News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[marni1971]

Remember when we were all hoping for them to add a trackless dark ride to Disney World?

Now we have, I think, three. And the novelty has worn off.

We had one in 1982. Then another 2. Then everyone wanted LPS a version.

I thought Martin mentioned the double decker carousel at some point as a possibility.

Wasn’t me… was it?

 

[castlecake2.0]

Began life as a dark ride when the theme was changed from Brave.

Then a “flat” ride

Then a “spinning” ride.

Got so far as backstage survey markers.

Do you know how much of the pavilion would have been altered to make it fit? I’m all for more attractions but scared we would lose those quiet corners of WS.

 

[marni1971]

Do you know how much of the pavilion would have been altered to make it fit? I’m all for more attractions but scared we would lose those quiet corners of WS.

I never saw a plan for the project in any of its forms. I do know it would have encroached on the backstage bus turnaround.

 

[UNCgolf]

We had one in 1982. Then another 2. Then everyone wanted LPS a version.

Wasn’t me… was it?

Guess not!

 

[owlsandcoffee]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was better than Mr. Toad.

Lol, I suppose I should cop to being too young to ride either...kinda forgot 20K was a Fantasyland ride, I'll give you 20K!

 

[Goofy213]

Seeing how disney likes to save money by reusing ride designs in different parks (ex. Indy at Disneyland and Dinosaur at AK), could they reuse the new Spidey design and rather it to Mary. Seeing how Marvel is not allowed in Florida anyways, might as well use the technology. Make the ride vehicles open carriages like the one from the new movie so guest of all ages can ride. Then take them through scenes from both movies, Cherry Tree Lane, the Chalk Drawing, the Royal Bowl, the Bank, Trip the Light and grand finale the Roof Top step in time. Does anyone know if the footprint is small enough to fit behind the Tower of London restrooms at Epcot? Or will that encroach to much in to the Millenium festival tent?

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I thought Martin mentioned the double decker carousel at some point as a possibility.

Regardless, I've always wondered how they'd be able to efficiently load a double decker carousel. Carousels aren't exactly quick to load to begin with, but doing it on two separate levels seems like it would slow things down even more. It would not be a high capacity attraction unless the carousel was massive (double decker would likely be higher capacity due to sheer numbers of additional spots, but if it took twice as long to load, it would significantly cut into that capacity).

Tokyo DisneySea has a double decker carousel and they simply load the two at different intervals.

 

[UNCgolf]

Tokyo DisneySea has a double decker carousel and they simply load the two at different intervals.

Well yeah, that wouldn't be an issue on a normal carousel. I was thinking it could be a problem for something with actual show scenes of some sort, although in thinking about it more I suppose it would be impossible to sync them in any meaningful way for a carousel anyways so that likely wouldn't be a concern.

 

[Bocabear]

Seeing how disney likes to save money by reusing ride designs in different parks (ex. Indy at Disneyland and Dinosaur at AK), could they reuse the new Spidey design and rather it to Mary. Seeing how Marvel is not allowed in Florida anyways, might as well use the technology. Make the ride vehicles open carriages like the one from the new movie so guest of all ages can ride. Then take them through scenes from both movies, Cherry Tree Lane, the Chalk Drawing, the Royal Bowl, the Bank, Trip the Light and grand finale the Roof Top step in time. Does anyone know if the footprint is small enough to fit behind the Tower of London restrooms at Epcot? Or will that encroach to much in to the Millenium festival tent?

Don't give them ideas on how to do a really cheap crappy attraction..LOL . Spiderman has been sort of universally panned...And another Motion Theater type attraction doesn't sound great for the Mary Poppins IP. It should be something wonderful...Not the cheapest laziest easiest thing they can think of...

 

[ppete1975]

Will anyone who was "in the know" confirm what the attraction would have been?
The initial post was 5 years ago in this thread and the attraction was officially announced three years ago.

Over priced, would have taken 5 years to build, and 90 percent of people on here would have hated it.. or said...
"cost way too much, took too long for what we got"

 

[kaos]

this is probably a BAD post for me to re-enter the WDWMagic world on... BUT- I would LOVE an OG MP theme; however my younger kids adored the sequel, so a good mix of BOTH would satisfy everyone.

