So, You Want to be an Imagineer Season 18 HYPE THREAD!

TheOriginalTiki

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Brer Panther said:
Of the Animated Canon, I vote for the 2011 Winnie the Pooh movie.

If we're allowed to bring non-Animated Canon movies into this, I'll add Pooh's Grand Adventure and The Tigger Movie.
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Winnie the Pooh 2011 is another really solid choice. The songs are fantastic and the characters are absolutely on-point. I only wish the film had a stronger overall narrative instead of being essentially two short films. Granted I absolutely get that they were trying to emulate the original package film style.
 
TheOriginalTiki

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Muppets Now episode three thoughts (potential spoilers)

I was frustrated seeing that we were getting the same four sketches as last week, but I've got to admit in execution this might be the strongest week yet. Satler and Waldorf were easily the best framing device runner so far, and Joe from Legal definitely made his biggest impression yet this episode. I'm also strangely getting a bit settled into Vogel Kermit and think he was used really well this episode.

Okie Dokie Kookin - Easily the blandest of the four this week. The guest star wasn't bad, but there was more interaction between him and Plume than him and the chef. Overall I feel like the chef got a bit sidelined this segment. Not bad, but maybe the least laugh out loud funny of the three of these we've seen so far.

Muppet Labs - WOW! What an improvement over the first one. This honestly might have produced my biggest laughs of all three episodes so far. The pizza guy was priceless, and it's impossible for me to say no to well timed slo-mo gags.

Lifesty(le) - This definitely held up a bit better than last week and felt less repetitive. Love that the logo is a consistent running gag. I am totally down for Tay Diggs being in every episode. He's got a great "down to clown" vibe about him but still comes across as cool and classy. Vogel Kermit's best performance so far is here IMO. He's still got a ways to go, but he definitely felt more comfortably settled into the voice than he was in episode one.

Pepe's Unebelievable Gameshow - I was worried this would get repetitive. I was wrong. The combination of Pepe's personality and the anything goes quality of the game show format makes this one a real winner. Maybe not as strong as last week's sketch, but still kept the laughs coming.

BIG MEAN CARL!!! I was cheering so hard :D
 
mickeyfan5534

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TheOriginalTiki said:
Muppets Now episode three thoughts (potential spoilers)

I was frustrated seeing that we were getting the same four sketches as last week, but I've got to admit in execution this might be the strongest week yet. Satler and Waldorf were easily the best framing device runner so far, and Joe from Legal definitely made his biggest impression yet this episode. I'm also strangely getting a bit settled into Vogel Kermit and think he was used really well this episode.

Okie Dokie Kookin - Easily the blandest of the four this week. The guest star wasn't bad, but there was more interaction between him and Plume than him and the chef. Overall I feel like the chef got a bit sidelined this segment. Not bad, but maybe the least laugh out loud funny of the three of these we've seen so far.

Muppet Labs - WOW! What an improvement over the first one. This honestly might have produced my biggest laughs of all three episodes so far. The pizza guy was priceless, and it's impossible for me to say no to well timed slo-mo gags.

Lifesty(le) - This definitely held up a bit better than last week and felt less repetitive. Love that the logo is a consistent running gag. I am totally down for Tay Diggs being in every episode. He's got a great "down to clown" vibe about him but still comes across as cool and classy. Vogel Kermit's best performance so far is here IMO. He's still got a ways to go, but he definitely felt more comfortably settled into the voice than he was in episode one.

Pepe's Unebelievable Gameshow - I was worried this would get repetitive. I was wrong. The combination of Pepe's personality and the anything goes quality of the game show format makes this one a real winner. Maybe not as strong as last week's sketch, but still kept the laughs coming.

BIG MEAN CARL!!! I was cheering so hard :D
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For once we are in almost complete agreement on the entire episode! I did find Beverly Plume being thirsty kinda hilarious but I'm thankful we got Okie Dokie straight out of the way. The cow gag was freaking hilarious though. The other three were outstanding sketches. Piggy shading Kermit the entirety of Lifesty(le) was the standout gag for me.

While I feel like episode 1, pilot jitters aside, was better than episode 2, this is the clear standout of the series at this point.
 
DisneyManOne

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TheOriginalTiki said:
fellow SYWTBAI frontrunners @JokersWild and @Outbound will be going head to head in the most challenging installment of Disney Movies: The Ride yet. Join us as they squirm in their seats coming up with attraction pitches for The Rescuers, Robin Hood, and The Fox and the Hound. Going live at 10PM Eastern/7PM Pacific.
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I'm surprised you didn't discuss The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but then again, when the film inspired one of Disney's most well-known dark rides, there's really not much else to go off from. But I will share this: When I was little, I remember trying to come up with a version of the Many Adventures ride that took you through all three segments of the film. Wouldn't that be something?
 
