Anyway Like I said, Disneys movie version of Swiss Family Robinson comes out in December of 1960 and does quite well at the box office (Fourth highest grossing film of the year domestically). Im definitely going to make this worth your while.. Pete Pelican ( Screen Gems ) Which reminds me of something Walt once said when an Imagineer suggested that the Company could save a few bucks by cutting corners on a particular project: If people ever stop coming to the Park because they think we cut corners on a project, the few cents we saved ultimately arent going to matter. Key difference between Vacation 58 and National Lampoons Vacation is that the movie follows the Griswold family on their epic journey to Walley World. And those words supposedly were Build this.. Which produced home premieres like those TinkerBell movies) began actively looking into ways to expand this lucrative franchise? Then Pokemon Quest is the game for you, Pokemon Lets Go, Pikachu ! & Pokemon Lets Go, Eevee ! to come to the Nintendo Switch this year, Nintendos Labo will allow kids to craft their own customized Switch-powered play experiences, Kingdom Hearts III to feature Monsters, Inc. & Toy Story characters, The Lion King: Twenty Years on Broadway and Around the World reveals how close this hit show came to not happening, Broadway vet Eden Espinosa is living out her Disney dream by voicing Cassandra on Tangled: The Series, Principal Casting Announced for Disneys New Broadway Musical, Frozen Opening Spring 2018, Ever wonder how that magic carpet in Disneys Aladdin flies? An animated Bugs Bunny is sitting next to him. Only thing missing would have been Private Snafu blowing Taps off-key, then firing a salute (and shooting down a planeful of Gremlins from the Kremlin). Take for example Cars on the Road, that nine-part series which debuted on Disney+ back in September of last year. This year is the 30th anniversary of the release of National Lampoons Vacation. Warner Bros. released this Harold Ramis movie to theaters back in July of 1983. This whole scene is being shown from the point of view of Valiant who is in the distance leaning against a palm tree. Whereas the short story that Hughes wrote (i.e., Vacation 58) follows an unnamed family to a different theme park. Annakin went on to direct several very popular family films in the 1960s & 1970s, among them Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. And the Walt Disney Company went out of its way to recognize Kens contribution to the overall success of Disney Studio & the Companys theme parks by naming him a Disney Legend in 2002. Learn more about the master animator behind "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," Richard. Born in 11 Jun 1935 and died in 21 May 2019 Acme, Michigan Marvin William Leiter. More importantly, that theyd also be safe for ladies who were wearing skirts & dressed in heels to use. Keep In Mind That WFRR Totally Had Mixed Reviews ! Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Or just trading with collectors, either way. ! and then run off in terror. Simba, Timon & Pumbaa Only this time around, itll be $7 million worth of new attractions. No lawyer writers. So reading between the lines here in Disneylands second year of operation (July 1956 June 1957), the folks down in Anaheim experimented with keeping Walts family fun park open six days a week during the slower times of the year. So things that are now closely associated with a visit to Disneyland back in the day (EX: Having to purchase a book of tickets before you entered that theme park. 1. 16. Id also like to thank people like Leo N. Holzer, who stepped up to the plate when Nancy & I couldnt and got a new story or two out there. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of . Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. Next comes (Again going L to R ) Porky & Petunia Pig, Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow, Jerky Turkey, Tex Averys wolf character and Droopy. The famous never filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (Disney/Amblin, 1988) Did you know? 28. Especially when Valiant tries to break things off with his Girl Friday (Eddie: Dolores, you need to find yourself a good man. Aladdin and Jasmine (H&K seperately, and Buzzy,m Katnips longtime crow star, already were established by 1947). An Justin Springer, who helped get Tron: Legacy off the ground back in 2010, would be producing. That very same year, Walt had some of his staff artists design a miniature golf course that could then be built on the grounds of the Disneyland Hotel. Probably Maurice LaMarche, who had voiced the muscular mariner in Popeye and Son for Hanna-Barbera in 1987. If you ever want to journey to the town of Goldsborough on the Caribbean island of Tobago. Thats what worries me about Disneys current situation. 9. No problem, Mark. Disney Big Figures: Where They Began, Where They Are Now and Where Are They Going? He struggles under the weight of the thing and eventually just tosses it into Marvins open grave. Clustered around a gravesite are the mourners TOONS of every stripe. Thats the piece of land that the pipe which connects the Jungle Cruise and the Rivers of America runs through. CHIP 'N DALE. Many sequences were storyboarded and some even animated for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) but were then left out of the final feature film for a variety of reasons including cost and time issues, pacing and the fact that while they might have been clever or fun but were not really necessary to tell the story. Theres a famous story of Walt observing a Mom pulling her kid away from the entrance of the Jungle Cruise. Saying words to the effect Weve already seen that ride. They would be seen doing a pan shot while the eulogy is given. A Terrytoons Mighty Mouse is crying while in the hand of a Fleischer Superman who is on his knees sobbing away. Imagine Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2. etc. He was a columnist for a variety of animation magazines. 