News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[RSoxNo1]

That should be pretty easy to purchase then.

I think dinner at a nice restaurant should be enough to seal the deal. It's not 1992.

Alternatively, they could do this:

 

[MrHappy]

Who owns the IP now?

1991

EDIT: @RSoxNo1 beat me to it. Nice work

 

[larryz]

The Learning Company..
http://www.hmhco.com/at-home/featured-shops/the-learning-company/carmen-sandiego

Which is owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, making them a direct competitor to Disney's publishing arms...

That should be pretty easy to purchase then.

I'm not so sure HMH will want to sell to Disney.

 

[Bocabear]

I think HMH can keep that crappy franchise...lol

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

I'll wait until the day Disney buys this IP for this to take over World Showcase Gaming...And makes much more sense!!!

Yep that too would work! http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/...-adventure-leaving.923982/page-2#post-7556400

Not like it's something Disney couldn't buy. Is the planned movie still happening?

 

[HMF]

I think HMH can keep that crappy franchise...lol

It's far better than what passes as edu-tainment today.

 

[Kman101]

I think Carmen Sandiego would be great for their World Showcase game. It's so terrible they're bringing it back on Netflix as a new series. Just like Magic School Bus. Those are great edu-tainment shows for kids. I wish they'd also bring back Captain Planet ...

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

With edutainment being a nearly-mandated focus for Sat morning cartoons and kid-programming blocks in the 90s; it's no surprise these shows (including DuckTales) are being revived out of nostalgia and a desire to revisit them with our children. It makes you wonder if the Epcot of yesteryear (EPCOT CENTER) would have made an epic revival had it stuck to it's edutainment roots instead of becoming the IP-everything park of today. It had to adapt sure but with most things, they eventually come full circle.

Would adding these 90's era brands and other edutainment IPs to today's Epcot hold the answer to Epcot's rebirth? 'little bit of the old with the new and a returned focus on edutainment. I'd like to think it would. I'd be just fine with Ms. Frizzle, Captain Planet or Carmen in Epcot.

 

[J. D.]

An original idea I had was to do a RRC type thing set during Beatlemania where you're riding in their car while they escape from a mob of crazy fans (they had to go to great lengths in real life so basing a thrill ride/roller coaster off it isn't entirely off base). A Beatles attraction would also generate loads of publicity and probably huge waits when it opened. Of course licensing would be brutal if they wanted to use actual Beatles songs, and doing impersonators in the pre show could be tacky. They could always get Paul McCartney to do the safety video and remind everyone to check their seatbelts.

I'd be down for a psychedelic Yellow Submarine ride.

 

[HMF]

With edutainment being a nearly-mandated focus for Sat morning cartoons and kid-programming blocks in the 90s; it's no surprise these shows (including DuckTales) are being revived out of nostalgia and a desire to revisit them with our children. It makes you wonder if the Epcot of yesteryear (EPCOT CENTER) would have made an epic revival had it stuck to it's edutainment roots instead of becoming the IP-everything park of today. It had to adapt sure but with most things, they eventually come full circle.

Would adding these 90's era brands and other edutainment IPs to today's Epcot hold the answer to Epcot's rebirth? 'little bit of the old with the new and a returned focus on edutainment. I'd like to think it would. I'd be just fine with Ms. Frizzle, Captain Planet or Carmen in Epcot.

Carmen and Frizzle are fine. I would rather leave Captain Planet out of it. He would make Circle of Life look like Corporate Propaganda.

 

[The_Jobu]

They could always get Paul McCartney to do the safety video and remind everyone to check their seatbelts.

Assuming they got the real Paul ...

 

[Princess Leia]

Assuming they got the real Paul ...

Nah, he's been dead since the 60s

 

[jt04]

Nah, he's been dead since the 60s

 

[PorterRedkey]

Nah, he's been dead since the 60s

He had bare feet walking across the crosswalk by Abbey Road, so obviously he is a ghost now.

 

[Princess Leia]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

 

[jt04]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

I figured I was being to obscure with that one. Sometimes I only get my jokes.

 

[ProfSavage]

The walrus was Paul

 

[HMF]

Nah, he's been dead since the 60s

They could get Angela Lansbury.

 

[The Duck]

Nah, he's been dead since the 60s

You have to be almost as old as me to get that joke.

 

[HMF]

You have to be almost as old as me to get that joke.

Not nessacarily.