When you Wish Upon a Frog (Book II of the Jim Henson at Disney saga)
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Maybe Wells could pretended that some strange creature bit him when he was on Everest and he could pretend to show “yeti symptoms” before putting on a yeti costume on the expedition Everest ride.
Not to be pedantic, but my accident was caused by a computer error and not any engineering errors. Kinda like what happened OTL, but more severe so that the animatronic actually comes loose.
But ok, point taken.
If Mr. Wells doesn't want to stand on the edge of a 30 ft. drop all day just to scare guests he could at least make some short mockumentaries about his trip to the Himalayas and how he might had someone or something follow him back to promote the ride.
However since DAK isn't even planned yet, I assume that we won't see the ride come to fruition. Especially since Disney mainly built the it to attract people to DAK which was struggling to find its audience.
How about we use Expedition Everest to refurbish the Matterhorn attraction entirely?
How would the Everest theme fit with either Fantasyland or Tomorrowland?
Oh, I was assuming that the Matterhorn was in Adventureland.
I don't think Expedition Everest would fit into Disneyland.
And I don't mean that in a thematic way, but actually in scale. The Ride Building is freaking massive and Disneyland already has a Space Problem.
And just rethemeing the existing Matterhorn would be lame compared to OTL and probably very unpopular with guest. Like I imagine Mr. Toad level of fan backlash.
I think DAK is inevitable since Jim Henson and Roy Disney might be interested in promoting animal conservation after DisneySea's success (not to mention Busch Gardens Tampa). People keep treating it like it's going to happen (including myself) so I guess it's going to happen sooner or later in the 2000s.
Everest could technically exist as a future Phase II attraction to help complement Asia in a more successful DAK.
Wow, we're really milking this Frank Wells reference LOL. As we should.
But to be honest, an animatronic of him and his climbing team will probably do for Everest, regardless of whether he actually climbs the ride or not (it's likely he could do it since he's pretty fit like the Matterhorn climbers OTL).
It's technically a Fantasyland ride, but IIRC the Matterhorn was originally a Tomorrowland ride.
Expedition Everest wouldn't work anyways unless we seriously want to downscale its scope, as Agumon said. The differences between the two rides are quite extreme, not to mention we would provoke the Walt Disney park purists, which is not worth the effort in retheming the ride.
I have liked the last several posts.
I am curious on the Reform Party
Also happy Birthday Kermit!
I am curious on the Reform Party
Also happy Birthday Kermit!
It would’ve been really interesting to see how the Lion King ITTL is handled.
From what we heard from it, it seems to be a far more progressive and almost a celebration of Black Culture.
Imagine… The Lion King, A Spike Lee Joint.
From what we heard from it, it seems to be a far more progressive and almost a celebration of Black Culture.
Imagine… The Lion King, A Spike Lee Joint.
Wouldn't work. A Spike Lee adaptation needs to have at least one white lion yelling "YOU DON'T BELONG IN THE PRIDELANDS!!!" at the top of his lungs.
Isn't that basically how exiling was portrayed in the first direct-to-video sequel that adapted Romeo and Juliet instead of Hamlet?
... I don't recall Simba using the N-word in that one.
Not like that, but more like the basic idea of "privileged lion forcing unprivileged lion to live in the slums".
In fairness, Kovu was believed to be guilty of treason and attempted regicide at the time.
Yeah, but it was pretty close to ghetto banishment in this specific view.
Not Simba's fault Scar had loyalists who wouldnt get with the new king. Territory is territory.
There are papers to be written about the classist portrayal of the hyenas - the hyenas are portrayed as thieving, shiftless lowlives who envy what their betters have and desire privilege they do not deserve.
Given the Epic of Suindata is quite similar to the OTL film anyway (seriously, Google it), I'd imagine the core plot wouldn't change much.
Although I do think Scar, or his equivalent ITTL, being an evil half-brother might be too much of a stretch for a non-Signature film (especially since that plotline involved polygamy which, whilst true to real-life animal behaviour, might not be something you'd explicitly depict in a Disney film - implicitly, however....) - my bet is he's either an uncle as per OTL or, if he's a younger lion, Simba's cousin.
(The latter of which would have my war history-obsessed dad banging on about how TLK is the closest thing to an adaptation of the Anarchy we're ever likely to get - and that's if GRRM doesn't put The Dance of Dragons in ASOIAF ITTL).
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