News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[Timothy_Q]

If this thing ever gets built and it turns out to be a good attraction, we should celebrate.

This thread has been especially stressful to follow

 

[WildRide]

Is there any movement on this? Give me some hope.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Is there any movement on this? Give me some hope.

It wouldn't be a ride if it didn't move!!!

 

[mikejs78]

It wouldn't be a ride if it didn't move!!!

Right. Then it's an 'attraction'.

 

[EricsBiscuit]

It wouldn't be a ride if it didn't move!!!

 

[SteamboatJoe]

I bet Disney wants to bury The Rescuers long about now because of the alligator story line.

I like Rescuers Down Under but the original doesn't do much for me at all.

 

[truecoat]

I'm just thrilled that one of the best movies from disney past is finally going to be represented in a park. Mary Poppins is my all time favorite. Now if only the aristocats and rescuers could see some love.

Who says it'll be based on that Mary Poppins movie?

 

[Timothy_Q]

Who says it'll be based on that Mary Poppins movie?

Our hopes and dreams

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

I don't think anyone will be able to compete with Julie Andrews and her co-star.

 

[Haymarket2008]

I’d like to see them even TRY a ride based off a film that doesn’t prominently feature some of the most famous songs in the entire Disney canon. I just don’t see how they could weigh using “Returns” as the source material. 50+ years of beloved exposure should carry some hefty weight in their decision process.

 

[Timothy_Q]

I’d like to see them even TRY a ride based off a film that doesn’t prominently feature some of the most famous songs in the entire Disney canon. I just don’t see how they could weigh using “Returns” as the source material. 50+ years of beloved exposure should carry some hefty weight in their decision process.

I agree

But it didn’t stop them from using Tim Burton’s Alice for the Shanghai maze.

That attraction won’t age well

 

[EricsBiscuit]

I agree

But it didn’t stop them from using Tim Burton’s Alice for the Shanghai maze.

That attraction won’t age well

The maze in shanghai is awesome. My only fault with t was that it had some chipped paint.

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

I’d like to see them even TRY a ride based off a film that doesn’t prominently feature some of the most famous songs in the entire Disney canon. I just don’t see how they could weigh using “Returns” as the source material. 50+ years of beloved exposure should carry some hefty weight in their decision process.

I wouldn't put anything past TDO...

Most of the cubicle-dwelling sharp pencil pushers have probably never even seen the original.

 

[larryz]

I don't think anyone will be able to compete with Julie Andrews and her co-star.

Which one -- the penguin or Ⅾick Van Ⅾyke?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Which one -- the penguin or Ⅾick Van Ⅾyke?

Now you're just showing off.

 

[larryz]

Now you're just showing off.

 

[truecoat]

I’d like to see them even TRY a ride based off a film that doesn’t prominently feature some of the most famous songs in the entire Disney canon. I just don’t see how they could weigh using “Returns” as the source material. 50+ years of beloved exposure should carry some hefty weight in their decision process.

Which movies did they base the new Star Wars rides off of?

 

[Haymarket2008]

Which movies did they base the new Star Wars rides off of?

I don't really think that is a comparable argument, imho. I understand where you're coming from, but it isn't the same to me.

 

[Kman101]

I don't really think that is a comparable argument, imho. I understand where you're coming from, but it isn't the same to me.

It's not the same for me either.

And besides, Han, Luke, Leia, Chewy, R2, C3 ... all a part of the new trilogy.

 

[Haymarket2008]

It's not the same for me either.

And besides, Han, Luke, Leia, Chewy, R2, C3 ... all a part of the new trilogy.

Exactly. Star Wars was designed to be a massive cinematic franchise from the get-go. Things evolve, new stories are told. I'm not saying no new stories can't be told for Disney's Mary Poppins (i.e. Mary Poppins Returns), but this is a sequel being made 50 years after the original, with no apparent effect on overall pop-culture (yet). At least Star Wars had prequels planned since 1977. And, if anything, Galaxy's Edge is closer aesthetically and tonally to the original trilogy than anything the prequels ever produced.