Perhaps in swacomb kent on the site where the London resort is suppose to be going up. I make ironic seasne to build the Parmount Pincle UK there because th London reosrt started out as Parmount park London and Parmount became a 3rd party partner after selling the project .I also feel that A east coast pinnacle possibly on the site of the failed blockbuster park would also be a good idea. If it too late to build there I still suggezzt builidng in the miamia metro area soyou can have a themepark triangle between Orlando Tampa and Miami.
As Dreamers Do Part Deux
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I almost forgot to suggest this, but in lieu of building theme parks in China could Disney build one theme park in Australia South America and Africa before the present day? @OldNavy1988 I am a big fan of a castle park on every continent idea. Besides Antartica of course.
Well this is a great game for the theme parks! But American Beauty still won the 2000 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
So what are the highest grossing films by studio so far?
So what are the highest grossing films by studio so far?
We have to build one in Australia, called Disneyland Australia.
I'm not sure where exactly in Australia a Disney park could work. Maybe the Gold Coast?
Also, for the acquisitions you want to see, please send me a DM ahead of time in the future. Thanks.
Entertainment News for February 2000
Entertainment News for February 2000
President Cuomo defends the US central bank's decision to bailout Film Roman to keep it and other small animation studios afloat.
- The Washington Post
NBC/RKO acquires Murakami-Wolf-Swenson with only hours to spare before the tiny Los Angeles-based cartoon factory was to receive tens of millions in federal bailout money. A decade ago, MWS produced the first three seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before Disney took over the franchise full time by 1991. After that, most of MWS's Saturday Morning output, including Kenzo, had aired on NBC almost exclusively for the last seven or eight years.
- The Hollywood Reporter
Universal chairman Brian Grazer officially introduces Tom Ruegger as the studio's new head of animation.
- Variety
After a health scare late last year, 77 year old Charles Schulz is back at the drawing board on his Peanuts comic strip. The strip celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
- The Oakland Tribune
Disney celebrates the topping out of the new Disneyland Hotel, being built on the former site of the original as Disney gears up for next year's grand opening of the Epic Kingdom park in Anaheim.
- The Orange County Register
Warner Bros. chairman Richard Donner officially names Freakazoid! creator Emily Chang as Tom Ruegger's successor at WB Animation.
- The New York Times
President Cuomo defends the US central bank's decision to bailout Film Roman to keep it and other small animation studios afloat.
- The Washington Post
NBC/RKO acquires Murakami-Wolf-Swenson with only hours to spare before the tiny Los Angeles-based cartoon factory was to receive tens of millions in federal bailout money. A decade ago, MWS produced the first three seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before Disney took over the franchise full time by 1991. After that, most of MWS's Saturday Morning output, including Kenzo, had aired on NBC almost exclusively for the last seven or eight years.
- The Hollywood Reporter
Universal chairman Brian Grazer officially introduces Tom Ruegger as the studio's new head of animation.
- Variety
After a health scare late last year, 77 year old Charles Schulz is back at the drawing board on his Peanuts comic strip. The strip celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
- The Oakland Tribune
Disney celebrates the topping out of the new Disneyland Hotel, being built on the former site of the original as Disney gears up for next year's grand opening of the Epic Kingdom park in Anaheim.
- The Orange County Register
Warner Bros. chairman Richard Donner officially names Freakazoid! creator Emily Chang as Tom Ruegger's successor at WB Animation.
- The New York Times
1: This surprisingly intrigues me.
2: I see. So, MWS is the Next Level Games of TTL's 90s animation history, if you will.
3: That's good for business, I suppose.
4: I could not be happier that Charles Schulz is back in business.
5: Well, that's nice.
6: To be honest, Emily Chang does have the creative mindset in good hands here.
If the second paramount Cedar deal I got 3 alternative buyers for Cedar Fair. 1 The Keenywod Company (They are the owner of Keenywood Idlewild and sandcastle water park. They would be be match for cedar because both company speizile in oldtime parks. I feel that ) 2 Billoniare Robert Kraft ( He bought out america's old's amusment park lake compounce and may be interested in aguring cedar fair to his hands on america seond old park cedar point) and Ambheur bush (the berwy owns the two bush cards park).What's New at the Parks in 2000
Disneyland Resort (Anaheim, CA)
- At Disneyland Park, the proposed "Horizon Spaceport" name change for Tomorrowland was scrapped in favor of repurposing Tomorrowland as more of a "Retro-Future" theme. The new Tomorrowland is based on Tony Baxter's Tomorrowland 2055 concept, which Disney hopes can give the land a new sense of timelessness.
- A new land will be built to the northwest of the Rivers of America, the long-awaited Discovery Bay.
- The southwest corner (Below, behind the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Carribean show buildings) will also see a new land, albeit shortened at the bottom right to account for the Indiana Jones attraction built between Pirates and the Jungle Cruise in 1995.
- The Submarine Voyage and former Motorboat Cruise area will be taken out to make way for new attractions, possibly a Fantasyland expansion, while Autopia will be reconfigured.
