Tomorrowland re-do?

[belloq87]

with the COP news than the rumors from a couple of years ago about tom hanks replacing jean shepard might be true

Hanks is probably such a big name that he'd overshadow the attraction, but the quality of his voice is 100% the direction in which they should be looking.

 

[Mad Dog]

Hanks is probably such a big name that he'd overshadow the attraction, but the quality of his voice is 100% the direction in which they should be looking.

Yeah, right type for sure, but probably best to have a voice actor no one recognizes so it gives the character their own identity.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

 

[SkiBum]

The amount of technological leaps from 1969 to now is crazy. Heck, even 1985 to now.

So going from the 1940s to 2026 and beyond is an insane leap. It was time. I get the want for having something represented from a WW2-era house, but there are only so many rooms in the theater to cover the range, so, understandably, concessions needed to be made.

Yeah, I'm still getting used to microwaves choosing between Betamas and VHS.

 

[Tobias]

For me, I'm also in the boat where it was literally time for a change. The attraction has undergone multiple updates in its lifespan, so it's not like this is some unprecedented thing. CoP is an ever-changing time capsule, and when you realize that many of the things in the distant future scene are actually here and showing the classic Tomorrowland problem of Tomorrow eventually becomes today...it's time for a change.

As mentioned before, they do have to pick and choose what decades to cover since there's only a set number of scenes here, you can't fit them all in. And I feel they picked some good ones with what they can show off and cover within them, and it feels appropriate the Future scene is looking more of an imagined distant future and not a set one.

So I'm intrigued to see how this all turns out, Disney has done pretty well with their shows lately, so I'm more optimistic for this refurb....especially since I darn well know we could've instead gotten the update involving the "Tomorrowland" film. Just like the planned update to SSE that didn't happen, we dodged a bullet there.

 

[OLSinFLA]

I think 1900 to 1964 was a more radical change in how people lived their daily lives than 1969 to today, and I think it's a mistake to not have at least one reused scene from the first half of that century.

It's also going to be bizarre to have Walt Disney introducing a version of the attraction now with zero connection to the one he oversaw.

I think the most radical change happened in the 90s - when the World Wide Web was created. It literally transformed the way we communicate, shop, view content, schedule, compare and travel. I can't think of any other invention that transformed so many things at once.

 

[SkiBum]

I think the most radical change happened in the 90s - when the World Wide Web was created. It literally transformed the way we communicate, shop, view content, schedule, compare and travel. I can't think of any other invention that transformed so many things at once.

The only ones that stand out to me are:

Assembly Line: Changed manufacturing forever.

Nuclear Weapons: Turned the Cold War into a state of fear and continues impacting foreign policy to this day.

To your point, the Web may well have been the most impactful, especially with the rise and usage of AI/GenAI.

 

[Jake S]

I think electricity and vaccination would both like a word.

 

[OLSinFLA]

I think electricity and vaccination would both like a word.

Electricity would be before the new CoP timeline.

 

[SkiBum]

I think electricity and vaccination would both like a word.

The polio vaccine and the discovery of penicillin were both huge as well. Pace of change in the 20th century was amazing and is only increasing. Carousel of Progress will always be fighting to keep up.

 

[Alicia]

in the last century, from the start of commercial air travel in 1920 to the rise of smartphones thanks to high speed internet, i'd say those two roll outs probably had the biggest effect on the world as a whole.

connecting us, both in very different ways

everything else is practically secondary to those two things, flight and the net. at least when it comes to "technology"

Remember the Carousel of Progress was always meant to spotlight how technology improves our lives, which is why it initially focused on things like household appliances or the lightbulb... (stuff a sponsor could promote at a worlds fair pavilion or theme park, ya know)

 

[Freak]

