Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I think it could drive numbers if it had the right ambiance, the right restaurant, and the right Streetmosphere. But certainly the nubers will always be better if you have a quality attraction.<<< It would be soooo easy. But it needs synergy....so it ain't going to happen in this regime under the Supreme Weatherman.
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Originally Posted By MagentaPanther I'm planning on staying at a Disney value hotel this fall, and visiting Universal while I'm there. With the free dining plan, it's the most economical way to go as far as I'm concerned. PLUS I get to enjoy both parks. What's not to like?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>That book series was the closest thing it could have had to Potter, and it BLEW IT<<< Can't agree there... Narnia, though, amazing, is no where near as far reaching as Potter is.
Originally Posted By MagentaPanther Well, but the book series is still in print after all these years, and the first movie was something of a blockbuster (although not nearly as good as it could have been, given the source material). The second film was fumbled, though; I didn't care for it at all. But my interest has definitely been piqued by the Dawn Treader trailer. Never thought I'd be interested in the Narnia films again, but that trailer did it...we'll see what happens. Here's another thought: no major theme park has ever done anything with The Wizard of Oz. (I thought that when Disney built the Disney-MGM park, that we'd get some Wizard of Oz rides or something, but no. Lost opportunity there). Since Disney is supposedly making an Oz movie (The Great and Powerful) there may be an opportunity to do something there...but really, any Oz ride would HAVE to be based on the MGM movie to succeed. Disney may again have let something slip through its fingers. On the other hand, I'd really rather that Disney just built more attractions based on its own Disney-made properties, like a Lion King ride or Mary Poppins or something like that. Yeah, that'll happen...
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I agree with everything you just said. LOL. I know it's not possible, but Disney really lost a chance on acquiring Wicked...That would be fantastic as a ride.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Wicked is available as a theme and show at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka.
Originally Posted By leemac <<I know it's not possible, but Disney really lost a chance on acquiring Wicked.>> Wicked is a Universal Pictures property. They are one of the original producers. They have also been developing a movie based on the book and musical forever. I'm not really sure what Disney could have done with the property - the L. Frank Baum books have been in the public domain so anyone can develop property on them (hence why Oz fanatic Tony Baxter added it to DLP's Storybookland as the finale).
Originally Posted By leemac <<If you see it differently LeeMac, I am more than willing to accept that as fact. >> Everything is about compromise. I'm not sure what else I can really add to the discussion. I've worked on phenomenal projects that I thought were a dead cert for greenlight that were killed stone dead and others that had be going "meh" that made it through. Ever since former imagineers set up shop on their own - even going back to the Bob Rogers of this world - they have been able to do things cheaper than WDI. It is just one of those things. I've said before that WDI has one of two options - to be the lean and mean outsourcer like Uni Creative or the in-house all-singing-all-dancing specialist like it was at the start of this decade. At the moment it seems to be stuck in the middle. It was deemed unnecessary to keep the basic AA fabrication in-house so it was jettisoned but there are still a host of generalist construction folks on payroll.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Wicked is available as a theme and show at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka.>> <<I swear, Japan has everything.>> Enjoy. It is a truly horrid show. Just 35 minutes in length - it makes no sense whatsoever. And it cost USJ the earth to get it in there. Thankfully the normal version is playing in the Shiki Theater in Osaka.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> MPierce, I believe you're thinking of whylightbulb. He was indeed involved with the show installation on Forbidden Journey. << Thanks Lee, that's exactly who I was trying to remember. I was in my normal brain-dead configuration, and just couldn't remember his screen name.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Justification- Hit Studios after work tomorrow for an hour or so and hit Uni again on Wednesday- -em << It must be nice.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Wicked is a Universal Pictures property. They are one of the original producers. They have also been developing a movie based on the book and musical forever. <<< Oh, I know that, but I would just really like to see Disney produce that level of showmanship and creativity that Wicked holds. Great novels, great show, it really foots Disney's want for franchises.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^The novels are OK. I wouldn't call them great. The show really outshines the book.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer They were too different to compare, in that sense. But the literacy and meaning and allegories in the novels were some deep, good stuff.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I dint it's that kind of book, where the show definitely is. I had that problem too, until I saw that it was more about Elphaba's thoughts and realizations than anything. However, if you want a WOW, read "Lion Amongst Men". Yackle does some crazy things in that book. Son of a Witch also had a few WOW moments.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Anything can wow me. It doesn't have to be grand and sweeping. It just has to be really good. Which Wicked and Son of a Witch were not for me.
