News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[FettFan]

This may be a situation similar to why so many animated characters only have four fingers... easier to draw.

And yet they didn’t shy away from animating the volcanic pebble beach when Elsa goes to Iceland.

Hold your horses, its not as binary as counting lobes, Sugar Maple only has 5, while Norway can have 5 to 7.

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Possible, but I’m still fairly certain that the bulk of the movie is that the Frozen crew travels westward from Norway to Iceland to Canada.

Because we all know that Canada is a lifetime journey for the traveler.

Likely just a case of: "Need him holding a leaf. What do we have in our assets catalog that'll work?"

I don’t know. Disney has always maintained high standards for little details, even if the budget got Bobbed.

 

[Timothy_Q]

wdwmagic, where people that haven't watched a movie log in to argue where the movie takes place

 

[Epcot82Guy]

To be fair, when you insert a movie to be the main attraction to represent the culture in a park that represents various countries of the world and their respective cultures - you shouldn't have to have seen the movie. Otherwise, it's fair to criticize how it fits into World Showcase.

Your criticism makes sense in a lot of theme park contexts. But, they are using the location as the sole reason it fits in the park, so it should be fair game for anyone who has seen the film or not, I would argue.

(And, yes, I have seen all of the Frozen films.)

 

[Eric Graham]

I would love to see a Mary Poppins ride in the UK. I loved Saving Mr Banks. By the way, my family is from Scotland and England. When I visited Scotland, I unfortunately did not see the Loch Ness Monster. I would encourage everyone if they have a chance to visit those two countries because they are very beautiful and the people are so nice.

 

[wannabeBelle]

I would love to see a Mary Poppins ride in the UK. I loved Saving Mr Banks. By the way, my family is from Scotland and England. When I visited Scotland, I unfortunately did not see the Loch Ness Monster. I would encourage everyone if they have a chance to visit those two countries because they are very beautiful and the people are so nice.

Totally agree with the last sentence. I did a British Isles Cruise last May and it was spectacular!!! Marie

 

[Haymarket2008]

Cough, cough.

 

[UNCgolf]

That would have been such a waste of both the IP and the space.

 

[Haymarket2008]

That would have been such a waste of both the IP and the space.

As someone who actually enjoyed Mary Poppins Returns, I agree.

The fact that this wasn't centered on Jolly Holiday is cuh-razy.

The space depicted is really interesting and might have been somewhat enjoyable (in isolation), but Mary Poppins deserves so much more. I'm not even someone who is advocating for an E Ticket. That will never happen in EPCOT. What it deserves is the classic, charming Fantasyland dark ride treatment.

A bus-bar ride based on Brave was a contender for this space......why not Mary?

 

[UNCgolf]

As someone who actually enjoyed Mary Poppins Returns, I agree.

The fact that this wasn't centered on Jolly Holiday is cuh-razy.

The space depicted is really interesting and might have been somewhat enjoyable (in isolation), but Mary Poppins deserves so much more. I'm not even someone who is advocating for an E Ticket. That will never happen in EPCOT. What it deserves is the classic, charming Fantasyland dark ride treatment.

A bus-bar ride based on Brave was a contender for this space......why not Mary?

I liked Mary Poppins Returns too. I don't think it was remotely as good as the original, but it was still a solid film.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Cough, cough.

Glad we didn't get this now..

 

[Disney Analyst]

Cough, cough.

You know… if Disney just wanted to add some small attractions like this, well themed, but didn’t make a big fuss about them, and just did it to add capacity and such… I would be more for it.

But to use the D23 stage to announce this? Garbage. Keep the big hyped stuff for the Disney attractions we expect, use the parks blog to announce adding a new teacup ride.

 

[Rush]

This attraction has long been rumored to be an indoor spinner. I'm only surprised that they had PRE-SHOWS for a TEACUPS ride.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

I don't understand this strange, contemporary taste somebody seems to have for "all sides, no protein".

How many attractions have we seen in the past decade+ where they spend big on the queue and/or preshow but then bunt on the main show?

Have they forgotten that half the point of the queue is to set proper expecations for the experience that follows?

 

[FettFan]

Cough, cough.

Someone deserves to be fired for this.

 

[SaucyBoy]

How embarrassing that the world's supposed "leader" in theme park experiences could only conjure up a boring teacup ride for one of their film division's greatest achievements. Lol!!

 

[Brer Panther]

That would have been such a waste of both the IP and the space.

I agree, but I would've taken this over an Enchanted Tales With Belle-style experience.

 

[Brer Oswald]

As someone who actually enjoyed Mary Poppins Returns, I agree.

The fact that this wasn't centered on Jolly Holiday is cuh-razy.

The space depicted is really interesting and might have been somewhat enjoyable (in isolation), but Mary Poppins deserves so much more. I'm not even someone who is advocating for an E Ticket. That will never happen in EPCOT. What it deserves is the classic, charming Fantasyland dark ride treatment.

A bus-bar ride based on Brave was a contender for this space......why not Mary?

I mean…are we really surprised they tried to base it off the sequel instead of the original? They seem to exclusively be going for recent properties/adaptations regardless if they are more or less popular.

But I do agree that this should’ve gotten the Classic Fantasyland Dark ride treatment. I wouldn’t mind if all countries of World Showcase had their own dark ride.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I mean…are we really surprised they tried to base it off the sequel instead of the original?

We shouldn't be since all the artwork that was shown referenced the sequel.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I agree, but I would've taken this over an Enchanted Tales With Belle-style experience.

And we only know about that and now this teacup iteration because of leaks. Our insiders have said that the nature of this attraction had changed behind the scenes several times. We don't know how close we came to a teacups, carousel, or Tales with Poppins attraction.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I don't understand this strange, contemporary taste somebody seems to have for "all sides, no protein".

How many attractions have we seen in the past decade+ where they spend big on the queue and/or preshow but then bunt on the main show?

Have they forgotten that half the point of the queue is to set proper expecations for the experience that follows?

So all C-Ticket rides should have an outdoor switchback? What is the appropriate queuing for such a ride?

Someone deserves to be fired for this.

How embarrassing that the world's supposed "leader" in theme park experiences could only conjure up a boring teacup ride for one of their film division's greatest achievements. Lol!!

Disney fans: The parks need more C Ticket rides.

Also Disney fans: OMG, it's just a C Ticket ride!!!