A Spirited Perfect Ten

[Cesar R M]

What do you mean? My 10 and 8 year old grand kids loved it and the 7 month old slept peaceably through it while I cried...

I just back from seeing it.
And I agree with everyone. This isnt exactly a kids movie.
It has even deeper meaning about growing up and the emotions.
The kid finally understanding that life is not 5 basic emotions.

 

[Cesar R M]

Us too, and we LAVA'D the volcanoe thing at the beginning

loved the lava one. I wonder how the song would sound in english.

 

[Cesar R M]

Looks like they would have kept the Horizons building too.


I'm not impressed thus far, but Colin Farrell's beat down of that dude was one of the best moments on TV ever.

Seems the series are worth seeing ( by reading everyone's comments in this thread)

Funny to see top tier actors like Colin and McCounaughey in tv series.

 

[Cesar R M]

Looks like Selfie Sticks will finally get banned from Walt Disney World starting June 30th.

I wonder, will this block also include full monopods?

 

[Horizons78]

It looks like a large beer keg.

Well, you certainly don't think guests were willing to be shot into space sober do you?

 

[Padraig]

It looks like a large beer keg.

Never saw this before. I'm so glad this didn't get built... which is an extremely rare response for me when it comes to Imagineering. It's just hideous and industrial.

 

[Sans Souci]

props to rose mcgowan for speaking up on on the rampant sexism in hollywood...

https://variety.com/2015/film/news/rose-mcgowan-agent-exits-innovative-firing-actress-1201528258/

Hmm...I wonder why she wasn't such an outspoken voice about this 15 years ago?

 

[RivieraJenn]

Saw Inside Out last night--absolutely fantastic. I cried like a baby but also laughed out loud many, many times. Some of the best jokes were quite subtle (aren't they always?). It was the perfect combination of heart-string tugging and fun wrapped up in beautiful animation tied together with a story that made you think. My seven-year-old-son also really enjoyed it, and it's given us a great touch point to talk about emotions and how we deal with them.

Lava was...just okay. Not my favorite short.

 

[the.dreamfinder]

Never saw this before. I'm so glad this didn't get built... which is an extremely rare response for me when it comes to Imagineering. It's just hideous and industrial.

So is this better?

 

[jakeman]

So is this better?

Can you dislike both? Or does disliking one automatically mean that you must approve of the other?

 

[Brer Panther]

and a lady next to me was gushing about how CUTE Pumbaa was

I miss the days when people actually LIKED Pumbaa. He's my favorite character in the movie.

I know that people like Hill are reporting the plan is for them to stay in the Magic Eye long-term, but movie tie-in attractions in the Magic Eye was how this whole mess got started in the first place.

Well, Jim Hill DID say that the show wouldn't affect the ride... Then again, I'm sure they said things like that back when Honey, I Shrunk the Audience opened.

 

[asianway]

Because of the costs associated with membership. I'd be surprised if it weren't a very explicit contract that cannot simply be amended unilaterally by Disney whenever they wish. This isn't a membership to Sam's Club. Plus Disney can't just do whatever they want, they still have to abide by the law.

I don't know anything about the plaintiff, but as I said before: Disney's response sounds like the typical corporate response to a lawsuit. I would take anything they say with a grain of salt until trial when they actually have to prove it.

They can amend membership and they do regularly. There is no shortage of complaint threads from club 33 members on the micechat boards

 

[71jason]

i view it as an Adults movie that kids will also like, rather than a Kids movie that Adults would like too....

If the secret of Ratatouille is that it's ostensibly a movie about artists but really about commercialism and critics, I think the secret of Inside Out is that it's ostensibly a movie about tweens, but really a movie about parenting tweens.

BTW, a week out, still soon to have the conversation that a movie with a message that equates

Spoiler

=growing up with (literally) killing and demolishing your childhood pleasures and learning to accept sadness is just as important as happiness

is beloved by a subculture obsessed with cartoons and a theme park known as "The Happiest Place on Earth"?

I'll join Dennis Leahry for a big slice of that irony pie.

 

[PhotoDave219]

If the secret of Ratatouille is that it's ostensibly a movie about artists but really about commercialism and critics, I think the secret of Inside Out is that it's ostensibly a movie about tweens, but really a movie about parenting tweens.

BTW, a week out, still soon to have the conversation that a movie with a message that equates

Spoiler

=growing up with (literally) killing and demolishing your childhood pleasures and learning to accept sadness is just as important as happiness

is beloved by a subculture obsessed with cartoons and a theme park known as "The Happiest Place on Earth"?

