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EPCOT Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

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marni1971 said:
That’s debatable. And certainly not an attraction. But even so, how does removing a huge climate controlled environment assist with avoiding the heat unless you’re three years old? Another example of how mis judged and mis guided this debacle is.
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I genuinely didn't get the excitement when they announced they're adding shade to Epcot. You're removing a huge A/C'd building for trees. I want to see the reactions in a few years. Pretty? Sure. More comfortable? No.
 
RSoxNo1

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przidentkendall said:
Interesting to note that the announcement of the Mary Poppins attraction was the most liked post by DPB on their instagram account in 2019. Even getting more likes than the Jonas Bros wielding Lightsabers. You just know that management must be taking note of the interest in a Mary Poppins attraction, and let's hope that we see that in the end product.

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Mary Poppins taking you on an aerial tour of London would be my vote. You tie in the IP but also add in some sight seeing and relevant to Epcot content.
 
RSoxNo1

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RobWDW1971 said:
And Test Track about designing and testing cars is part of “World Discovery” and Spaceship Earth about the history of communication is part of “World Celebration” and more cartoon characters are being added to “World Nature”. Sure, why not.

By using such broad, meaningless terms as “World”, “Discovery”, “Celebration”, and “Nature” anything can be put under that umbrella and be rationalized in some way.

Guardians of the Galaxy? Sure, you’re uh...“discovering” their world and their way of travel?

Moana? Sure, she’s uh...likes to sail on the water so water is part of “nature”?

Giant sky bar? Sure, it’s uh...a place where people “celebrate” and you can see World Showcase?

Will make a great drinking game - take any attraction around the world and rationalize how it fits into Epcot now.
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Discovery should have been part of the front half of Epcot from the beginning. It is more befitting of that area than Future World. My vote would have been calling the entire area "Discovery Expo". Having said that, I have very little issue with the 3 neighborhood designations. I do feel that World Nature seems to run parallel with themes of Disney's Animal Kingdom so I wouldn't imagine much of a distinction will be made between the two. I'm with you that World Celebration is a bit generic, and I would prefer again that the term "Expo" be used making the center part, "World Expo".
 
RobWDW1971

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RSoxNo1 said:
By all accounts the Moana attraction will be far less offensive from an "IP integration" standpoint than Three Caballeros, Seas with Nemo and Friends and Frozen Ever After.
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Well there’s a tall Pigmy argument. That’s what happens when they have moved on from any sense of coherent themeing and overall concept - we are left with debating what’s worse:

A water area themed to a girl who likes to sail boats and boats are on water and water is nature OR an attraction about the living seas which is about the seas and who lives there and since Nemo and his friends live there they fit.

Well done: Disney, well done.

They should just pull the ripcord and just make all four parks Magic Kingdoms North, South, East, and West - that way they can still fill every park with disconnected IP and cartoon characters. We will end up in the same place, but at least we won’t have to endure listening to WDI execs embarrassingly twist themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize it.
 
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MisterPenguin

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RobWDW1971 said:
A water area themed to a girl who likes to sail boats and boats are on water and water is nature
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Your spin of hate knows no bounds, doesn't it?

While the inclusion of IP or not is a worthy debate/discussion, your portrayal of Moana as simply a girl who likes sailing as the reason for putting her IP there is comically and intentionally ignorant. In Moana, the water was a living sentient character.

Whether or not there should be IP is one topic, but if one is using IP, it would be hard to find a more fitting Disney IP than Moana. And your reduction of her to "likes sailing" is an indication that you post in bad faith.
 
marni1971

marni1971

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MisterPenguin said:
Your spin of hate knows no bounds, doesn't it?

While the inclusion of IP or not is a worthy debate/discussion, your portrayal of Moana as simply a girl who likes sailing as the reason for putting her IP there is comically and intentionally ignorant. In Moana, the water was a living sentient character.

Whether or not there should be IP is one topic, but if one is using IP, it would be hard to find a more fitting Disney IP than Moana. And your reduction of her to "likes sailing" is an indication that you post in bad faith.
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Yes, but it did have that good song in it didn’t it? You know, like that other one with that good song?
 
WondersOfLife

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marni1971 said:
That’s debatable. And certainly not an attraction. But even so, how does removing a huge climate controlled environment assist with avoiding the heat unless you’re three years old? Another example of how mis judged and mis guided this debacle is.
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That's okay. The interactive water attraction will be gorgeous, I'm sure. I don't need anyone to agree with me. The (Disney) World doesn't revolve around forum users living in the past.
 

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