- Between Tomorrowland and Main Street will be Tesla Terrace, carried over from the original American Magic thread, which will tell the Disney version of man's relationship to machine.
- The VH1 Videopolis stage is starting to show its age and a possible expansion to either Toontown or Fantasyland could replace the venue. A new, more modern VH1 themed amphitheater is being planned elsewhere at the resort.
- Under construction on the site of the former Disneyland parking lot, Disney's Epic Kingdom will open in the Spring of 2001 on the site of the OTL California Adventure park.
- Disney's acquisition of the Carmen Sandiego franchise has raised some questions as to how soon we could see a rumored ACME Crime Land at the parks.
Riverfront Square (St. Louis, MO)
- Riverfront Square will continue to operate in its current form for now. Meanwhile, as the MLB Cardinals sought a new ballpark to replace the aging Busch Memorial Stadium, the Cards have launched a joint project with Disney. Busch Stadium will be demolished and the footprint will be split in half; the southern side making partial way for a new Cardinal ballpark and the northern half will be used for both a horizontal and vertical expansion to Riverfront Square. OTL Clark Avenue will be the street that divides the new Cardinal ballpark with the Riverfront Square expansion, butterflying the OTL Ballpark Village. While construction of their new park takes place, the Cards will temporarily play home games at the Trans World Dome.
- The North Riverfront, where the Lumiere Casino sits IOTL, was offered to Disney by the City of St. Louis, only for the proposal to be met with resistance by affordable housing advocates.
Disney World (Orlando, FL)
- The New York-themed section of the Disney-Fox Studios has been partially revitalized to feature new Marvel based rides, such as the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man (similar to the OTL Islands of Adventure ride) and a new Incredible Hulk coaster.
- Also at the Disney-Fox Studios, look for Springfield to take over where Toy Story Land now sits IOTL.
- The future of the Backlot Tour at DFS is now in question with fewer productions using the sound stages.
- A fourth gate is in the works for a 2002 opening.
Universal Studios Florida
- The Jim Henson, Hanna-Barbera and Nickelodeon properties have all vacated the premises. This opens up the Production Central section of the park for redevelopment, possibly with Archie, Gemini, DreamWorks, RKO, Hasbro or Nintendo properties at Universal's disposal. Look for Harry Potter/Wizarding World projects at this and other Universal parks in the coming years.
Universal Studios Hollywood
- The future of Fievel's Playland is in question as An American Tail reaches its 15th anniversary in 2001.
- The My Little Pony carousel, open since the late 1980's, will receive a makeover to coincide with a new generation for the property.
Paramount Pinnacle (Carson, CA)
- New Line Cinema, now a subsidiary of Saban International, will remain in an ironclad licensing agreement which they signed under Metromedia's ownership almost a decade ago.
- Ditto to Carolco, part of AOL TimeWarner.
- Now that Microsoft has added Paramount Pictures to its portfolio, time to add Cedar Fair and Nashville's Opryland to the mix.
Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, CA)
- Good Grief! With Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang commandeering this park, Charlie Brown simply can't catch a break. Camp Snoopy, a staple since the early 80's, will be dismantled and rebuilt at either the Paramount Pinnacle, Bally's Magic Mountain or Six Flags Hollywood Park.
BALLY'S THEME PARKS
Bally's Magic Mountain (Valencia, CA)
Bally's Kentucky Kingdom (Louisville, KY)
Bally's Chicagoland (Gurnee, IL)
Bally's Circus World (Near Orlando, FL)
Bally's Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, MO)
Bally's Cowboy Corral (Irving, TX)
Bally's Worlds of Wonder (Las Vegas, NV and Glasgow, Scotland)
- Now that AOL Time Warner has exiled Namco from its corporate empire, could Pac-Man be coming to Bally's parks?
TURNER LEISURE
Turner's acquisition of Funtime-Tierco adds the following parks to the Turner portfolio, which already includes the MGM Grand Adventure park in Las Vegas,
- Geauga Lake (Aurora, OH)
- Darien Lake (Darien, NY)
- Frontier City, (Oklahoma City, OK)
- Riverside Park (Agawam, MA)
- Enchanted Village (Federal Way, WA)
- Great America (Santa Clara, CA)
- Great Adventure (Jackson, NJ)
Any questions or comments before we get to Final Destination and The Road to El Dorado?
1: Does MWS still get the government bailout after being acquired by NBC/RKO?
2: Will Nick on ABC be restricted to just Nickelodeon programming, or will kids shows from the Henson studios outside of Nick's fashion also be applicable?
3: In 2002, would Disney keep the Fox Kids brand name, assuming that brand was on the network since the late 80s, and merge it with the locals of OTL's ABC Kids?
4: Does Halo still become a success in this timeline, even though it's affiliated by a Disney-owned Atari? If it does, could Urusei Yatsura cosmetics come to the franchise at some point?
1) They do, because NBC/RKO will be assuming MWS's debt as part of the purchase.
2) Not sure.
3) Not sure.
4) I honestly don't know when Halo first came out IOTL. It's likely that Halo is made elsewhere.
