News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion

[Princess Leia]

It's a children's chimney playground filled with soot and CMs with bad Cockney accents.

Due to eventual cuts in the budget, it will just be a children’s chimney playground

 

[bclane]

Due to eventual cuts in the budget, it will just be a children’s chimney playground

Fear not, fan outrage over the budget cuts will eventually result in posters of soot and multiple CMs along with a track playing bad cockney accents throughout the playground. There will be no Mary Poppins music however as this will be a completely immersive experience.

Edit: yes I do love SWGE but I couldn’t resist and now I’ve made myself a bit melancholy and I don’t know why. Lol!

 

[larryz]

Put me in the Mary Poppins Returns was a good film camp. No, it's not the masterpiece the original was, but it was a worthy sequel. I was a little critical of the premise until someone pointed out it was generally in line with the books. I catch myself humming the tunes sometimes.

I don't remember any of the tunes. But then, I've only seen it once.

 

[larryz]

Due to eventual cuts in the budget, it will just be a children’s chimney playground

FTFY

 

[rle4lunch]

Due to eventual cuts in the budget, it will just be a children’s chimney playground

Made of unpainted metal with no shade.

 

[thequeuelinelectures]

Many would liken Avland to that. In looks and original ambition anyway.

I’m not sure that’s a great comparison, unless I misunderstand. Doesn’t fantasy springs have 3 E tickets: frozen, Peter Pan flying attraction, tangled boat ride, A C/D ticket pixie ride, and 2/3 restaurants? Seems significantly larger than pandora

 

[marni1971]

I’m not sure that’s a great comparison, unless I misunderstand. Doesn’t fantasy springs have 3 E tickets: frozen, Peter Pan flying attraction, tangled boat ride, A C/D ticket pixie ride, and 2/3 restaurants? Seems significantly larger than pandora

Hence looks and ambition. Not content.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Gotta be honest here, I'm with the new guy on these. I'll watch this "live action" remakes once or twice, but I'm showing my kids the "real" movies.

I'm the same way. Although seeing the "live action remakes once or twice" is one or two times more than I will. I saw BatB in the theater, and that was it for me. I have zero interest in the "live action remakes" anymore.

MPR was decent enough. Ms. Blunt was quite good. Not a fan of Lin Miranda... whatever his name is, though. I hope whatever this ride eventually is, it encompasses a healthy dose of the original movie while throwing in a few nods to the sequel.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Just like the live-action remakes of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Aladdin, Dumbo, Jungle Book, and The Lion King will never be beloved movies.

Whoa! Slow your roll...BATB live action is awesome!

 

[SteamboatJoe]

All should be revealed

X-Men Apocalypse theme confirmed.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Is this post really necessary just because they don’t agree with you ?

When someone says "Robin who?" when remarking on the original Aladdin movie...then yeah. Totally necessary. And deserved.

 

[Magenta Panther]

So let's see, Iger builds two massive underwhelming Star Wars lands and is planning a Star Wars hotel with a hefty price tag, making it inaccessible to most guests...

...while Mary Poppins, Walt's crown jewel film, which was a massive worldwide hit, was nominated for 13 Oscars - the most for ANY Disney film, and which won 5...gets a carousel.

A dinky carousel. With likely no theming around it. No Cherry Tree Lane. No Admiral Boom. Just...a carousel.

Well, I guess that's pretty good for Iger, who hates Disney, thinks of Walt as "that old dead guy" and his films as "that old junk"...

...but he's still a pig. Thank god he's getting tons of bad press right now. Not entirely for ALL the right reasons, but he's getting slammed, and that's so gratifying to see.

I doubt that anything D23 announces will interest me, from the speculation I've read. Epcot gets some pretty new landscaping, whee! And more festival stuff and bars and lots of other things that aren't attractions. Spaceship Earth will probably get turned into a Death Star (why not?). MAYBE Figment will come back (not hoping much for Dreamfinder, who TDO hates for some reason). We'll see. Hope to be surprised. But I doubt it.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Can you take this drivel elsewhere? We get it, you irrationally hate Bob Iger. I think the Bob who need to actually hate is Chapek. He's the evil one.

I can't hate both?

 

[eddie104]

Can you take this drivel elsewhere? We get it, you irrationally hate Bob Iger. I think the Bob who need to actually hate is Chapek. He's the evil one.

I'm trying not to put certain posters on ignore but I'm close.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

It IS a shame that Mary Poppins is only a carousel attraction.

 

[CalebS]

A C ticket dark ride AND a carousel would have been a nice addition

 

[starri42]

If the description that we got is accurate, I think it would be fair to say that it's got some dark-ride elements. Albeit, in the form of the hated screens.

 

[Bocabear]

So a carousel with cartoons playing on video screens in of the normally painted art panels?
That sounds pretty lame to me. Not sure how that make it a "Dark Ride"...

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

It IS a shame that Mary Poppins is only a carousel attraction.

Was it announced and I missed it?

 

[bclane]

Was it announced and I missed it?

Not yet as far as I know, but a little bird told me that instead of a ride, it might actually be a Mary Poppins “Spoon Full of Sugar Medicine Stand.” Possible flavors are lime cordial and strawberry for $7.50 a spoon full and Mary’s favorite, rrrrrum punch for only $17.00 (for all you party animals). This should be taken as a rumor only at this point so please don’t get too excited.