Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81686.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Oz The Great and Powerful Has Big Thursday Night Sales; Should Go Over $80M for the Weeken</b></a> <p>The Hollywood Reporter writes Oz The Great and Powerful is off to a great start taking in on $2 million in Thursday night sales (with screenings starting at 9p). Its debut weekend should be in the $80 to $100 million range which would make it a huge hit. That would give it the 3rd largest March opening of al time behind only The Hunger Games and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.</p>
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: This is such good news! I was hoping the movie would do well! This is such a big encouragement to witches everywhere! We're gonna' have to have a big celebration. Lucky I brought my broomstick with me so I won't have to walk to the party! ORGOCH: That's assumin' ya can git the thing ta even fly under all that blubber! ORWEN: Do I have to turn you into a winged monkey, already? Oh, that's right! You already ARE one!!!
Originally Posted By oc_dean My observation - Duh! Of course it was going to be a huge weekend opener. The production values are high enough ... for people to be curious .. and draw themselves into cinema complexes throughout the world. And will no doubt make it's money back, and a nice tidy profit. And by the time it's out on Bluray and DVD ... surely, many LPers won't go without a copy of their own. The question on everybody's minds here ... (I'm guessing) ... Is, will it translate to theme park projects? That remains to be seen.
Originally Posted By phantommanoraddict So much potential for Theme Park projects: waterfalls, play areas, gardens, balloon rides, illusions, wicked witch references, china ware and collectibles, monkeys, poseable dolls, country road going from Frontierland to behind old Fantasyland Skyway, with elements of "horses of a differnt color", interactive wildflowers along the path, scarecrow pointing to "China Town" or Frontierland, whimsical graveyard, definitely some sort of dark ride or arcade game. Possibilities are endless! Now focus on what you want to see out of it and something may come out of it.
Originally Posted By oc_dean The possibilities in WDW or even Hong Kong, Shanghai ... endless. TDL .. no room! DL .... also too little room. To do it properly ...do it justice ... a project like this needs enough space.
Originally Posted By phantommanoraddict I'm just saying that even a little bit of theming will go along way in synergy. Disneyland doesn't have to be an entire land, but I could see a nice transition area along Big Thunder Trail back to Fantasyland for a meadow, forest, countryside. could have a balloon/bubble ride similiar to what they have in the Jurastic Park area of Universal that is themed to large flying prehistoric flying birds and make it suspended. So many theme possibities. "Great Movie Ride" at Hollywood Studios already has an "OZ" room. Disneyland Paris already has a hot air balloon attraction outside the park I am sure they will convert to "OZ" somehow. DisneySeas already has a bunch of good stuff so no need to place it there as a huge attraction.
Originally Posted By oc_dean You know what I do find funny .... Is how Discovery Bay's layout .... translates well for a "Kansas" land .... while "OZ" is hidden in show buildings - Anyone remember the "Western Balloon Ride" model against the railroad tracks? Professor Marvel's Gallery of Illusions? Of course .. just a coincidence in the name. And the 2 E Ticket Ride locations for Discovery Bay were iether hidden within a large showbuilding ... or hidden from view, and nothing built too tall to ruin the sense of scale it took to build DL in first place. They could take that same layout ... and re-theme it all to a "Kansas" land. But I'd rather see Frontierland emphasis the word F... R... O... N... T... I ...E ...R By expanding it - Not fracturing it to cram in more tiny "mini" lands .... And not do "OZ" they way it should - which Disney Resorts with room .. can do.
Originally Posted By phantommanoraddict They can still make "the horse of a different color". Did you see the horses in the background when Oz and the Monkey where walking down the Yellow Brick Road? I can see some tie dyed/punk looking horses in Frontierland for show.
Originally Posted By dagobert I wonder how the international box office will turn out in the end, because over here we arenot so familiar with Oz.
Originally Posted By basil fan That's an interesting thought, dagobert. Does the lack of familiarity with the product seem to be affecting folks' interest? I was never a huge Oz fan; it was the trailer that sold me. Guilty! The Disney Villains <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/villain.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ain.html</a>
