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Trying to figure out how to shove Guardians of the Galaxy in there.
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No Name
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I like that Frontierland in Paris is all one land. No offshoots like Liberty Square, New Orleans Square, Critter Country, Mystic Point, Grizzly Gulch, heck, Galaxy's Edge, etc. It's all one land. The park still has five lands, not nine. In my opinion, that helps drive home the constrast between the different areas of the park.
Hopefully they're figuring out where to place a Splash Mountain.
Do you know and have the ability to share whether Battle Escape will require 3D glasses? Understand if you cannot.
Hopefully they're figuring out where to place a Splash Mountain.
Do you know and have the ability to share whether Battle Escape will require 3D glasses? Understand if you cannot.
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the.dreamfinder
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FigmentJedi
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They had plans to do it without the Song of the South characters.I like that Frontierland in Paris is all one land. No offshoots like Liberty Square, New Orleans Square, Critter Country, Mystic Point, Grizzly Gulch, heck, Galaxy's Edge, etc. It's all one land. The park still has five lands, not nine. In my opinion, that helps drive home the constrast between the different areas of the park.
Hopefully they're figuring out where to place a Splash Mountain.
yeti
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It would really take off there since the French are so infatuated with the Wild West.Corrected.
No Name
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Well then that's not Splash Mountain. But what would they have used or done instead?
Corrected.
I think Splash Mountain is one of the best rides ever created, but I suppose I couldn't complain. The company heads today would never greenlight either of them anyway.
FigmentJedi
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2351metalcloud
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That sounds plausible to me as Darkwing Duck came out soon after Batman in 1989, but do you have a source form where you learned this?
I had thought that Comcast had purchased Universal a year before 2009. So, yes they wouldn't have had as much money to completely buy Marvel before the Comcast purchase.
You replied to a post that mentioned Marvel going bankrupt by saying "People weren't actually all that interested in 'comic book' stuff, that had been kind of cordoned off as niche and dying." I was pointing out evidence that I think goes against that idea.
I'm not really sure what time you are referring to by "'comic book' stuff, that had been kind of cordoned off as niche and dying" if around when Marvel went bankrupt isn't the time you were referring to. If you are talking about 2008, that doesn't seem to make much sense as The Dark Knight was the highest grossing movie in 2008 with Iron Man in the top 10 and Spiderman 3 and 300 in the top 10 highest grossing movies in 2007.
Maybe there is something to this that I'm not seeing. To me, if person x thinks 1: [Disney spending 4 billion dollars to buy Marvel is an obviously good idea due in large part to the large number of characters that have appeared in print and electronic media created by them that could appear in future movies and tv shows] then it still doesn't seem to make much sense to me for person x to think 2:[it is courageous for Disney to spend 300+ million dollars on one or more movies starring some of the characters from this print and/or electronic media].
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[I found something that mentions something about Disney wanting to use Gargoyles at least to partly make something akin to a superhero universe:
www.comicmix.com/2008/07/17/interview-greg-weisman-talks-gargoyles/
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ToTBellHop
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I have it on good authority that Bob prefers to dip his baguette in olive oil (extra virgin only). No butter.
Also, he breaks it; no knife. There was a small emergency when a drop of EVOO fell upon his white tank top. Turns out Fitz packed a spare.
Also, he breaks it; no knife. There was a small emergency when a drop of EVOO fell upon his white tank top. Turns out Fitz packed a spare.
2351metalcloud
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I think Marvel has a fairly wide variety of things they have made comics about that they could make movies or tv shows about although not necessarily with all of them them as part of their MCU superhero series, but so far they've I'd say they have made modern style action-superhero movies and a space-science fiction action movie.
LucasFilm has a bit more limited history in what they have made the comics division of Marvel however that is just their history just like with the studios division of Marvel. Still there is some variety in their history: American Graffiti (coming of age comedy-drama), Willow (high fantasy), Star Wars (what I'd say is some kind of combination of fantasy and 'space opera', Labyrinth (fantasy), Strange Magic (animated fantasy), and some movies inspired more by old Hollywood movies than the previously mentioned like the Radioland Murders (inspired by old comedy-mystery movies), Indiana Jones (inspired by old Hollywood adventure movies and probably some old books with similar stories), and Red Tails (somewhat inspired by old war movies).
