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News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion
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Haymarket2008
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@MansionButler84 Any updates from your recent source about all this? Still a go?
ToTBellHop
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Haven't heard any differently.
Creathir
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I know I personally am quite excited about it.
rle4lunch
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Me and my family are from the same town that the van d y k e s are from. My dad sold a Mercedes he restored to Jerry van d y k e and his ex wife. She promptly let it run out of oil and blew the engine up.
That's my families closest relationship with them, lol.
Fun fact, Gene Hackman is also from the town I was born in, along with a NASA astronaut.
The town went to crap in the late 80s early 90s, but it was once pretty decent, even for being in the middle of a bunch of cornfields.
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Coaster Lover
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- In the Parks
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Is it weird that I may be more excited about this ride than I am about several other projects? I guess I'm just a sucker for an old fashioned dark ride and Marry Poppins was always a favorite of mine growing up so combining the two just gets me excited. Are we reasonably certain this will be a busbar style dark ride or is the ride system still in question? Any chance this is omnimover?
PorterRedkey
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3D Motion simulator.
Kman101
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I'm excited too. I love Poppins and I've wanted a dark ride for so long. I feel much more invested in this ride coming than the others. I hope they do it right but I'm concerned because they seemed to be unable to decide if it would be a dark ride or not. So I will remain worried about it until I'm convinced they're going through with it
(of course I know and believe the insiders who say it's happening - at this moment in time - but it's Disney who I don't trust)They've let me down before so I hope I'm not let down this time.
Now that Poppins is in the pipeline, let's hope my other fantasy of an Indy boat ride in DHS happens ....
PorterRedkey
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I'm excited too. I love Poppins and I've wanted a dark ride for so long. I feel much more invested in this ride coming than the others. I hope they do it right but I'm concerned because they seemed to be if it would be a dark ride or not. So I will remain worried about it until I'm convinced they're going through with it
They've let me down before so I hope I'm not let down this time.
Now that Poppins is in the pipeline, let's hope my other fantasy of an Indy boat ride in DHS happens ....
If this addition isn't a dark ride, it will be a fail for me.
A carousel or a spinner is not going to pull as many different demographic groups (read: not just children). A well-done C-ticket dark ride will have a wider appeal and help in a small way to relive the lines for Rat.
Kman101
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Exactly. It will be a total fail if it isn't a dark ride. They don't seem to understand the need for something that isn't an E-ticket. What happened to filling out the park? What would Adventureland be without the treehouse, Tiki Room, even the obnoxious Aladdin spinner .... you need more than an E-ticket to fill out the day. A charming C-ticket would be SO welcome. But they need to remember to take us THROUGH the scenes, not around them, like in Mermaid. That was a fail there. Imagine going THROUGH Under the Sea instead of around it?
Kman101
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Not entirely true ... but I get where you're coming from.
Disney is well known for their dark rides. Why shouldn't we want them to keep doing them? They're immersive and can be more than a 2 minute thrill. Other parks fill the coaster need, and Disney is adding a few of them
Frankly we're getting a good mix of attractions. Coasters, dark rides .... why are you trying to turn this thread into whining about omnimovers? We've had elaborate meet and greets added. A simulator and boat ride were added to Animal Kingdom. Two LPS dark rides are coming to DHS, one's coming to Epcot, along with each park getting a different type of coaster ....
Man. Look at all those omnimovers coming!
They just cut two slow moving attractions in GMR and Energy. You should be rejoicing.
Unless I totally misread the tone of your post which wouldn't be the first time for me ... lol
I'm not. But if you want to pretend that on every new ride thread, every time, no matter the theme, it turns into "But why isn't a a dark ride???" then we must be living in two different realities. I think this attraction would be a great fit for a dark ride; what I don't think is that every other ride in the parks needs to be one, or should be. Let the Imagineers imagine something different, that's what made Disney, Disney.
Phicinfan
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Okay first I agree with you on it being Poppins. It is a great fit. I also am excited for the dark ride option, even if it is smaller, it is a great option. Where I disagree is....I think if done well, a Mary Poppins Merry go round with some added features like live action screens(think chalk artwork you can move into and such) would also be a solid add for that side of Epcot.
Deep, deep down though, I really, really wished they had gone with Sword in the Stone....as it would have been a solid fit, and is not nearly appreciated enough IMO.
Not entirely true ... but I get where you're coming from.
Disney is well known for their dark rides. Why shouldn't we want them to keep doing them? They're immersive and can be more than a 2 minute thrill. Other parks fill the coaster need, and Disney is adding a few of them
Frankly we're getting a good mix of attractions. Coasters, dark rides .... why are you trying to turn this thread into whining about omnimovers? We've had elaborate meet and greets added. A simulator and boat ride were added to Animal Kingdom. Two LPS dark rides are coming to DHS, one's coming to Epcot, along with each park getting a different type of coaster ....
Man. Look at all those omnimovers coming!
They just cut two slow moving attractions in GMR and Energy. You should be rejoicing.
Unless I totally misread the tone of your post which wouldn't be the first time for me ... lol
Convenient post editing is convenient.
Kman101
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But they are
only so many different kinds of attractions there can be and Disney has a pretty great variety overall ...But yeah I know the point you're trying to make. I edited my post a bit ....
I actually agree that there needs to be variety, but I see the variety, so while I agree with you that most seem to prefer a dark ride and that it does turn into that (never said you were wrong there, lol), you're also making it seem like Disney isn't doing a variety of attractions at the same time (which probably isn't the intention).
Kman101
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I'd be unbelievably let down with a Merry Go Round no matter how nice it could be. Of course it's fitting. If we got a carousel on top of the dark ride, I'd be more than happy. A Poppins themed carousel would be great, but not in place of a dark ride ... and yes, Sword in the Stone would have been the perfect fit. But Mary Poppins really fits the pavilion, at least in terms of exterior design for Cherry Tree Lane. It's perfect for there. I know we all want something that's more culturally relevant, but I don't necessarily mind a bit of mixing fantasy with reality with Poppins and Rat. I don't see why we can't. But I guess then I'd have to accept Frozen and Guardians and I don't, so I know I'm a total hypocrite about this IP/character thing ....
Heck, even Brave would probably be a better fit (but I imagine shooting a bow and arrow around a bare bones warehouse and not the culturally relevant dark ride many think we'd get) but I love Poppins ....
Kman101
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Not really. I do it all the time. I think of things or I don't like how I worded something. I often explain where I edit my posts. Not always. What's convenient about it? Sheesh .... it's not that serious. People can clearly see what was there before I edited it. I don't always like how I reply sometimes but let's pretend there's something more there than that. LOL. EDIT:
Castle Cake Apologist
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Right, and it's not like you edited out information... you just added more thoughts. I do that a lot too, it's why we have the edit function.
But they are
But yeah I know the point you're trying to make. I edited my post a bit ....
I actually agree that there needs to be variety, but I see the variety, so while I agree with you that most seem to prefer a dark ride and that it does turn into that (never said you were wrong there, lol), you're also making it seem like Disney isn't doing a variety of attractions at the same time (which probably isn't the intention).
No, I agree, there is variety coming, and I personally feel like I'm in the minority even being happy about that. Give me Guardians, give me Tron, I'll be first in line for Runaway Railway; my only point is that it's disappointing seeing that every time Disney does to try be innovative or fresh, the "BUT IT'S NOT A DARK RIDE" crowd has to ruin it for everyone else. However, I would definitely prefer a Mary Poppins themed dark ride than a carousel.