I'll join Dennis Leahry for a big slice of that irony pie.

Put more succinctly.....

 

[PhotoDave219]

Quick Thought on the Club 33 debate....

If I'm paying $27k for the initial membership and $12k/year for membership dues, NO WAY am I letting that guest pass get out of my site.

People are responsible for their guests. One of the easier ways to get term'd from the company is having your guests misbehave when you've maingated them.

 

[danv3]

Who wants to read Tom Stagg's employment agreement? $2M plus bonuses..... dios mio.

It's the bonuses (cash and equity) that are really outstanding in there.

 

[lazyboy97o]

If the secret of Ratatouille is that it's ostensibly a movie about artists but really about commercialism and critics, I think the secret of Inside Out is that it's ostensibly a movie about tweens, but really a movie about parenting tweens.

BTW, a week out, still soon to have the conversation that a movie with a message that equates

Spoiler

=growing up with (literally) killing and demolishing your childhood pleasures and learning to accept sadness is just as important as happiness

is beloved by a subculture obsessed with cartoons and a theme park known as "The Happiest Place on Earth"?

I'll join Dennis Leahry for a big slice of that irony pie.

That assumes that both animation and themed entertainment are, by their very nature, mediums exclusively for children. Neither medium has origins in a focus on children.

 

[Disneyhead'71]

I'm not a "child at heart", per se. I just suffer from crippling immaturity.

Edit: I think that is my new Sig.

 

[asianway]

Quick Thought on the Club 33 debate....

If I'm paying $27k for the initial membership and $12k/year for membership dues, NO WAY am I letting that guest pass get out of my site.

People are responsible for their guests. One of the easier ways to get term'd from the company is having your guests misbehave when you've maingated them.

This guy was probably grandfathered into gold

 

[Omnispace]

The pitch is briefly chronicled in Marty Sklar's memoir. Eddie also talked about the project a bit in his threads.

Thanks! Took a few minutes searching but just found this. I almost forgot how enjoyable it was to read Eddie's comments:

I was the Imagineer that pitched the idea of what became Mission:Space. (ducks as tomatoes fly!) I quit WDI before it was completed so it evolved alot after I left. Horizons was probably the best of the "show" attractions in Future World. I liked it alot. It had the optimistic soul of EPCOT as it's message. It was the most forward looking thing out there.

Truth be told, it got old. GE wanted out in part because the ride was getting low guest ratings and had lost much of it's ridership popularity. I saw the comment and turnstile reports and walked on it several times in it's last year. So WDW was looking at a thrill attraction for that area as kids fought their parents going to EPCOT. That slot was to be that "thrill" attraction to add some variety to the mix. In the beginning, MS had the "capsules" indoors on a coaster train in the original Horizon's building. I later found out Universal was developing exactly the same thing as Apollo 13!

MS did not "replace" Horizons, as Horizons was already off the table in their minds. It was not in lieu of some big Space Pavilion with guests on their own flying MMU, etc. That was way over anyone's budget and was already dead on arrival. The die was cast. Everything failed because it did not meet the thrill criteria.

That laid the groundwork for new thinking. It was not to be a "pavilion", as no sponsor could step up with that much investment. It was hard enough to keep the sponsors they had. We pitched the idea of sustained G Forces in a real capsule where you press the buttons. Trying to make it a science fact thrill attraction where you feel as many of the real sensations of space travel as possible was the EPCOT of doing a thrill ride was what we pitched. Make it as real as you can. Many things could have been done better, bigger, longer and it could have been a pavilion. All true. It was a miracle that the team even got it funded by Compaq/HP. We worked very hard to stay true to the EPCOT mantra of futurism. No SciFi. We flew the real shuttle simulator at NASA. Interviewed astronauts as to what things felt like, even rode the centrifuge they ride to train,etc. MS simulates the dream that anyone may really go to space in their lifetime, and with Branson launching tourist rockets, it may come true. It was a conscious decision to say that it's not for everyone as most thrill rides aren't. It's tight inside and filled with controls and the forces are unique too. We rolled the dice and in some cases we broke new ground, but in any event you learn something. The content and message of Horizons belongs in EPCOT, so now maybe it's time to take things even further. Here's an article that has some ideas for how that optimism and future living could be accomplished. I think theres room for both!

http://imagineeringdisney.blogspot.com/2009/05/wwed-armchair-imagineering-with-eddie.html

So it's a love/hate kind of project. That's fine too. Just thought you'd like the inside story.