4. And as for those steep sets of stairs While work was underway on this 70-foot-tall faux tree, Walt persuaded Betty Taylor (who was playing Sue Foot Sue over at the Golden Horseshoe at that time) to come over to the Swiss Family Treehouse construction site one afternoon. The Noveltoons jack-in-the-box mascot wouldve appeared popping out voiced by Frank Welker of Scooby-Doo fame saying Duh, I Didnt Know A Toon Had Murdered The Mayor of Toontown !. There was also a lot of talk during this Comic-Con panel about how because Who Framed Roger Rabbit s June 21, 1988 release date had already been locked in there just wasnt enough time for the studio that Richard Williams had set up to do all of the animation for this motion picture. and Little Lulu ! He promised the Toons that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. Just to clarify whos where, heres an additional couple of storyboard drawings which suggest camera moves and/or close-ups. Swiss Family Robinson was the very last film that he directed for Disney Studios. - And R. K. Maroon. Anyway, heres hoping that you folks enjoyed todays story. Killer views of New Orleans Square construction / the Jungle Cruise ride just below.Oh, and that only appeal to kids thing? Back in April of 2020, Disney announced that it was working on a CG version of Disneys 1973 hand-drawn version of Robin Hood. Which is eventually supposed to show up on Disney+. If the Jungle Cruise was being drained for months so that the Imagineers could then install the Sacred Elephant Bathing Pool sequence in that Adventureland attraction, that meant the Rivers of America had to be drained as well. In the original screenplay, an entire day went by between the time Eddie exited the Terminal Bar & Grill and the moment that Valiant encountered Jessica Rabbit as he stepped out of his office bathroom. Theres this great 3-minutes-and-41-second video over on YouTube that shows Walt leading the Mills family (John, Halley & Mary Mills, Johns wife) around Disneylands Swiss Family Treehouse in the Fall of 1962. Interesting story about that vignette that Marc created for The Jungle Cruise. It originally wasnt supposed to be part of that ride. One of the only images from the storyboards for Marvin Acmes funeral that were available online Until now. Tom Terrific One of the only images from the storyboards for Marvin Acme's funeral Titled: "Acme Funeral: Inglewood Cemetery" Private Detective Eddie Valiant arrive at the graveyard at Inglewood, California for Acme's funeral Move to the top Giving us all an intriguing look at what might have been. An early press screening of Disney Million Dollar Arm. Not to mention the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train media event down at Walt Disney World), we both went from feeling just tired & run-down to becoming really, really sick. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. Worth noting here that in the late 1960s / early 1970s when Walt Disney Animation Studios was fumbling around for an idea for a project to tackle after The Aristocats (That was the last animated feature that Walt Disney personally put into production / greenlit) someone asks that classic question What would Walt do?. And just in case youre wondering: The cost of extending Disneylands monorail system over to the Disneyland Hotel was $1.9 million (Thats $19 million in 2023 money). So is it any wonder that while Pixar was still trying to get a handle on what Cars 3 would actually be about the Mouse (through its DisneyToon Studios arm. We say goodbye to a man who was more generous than a homely widow with Sunday supper. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat . Which means that I should probably close here & run out and get her some more medicine. After Roger Rabbit discovers that Marvin is playing Patty Cake with his wife Jessica, Acme is found murdered the following morning in his factory warehouse. The September 1979 issue, to be exact) to the screen. This is then followed by this great moment in the balcony of a movie theater that Roger & Eddie have gone to hide out in, during which Valiant recounts to the rabbit how his brother Teddy was actually killed. With New Cameos Like: Which is why Disney quietly recruited Dale & Jane Baer (More importantly, Baer Animation Studios) to come take over the Toontown section of this movie. So when your winter cold (which wouldnt let go) becomes a spring cold (that just wont go away) suddenly mutates into the Black Plague Well, its then finally time to do something. There's MICKEY MOUSE comforting MINNIE. Sad Sack 10. Missed opportunity for this once-in-a-toontime summit meeting. When I contact anyone for information, I am always prepared for them to decline or not have the answer. And as a direct result, gags that had been built around these characters comic personas had to then be cut out of the picture. Storyboards Reveal What Marvin Acme's Funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Would Have Looked Like Published 9 years ago on May 8, 2014 By Jim Hill Listen to the Article So when your winter cold (which wouldn't let go) becomes a spring cold (that just won't go away) suddenly mutates into the Black Plague Theres a famous story about the origin of the Matterhorn-at-Disneyland project. Posted by u/[deleted] 8 years ago. Perhaps one of the saddest