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News Splash Mountain retheme to Princess and the Frog - Tiana's Bayou Adventure
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FettFan
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None. I’ve been listening to all the talking heads spouting their rumors from “insiders” and just played it like a game of telephone.
There’s got to be a kernel of truth about a pending asset sale, but everyone jumped to the most extreme conclusion.
It makes sense for them to offload 20th Century Animation first, as it’s totally redundant, and their library doesn’t mesh well with the “Disney” signature design.
Last time I was at WDW, they were trying to promote Fox’s Ice Age series with a sand sculpture in front of Animal Kingdom….and the whole thing was as ill-matched as Snoop Dogg at a Garth Brooks concert.
It’s my prediction that Apple will purchase 20CA from Disney because they do not have their own animation studio. They’re distributing Skydance movies on Apple TV+, but between the John Lassiter controversy and the middling reviews for their first feature, Luck, they’ve got justification enough to cut ties and team with the studio that has a string of moneymakers.
They’ll probably even revert the name back to BlueSky. Or Apple BlueSky.
erasure fan1
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I completely agree.
comics101
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The “salt mine” storyline is an improvement? They were given additional funding for the attraction and that’s still the best they could come up with? Seriously??
Yikes.
_caleb
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I think the “salt mine” idea was part of the attraction setting’s backstory (what the Imagineers use to help make consistent creative choices), not the storyline of the attraction (what guests are told through the attraction experience).
Tha Realest
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It’s the backstory and the setting
Buried20KLeague
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They might as well close the DL one like, yeaterday. I rode it 5 or 6 weeks ago and so many things were broken that they literally just turned the lights out for the first half of the ride. We just went through 2 or 3 pitch black rooms with background music playing.
Unless there are cameos of Hubig's Pies, it just won't be authentic.The ride is apparently a "prequel" to the D+ series. New characters from the series will also appear in the ride. I'm guessing some of them are the ones from this image (just a safe assumption)-
You're Fired!™
And she'll likely be 14 before she can experience it...
Vegas Disney Fan
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Disney paid $4 Billion for Marvel, $4.05 Billion for Lucasfilm, $7.4 Billion for Pixar,
The Fox deal was $71.3 Billion. That’s why they’re putting so much stock in Avatar 2 being a success.
The Avatar Sequel Is a Make-or-Break Moment for Disney’s $71 Billion Fox Deal
Returning boss Bob Iger oversaw the 2019 purchase. A December premiere will help indicate whether he overpaid.www.bloomberg.com
Iger overpaid for Fox, especially when his primary motivator was to get the Fox Marvel rights (Fantastic 4 and X-Men) back under the control of Marvel Studios.
Certain parts of Fox, the ones that are redundant, will be sold off to stop the bleeding. Disney can’t afford to just shutter them, as they did LucasArts and LucasBooks after that acquisition.
(Btw, ending lucasarts was one of the dumbest decisions Disney ever made…but that’s another topic for another thread)
I got the impression the primary motivator was Hulu, the Fox catalog was just the icing on the cake.
MerlinTheGoat
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I doubt the salt mine backstory affected the budget. It's just something Carter's team seems insistent on having to try and justify why there's a tall hill in a swampy area. A stupid idea for sure, but so far I'm not seeing much about that idea that would impact the budget either way. Looking at the model, I would not be able to figure out that a salt mine was even part of the story without being told.
If we're fortunate, that aspect of the ride will mostly be contained to the queue and a couple corners of the exterior. But even the exterior is still themed to look like a bayou. If that new piece of art is any indication, the interior also seems to be focused on the bayou setting as well. And I also assume that is where the budget is going. Which again would be a good thing, since the first concept they pitched called for a mass gutting of the interior. Leaving behind empty dark rooms, scarce AA's and video projections for most if not all of the scenery and characters.
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That's not the case.
Fox was bought for the European infrastructure so that D+ can be taken internationally.
Secondly it was for controlling share of Hulu.
Thirdly, for its several TV and movie studios to make content for D+ and theatrical release.
Fourthly, for 20th Century and Searchlight to make adult and award-winning movies (which was something Disney was missing).
And finally, for its back catalogue to put on the streamers and raid its IP for future content.
Fox Marvel was a bonus, not a feature. Just look how long it's been taking to get around to the Marvel/Fox properties.
The parts of Fox that Disney doesn't need has already been sold off (sports networks) or written off (European linear channels were thrown out) or consolidated. There's nothing extraneous to sell.
None of our reliable 'insiders' have been saying that.
The Internet is a giant echo chamber. We just had people post how several sites were indicating that the FL legislature was backing off of nixing RCID... all those sites were reporting the one source saying it. But, people were starting to be convinced of its veracity because so many places were saying it.
But it was just one source. This happens all. the. time.
Multiple mouth pieces doesn't mean multiple sources.
JoeCamel
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And often the one source had it wrong or made it up......
Incomudro
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