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Disnutz311
Disney World Purist
New update to Carousel of Progress Comfirmed
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
Hopefully it's more like Imagineering Story episodes 1-4 and less like Behind the Attraction
EDIT: Trailer was reassuring this is not like the latter
Disnutz311
Disney World Purist
I like this move for COP!
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
I think that was intentional.
Getting Disneyland built and open was an infamous disaster. The company's weekly TV show hid that very well.
"Black Sunday" was what they called July 17 1955 after
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vikescaper
Well-Known Member
I imagine that since Leslie Iwerks is involved, it will be more like the Imagineering Story.
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
This is their indirect apology for what they're doing to Frontierland
Telling that they waited over 30 years to finally do it (after years of rumor and delay) and announce it within 60 days of closing RoA
Surferboy567
Well-Known Member
So happy this is finally happening. Is this the last scene or the first scene?
It will be a new introductory scene per Disney:
Progress and innovation were two of Walt’s cornerstone passions, which is as evident in the show today as it was when it first debuted. Before you follow an American family (and Rover!) over four generations of progress as technology transforms their lives and paves the way for once-unimaginable innovations, you’ll be able to catch a brand-new introductory scene and hear from the legendary man who never stood in the way of progress — Walt Disney.
Walt Disney Audio-Animatronics Figure Coming to the Carousel of Progress - Disney Parks Blog
New Walt Disney Audio-Animatronics will debut at Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom.
disneyparksblog.com
BrianLo
Well-Known Member
I know this is the mid-fan convention take. But I think the “company is trying to bury Walt” perspective is really not where the creatives are at.
I actually would have been upset at COP removal because it is legitimately WDW’s only true Walt legacy attraction.
I take it the Walt animatronic is the new opening scene after you sit.
Edit - @DCBaker beat me to it.
Also hilarious that WDW gets it slow Tomorrowland fix and we sit and wait for Disneyland Tomorrowland.
Mr. Sullivan
Well-Known Member
Lotta folks making big judgements on a movie based off half a paragraph of a pitch with no details
DisneyHead123
Well-Known Member
To my mind it’s a tried and true movie trope, right up there with the heroine who’s “not like other girls”. (I am somewhat curious how this theme plays to cultures that are more collectivist though.) It was definitely the “wholesome feel good message for parents” in the Minecraft movie and central to HTTYD.
I think where Disney has struggled with some of its more recent movies is in creating content that’s really engaging this generation of kids. It feels like “fast paced and funny” dominates the kids movie market right now, although hard to say if that’s a fad or a lasting change.
Surferboy567
Well-Known Member
Great this is much better than the curtain. Do we think they will finally update the last scene?It will be a new introductory scene per Disney:
Progress and innovation were two of Walt’s cornerstone passions, which is as evident in the show today as it was when it first debuted. Before you follow an American family (and Rover!) over four generations of progress as technology transforms their lives and paves the way for once-unimaginable innovations, you’ll be able to catch a brand-new introductory scene and hear from the legendary man who never stood in the way of progress — Walt Disney.
Walt Disney Audio-Animatronics Figure Coming to the Carousel of Progress - Disney Parks Blog
New Walt Disney Audio-Animatronics will debut at Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom.
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
Every movie ever made has a “message.”
DomVF07
Active Member
Beatty: “Walts name is in the title, so you know we thought it’s only fitting that Walt Disney himself introduced the show in a brand new scene.”
Good catch. Interesting. So no update on the 80s ending but we get an intro by Walt himself. He then quickly said you’ll see updates on John, Sarah and the rest of the family and there will be more to come at a later date.