 

[DznyRktekt]

And sadly neither/nothing will be done to satisfy Chapek and the shareholders.

 

[Crazydisneyfanluke]

And sadly neither/nothing will be done to satisfy Chapek and the shareholders.

But the Shareholders are voting no!

 

[Cesar R M]

Doesn't seem that way to me. Seems to be startlingly high budgets where the funds aren't allocated correctly.

Costs now seems to be a battering ram for PR BS. "look how much we spent in this attraction, you better enjoy it!"
Similar to how people shove real actors in big marketing on the animated movie attractions while pretty much shunning voice actors (exactly what Robin Williams feared since Aladdin )

 

[WDW Pro]

I tend to agree - I enjoy Spider-Man and respect how innovative it was, but I rode both Spider-Man and Indiana Jones at Disneyland for the first time within a month of each other and I was WAY more impressed by Jones. It takes all the best elements of a simulator and runs it through a practical environment.

Ratatouille would be much improved by having some EMV features within the vehicle - that lack of a motion base in the ride vehicle really hurts it when you're parked in front of a screen and meant to believe you're careening through the kitchen. Even some light pitch and yaw would do wonders. But I'll stop there, since my criticism of Rat goes much further and I'm just gonna derail the thread.



To whom do I make out the Human Sacrifice in order to make THIS happen? If we're meant to finally get a Mary Poppins Attraction, something like this is really the form it should take. I'm sure the Double-Decker Carousel would have been nice enough, but Mary deserves better than another bunted spinner.

No human sacrifice needed... but you couldn't ask for a better earnings report if you're hoping to see projects revived. Capacity, capacity, capacity, right?

Began life as a dark ride when the theme was changed from Brave.

Then a “flat” ride

Then a “spinning” ride.

Got so far as backstage survey markers.

Survey markers were for the two-level carousel.

 

[TikibirdLand]

No human sacrifice needed... but you couldn't ask for a better earnings report if you're hoping to see projects revived. Capacity, capacity, capacity, right?



Survey markers were for the two-level carousel.

Or the markers could be for the additional food booths needed

 

[SplashJacket]

Or the markers could be for the additional food booths needed

Ah! Imagine that! Two-story food booth, where profit, I mean guests, move along on a conveyor belt draining their wallets as they go round and round!

 

[WDW Pro]

Or the markers could be for the additional food booths needed

I'm all about this meme, but if you can believe it... I don't think any food additions were every a part of the plans. Just a façade, M&G, and attraction. It's a limited space.

 

[castlecake2.0]

I'm all about this meme, but if you can believe it... I don't think any food additions were every a part of the plans. Just a façade, M&G, and attraction. It's a limited space.

Any idea how much the pavilion would have been altered to make this fit?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Doesn't seem that way to me. Seems to be startlingly high budgets where the funds aren't allocated correctly.

Correct…but isn’t it part of the “carousel of dysfunction” that plagued the whole operation?
1. Overblown announcement on a ridiculous timeline
2. Big budget to impress people
3. “We’re not really spending that much…shhhhh”’to the investors
4. WDI starts spending/blowing budget
5. Cuts start almost immediately for design/construction
6. Budget blown. WDI leak onto fan boards to vent “sorta out in the open”
7. 7 years later…overhyped…”something” opens.
8. It underdelivers…PR isn’t alerted
9. Not enough stuff gets built
10. WDI disgruntled
11. Customers disgruntled
12. Travel agents put up memes advertising how “amazing” the “experience” is.
13. Comcast takes shots on its Twitter feed
14. Repeat steps 1-13

I'm not sure it made it far enough into development to determine the screen content. The idea was to have half the Carousel open-air and then half (or perhaps a third, don't remember) in the building with the screens. Content would be different over time, and it was pitched this would reflect positively on Mary Poppins' live action - animation hybrid style in ride form. There was another concept that had the horses leaving the carousel (which would have been faux) via multi-lane tracks to go into a show building hidden by residential home facades, but I think that was dismissed for costs.

Dude…none of that is happening. They just dangled a carrot so the diehards would talk about it/create buzz…then ate the carrot as soon as nobody was watching