The Empress Lilly
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Please not. Go home Bob. DLP is fantastic. Twentyfive years of neglect means it is unspoiled by the idiocy that ravaged the US parks since 1994. Hands off!
WDSP next door could use a billion or so though. (Although we all know it will be Marvel Land)
WDSP next door could use a billion or so though. (Although we all know it will be Marvel Land)
the.dreamfinder
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Marvel, the company, has always been a mess. Ike Perlmutter, who led the company out of bankruptcy in the mid 90’s, came from the toy world and he aggressively shaped Marvel into a boy’s brand because he can better sell toys one gender would want. The toys in turn influenced everything else at Marvel and how children see Marvel, regardless of the comics. Since the acquisition, Ike pushed hard against creating merchandising with the female characters like Black Widow and Gamora, arguing that their inclusion would be a turn off for boys. Obviously, this is super dumb, but Ike never thought Marvel had to change its MO.
Lucasfilm is just SW and Indy now. However, having multiple women in influential positions of power, many of whom grew up with it as fans, has helped them recognize that it’s not just for boys.
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the.dreamfinder
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#teardownthispark
Villages Nature looks nice though. Sorta like if 70’s Disney management had created a large affordable, read moderate/value, hotel complex with a rich array of amenities not unlike Ft Wilderness.
The Empress Lilly
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That's a very interesting thought.
Another one of the blessings of DLP's underinvestment. The park is still as designed, so coherent, its distinct themes not watered down.
The contrast between the lands was deliberate, greatly helped by each land having its own lead designer. The downside is that the different lands feel less part of a single design than the MK (did
).Also, a tenner says Bob decided today on Marvel Land replacing the western third of WDSP and Lucas/Star Wars Land in DLP between Adventure and Frontierland.
FigmentJedi
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I thought the plan for Parisian Galaxy's Edge was gonna be putting in Discoveryland adjacent to Star ToursThat's a very interesting thought.
Another one of the blessings of DLP's underinvestment. The park is still as designed, so coherent, its distinct themes not watered down.
The contrast between the lands was deliberate, greatly helped by each land having its own lead designer. The downside is that the different lands feel less part of a single design than the MK (did
Also, a tenner says Bob decided today on Marvel Land replacing the western third of WDSP and Lucas/Star Wars Land in DLP between Adventure and Frontierland.
The Empress Lilly
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Indeed!
I can't believe DLP never build an indoor waterpark. That sounds exactly what the resort needs to lure in families from Northwest Europe for a few days.
The contrast between DLP - WDSP drives home better than anything on the planet the difference between pre- and post 1994 Disney. Night and day. Jaw-dropping design vs plain rubbish. There are only a few years between the parks, but the contrast couldn't be bigger. If anybody thinks the fans merely imagine a drop in quality between classic and later Disney, take the 200 meter walk.
Will be interesting what will happen in Paris. Fitzgerald's promise is to double DLP in size, and Bob has pledged the billions needed now that the resort is fully Disney owned. Go see it now before it is DLP 2.0. The window to see classic DLP is closing.
Animaniac93-98
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But surely adding Chewbacca to Phantom Manor and replacing the Nautilus walk-through with an Iron Man gift shop would be better?
The Empress Lilly
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The sad thing about parodying Disney is that reality will always catch up with it.But surely adding Chewbacca to Phantom Manor and replacing the Nautilus walk-through with an Iron Man gift shop would be better?
TWDC is a barbaric horde of greedos intent to replace Disney parks with Disney parks (no typo) and thereby destroy what made them great. What is the current score?
We have Depp infestation in what was the world's greatest Pirates (and not DL!)
Upcharge events are creeping up from every direction faster than zombies at UNI's Halloween Horror fest.
DLP is blissfully devoid, mostly, of being unceremoniously dumped into giftshops after rides. Surely this will be rectified.
The movie park attraction celebrating Hollywood and classic movies is being replaced by the Disney property attraction (where have we heard this before)
Star Wars sprawl all over two parks (there may be no Iron Man in Verne's Nautilus yet, but there is a Darth Vader in his Hyperion!)
Speaking of Star crawl: Starbuckses popping up all over the place, replacing unique venues.
FigmentJedi
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The Hyperion was created by Donald G. Payne under the penname Ian Cameron in 1961. Thereby making it an early example of Steampunk that wasn't just "Any science fiction story produced in Victorian/Edwardian times"
The Empress Lilly
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I always thought that was based on Verne.