News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[MisterPenguin]

But to use the D23 stage to announce this?

They didn't use the D23 stage to announce *this*.

They announced some sort of Poppins attractions along with all the other EPCOT renewal initiatives at the same time as one big package.

At the time of D23 they didn't even say what the attraction was.

 

[Tha Realest]

Someone deserves to be fired for this.

For conceptualizing it, or leaking it?

 

[Tha Realest]

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?

I’ve long felt MFSR is an E-ticket queue in service of a C-ticket attraction.

 

[mattpeto]

I think the little attraction/area could have been a nice add.

 

[Tha Realest]

If this was what was to come of Mary Poppins, and based on what we saw for the SSE refurb, the COVID stoppages helped us dodge more bullets than Neo

 

[Skibum1970]

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






Disney fans: The parks need more C Ticket rides.

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

Just asking, not challenging. Would this have been considered a "C" though?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Just asking, not challenging. Would this have been considered a "C" though?

Yeah, a typical 'flat' ride is a mostly considered, at most, a C.

 

[JustInTime]

Honestly this concept looks amazing and Epcot could really use another C ticket family ride.

 

[JohnD]

Cough, cough.

Another Tea Cups? This would have been the third such ride in as many parks. Yes, Alien Swirling "Saucers" might as well be another tea cup ride. Why not go for broke and put another variation in AK?

 

[esskay]

Honestly glad they didn't go ahead with this. The Poppins theming would've been good but a genric teacup spinner is a laughably poor ride choice.

 

[Rteetz]

I’m amazed that so many are shocked about this. Not just here but all over the internet. Did people really think this was going to be a big dark ride or something?

 

[Coaster Lover]

Cough, cough.

Honestly, I don't hate it. Space back there is limited and it looks like it would have been REALLY well themed (something many other C ticket attractions at Disney don't get). And EPCOT really needs C ticket attractions. I think my only issue is that the IP, the fact that the attraction is indoor, and the fact that it is well themed likely would have resulted in lines being WAY longer for this than they ever deserved to be for what it is.

 

[Drdcm]

I’m honestly surprised they killed this.

Here’s how I would have accomplished this with complete grace and class.

1) gone down to the local carnival, made them an offer on the spinning ride
2) set it up in an empty warehouse
3) paint the vehicles to vaguely resemble tea cups
4) slap some cardboard cut outs on the wall like in toy story land.
5) bask I the perfect representation of Mary Poppins

 

[monothingie]

I’m amazed that so many are shocked about this. Not just here but all over the internet. Did people really think this was going to be a big dark ride or something?

Surprisingly people still have high expectations for Disney.

 

[trainplane3]

I’m amazed that so many are shocked about this. Not just here but all over the internet. Did people really think this was going to be a big dark ride or something?

I know it was never supposed to be anything big but this is even more lackluster then a carousel, somehow.

 

[Rteetz]

Surprisingly people still have high expectations for Disney.

Sure but even in all the rumors here and elsewhere it was never going to be a major dark ride. It was always said to be a flat ride or interactive meet and greet experience like Enchanted Tales with Belle.

 

[monothingie]

I'm relieved, can you imagine the amount of vomit that this thing would have some of the more indulgent guest producing after riding it, after having drank around the world?

 

[monothingie]

Sure but even in all the rumors here and elsewhere it was never going to be a major dark ride. It was always said to be a flat ride or interactive meet and greet experience like Enchanted Tales with Belle.

I guess the D23 over hyping and non-specific preview center concepts misled people to expect more.

 

[SaucyBoy]

Disney fans: The parks need more C Ticket rides.

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

A C-ticket experience doesn't have to be uninspired garbage.

 

[JohnD]

I know it was never supposed to be anything big but this is even more lackluster then a carousel, somehow.

I agree. Another spinning ride no parent wants to ride vs. a carousel ride with hydraulics under each horse, pushing it up and down. The top of the horse pole isn't attached to the ceiling so its like one of the horses in the movie. Children and adults wouldn't mind that ride as much.