News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[uncle jimmy]

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.

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]

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...

 

[gerarar]

This project has joined the ranks of the recent Main Street Theatre….sadly..

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

MP Returns wasn’t a remake, it was a sequel.

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]

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.

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?!?

 

[Haymarket2008]

When it comes to Disney "pushed down the pipeline" and "cancelled" are basically the same thing.

Mainly yes, but in the case of SSE it is a "no", I think.

 

[nickys]

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.

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]

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

huh?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

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.

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]

huh?

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

 

[MisterPenguin]

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?!?

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:

 

[Tha Realest]

I figured this was the case. There were something like a half dozen projects at Epcot announced - SSE refurb, Moana thing, the event space in Future World, Harmonius, Mary Poppins, Canada and China circle vision, Remy, Guardians. I feel like weve had regular updates or announcements on all of those but Mary Poppins and SSE, with the later likely just delayed until they have the time/money else where.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

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:
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Not my favorite by far...

...gonna need heavier ammo to move my fat butt off this spot

 

[Haymarket2008]

I figured this was the case. There were something like a half dozen projects at Epcot announced - SSE refurb, Moana thing, the event space in Future World, Harmonius, Mary Poppins, Canada and China circle vision, Remy, Guardians. I feel like weve had regular updates or announcements on all of those but Mary Poppins and SSE, with the later likely just delayed until they have the time/money else where.

That's the thing I am most surprised by: almost everything is moving forward except for the original iteration of the Festival Center and Mary Poppins. Both of which were highly divisive. So no loss there.

Only *announced* things left to get concrete info on are Wondrous China, SSE and what is happening with World Discovery (which seems to have been solidified but not revealed yet).

 

[marni1971]

We enjoyed MP2.0

Shocking I know.

 

[UNCgolf]

We enjoyed MP2.0

Shocking I know.

I liked it too. It wasn't even remotely as good as the original, but it was a solid film.

 

[James Alucobond]

That's the thing I am most surprised by: almost everything is moving forward except for the original iteration of the Festival Center and Mary Poppins. Both of which were highly divisive. So no loss there.

Was Poppins divisive or just the slimmed down version? Genuinely curious. I think getting a full attraction would do wonders for beginning the process of balancing out World Showcase by putting two rides in the east, two in the west, a large theater show (American Adventure) in the center, and a couple of CircleVisions scattered about. IMO, it still needs probably two more rides and a refresh for Mexico, but it would really help flesh out that half of the park.

 

[UNCgolf]

Was Poppins divisive or just the slimmed down version? Genuinely curious. I think getting a full attraction would do wonders for beginning the process of balancing out World Showcase by putting two rides in the east, two in the west, a large theater show (American Adventure) in the center, and a couple of CircleVisions scattered about. IMO, it still needs probably two more rides and a refresh for Mexico, but it would really help flesh out that half of the park.

I think the idea of a carousel, or even worse, an enchanted tales (which was apparently the final form) was divisive. An actual full Mary Poppins dark ride could be tremendously good.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

We enjoyed MP2.0

Shocking I know.

but did anything change for you after you saw it?

I liked it too. It wasn't even remotely as good as the original, but it was a solid film.

I bet the Praets think I’m disagreeing with you...but I’m not

 

[TTA94]

I figured this was the case. There were something like a half dozen projects at Epcot announced - SSE refurb, Moana thing, the event space in Future World, Harmonius, Mary Poppins, Canada and China circle vision, Remy, Guardians. I feel like weve had regular updates or announcements on all of those but Mary Poppins and SSE, with the later likely just delayed until they have the time/money else where.

One thing that hasn’t been announced yet, unless I missed it, is Coco replacing GFT.