When Disney released Oz the great and powerful did they have plans to add it to any of the Disney parks?
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Oz the great and powerful ride?
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Thanks for the reply. I was just curious if Disney had plans. The movie was marketed a lot and I wondered if Disney had plans to put it in the parks if the movie was successful.
Prince-1
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It wasn’t a very good movie.
lazyboy97o
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An Oz land was in development for Disneyland. It was one of Tony Baxter’s last projects.
Yeah it really wasn't. As a kid I liked it but I watched it recently and it's not that good. I do give it props for trying something new. Plus Sam Rami and Danny Elfman were very good.
That would have been truly amazing. The Wizard of Oz scene in Great Movie Ride shows how it could be done so well in a theme park. It's a shame it has not been represented in a theme park.
lazyboy97o
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Land of Oz was a park in North Carolina that still opens to the public for a few days twice a year.
Oz is one of the scenes in the Storybook Land Canal Boats at Disneyland Paris.
Wow that's really cool. I also read there was a land of oz at Universal Studios Japan.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Well, there was at one point a Return To Oz Segment in the MSEP......
If there was an Oz ride.......It would have been based on this Nightmare Fuel and in the vein of Snow White Scary Adventure...
Imagine riding down a hallway where girls heads scream at you...
Wheeler's Chase after you with their psychotic laughter...
And to escape the huge terror that is the Nome King....
If there was an Oz ride.......It would have been based on this Nightmare Fuel and in the vein of Snow White Scary Adventure...
Imagine riding down a hallway where girls heads scream at you...
Wheeler's Chase after you with their psychotic laughter...
And to escape the huge terror that is the Nome King....
That is terrifying!Well, there was at one point a Return To Oz Segment in the MSEP......
If there was an Oz ride.......It would have been based on this Nightmare Fuel and in the vein of Snow White Scary Adventure...
Imagine riding down a hallway where girls heads scream at you...
Wheeler's Chase after you with their psychotic laughter...
And to escape the huge terror that is the Nome King....
Avatar, Wizard of Oz, The Hunger Games in Walt Disney World? | The Disney Blog
After the rumors are swirling that the proposed Avatar land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is on hold, it should come as no surprise that fans are speculating on what will be the next big project for Imagineers. MiceChat has surfaced the prospect of a Wizard of Oz themed land that could be in...
thedisneyblog.com
lazyboy97o
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That wasn't a crazy rumor. That is the Oz land that Tony Baxter was developing.Plus there was this crazy rumor from back in 2012.Avatar, Wizard of Oz, The Hunger Games in Walt Disney World? | The Disney Blog
After the rumors are swirling that the proposed Avatar land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is on hold, it should come as no surprise that fans are speculating on what will be the next big project for Imagineers. MiceChat has surfaced the prospect of a Wizard of Oz themed land that could be in...
Oh ok. So he was basing it around oz the great and powerful then? That's what the article was saying.
lazyboy97o
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My understanding is that it was not exclusively about Oz the Great and Powerful and would have included elements from the books but was tied to that film's box office performance.
Wow that would have been truly incredible. It's a shame the movie did not do as well as they had hoped.
Pepper's Ghost
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A dark ride about the Land of Oz would be fricken' AWESOME!
FettFan
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Well, there was at one point a Return To Oz Segment in the MSEP......
If there was an Oz ride.......It would have been based on this Nightmare Fuel and in the vein of Snow White Scary Adventure...
Imagine riding down a hallway where girls heads scream at you...
Wheeler's Chase after you with their psychotic laughter...
And to escape the huge terror that is the Nome King....
Aye. And you could see Mr. Tick-Tock on the Studio Tour in one of the prop rooms. Strangely enough he was positioned next to another golden droid...
lazyboy97o
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Tangentially related, Season 4, Episode 1 of Disneyland, “The Fourth Anniversary Show,” includes a preview of the never completed Rainbow Road to Oz starring the Mouseketeers.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Which is an interesting segment..But, shrouded in mystery..Darlene states that the studio bought the rights to all of the Oz stories...But, as you can see the studio really hasn't touched those books since then but, make up stories (Rainbow Road, Return to, and Oz Great & Powerful)..You have to wonder how long they have the rights to them..
And for anyone who has not seen this..Thank youtube for that...