Preview of New Live Action Beauty & The Beast coming to Hollywood Studios

[AndrewsJ]

An 8 minute preview of the new live action Beauty and The Beast movie will be shown in the One Man's Dream theatre beginning February 10, 2017.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/trav...sney-beauty-beast-preview-20170127-story.html

 

[Bolt]

They said the will be adding original props, too. Did they do that for other previews?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Time for this gem again.....

 

[marni1971]

Poor Walt. Again.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

These previews could easily be held in the theatre showing Path of the Jedi, but I guess Walt is less important than Star Wars to Disney.

 

[Figments Friend]

Silly me....

When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought a new version of the stage show for Beauty & The Beast based on the live action film was coming....

Du'oh..!



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[Cmdr_Crimson]

These previews could easily be held in the theatre showing Path of the Jedi, but I guess Walt is less important than Star Wars to current Disney.

I Really hope they do that again once SWL is opened....That film is just a Fanboy youtube film....

 

[Figments Friend]

Time for this gem again.....

Perfectly sums it all up in one picture.



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[Animaniac93-98]

I Really hope they do that again once SWL is opened....That film is just a Fanboy youtube film....

They probably will, but in the short term you think they could do something better.

 

[21stamps]

These previews could easily be held in the theatre showing Path of the Jedi, but I guess Walt is less important than Star Wars to Disney.

Beauty and the Beast previews, props, and costumes, in Launch Bay?

 

[Bolt]

Beauty and the Beast previews, props, and costumes, in Launch Bay?

No. Path of the Jedi they said.

 

[21stamps]

No. Path of the Jedi they said.

Oh. Ok I was confused. I forgot that was located near JTA. We didn't go inside.

 

[marni1971]

These previews could easily be held in the theatre showing Path of the Jedi, but I guess Walt is less important than Star Wars to Disney.

This. THIS.

 

[breakin2]

Pay $100 to enter a park and watch an 8 minute commercial as an attraction? Sweet!

 

[WDWTank]

Pay $100 to enter a park and watch an 8 minute commercial as an attraction? Sweet!

With more and more temporary attractions being added to Walt Disney World, I feel like they're turning $100 Theme Parks into Amusement Parks. Also there's a lot of Unfitting, Non-Cohesive Themes being shoehorned everywhere on property. Like a Grocery Advertisement. So Lame.

 

[DznyRktekt]

Why is this a thing? Are film based attractions a thing of the past? Seems like screens are still popular at Universal.

When the automatic doors would open at the Magic Eye theater and the blast of ice cold 1980's air conditioning would hit along with the deep bass and star field music of Captain EO...there was nothing like it.

 

[AndrewsJ]

Personally I think One Man's Dream should never be touched especially using it for movie previews. If feels disrespectful. But obviously the suits don't feel the same about Walt Disney. That is if they even know who he is. Sometimes I feel like they have no idea.

 

[tcool123]

They said the will be adding original props, too. Did they do that for other previews?

Yes and no. When they did the preview for Cinderella they added the coach for the movie, but no as it was on Streets of America, and lasted longer than the preview.

 

[Undercover Gopher]

Time for this gem again.....

Remember when Walt Disney hosted a weekly TV show from 1954 until his death in 1966? Walt didn't just air the same episode every week. Whenever he did air an episode from a previous season, he would create new content or a new introduction for each episode. He used his program to create promotional synergy between his studio and Disneyland.

Also, long before there was the Walt Disney Theater in Florida, there was the Fantasyland Theater in Disneyland. It originally opened as the Mickey Mouse Club Theater in 1955, and stayed around until 1981. During that time, the theater wouldn't play the same film. It would change its programming to attract visitors who would come to Disneyland multiple times.

While I do enjoy the Walt Disney film inside One Man's Dream, I think 15 minutes is too short to cover Walt's life. If people really want to know about Walt Disney, I would encourage them to watch full-length documentaries like Walt: The Man Behind the Myth or the PBS American Experience special rather than a 15-minute tribute film (or better yet, read the biography on Walt Disney by Bob Thomas).

Honestly, I think Walt would be honored that a theater named after him features previews for upcoming movies made by the studio that he and his brother Roy created. As long as the films have some type of connection to Walt Disney (like animation) and not tainted with Marvel or Star Wars products, I'm fine with them using the Walt Disney Theater for sneak previews.

Also, the One Man's Dream film had been playing in the theater from 2001 to 2015. During that time, more and more people would skip the movie because there was nothing new added to it. Even when they closed nearby attractions like the Backlot Tour or the Animation building, the number of people who watched the film never increased. The movie previews were added to prevent the attraction from being shut down due to low attendance. If that weren't enough, they added a character meet-and-greet to the attraction which is bringing in more people inside but for all the wrong reasons. If anything, you should be more upset about a character meet-and-greet ruining One Man's Dream than a couple of movie previews.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Yes and no. When they did the preview for Cinderella they added the coach for the movie, but no as it was on Streets of America, and lasted longer than the preview.

Classic modern DHS!

I don't mind Disney promoting itself. The line between a promotional effort and an encounter with a Disney movie inspired environment is sometimes thin anyway. At DHS since the very beginning skewed more towards the first. But when done right, why not? It's what the park is about, too. But do it right. If you do still want it to be a movie park, then showcase props, labour at it a bit, come up with something fun. Don't just run a trailer. Especially in an atraction that has no relation to the trailer. The movie trailers in OMD have no build-up, and OMD no finale. Unless the story is about Walt's work and the company he founded culminating, at least continuing, in the movie of the trailer of the month. Which is a bit weak, even if a sincere case could be made that indeed, this is Walt's work and legacy as it is alive today.