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Which is Better

  • Chicken Little

    Votes: 433 27.4%

  • Hunchback 2

    Votes: 57 3.6%

  • A slow death

    Votes: 1,088 68.9%
  • Total voters
    1,578
Dewy60 said:
Yesterday, I hear twitter crying out fowl for Disney's take on Artemis Fowl, which give me the impression that along with Mulan 2020 joining the Jellicle Club of big BO losers, Disney being clueless on trying to get brownie points for the "mainstream" audience and Chapek being prime Disney supervillain material, this may be their Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very-Bad Year not long after Bob Iger completing his "Live long enough to see yourself as a tragic media conglomerate villain" story arc.
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Don’t forget ‘Call of the Wild’ ain’t doing so good either.
 
neverendingmidi said:
Don’t forget ‘Call of the Wild’ ain’t doing so good either.
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Yeah, but that was something they inherited from the Fox purchase and could easily be spun as them making the best of a bad situation. Mulan and Artemis Fowl (which was supposed to have come out last August) were made in-house. 2020 doesn’t have any of the sure fire hits that 2019 had.

Edit: The Call of the Wild, thanks to the Fox purchase, also marks the return of Chris Sanders to Disney after he quit following his dismissal from Bolt (American Dog under his direction). Sadly, it looks like Sanders gets to join Andrew Stanton and Brad Bird in the club of former animation directors who made massive live action bombs.
 
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MysticMisty said:
Same, I only knew about shit second hand for the longest time. I didn't even understand the Small World joke in The Lion King: it was literally the first time I'd heard of it.
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I never understood the hate for Small World as a kid. I had a Sing-Along tape that had the song on it, and I kinda liked it, though it stuck out like a sore thumb on that tape. It's also my mom's favorite ride, so I just never really thought it was reasonable for me to join the bandwagon on that.
 
apparently the new Artemis Fowl movie looks like a stinker and fans of the original book are rightfully pissed about the changes, while Disney fans are throwing tantrums about "Disney is trying their best" and how the book fans are entitled and shouldn't attack Disney, etc.

Anyone wanna dig deeper into it? sounds like a field day.
 
friedshrimp said:
apparently the new Artemis Fowl movie looks like a stinker and fans of the original book are rightfully pissed about the changes, while Disney fans are throwing tantrums about "Disney is trying their best" and how the book fans are entitled and shouldn't attack Disney, etc.

Anyone wanna dig deeper into it? sounds like a field day.
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Something about the movie portraying the title character as the hero when he’s a villian protagonist? Idk I’ve never read it.
 
friedshrimp said:
apparently the new Artemis Fowl movie looks like a stinker and fans of the original book are rightfully pissed about the changes, while Disney fans are throwing tantrums about "Disney is trying their best" and how the book fans are entitled and shouldn't attack Disney, etc.

Anyone wanna dig deeper into it? sounds like a field day.
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Myself and a few people I know were fans of the series back in the day. So far we know next to nothing about the movie, but given that it's been like a decade since the last book, combined with Disney's recent track record, we're all assuming that it's gonna be terrible. The actor for the titular character also looks just plain pathetic, especially given that in the books he was pretty much a psychopathic super genius. He wasn't evil, but for the first book or so he was pretty much the villain. On top of that, the magic creatures have extremely distinctive appearances and you just know they're gonna use bad cgi for them.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rfh7A0lH1ac
Definitely corny in places but here’s a documentary on two guys outsmarting WDW security in order to archive every part of Horizons before it was torn down.
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I remember following their blog religiously, great pics, had some of them for desktops for a while.

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Woman jumps from Walt Disney World resort, deputies say

A number of people took to social media Wednesday afternoon wondering what prompted the large law enforcement response at the resort.
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I guess this is the end of going out at the top of the Contemporary
 
ZMOT said:
>not closing because it's haunted

ONE
JOB
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And they sure as shit don't have parts, repair manuals, upgrades, or any major overhauls since the park opened. Disney keeps adding more and more fancy, expensive shitty rides that break all the damn time, how are these rides that are 40+ years old still working with very few hiccups better than the new hotness?
 
Following up on the suicide apparently it might not affect anything day to day, chatter seems to indicate that this happens enough there's a set procedure for it and it just doesn't get picked up by the media so much.
 
Saxxon said:
When was the last time that they made an original ride not based on an existing IP?
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In the US the last one was Expedition Everest in 2006.

Outside of the US I think Mystic Manor in China in 2013.

It's definitely a shame that they have since seemingly totally abandoned the idea of making all new rides not based on an existing IP.

If I was in charge I'd definitely demand an all new ride in the vein of Pirates, Mansion etc, maybe they could revive the idea for the Western River Expedition?

Kurosaki Ichigo said:
wdwnt.com

The Haunted Mansion Expected to Be Closed for Several Days Due to Undisclosed Reasons at the Magic Kingdom - WDW News Today

A daily-updated resource for news and information on the Disney resort around the world.
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Absolutely nothing is in Chapek’s corner.
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That's worrying.
 
 
 
I’d kill to have western river expansion be built. I’ve always loved how well Marc Davis’ concept art translated to animatronics.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
I’d kill to have western river expansion be built. I’ve always loved how well Marc Davis’ concept art translated to animatronics.
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On one hand if it had been built I probably never would have been able to have ridden any version of Pirates of the Caribbean as a kid as Pirates was not originally slated for the Florida park until as a replacement for western river expedition.

On the other hand the Florida Pirates is supposed to be inferior to the California one and western river expedition would have been something equal in quality if not better.

Still, I'm glad I got to ride any version of Pirates because I was more into pirates than cowboys as a kid, but the ideal would have been somehow Magic Kingdom featuring both Pirates and western river expedition, that'd be awesome.

I definitely would love to hop into an alternate dimension to check out western river expedition expedition though, it sounds awesome and what's sad is it was this close to really happening until the oil crisis.
 
Dom Cruise said:
On the other hand the Florida Pirates is supposed to be inferior to the California one
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basically all Pirates went downhill in the 90s when they turned down the rapey bits, then they went to shit when they threw the movie shit in randomly
EuroDisney had a nice one. Pirates in general I mean, forget if they had the rapey bits
 
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