HauntedMansionFLA
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Just look at all of the space WorldShowPlace takes up….
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EPCOT Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion
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lazyboy97o
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It’s old, baseless supposition paraded about as fact because most people don’t know how to go about questioning it. Yes, regulations have changed that might not allow exact 1:1 duplication but to this day small dark rides are built in the US. A good example is the dark rides at LEGO[land] Discovery Centers.
James Alucobond
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Let us all continue to pray for its deletion when World Celebration opens.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Yes! That’s a good chunk of land that you could do a lot with
SamEagle80
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I was really hoping they were going to announce this attraction was coming back to life at D23 this year especially after hearing everything else coming to WDW.
Not a big fan of the tea cup aspect of the attraction but Mary Poppins would've been a nice, smaller project that could be done for what looks like a really slow year for additions (2026) and one that would've been an actual expansion and added some capacity to EPCOT and not just another replacement. Instead we only get announcements for things years off that are just replacements (except Villains assuming that still happens).
Not a big fan of the tea cup aspect of the attraction but Mary Poppins would've been a nice, smaller project that could be done for what looks like a really slow year for additions (2026) and one that would've been an actual expansion and added some capacity to EPCOT and not just another replacement. Instead we only get announcements for things years off that are just replacements (except Villains assuming that still happens).
castlecake2.0
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I was secretly hoping for that too but alas. If they could copy and paste from Disneyland mr toad to UK and Pinocchio to Italy it would make Epcot pretty well rounded for relatively cheap. The rides already exist, and bus bar attractions require extremely low cast count, if I recall correctly there’s usually only one cast member working the load area while monitoring the control panel. Seems like it could be a cheap win.
Typically you’d have 3-4 operational cast for a simple ride; greeter (optional), grouper, load and unload. Plus extras and breaks. Orlando would also need the typical; paid fastpass greeter(s) but even so like you said relatively cheap to install and run.
Haymarket2008
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I've been advocating for Toad to come to the UK for a long time. Given the IP mandate, I think its a great aesthetic fit.
Disstevefan1
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Great ideas!
Toad BACK in WDW! Folks would go crazy in a GOOD way!
Your great ideas will greatly please the guests! You are thinking about the guest experience.
These ideas do seem to be low cost for high value in return!
These ideas are too good, too smart. TWDC would never go for it
James Alucobond
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The exterior is great, but I do think it’s a bit too rudimentary now to be accepted as a new build.
It probably wouldn’t have hell, so why even bother.
Bocabear
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The building and overall theme could be great, but in 1971 Mr Toad was already an unknown historic Disney footnote... not a well know Disney IP. We all oved the attraction, and probably would have bought the merch if they ever had any back then.... Which of course goes to show that an IP's popularity is not necessarily an important thing. I can see them doing Mr Toad if they came up with a new film or series...but no other way... Not when there is Mary Poppins and the newer versions of Alice...
Though I personally would love to have the adorable tiny version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride from the 1980s remake of Fantasyland at Disneyland.... It is just too small by today's standards without a double track and new tech...digital mapped projections, etc.
Though I personally would love to have the adorable tiny version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride from the 1980s remake of Fantasyland at Disneyland.... It is just too small by today's standards without a double track and new tech...digital mapped projections, etc.
Surferboy567
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This project when it was first announced holds a special place for me. It’s the reason I started posting on these forums I used to just lurk for many years. This was the project that made me start talking and being engaged in the disscusion.
Shame it never came to be, Mary Poppins deserved more then Tea Cups though.
Shame it never came to be, Mary Poppins deserved more then Tea Cups though.
Epcot82Guy
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I think I would be ok with a Mad Hatter's Wild Ride. Even in the UK pavilion. You should enter via a bookshop on a new street (ala Diagon Alley), though, IMHO.
Haymarket2008
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I have some ideas:
*opens up the old chest of defunct ideas*
THAMES RIVER CRUISE
CHRISTMAS CAROL DARK RIDE
But in actuality, those would have been amazing. (If we MUST go IP...why not Mickey's Christmas Carol dark ride). I know this would never happen but a man can dream.
In all seriousness, the correct choice for the UK pavilion would be a Fantasyland style bus-bar dark ride themed to Mary Poppins. Nothing grand. Something CHARMING.
*opens up the old chest of defunct ideas*
THAMES RIVER CRUISE
CHRISTMAS CAROL DARK RIDE
But in actuality, those would have been amazing. (If we MUST go IP...why not Mickey's Christmas Carol dark ride). I know this would never happen but a man can dream.
In all seriousness, the correct choice for the UK pavilion would be a Fantasyland style bus-bar dark ride themed to Mary Poppins. Nothing grand. Something CHARMING.
etc98
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MUPPET Christmas Carol dark ride!
Haymarket2008
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Surferboy567
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We're Marley and Marley
Averious and greed
We took advantage of the poor
Just ignored the needy
We specialized in causing pain
Spreading fear and doubt
And if you could not pay the rent
We simply threw you out
HauntedMansionFLA
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And use the Paul Williams songs for the ride
Disstevefan1
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OK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA!!!!
To make it even more special, its only open seasonally!
This makes it special and creates demand!