EPCOT Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[Surferboy567]

Is it actually cancelled? The last we heard on this says no.

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek​

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek

We may still see a Mary Poppins attraction come to Walt Disney World according to the Disney boss.

www.wdwmagic.com

I hope a Mary Poppins addition happens. It is perfect for the UK.

EDIT: Teacups or no Teacups, something is better than nothing. A dark ride would be better though. Queue/Preshow looked fun in the art.

 

[Poly1974]

This was it????????!!!!! If so, then I'm glad it got cancelled. We instead need an attraction where we are on merry-go-round horses and go into the cartoon / art world.

That's what I was thinking, perhaps using the trackless technology and projection mapping.

 

[JohnD]

This was it????????!!!!! If so, then I'm glad it got cancelled. We instead need an attraction where we are on merry-go-round horses and go into the cartoon / art world.

Looks to be the consensus here. But it seems the Imagineers lost all sense of imagination on this one.

 

[UNCgolf]

Is it actually cancelled? The last we heard on this says no.

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek​

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek

We may still see a Mary Poppins attraction come to Walt Disney World according to the Disney boss.

www.wdwmagic.com

To me, his comments had "it's cancelled" as subtext.

 

[DavidDL]

I mean, they'd certainly be the most elaborately themed teacup attraction in a Disney park but they'd be teacups all the same.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to come up with a ride system that could combine Mater's Junkyard Jamboree/Alien Swirling Saucers with the horses on the carousel (I say without any sort of engineering background). I think that'd create a solidly themed C-ticket type of experience and be a ride system unique enough for families to want to experience. It'd sell the illusion of the horses moving about the space more "freely".

Part of the issue here too is the way this was announced/presented by Disney. When you don't give any sort of details and just say an "attraction" is coming, it leads to all sorts of speculation. That, combined with time, leads to folks expecting whatever type of attraction they've started to "Armchair Imagineer" to be what is going into said space. Even as a highly themed teacup-style attraction, this idea would have likely not have had as much blowback if art similar to this had been shared immediately after announcing it.

 

[Tha Realest]

Is it actually cancelled? The last we heard on this says no.

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek​

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek

We may still see a Mary Poppins attraction come to Walt Disney World according to the Disney boss.

www.wdwmagic.com

Yes. But. That was a Chapek statement. I feel like any of those decisions not well underway are being aggressively reevaluated.

 

[MisterPenguin]

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

Could you give me a few examples of a ride that is inspiring and just a C?

 

[GimpYancIent]

Yes. But. That was a Chapek statement. I feel like any of those decisions not well underway are being aggressively reevaluated.

If there is any B.C. connotation attached with any project not yet underway that project will be allowed to fade away. B.I. wants to ensure there is at the very least an appearance of TWDC taking a fresh path.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Is it actually cancelled? The last we heard on this says no.

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek​

EPCOT's Mary Poppins attraction lives according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek

We may still see a Mary Poppins attraction come to Walt Disney World according to the Disney boss.

www.wdwmagic.com

Well if this is leaked, I can't imagine it is the same concept anymore? One can hope.

 

[UNCgolf]

Could you give me a few examples of a ride that is inspiring and just a C?

Inspiring may be a strange word choice, but there are definitely C tickets that are as good or better than some higher ticket level attractions -- Na'vi River Journey and Peter Pan's Flight come to mind among existing attractions (I guess it's possible NRJ would have been classified as a D). Is Living with the Land a C ticket? Maybe more likely to have been a D too with the overall length.

That said, C has always been a weird category. The original ticket books grouped Dumbo, the Mad Tea Cups, Snow White, Peter Pan, and Mr. Toad together as C tickets. It feels like the latter three should be a level higher than the former two.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Imagine:
Open the Disney app at 7am to spend $10 on a Lightning Lane thing
Rush to park at open
Wait in line for like a half hour
Go through one preshow
Get excited
Go through a second preshow
Start thinking it's going to be on the same level as most recent attractions
Doors open
It's a teacups spinner you just spent money on and lost 2 hours of your morning rushing to get to
Magical

If they've opened their app to pay for a $10 thing, they'd surely be aware the Poppins is a type of spinner. And spinners have low throughput capacity since they have to load, run, unload, and repeat.

Surely they'd know how long of a wait it is to get on Dumbo, or Astro Orbiter, or Tea Cups, or Carpets, or the Carousel.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Well if this is leaked, I can't imagine it is the same concept anymore? One can hope.

It wasn't 'leaked.' Someone who did the design work for it, and who no longer works for Disney, had it on their personal webpage portfolio.

Like Baxter's original plans for a traveling carousel Poppins horse, this tea cup design may never have gotten any actual approval.

Remember, it was 'leaked' that a Tales with Poppins was also on the table at one point.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I like the idea of going through the Banks' house to get to the animated world, but after all that buildup, a spinner ride would be kind of disappointing to those unsure of what was inside.

Keep the exterior, queue and exit, but have something else for the actual ride.

What would you have like to have seen if not tea cups? Mind you, given the space, it'd still be a C-Ticket 'flat' ride.

 

[UNCgolf]

What would you have like to have seen if not tea cups? Mind you, given the space, it'd still be a C-Ticket 'flat' ride.

I think there was enough room there to build a C-ticket dark ride -- it actually looks like they might be able to fit the D ticket Little Mermaid ride on that footprint with a bit of backstage reworking (not that anyone should want a repeat of that).

I also think a carousel (which was also rumored at some point) would make more sense for Mary Poppins if they were going to do a flat spinner.

In an ideal world they'd build an E ticket (Mary Poppins deserves an E) by eliminating the "temporary" World Showplace building, but that was never on the table.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Now that this is gone, we can focus on another British property that currently doesn't have any theme park presence that Disney is now throwing money at:

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Disney only has the right to stream new shows that they're helping to co-produce (IOW, bankroll). Disney did not get the theme park rights.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Just do balloons and nowhere to go but up and the upside down scene.

 

[MisterPenguin]

This was it????????!!!!! If so, then I'm glad it got cancelled. We instead need an attraction where we are on merry-go-round horses and go into the cartoon / art world.

And fits the story better I mean theres a freaking carousel as part of the story...

although i think it would be amazing to start as a carousel and then the horses with poles unlock and take you through a dark ride kind of like the movie.

Cheapskates' wanted to put a teacup ride in the U.K. They're cheaper than my grandpa. hahaha

And we're back to...

Disney fans: The parks need more C Ticket rides.

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

 

[FettFan]

I don't hate this idea...in fact I think it is rather charming and sweet...if it is the #2 of 2 attractions added to the UK Pavilion... This on one side and a lovely fresh version of the Alice dark ride and maze on the other.... adding a C and D ride and making the UK Pavilion live up to it's potential....
Next up, Coco in Mexico, an attraction in the Germany pavilion, A promise to add an attraction to all other country pavilions every two years until they all have something, and an additional new Country/ Region Pavilion....then EPCOT will start being the park it was meant to be...

Germany has a story that could make for an interesting dark ride.

St. George and the Dragon. They could even reuse some of the old melted armor pieces that were removed from animal kingdom’s Beastly Kingdom teaser.

 

[Fear]

Disney did not get the theme park rights.

That we know of

I was mostly joking/wishing anyways.

 

[Bocabear]

I love that idea! I also thought using LGB (toy train maker from Germany) as a sponsor and doing a powered family coaster train ride through the German countryside with a peek-a-boo outdoor section... Would give the pavilion a lovely kinetic element outside and be a must-do attraction and dark ride...