I'm excited to see the updated ending for the Carousel of Progress ending where they talk about getting ready for the next global pandemic, how the kids cannot afford to buy a home and can't find work, realize their home is going to be forcibly taken from them to build an AI data center and then get a letter in the mail about being drafted for WW3.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

in the last century, from the start of commercial air travel in 1920 to the rise of smartphones thanks to high speed internet, i'd say those two roll outs probably had the biggest effect on the world as a whole.

connecting us, both in very different ways

everything else is practically secondary to those two things, flight and the net. at least when it comes to "technology"

Remember the Carousel of Progress was always meant to spotlight how technology improves our lives, which is why it initially focused on things like household appliances or the lightbulb... (stuff a sponsor could promote at a worlds fair pavilion or theme park, ya know)

I bet they tie the decades together with flight like they did with the railway in the old show. "Can you believe I can fly out of my local airport and get to Europe in 12 hours?"

 

[Mad Dog]

I'm excited to see the updated ending for the Carousel of Progress ending where they talk about getting ready for the next global pandemic, how the kids cannot afford to buy a home and can't find work, realize their home is going to be forcibly taken from them to build an AI data center and then get a letter in the mail about being drafted for WW3.

They'll all be in the living room talking to their smartphones....instead of talking to one another.

 

[OLSinFLA]

in the last century, from the start of commercial air travel in 1920 to the rise of smartphones thanks to high speed internet, i'd say those two roll outs probably had the biggest effect on the world as a whole.

connecting us, both in very different ways

everything else is practically secondary to those two things, flight and the net. at least when it comes to "technology"

Remember the Carousel of Progress was always meant to spotlight how technology improves our lives, which is why it initially focused on things like household appliances or the lightbulb... (stuff a sponsor could promote at a worlds fair pavilion or theme park, ya know)

While flying was a huge leap, it remained the province of businessmen and wealthy until deregulation hit. Thats when the era of air travel really became the norm. (I was a travel agent at the time and it was chaos. Friday we had 4 airlines flying into Orlando with 4 fare bases. Monday we had 11 with over 12,000 different fares).

 

[cdogsumo]

Not sure if anybody has listened to the Disney Dish for this week, but Jim Hill posits that when the plan was just to redo the last scene of CoP, the plan was to use AI to stitch together a Jean Shepherd narration for the new scene.

Now that it’s an entire redo, they will undoubtedly go with a new narrator, but I do wonder if they will keep Jean Shepherd around in some capacity.

(The original John, Rex Allen, plays the grandpa in the 1992 redo.)

 

[Timchat2]

I don't know who in the current pop culture landscape is as synonymous with nostalgia as Jean Shepherd.

That said, I'm hopeful they will select the right person for the role even if they aren't well-known.

 

[kristenabelle]

Not sure if anybody has listened to the Disney Dish for this week, but Jim Hill posits that when the plan was just to redo the last scene of CoP, the plan was to use AI to stitch together a Jean Shepherd narration for the new scene.

Now that it’s an entire redo, they will undoubtedly go with a new narrator, but I do wonder if they will keep Jean Shepherd around in some capacity.

(The original John, Rex Allen, plays the grandpa in the 1992 redo.)

I don't know who in the current pop culture landscape is as synonymous with nostalgia as Jean Shepherd.

That said, I'm hopeful they will select the right person for the role even if they aren't well-known.

COP is one of my absolute favorites. Not surprising since I'm a nerd who listens to 40s junction on sirius XM unironically. I'm excited for it to get some love, but will miss Jean Shepherd's voice terribly. Hoping the new jokes and voices are just as iconic.

TBH I'm more sad the goodbye window is so short. Couldn't have waited until my August trip, eh? Just HAD to get started next month.

 

[Alicia]

The real question is, do we finally replace Mel Blanc's Uncle Orville clip?

He also plays the parrot. And is the only actor to appear in every iteration of the show, right?

 

[Parkscope Joe]

I don't know who in the current pop culture landscape is as synonymous with nostalgia as Jean Shepherd.

That said, I'm hopeful they will select the right person for the role even if they aren't well-known.

Nick Offerman.