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| twirlnhurl
Wed 6/13/2007 11:43a | Is the song from Oh Canada! in the new film? |
162
| MPierce
Wed 6/13/2007 3:03p | >> I've been told that new Epcot VP Jim MacPhee is 'adament' that the wand is coming down no matter who pays ... I'm also told as soon as he got the job he went on a major push to do something for Epcot's 25th, but just this week was shot down by ... who else? ... the IDIOTS in WDW Marketing. <<
You have already been quoted over on WDWmagic.
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163
| hopemax
Wed 6/13/2007 3:27p | I think this topic is stuck.
GRR marketing! |
164
| Skellington88
Wed 6/13/2007 4:06p | Leemac please tell Disney to retool the Imagination pavillion. It is horrible and not popular in its current state.
Let Tony Baxter redo it into something more like its original version and you'll probably have lines through the park. Just look how popular the submarine voyage is. Imagination can easily be popular if its redone into a more satisfying attraction. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Wed 6/13/2007 5:00p | The big question is, 'Why'd they mess with the 'Imagination' pavilion anyway?'
If I were taking a stroll through Future World 10 years ago, 'Journey Into Imagination' would NOT have been one of my priorities as something that needed to be messed with.
Let alone, changed in the radical and gross way it was changed. |
166
| bayrr326
Wed 6/13/2007 7:39p | Kudos to Jim MacPhee for trying to do get something done for the 25th even at the last minute. Until someone puts Marketing in its place at WDW nothing is going to change. They really missed an opportunity not celebrating the 25th. If you want a catchy slogan they could have celebrated it as a "World Homecoming", done a new parade around World Showcase. I don't know anything would have been cool. Now I guess we will be lucky if we get some merchandise but they may be too stupid to do that. |
167
| mousermerf
Thu 6/14/2007 7:29a | Well, Kevin Yee is reporting at Miceage that the budget cleared and it's going down. |
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| vbdad55
Thu 6/14/2007 11:24a | <The Canada movie should be in place this summer. I believe Marty Short has recorded his dialogue for the narration and it is just being put together.
A new movie for American Adventure should be in place this summer too.
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excellent ! going in August, will be watching for these |
169
| RoadTrip
Thu 6/14/2007 11:51a | <<The big question is, 'Why'd they mess with the 'Imagination' pavilion anyway?'>>
In 1997, Fujifilm, (Kodak's biggest rival at the time) came to Disney with an offer: make Journey into Imagination into a thrill ride that had nothing to do with imagination. Kodak's sponsorship contract was almost up, and Fujifilm knew that when the contract ran out, Disney would need someone to sponsor the building. Kodak, however, wished to stay with Disney and continue the contract. Kodak realized that in order to compete with Fujifilm, they too must come up with a new attraction to go into the building. Their proposal was to make Journey Into Imagination, already an E-Ticket attraction, into something more scientific. The ride would also be shorter and have cheaper special effects. At the time, Journey Into Imagination was the most expensive ride in Epcot to keep running, despite the fact that it got more visitors in a day than Epcot's flagship ride Spaceship Earth. The guests made it all worthwhile for Disney to keep it running, but Disney still wasn't satisfied with it. It was the most technologically advanced dark ride in history. A roller coaster would mean much more money to build and keep running, and they feared it wouldn't be nearly as popular as Journey Into Imagination. Therefore, by the end of 1997, Disney accepted Kodak's idea.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
magination!
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| Spirit of 74
Thu 6/14/2007 11:56a | <<Is the song from Oh Canada! in the new film?>>
If I know Disney, the answer is a NO!
And, no, I don't agree with that. But Disney has been taking all of the amazing music out of Epcot since the mid-90s now.
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