Originally Posted By oc_dean Well .. heck ... Disney JUST LOVES toonifying everything in sight with Stitch's chili dog belching .. to a romp with "Turtle Talk"-Stitch in HKDL .... Why don't they just go for Rocky & Bullwinkle interactive talk .... along with a live Dudley Do-Right to ask the questions from audience!! Tell me this never went through those toon-crazy morons in WDI !!! Glad to hear they are FINALLY getting around to updating this. It's only the 21st Century!
Originally Posted By oc_dean and ... btw .... I know the Canadian characters of Dudley-Do-Right and others are Jay Ward characters, not owned by Disney .... But was used purely as an example.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Don't give them any ideas. Rutt and Tuke from Brother Bear might show up!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 The footage in Oh Canada was all shot new. So they likely just went with something that had worked before. I do hope the new version keeps the same theme song because one of the biggest factors in the Walmarting of Epcot has been the systematic removal of its theme songs.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Disney JUST LOVES toonifying everything in sight with Stitch's chili dog belching .. to a romp with "Turtle Talk"-Stitch in HKDL .... Why don't they just go for Rocky & Bullwinkle interactive talk .... along with a live Dudley Do-Right to ask the questions from audience!!>> They are so high on the new technology that they forget it's all in the story. The went the same way when virtual reality was so in in the 1990s and the result was a temporary Alladin Magic Carpet Ride with glasses in Communicore and later DisneyQuest -- and we all know how successful that was. Just like simulators, they'll one day realize that people don't visit Disney parks just to interact with the characters in new and exciting ways. That's why attractions like Mansion and Big Thunder and Jungle Cruise and even CoP still pull people in.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Isn't that the truth, Spirit of 74. One of the things that I loved on my first visit to EPCOT Center in 1986 was all the new theme songs. And that fantastic suite of music that used to play in the Communicore sections of the park -- brilliant. I've always felt that DCA missed the mark when they opted for 'Pop Music with that has California in the lyrics' instead of a great orchestral suite of music that would capture the spirit of California. Disneyland has a great musician on staff who would have been happy to do it. Instead, the Sunshine Plaza gets 'California Girls' and 'Hollywood Nights' -- hip and edgy indeed.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I hear you Jim. While I enjoy some of the songs they play at DCA, I am soooooo tired of hearing that same loop ... I felt loopy listening last week to Hollywood Nights, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, If You're Going to SF etc ... And I miss that great OPTIMISTIC, fun suite of FW music. It so set the mood for the whole EPCOT Center experience. I remember being at a trubute for Buddy Baker a few years ago at USC and spoke with many Disney musicians, including some legends, and they all felt like current management's goal was to remove all traces of the original score.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <and they all felt like current management's goal was to remove all traces of the original score.> Perhaps not intentionally, but they don't seem to see the need for it. To many having 'California pop songs' is just as powerful as having 'California Suite composed by James Newton Howard.' There's no accounting for taste.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Thanks for clearing that up Spirit. I knew that I had read that they used the Expo 67 footage for O' Canada somewhere. They may have assumed that it was reused due to the similarities between the films and that they were both Circlevision productions made by Disney. I also miss the wondrous suite of Epcot themes in Future World. I really hope that Disney will release a comprehensive CD collection for Epcot's 25th anniversary next year like they did for Disneyland's 50th. (Even better would be a comprehensive CD collection for ALL of WDW!!) Somehow, though, I have my doubts that they will. If they do, I really hope that they will include ALL of the original FW background music loop!