Good call.
Well, I was asking that because of @eldandythedoubter's Sixth Generation consoles post, and in that post contained a mention of Halo: Combat Evolved for the Atari Cosmos.
And if you want to know, the first Halo game launched in 2001 IOTL.
Fox's "Pooh Variant" Logo Explained
@TheFaultsofAlts You're right I forgot.
Anyways...
Fox's "Pooh Variant" Logo Explained
In the summer of 1975, Alan Ladd Jr. and Gareth Wigan sold 20th Century-Fox to Walt Disney, Sr.
Two years later, Walt, Jr. decided to create what was originally a "spoof" variant of Fox's television outro (above) with music spliced from Buddy Baker's score for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
Here's a chronology of where the Pooh Variant of the Fox Fanfare has appeared throughout the years:
The Making of Star Wars (TV Special; 1977)
The Star Wars Holiday Special (TV Special; 1978)
The later seasons of M*A*S*H (1977-83)
The Secret of Akko-Chan (1977)
Chappy the Witch (1977)
Candy Candy (1978)
Maya the Bee (1979)
Casper and the Angels (1979)
Post-1977 syndication and cable prints of Peyton Place and Lost in Space.
1977-80 episodes of Dinah Shore's talk show Dinah!
Trapper John, MD (1979-86)
Urusei Yatsura (1983; First season only)
Richie Rich (1983)
Post-1985 syndication and cable prints of the 1964-66 Addams Family series.
Mr. Belvedere (1985-90)
Star Wars: Droids (1985-86)
Anything But Love (1989-92)
Sister Kate (1989-90)
Doogie Howser, MD (1989-93; First episode only)
Anyways...
Fox's "Pooh Variant" Logo Explained
In the summer of 1975, Alan Ladd Jr. and Gareth Wigan sold 20th Century-Fox to Walt Disney, Sr.
Two years later, Walt, Jr. decided to create what was originally a "spoof" variant of Fox's television outro (above) with music spliced from Buddy Baker's score for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
Here's a chronology of where the Pooh Variant of the Fox Fanfare has appeared throughout the years:
The Making of Star Wars (TV Special; 1977)
The Star Wars Holiday Special (TV Special; 1978)
The later seasons of M*A*S*H (1977-83)
The Secret of Akko-Chan (1977)
Chappy the Witch (1977)
Candy Candy (1978)
Maya the Bee (1979)
Casper and the Angels (1979)
Post-1977 syndication and cable prints of Peyton Place and Lost in Space.
1977-80 episodes of Dinah Shore's talk show Dinah!
Trapper John, MD (1979-86)
Urusei Yatsura (1983; First season only)
Richie Rich (1983)
Post-1985 syndication and cable prints of the 1964-66 Addams Family series.
Mr. Belvedere (1985-90)
Star Wars: Droids (1985-86)
Anything But Love (1989-92)
Sister Kate (1989-90)
Doogie Howser, MD (1989-93; First episode only)
Out of all these appearances, the ones that surprised me the most were the first season of Urusei Yatsura, Mr. Belvedere, and the first episode of Doogie Howser. Not saying those are bad shows to associate this version with, but I am saying they are weird.
With that said, however, what is the public opinion of this variant as of 2000?
Public opinion depends on who you ask.
Mr. Belvedere aired on ABC because Fox didn't launch until a year or more after that show debuted. Doogie aired on Fox ITTL, even while NPH continued to work on DuckTales as the voice of Louie.
On Urusei Yatsura the Pooh Variant was used only for the first 26 episodes (Spring 1983 on HBO). For the remainder of the episodes helmed by Mamoru Orishii and the first 66 helmed by Kazuo Yamazaki, this was the Fox outro. This was also used in Urusei Yatsura All Star-Bash (a clip show) and two specials; Ryoko's September Tea Party and Memorial Album - I'm the Shuu-chan.
For the Inaba the Dreammaker special and the last 22 episodes under Yamazaki's supervision (aired on HBO around 1988 thru '90), this was the outro jingle:
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I meant the Disney community in particular.
On the one hand, cool! On the other hand, I wonder if there was an episode of DuckTales specifically called "Louie Howser, M.D.".
And we just missed pairing up the Peter Pan crossover with that variant.
Oh well. At least Rei's monster form could technically resemble Tigger if you look past the designs.
So, the normal logo was used for "After You've Gone". Okay.
The fact that the entire series has been adapted, barring a movie or two, makes me elated.
Final Destination (2000 Movie)
Final Destination
Released by New Line Cinema on March 17, 2000
Cast and Crew
Same as OTL
Notes
Final Destination was New Line's first release under Haim Saban's ownership.
Great job! So other Spring 2000 films before we get to The Road to El Dorado were Carolco's (OTL Warner Bros. made the film) Romeo Must Die, produced by Joel Silver, Revolution Studios' (OTL Columbia Pictures) made the film Whatever It Takes, RKO Radio Pictures' (OTL 20th Century Fox made the film) Here on Earth and Touchstone Pictures' High Fidelity.