Originally Posted By Kylesmom Trekkerus, please ease my ignorance. What attraction where is based on The Black Cauldron?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss It's at Tokyo Disneyland: the Castle Mystery Tour. Yes I know, very obscure, but there you have it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I think the ammount of money they would put into an attraction is nowhere near the ammount that they would get back through video/DVD sales. I know that there would also be an increase in park geusts, but if the main reason is to sell more movies, there really seems to be an easier way.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss They don't put in attractions based on movies to sell more movies, they do it to sell all the other junk.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh Yes. A Narnia attraction wouldn't just sell one movie. It would help sell a series of movies, as well as toys, clothes, accessories, and plush.
Originally Posted By Kylesmom Exactly, interest in a ride increases interest in the movie thus increasing interest in the movie merchandise. Look at all the Star Wars stuff they sold in Star Traders in that loooong period between SW movies. I gotta think that ride helped put the franchise in the minds of kids who never saw the origional 3 in the theater until SW ep 1 came out in '99. There's alot of money to be made by making a non-classic movie into a Disney attraction.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Yes, I wanna' Beastly Kingdom some day. I wanna' see Unicorns at play! I wanna' see Dragons come out of dungeons. I wanna' see the Dodo Bird brought back to life! ORGOCH: Looked in a mirror lately, have ya?
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL I'm with you girls, but after seeing Narnia today, I want to see the Griffons brought to life!
Originally Posted By bhb007 It appears from today's box office totals that there's a pretty good chance that Narnia will be the biggest grossing holiday release... and I agree with the assessment that Narnia is both open-ended and timeless enough to create a land that transcends its movie ties (certainly better than say a gaggle of Pixar rides tenuously dumped in a struggling park ostensibly linked to the history and culture of California...)
Originally Posted By trekkeruss While I agree that the Pixar attractions in DCA don't further the California theme in any way, I don't see an entire Narnia land exactly fitting into DAK either. Within a Beastly Kindom setting yes, but not a stand alone concept.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Well, that's all we's a sayin', anyways, trekkeruss, ducklin'. So start helpin' ta round up the Unicorns, will ya?
Originally Posted By Britain I did a little fact checking and it appears that span of time between when Peter Pan was originally written to the time when Disney's movie version was made is roughly the same span of time between the Narnia books being written and now Disney's movie version being made.
Originally Posted By bhb007 People would be real confused with a Narnia ride in Beastly Kingdom. Beastly Kingdom would inevitably called "Narnia" by guests for a good long while (apparently visitors still ask why Jack Sparrow isn't in POTC). That's why I expect that (at least initially) Beastly Kingdom would be designated as Narnia.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Given Disney's recent history, I can see how they would build a 'NarniaLand' instead of Beastly Kingdom. But when I say that, what I mean is that Disney would design NarniaLand on the cheap... it would have more in common with DCA's Flik's Fun Fair than anything else. A real Beastly Kingdom, in my mind at least, would have a concept bold and broad enough that it could stand on its own, without resorting to naming or designing it solely around one movie.
Originally Posted By Britain Since Dino-Rama is already at AK, I doubt they'd do a cheap Narnia kiddie land.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I don;t think it would be on the cheap -- and as for people who just don;t know where they are ( many still believe that MK is Disneyland - at least by what they call it) - I have gotten over that...if they are clueless , so be it.... I think they can do some Narnia based attractions in Beastly Kingdom --
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Well if it's 3 playgrounds per park like MK -- then we are in line for more in AK also.