casualties was the funeral of Marvin Acme. He had stopped work for the day and drinking with friends at a cricket match. And since it only took three Disneyland employees to safely staff & operate the Treehouse (i.e., one person to take tickets at the entrance, a second staffer patrolling upstairs in the tree to make sure the Guests were behaving themselves / not touching the props, and then a third Cast Member down by the exit making sure that Guests arent sneaking up the back stairs to experience the Swiss Family Treehouse without first surrendering a C Ticket), it also became one of the more profitable attractions in the Park. Better yet, a complete set of these drawings are now up for bid on eBay. It was a different time. Original film storyboard in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" that included a funeral scene of Marvin Acme, with Eddie Valiant, RK Maroon, and the Toons involved such as Popeye, Bluto, Felix the Cat, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Goofy, Herman the Mouse, Jessica Rabbits, and others. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Im late to this party, but truly just knowing this was planned out in several alternate universes gives me such a euphoric feeling. We see Eddie arrive at the graveyard at Inglewood. He taught animation classes at the Disney Institute in Florida as well as instructing classes on acting and animation history for Disney Feature Animation: Florida. They were using the temporary closure of the Jungle Cruise to revamp that operation. Hi Jim, The final shot for the scene would be Valiant saying, When it comes to funerals, Toons are worse than the Irish! He is a bald, middle-aged gentleman with an eccentrically jovial, lighthearted personality who loves and cares deeply for the welfare of all Toons. Beyond Dicks address at WDI, Walt reportedly only wrote two words on this postcard. Roland and Rattfink The first Cars spin-off to arrive in the marketplace was Planes. This Klay Hall film (which was set in The World Above Cars) was released theatrically in August of 2013, with the Blu-ray & DVD version of Planes hitting store shelves in November of that same year. But is Who Framed Roger Rabbit a perfect film? More more MORE!!!! Bugs, chomping on a carrot, leans out to ask Valiant, Pardon me, Doc. Wed have to rip that up and then reroute that water system., The Imagineers then said But Walt. This document (which was published on December 23, 1958) states that: While the gross income of Disneyland was greater this year than in any prior year, the operating expenses for this family fun park were likewise up substantially primarily to two factors. Marvin Hagler Funeral Service - Open Casket [HD] ~ Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 - March 13, 2021) was an American prof. If Popeye were to be used in the funeral scene, wed have needed to see him carrying the casket alone, perhaps balancing it on one finger (hes strong to the finich, after all). Sorry I declined to participate in this post, just too much work for nothing, I guess. And one of the main reasons that this Walt Disney Productions release did so well at the box office that year was Well, Swiss Family Robinson looked great. Whats the Company ultimately going to have to do convince those people who now think that a trip to WDW has just gotten too expensive for the family to come back. Which proves to be a problem on the off-season, given that there are days in the late Fall / early Spring when there are more Cast Members working in the Park than there are Guests coming through the turnstiles. This was what led Walt to bring Marc Davis over to WED from Feature Animation in October of 1960 and effectively say Help me make Disneyland better. Ill plant him muhself! He hoists the casket over his head and stomps toward the grave where he tosses it into the hole and turns to Foghorn Leghorn, Awright, you big-mouth bantampreach., In another version, when the coffin was lowered down into the grave, it landed on a whoopee cushion and a little Tex Avery style sign popped up out of the coffin saying Sad, aint it?. So thats what the Imagineers did. Hopefully by next week, Ill be able to resume JHMs 5-day-a-week publication schedule. All of which came in handy during those Mondays & Tuesdays during the Winter Months when people were staying at the Disneyland Hotel and had nowhere to go on those days when the Happiest Place on Earth was closed. Jim Hill is an entertainment writer who has specialized in covering The Walt Disney Company for nearly 40 years now. Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current. Heres the actual opening line to John Hughes Vacation 58.. In yet another version, to the human funeral directors amazement as the coffin is being lowered, the crank starts plinking out the tune to Pop Goes the Weasel like a jack-in-the box and the Toon mourners sing the lyrics. 8. As Well as Robby the Seal ( Pingus Friend ) Crying as Acmes coffin gets lowered straight right down into the grave. And at that time, Walt was justly proud of this project. Any scene thats supposed to be inside of the actual Walley World theme park was shot at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Just last year, I attended this amazing panel at Comic-Con where animation veterans like Don Hahn, Dave Bossert, Nik Ranieri, James Baxter, Tom Sito & Andreas Deja talked about all the mistakes that were made over the course of production of this motion picture. The appearance has all the mourners (both toon and human) screaming A Ghost! Whereas poor Nancy currently sounds like a harbor seal with a head cold. 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