Surferboy567
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Man, I saw this thread get revived and was thinking this may be back on the table for a second…I really wanted this to happen (in it’s original form).
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EPCOT Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion
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ToTBellHop
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It’s more canceled than Kevin Spacey.
Brer Panther
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I believe it was cancelled to fund the Splash Mountain retheme.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
that was modern “great management” bait and switch...a newer type thing.
not everything planned is built...that’s not unheard of...but announce and reduce/cancel is so tacky and the customers never call them on it.
they just threw this out to fluff up their “coming soons”...it didn’t seem like they ever really wanted to do it. If cash flowed through Epcot like a river...maybe...but that didn’t happen.
remember that the new movie disappointed as well. It was supposed to be a franchise.
...perhaps taking a classic movie and doing a straight up remake wasn’t wise? No Star Wars geeks to rush to the box office before the bad taste set in on that one.
Surferboy567
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Not really sure why Returns gets this bad rap…I really enjoyed it. I can understand the criticism but I thought it was a well made movie with some great songs. Obviously, the first is a classic and an incredible movie with even better songs.
Haymarket2008
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WOW. Full on cancelled, eh?? Didn't expect that, to be honest. I thought it would have been a "push down the pipeline" like Spaceship Earth 5.0.
nickys
Premium Member
MP Returns wasn’t a remake, it was a sequel.
Animaniac93-98
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When it comes to Disney "pushed down the pipeline" and "cancelled" are basically the same thing.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Lol...They don’t build 1/10th of what is “rumored” and 1/3 of what WDI thinks is “greenlit”
History is a collection of facts...not whispers
uncle jimmy
Premium Member
Maybe someone realized EPCOT still has areas that need attention, like Seas, Imagination. I would prefer Imagination to get the $$$ and the attention it deserves over MP.
Magenta Panther
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Of course this has been cancelled. Iger can't be bothered with an attraction based on Walt's greatest live-action achievement when the money can be better spent on on Marvel or Star Wars or one of Iger's other trash acquisitions. Ol' Bob sure put one over on Roy Disney when the latter agreed with making him CEO. Roy once said "Disney isn't a 'brand'!" But to Iger, Disney is nothing BUT a brand. The parks aren't innovative, imaginative creative entities; they're hubs for merchandising. What a living caricature of corporate greed Iger is, and unfortunately, he's remade the company in his own image...
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Didn’t pass the eye test
that lamppost dance really differentiated from step in time
and rolling Angela Lansbury (Andrews declined...to her credit) to sing “nowhere to go but up” was such a bold departure from “let’s go fly a kite”...
I mean...one had kites and one had balloons!!
you know...you can like Disney and not swallow everything they tell you...the two can be mutually exclusive concepts.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Poppins is my favorite Disney movie...
and I didn’t hate part deux...it was ok to watch and looked really good.
but didn’t move the needle. Blunt has thrown shade since...rob Marshall took to Twitter to fight critics (also known as a. “Johnson”...when you know you’ve messed up)...
was supposed to be a 3 picture gig I believe? Gravy train off the tracks.
but hey...not like Disney hasn’t remade Anything or cancelled a trilogy or two...ama right?!?
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Haymarket2008
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Mainly yes, but in the case of SSE it is a "no", I think.
nickys
Premium Member
Ooooh, calling me a pixie duster, nice one.
The story was clearly a sequel. From the very beginning it spelled that out, even before MP appeared.
There were some nice nods to the original, sure. And I know Julie Andrews was offered a cameo but realistically that wouldn’t have worked and she knew it. So yes, it was to her credit she declined it.
Haymarket2008
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I’m not calling you a “pixie duster”...that’s so 2010...
I’m just saying if you run them side by side...there are very few tangible plot differences.
call it “rehash” or “formulaic” if it’s more warm and fuzzy...
and I sniffed that out and I wasn’t even in the movie theater in 1964! But I was in there December 2018 (or whenever) during first showing
and like many recent “efforts” it caused some laughter not tied to the dialogue...
this is the Roy E “thing”....the strength of the brand isn’t unlimited if you embarrass yourself and convince yourself that the viewers are so overly stupid that they never want something new.
we have digitial on demand...didn’t have to treat everyone like they’ve never seen a movie from 1964/1977/ every year there was a cartoon release/etc
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Trust only what’s built...the shovels. Everything else is heresay. They want your money for as little investment as possible on their end
so let it be written...so let it be done
It was a sequel. It took stories from the books that weren't in the first movie. Some of other Travers stories made it into the Daulton Music Hall show.
The children grew up.
Just because it had the same beats, doesn't make it a sequel. As your favorite director ever once said when repurposing the same story beats: