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EPCOT 'Awesome Planet' coming to The Land pavilion
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mikejs78
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Both Disney Nature and Nat Geo are "IPs" I can get behind for Epcot.
Where's the singing CGI character?!?!
On the mist screen in the ceiling ?
Figments Friend
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I am glad this is happening, and a new film within this venue will be welcome.
Just please keep those fantastic carpeted walls in the entranceway / waiting area.
Those walls are works of art...and one of the last remaining 'EPCOT Center murals' left!
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Just please keep those fantastic carpeted walls in the entranceway / waiting area.
Those walls are works of art...and one of the last remaining 'EPCOT Center murals' left!
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aladdin2007
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I agree, though still not a fan of the generic title, but oh well right.
Brer Panther
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IS DisneyNature involved? Did they mention DisneyNature in the press release?
DreamfinderGuy
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So uh, not really real news but someone put up something from inside the theatre yesterday and it looks like some blue show lights (see “in theatre effects”) have been installed in there. Too blurry to tell if the old exit signs survived or not
Yes... but "Captain Planet" was unfortunately already taken.
QuasiNoFroyo
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I hope they get someone like Benedict Cumberbatch or Joseph Gordon-Levitt to narrate Awesome Planet! After all, the latter was the main character of an underrated Disney movie whose title shares a word with Awesome Planet.
prberk
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Or how about just let "awesome" mean "awesome" and thus timeless? I get the overuse in the '90s, but it still means "awesome" -- unlike "lit" and "woke". So, I like the name OK. It's not trendy or IP. Just "awesome"!
HauntedMansionFLA
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When is this coming out?
QuasiNoFroyo
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I have zero clue. And literally anyone could be chosen as its narrator as far as I'm concerned.
prberk
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You know, it might even be time for Disney to go back to their classic ways, and simply use the best voiceover artist for the project, not a celebrity necessarily. Think how The Haunted Mansion and Pirates and Country Bear Jamboree would sound today if they had relied on celebrity voices of the era, rather than the "right" voices for the ride.
Brer Panther
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This is a thing that I agree with. Very, very much. Disney's been doing this sort of thing with their movies and TV shows as well. I don't dislike the idea of celebrities doing voice acting in general (there are a lot of celebrities that are good at it), but there's such a thing as too much. Not everybody has a distinct voice that lends itself well to animation, and just because someone is a good live-action actor doesn't mean they're going to give a good voice performance. There was no point in casting Shakira as a character in Zootopia who barely has any screentime or lines, and does Disney really think somebody not in the target audience of Mickey and the Roadster Racers is going to watch it simply because it's got Jay Leno voicing a recurring character?
Of course, with theme park attractions there doesn't seem to be as much of a reliance on celebrities. I could be wrong, though.
prberk
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And that is exactly why I think that the theme park rides, which are meant to last decades, should have the right voices no matter whether the live actor is known as a celebrity or not. For how many years was Paul Frees' voice so familiar in the park before anyone except the truest geeks knew his name?
Same is really true for animation. Some voices in classic animation were known (Phil Harris in "Jungle Book" and Sebastian Cabot in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"), but most others were not. Now even those names are lost to later generations, but their voices still work in the films, because they were the best choices for the characters -- not chosen for name recognition.
Disney is best when it goes for timelessness, not for current pop culture. Leave that to DreamWorks and others who go for the short-term gains at the expense of staying power.
CaptainAmerica
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Bump. This has been quiet, do we have any idea on a date?
Cmdr_Crimson
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That Other Site says it will debut for the Arts Festival. Nothing else from Disney or our insiders AFAIK.