TheOriginalTiki

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DisneyManOne said:
I'm surprised you didn't discuss The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but then again, when the film inspired one of Disney's most well-known dark rides, there's really not much else to go off from. But I will share this: When I was little, I remember trying to come up with a version of the Many Adventures ride that took you through all three segments of the film. Wouldn't that be something?
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Yea, honestly I don't think there's anything else to be done with Pooh. We've seen multiple scales of dark ride done with him throughout the world, we've seen a ton of different Armchair Imagineering ideas using stuff like honey pot boats. You'd have to think really outside the box with Pooh to make something unique. I'm thinking once we get to Winnie the Pooh 2011 we'll include that on the roster since it's less of a package film and has a more specific narrative.
 
spacemt354

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DisneyManOne said:
I'm surprised you didn't discuss The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but then again, when the film inspired one of Disney's most well-known dark rides, there's really not much else to go off from. But I will share this: When I was little, I remember trying to come up with a version of the Many Adventures ride that took you through all three segments of the film. Wouldn't that be something?
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I still think the abandoned flume ride concept would be an incredible aesthetic for Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
 
TheOriginalTiki

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NateD1226 said:
I'm probably gonna get dragged for this but The Lion King. It's a good movie but it's not amazing as people make it to be.
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I used to lean this way, but now that nostalgia has kicked in for Lion King I have to say Beauty and the Beast is perhaps slightly over-hyped. Don't get me wrong, it's great. I just don't think it's the end all, be all of 2D animation like a lot of other people claim. My tastes lean WAY more into experimental works like Hunchback, Alice, Fantasia etc.

I also never got the Tangled hype. The characters act way too millennial and trendy, the same thing can be said about the music. Gothel is the last great truly evil Disney villain but she's really all that holds that movie up for me besides the obvious lantern scene.

VERY unpopular opinion...In some ways I prefer Ralph Breaks the Internet to the original Wreck It Ralph. The original film felt like two half-movies with him jumping through the games and then the Sugar Rush part. Generally speaking the pacing was off. Everyone hates on Ralph Breaks the Internet for the meme jokes, but at the core of that movie is a REALLY intense personal story about the struggles of keeping people you care about in your life even as you start to drift apart. That's a freaking deeply relatable thing to me so I latched on to Vanellope as a character pretty hard for a while after seeing it.
 
NateD1226

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TheOriginalTiki said:
I used to lean this way, but now that nostalgia has kicked in for Lion King I have to say Beauty and the Beast is perhaps slightly over-hyped. Don't get me wrong, it's great. I just don't think it's the end all, be all of 2D animation like a lot of other people claim. My tastes lean WAY more into experimental works like Hunchback, Alice, Fantasia etc.

I also never got the Tangled hype. The characters act way too millennial and trendy, the same thing can be said about the music. Gothel is the last great truly evil Disney villain but she's really all that holds that movie up for me besides the obvious lantern scene.

VERY unpopular opinion...In some ways I prefer Ralph Breaks the Internet to the original Wreck It Ralph. The original film felt like two half-movies with him jumping through the games and then the Sugar Rush part. Generally speaking the pacing was off. Everyone hates on Ralph Breaks the Internet for the meme jokes, but at the core of that movie is a REALLY intense personal story about the struggles of keeping people you care about in your life even as you start to drift apart. That's a freaking deeply relatable thing to me so I latched on to Vanellope as a character pretty hard for a while after seeing it.
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Beauty and the Beast lacks in story for me but the music make up for it since it has some of Disney's best songs. As for Tangled, I really like that movie. It feels very "classic disney" to me. The only thing that bothers me is that there isn't enough music. They cut so much music from the movie that would've made the film even better. Also, the story kinda fell through at the end with the magical tear or whatever. It didn't really work for me.

Ralph Breaks the Internet was TRAGIC in all shapes and forms. Literally nobody asked for this movie lmao. You are right, the story is very deep but I think it is too deep and just got dragged on which made it boring after a while. But yeah I can totally relate to the idea of losing one as well but the way they showed it was weird. A
 
DisneyManOne

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TheOriginalTiki said:
VERY unpopular opinion...In some ways I prefer Ralph Breaks the Internet to the original Wreck It Ralph. The original film felt like two half-movies with him jumping through the games and then the Sugar Rush part. Generally speaking the pacing was off. Everyone hates on Ralph Breaks the Internet for the meme jokes, but at the core of that movie is a REALLY intense personal story about the struggles of keeping people you care about in your life even as you start to drift apart. That's a freaking deeply relatable thing to me so I latched on to Vanellope as a character pretty hard for a while after seeing it.
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The thing that really gets my goat about Ralph Breaks the Internet is that it actively contradicts the morals of the first. Apparently, going Turbo is a good thing now?
 

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