EPCOT Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[MisterPenguin]

As cheap as this addition looks I can't believe this was cancelled. Not cancelled for something better but cancelled with nothing replacing it. How cheap can they go?

It was put in 'indefinite delay' at the start of the pandemic when no one knew how that would affect the company or require drastic actions like selling off assets or declaring bankruptcy.

To get Poppins done, it has to re-enter the budgetary approval cycle. And right now, that is tight thanks to Wall Street demanding that streaming become profitable sooner than expected so they get their dividends back. In an era of lay-offs, its unlikely Poppins will be re-greenlit for two more years.

 

[J4546]

They've been getting that movie for years now.

But I don't see it ever happening in today's geopolitical situation. Rightly or wrongly, Disney will be pilloried for cooperating with all the bad things that China is doing if they update the movie. It will be seen as propaganda.

Disney is also belt-tightening right now to appease Wall Street. There's little to be gained for the expense of refitting that theater.

just curious not meant to be smarmy, but what are all the bad things china is doing?

 

[MisterPenguin]

just curious not meant to be smarmy, but what are all the bad things china is doing?

You'll have to go to other places on the internet to find that out. Such a discussion is deemed 'political' and not allowed on these forums.

 

[Skibum1970]

Same person probably thinks the cheeseburger they get at McDonald's will look just like the picture.

Wait, it doesn't? Dang it all.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Wait, it doesn't? Dang it all.

At least my Shamrock Shake last week was, quite simply, a delight.

 

[Tha Realest]

A C ticket seems underwhelming, and the park may very well need one. But the IP and the pavilion deserve so much more. Imagine if they “only” gave Tiana a spinner ride, for example.

The problem is it is going to cost as much as a D ticket with a queue deserving of an E ticket. And that expenditure wouldn’t have happened in a bucket - it’s money that could have been used elsewhere in the park (eyes glance over towards JII and M:S)

 

[J4546]

park def needs more c tickets.

I know a lot of people wont agree but id be chill with a carousel in the garden area honestly. Something classic, well designed and ornate. And maybe possibly not costing much compared to other projects.

Id like to see something major happen in the 2 other corners opposite RAT and Cosmic Rewing. Something between Land and Seas like a Camp Discovery mountain climbing rope course with a river rapids ride going around it perhaps. That way you get an example of land and sea coming together for 2 attractions. And then something in the south east quadrant by the backstage harbor area

 

[markham]

HIGHLY customized but premade ride systems can be totally fine. I just wish that they wouldn’t keep using the same ones. It’s one thing to ride a much cooler looking version of a ride you sort of remember riding somewhere at some point, it’s something else to have multiple versions to compare within the same vacation!

Imagine if they had all of that World Showplace space!…

 

[Sir_Cliff]

park def needs more c tickets.

I know a lot of people wont agree but id be chill with a carousel in the garden area honestly. Something classic, well designed and ornate. And maybe possibly not costing much compared to other projects.

I don't think many people would mind something like a carousel along the lines you describe going in somewhere. I think the criticism about this proposal is that it would have cost a fortune and the build up with the street facades and pre-shows were way too overblown for a simple teacup attraction.

 

[WorldExplorer]

I'm wondering about noise.

Whenever I think of Mad Tea Party, I immediately hear the loud bursting noise in my head.

Is that an inherent part of the mechanisms of tea cup rides, or just something they do to play into the theme? It seems like it would be worse indoors.

 

[marni1971]

I'm wondering about noise.

Whenever I think of Mad Tea Party, I immediately hear the loud bursting noise in my head.

Is that an inherent part of the mechanisms of tea cup rides, or just something they do to play into the theme? It seems like it would be worse indoors.

Serious thought would have been needed with the acoustics.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I'm wondering about noise.

Whenever I think of Mad Tea Party, I immediately hear the loud bursting noise in my head.

Is that an inherent part of the mechanisms of tea cup rides, or just something they do to play into the theme? It seems like it would be worse indoors.

If you're referring to that big "spaaaunch" noise the teacups make as they begin to come to a stop, that's not an inherent noise and the other Mad Tea Partys around the world do not make them.

In fact, I recall a time where even the WDW version did not make that noise. The first time I heard it I assumed something had gone quite wrong and that it would be fixed by my next visit. But years later, here we are . . .

 

[Timothy_Q]

Just wanted to check again how much space they have in the UK, and it's bigger than the show building+queue of Rat
You could also fit like 3 classic fantasyland rides, if they still knew how to properly utilize small spaces

 

[DonniePeverley]

 

[J4546]

Just wanted to check again how much space they have in the UK, and it's bigger than the show building+queue of Rat
You could also fit like 3 classic fantasyland rides, if they still knew how to properly utilize small spaces

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its not that disney doesnt know how to build classic fantasyland style rides, its that laws wont let them. DIsney could never build the rides in fantasyland as they are today

 

[bpiper]

its not that disney doesnt know how to build classic fantasyland style rides, its that laws wont let them. DIsney could never build the rides in fantasyland as they are today

What laws are you referring to?

 

[DonniePeverley]

its not that disney doesnt know how to build classic fantasyland style rides, its that laws wont let them. DIsney could never build the rides in fantasyland as they are today

Eh ?

 

[James Alucobond]

Eh ?

It's not difficult to discern the implication. @J4546 means that things like the fire code, standards for ADA compliance, etc. have evolved over time, and what was acceptable when the original Fantasyland rides were built may no longer be kosher for new builds. Older structures that met the standards of their time are often grandfathered in. That said, I have no idea if what was said is actually true and to what extent codes have changed, but the thrust of the argument is pretty simple.

 

[Timothy_Q]

Universal Hollywood just built a super charming Secret Life of Pets dark ride that's a third of the footprint of Ratatouille.

I'm sure the health and safety codes have changed over the decades, but saying that's the reason Disney can't manage space well anymore is silly

 

[James Alucobond]

Universal Hollywood just built a super charming Secret Life of Pets dark ride that's a third of the footprint of Ratatouille.

I'm sure the health and safety codes have changed over the decades, but saying that's the reason Disney can't manage space well anymore is silly

I thought the question was whether or not they could cluster multiple small rides together in a similarly tight configuration, not whether they could generally construct a small ride. Though again, would be nice to know if the poster in question is speaking from a place of authority or supposition.