LittleBuford
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Yes, that’s mainly what I meant.
I agree that an enhanced Aladdin meet-and-greet would be the least disruptive approach.
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EPCOT Morocco Pavilion redevelopment
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I agree that an enhanced Aladdin meet-and-greet would be the least disruptive approach.
michmousefan
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I understand the challenges in making it happen, but World Showcase needs some sort of a middle eastern pavilion so the Aladdin M&G can be in a pavilion that makes more sense, not shoehorned in one that is approximately 2,500+ miles from the fictional setting of Agrabah.
So, where on a real map is Agrabah?
Bocabear
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according to Google:
Agrabah is a fictional city in the Disney animated film Aladdin (1992) and the live-action remake (2019) that serves as the film's central location. The city is described as being near the Jordan River and in a place where "caravan camels roam", which suggests it's in North Africa, such as Morocco or Algeria. Agrabah is also based on classical Baghdad and represents a wider Islamicate culture, with its architecture inspired by Arabic-Islamic styles.
So technically they could say it was Morocco...
Can we push the restaurant back and put the flying Carpets from Adventureland there and restore the original look to Adventureland?
Agrabah is a fictional city in the Disney animated film Aladdin (1992) and the live-action remake (2019) that serves as the film's central location. The city is described as being near the Jordan River and in a place where "caravan camels roam", which suggests it's in North Africa, such as Morocco or Algeria. Agrabah is also based on classical Baghdad and represents a wider Islamicate culture, with its architecture inspired by Arabic-Islamic styles.
So technically they could say it was Morocco...
Can we push the restaurant back and put the flying Carpets from Adventureland there and restore the original look to Adventureland?
michmousefan
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Well, yeah... "classical Baghdad" is probably like 3,000 miles from Morocco. And the live action movie was shot in Jordan (and studios in London). I'm sure the location of the live-action film's setting was purposefully ambiguous to avoid the point I was trying to make.
LittleBuford
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Its architecture (which refers to styles associated with Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and even India) makes clear that it isn’t in the Maghrib.
LittleBuford
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Based on the architecture, they couldn’t.
michmousefan
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Probably more info than anybody wants, but:
www.refinery29.com
In "Aladdin" Agrabah Is Based On Many Places, & That's Kind Of The Issue
There are many sources of inspiration for the city in "Aladdin" but that's also why it's been such a subject of hot debate for decades/
Oh, well, if it's somewhere in the Middle East or Southeast Asia, then we can narrow it down to this...Probably more info than anybody wants, but:
In "Aladdin" Agrabah Is Based On Many Places, & That's Kind Of The Issue
There are many sources of inspiration for the city in "Aladdin" but that's also why it's been such a subject of hot debate for decades/
LittleBuford
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It’s not the Maghrib, which was the point under discussion. And since we know it’s an Arab land, we can exclude anywhere east of Arabia.
Rosso11
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And Morocco is still not in that circle
castlecake2.0
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Restaurant Marrakech has reopened today as a lounge (seating only, no food service) and the new location for Kidcot.
aladdin2007
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Im guessing this is a temporary thing due to the heat and weather.
It's open due to the ghost of Advent Health!!!
DCLcruiser
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I don't get the fascination with Aladdin being Asian. His father is Ali Baba...not the Chinese website. The story is from the Levant.
Either way, we need a Moroccan story from Disney to help us add a ride, if IP is required.
Bocabear
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A pixar film based on the life of young Freddie Mercury?
LittleBuford
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The original Middle Eastern story is set in China, though there is nothing obviously Chinese about the characters (who all bear Arabic names) or the world they inhabit. Rather than being a serious ethnic claim, Aladdin’s Chineseness was a way of signalling that his story was taking place in an exotic faraway land. Disney opted (sensibly, I think) to match the story’s cultural frame of reference and set it in the Middle East instead, but British pantomime performances still go with the Chinese setting of the original source material. (Ali Baba is not Aladdin’s father, by the way.)
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LittleBuford
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Freddie Mercury was of Parsi-Indian heritage, not Moroccan.