Frozen Ever After opened today!
The ride isn't bad considering that they had to use the old infrastructure. The animatronics are amazing, probably some of the most realistic in a Disney park.
Anyone else care to comment?
None of the lands are based on properties that started as movies at IoA, but rather started as books. You are incorrect, unless I misunderstand your point?
Well, Kong just ruined that trend.
Quite, good point!Well, Kong just ruined that trend.
Though, after googling, it seems the book (though granted based upon the screenplay) came out before the movie.Well, Kong just ruined that trend.
Harry Potter and Jurassic Park are very clearly based on the movies though, whether the books came first or not.
Well, technically they are all based on books before becoming movies and tv shows, but Jurassic Park was the idea behind Islands of Adventure; a theme park based on comics, children's books, movies, tv shows, and stories; which IOA's case is mythology. And funny enough; Island of Adventure seas originally going to be based upon cartoons; hence the name Cartoon World. It would have been based on DC Superheroes, Looney Tunes and Dr. Seuss.Well, Kong just ruined that trend.
And that's unexpected? More people veg out to movies than read books.
Toon Lagoon might have been based on comics, but neither of the land's attractions have their origins in print....
Good point. Dudley is obvious, he started in cartoons. I had to check Popeye, because I swore he was a comic before a cartoon, and I was right.
Sadly; for one; the Tolkein family are a bat touchy when people adapt their books; and another thing is that that would be a wasted opportunity when they could retheme Marvel Superhero Island with science fiction; steampunk, dieselpunk, atompunk, far future...
*-punk could be ok, but without theme that hits mass appeal, it's a fanboys dream. A terrible use for a property that they still have rights over and (for some reason) people think is home to some of their best rides. I'll skip the two thrills skinned rides *Hulk/Doom" and focus on Spidey, which still gets rave reviews (though I never liked it much...though, of the dozen or so times I've ridden it, it's broken down about 1/3 of the time).
No, I mean something that revolves around science fiction that would give Disney's Tomorowlands and Discoveryland a run for their money. They have a new restaurant/shop that is themed to steampunk and a Sci-Fi City zone in Singapore, and Disneyland Paris blew an opportunity with Discoveryland to be like the Mysterious Island and Port Discovery in TDS, so why shouldn't Universal have a port based around *-punk or far future?
To bad uni dropped the ball with the contract. Tolkien family won't allow it. It almost happened
