opening seeing as how I'll be down there on the 2nd-11th

 

[wdwgreek]

The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000 and Winnie the Pooh (2011) are all part of the official "classics" cannon.

Frozen 2 will not be direct to video.

And Three Caballero's! The first Disney cannon sequel

 

[marni1971]

Staffing and moving for the M&G will possibly have been planned independent of the ride, aside from being given a date for it to happen by. Different departments. One can still happen without the other.

 

[cornandacobb]

And neither of the Witch mountains are part of the Animated collection as I was referring to.

I officially retire from this thread. I am full of misinformation and unrelated tidbits of info today.

 

[Sped2424]

Making a lot of money at the box office does not automatically mean it's a good movie.

k but how about an 89 percent certified fresh on rotten tomatoes? Or maybe 2 oscars? Or a 7.6 on imbd? At what point is someone reaching when they call this film "bad" when there is a lot of evidence towards the latter.

 

[Phineas]

Just passed by and snapped some photos after enjoying the mariachi band in Mexico (those guys are great!).
In typical Disney fashion, the rock work looks very good.

And say what you will about Disney as a company: They never fire cast members once their attractions become defunct; they instead re-train and re-purpose them, allowing them to soldier on, power tools in hand, and a song in their hearts!

(The song in their hearts happens to be the theme from El Rio Del Tiempo, so it's still a little sad, but not unemployed Norwegian sad.)

 

[Sped2424]

Is Frozen two going to be pat of the animated classic collection aka a standard picture, or a direct to DVD picture like Little mermaid 2, Peter pan 2, lion king 2 etch?

Standard picture given its an official sequel and not a Disney toon sequel. The same way you have toy story 2,3 and monsters university are all films that are not in any sort of direct to did category frozen 2 will also be the same.

 

[Wikkler]

Cinderella II and III weren't nearly as popular as Cinderella...does that mean Cinderella was a flop? The Little Mermaid has a 92% rotten Tomatoes score, but the Little Mermaid 2 got a 33% -- guess Little Mermaid was just a fad too.

Now I will ask - has there ever been a Disney Animated movie (other than Pixar movie) whose sequel was a big success? I certainly can't think of one, and looking on boxofficemojo, The Jungle Book 2 made the most money of any Disney Animated movie sequel (disregarding pixar) at $47,901,582. When I heard Frozen 2, I kind of expected it would be another film like this. I do think Frozen 2 will be more successful than any other sequel in the Disney Animated Universe (again disregarding Pixar), but nothing about it's success will be any indication of how successful Frozen is, or whether it is a classic. Obviously a few people will never accept the popularity of the film...just like many on here refuse to accept the popularity of Avatar (but I will agree Avatar will not have the same impact that Frozen will...but land will because of how immerse it will be, but the movie was such a big hit because it was a first of it's kind...Frozen just hit the public in a way that will always be around much like the Lion King).

But keep refusing to accept the popularity of Frozen and the impact it will have forever.

Where did this comment come from? I think you replied to the wrong person.