Marvin graduated from Boston University and then attended Western University where he completed his MBA. An Justin Springer, who helped get Tron: Legacy off the ground back in 2010, would be producing. Honey, I Made a Science Movie: Disney Science (1961-1989), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The Movie & Early Attractions, Love Bug Parade: Disneys Herbie and Sequels, History of the Reedy Creek Improvement District: Part 1, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!: Sequel Troubles and New Attractions, History of Reedy Creek Improvement District: Part 2. Only this time around, itll be $7 million worth of new attractions. I think they made the right decision, looking back, in eliminating the sequence. Given that Im a short, round bald guy whos a bit rough around the edges, it probably wont surprise you to hear that I was (and still am) a huge Bob Hoskins fan. It was a different time. There's MICKEY MOUSE comforting MINNIE. Okay. For example, in the scene where sky-diving Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny offer the plummeting Eddie a spare (parachute, he thinks, but of course its a tire), the lawyers for Disney and Warners demanded that not only were Mickey and Bugs to appear on screen for exactly the same length of time, down to the last frame of film, but they were also to have the same number of lines, and even exactly the same number of words, of dialogue. The storyboard drawings are by the Amblin contract artist, Marty Kline. During the 2022 holiday season, Disney Parks actually raised the prices on individual Lightning Lanes for popular attractions like Rise of the Resistance to $22 a person. Roland and Rattfink In fact, Walt so loved this gag that after the Africa Veldt section first opened at Disneyland Park in June of 1964 he actually made the Imagineers go back in this portion of that Adventureland attraction and restage it. The appearance has all the mourners (both toon and human) screaming A Ghost! Shnookums & Meat Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. And back to National Lampoons Vacation The Walley World stuff was all shot at two Southern California attractions. Which is why even after Disneyland Park switched to a 5-day-a-week operating schedule during the off-season Disneyland Hotel launched into an aggressive expansion plan. Cars 2 came out in June of 2011 and also did quite well at the box office (It took the No. He is a bald, middle-aged gentleman with an eccentrically jovial, lighthearted personality who loves and cares deeply for the welfare of all Toons. To find out what other sorts of gags the Roger Rabbit production team dreamed up for Marvin Acmes funeral. SpongeBob SquarePants -Via io9 Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. But wait. But as soon as Walt saw Marcs art for the Trapped Safari, he basically said Thats too good a gag to waste on the people who are riding Disneylands train. Theres a famous story about the origin of the Matterhorn-at-Disneyland project. Which Im told resulted in all sort of angry people at the entrance of Disneylands parking lot. Another great piece about this great film. Where just before boarding that ride you then surrendered that ticket. Theres more In addition to the aborted Planes 3, Disney had other Cars spin-offs in the works. They would be seen doing a pan shot while the eulogy is given. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat, and more. The other three were adults. And as Valiant moves through the long column of cars that are parked near Acmes gravesite, the private detective notices R.K. Maroon exit a long black limo. Popeye makes a joke back about how Were bearing Paul? And what does the Company do with this info? 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). Well, Nancys still battling whatever this crud is. They are all dressed in golf attire and there are bags of golf clubs in the back. Buzzy The Crow I just think Popeyes insensitive remark would suit Bluto better, with Popeye reacting to it, in a face-heel fashion. Im sorry that this sites content went for days without being updated. Marvin Acme's death. You want to know the toughest part of just shutting down for a while? A live action look-alike for actor Humphrey Bogart is driving. Hashimoto-San 13. We went on it the last time we went to Disneyland. This is what then inspired Disney to develop the practice of plussing the attractions at his theme parks. Marvin Acme is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. At this point, Im about 80 90% back. No wonder Steven Spielberg liked it so much. Whereas I Ive always pointed to Bob Hoskins performance and said that this was the element that actually made that movie work. THE ACME FUNERAL SITE - LONG SHOT - DAY. No doubt, that dialogue between Bugs and Mickey had the stink of being written by a dozen high-priced attorneys. But only this week, Ive learned that the original storyboards for this cut sequence are floating around out there. ! and then run off in terror. That said, I was well aware at the time that many of the creative decisions in Who Framed Roger Rabbit were the result of legal negotiations in the boardroom. Going clockwise from the middle, we have Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy and Popeye the Sailor. As you can see below, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy . Continue reading Storyboard Drawings 11 - Escaping from Toontown Hans Bacher April 3, 2019 Enter Amblin Hans Bacher (and Harald Siepermann) had a very different take to the escape from Toontown. Great reporting Jim. Sorry I declined to participate in this post, just too much work for nothing, I guess. Just so Walt could then be certain that this attractions stairways werent too steep. Sadly, the Imagineers werent able to base any other theme park attractions on Ken Annakin movies. Disney Corporate knows about this (hence the number of times questions about this perception has bubbled up in recent surveys that Resort has sent out). He had stopped work for the day and drinking with friends at a cricket match. Lil Abner and Daisy Mae ( Screen Gems ) Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat . 12. George of the Jungle and Shep And we were genuinely terrified for Eddie when he did battle with Judge Doom in the Acme Warehouse and then discovered that SPOILER ALERT Doom was the toon with those burning red eyes, and that high, squeaky voice who did in Teddy. Whereas the short story that Hughes wrote (i.e., Vacation 58) follows an unnamed family to a different theme park. They should have studied a print of Jasper Goes Hunting to see how its done. Carving out the space for the Tahitian Terrace as well as the Enchanted Tiki Room. Were then going to have to spend dollars to get those people back.. One was supposed to be built around boats. I consider him a true animation treasure and always encourage him to share more of his animation knowledge. And Eddie Valiant searching for Roger certainly would have been an occasion to have Elmer Fudd walking by similarly hunting wabbits. Appearing in this scene as pallbearers were to be Popeye &. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on SATURDAY, APRIL All of them would've appeared in a sequence set at Marvin Acme's funeral, but it was cut due to pacing concerns. It was No. Aladdin and Jasmine A deleted scene involving Marvin Acme's funeral would've featured Foghorn Leghorn as the preacher giving the sermon. Why when toonkind splattered forth upon this landscape, we wandered the hills without a home. 2 at the box office. Doom killing him for getting in the way of his goals was as much of a shock as it was to Eddie when he found out the next day. 11. de la Fort, Outremont. 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. And at that time, Walt was justly proud of this project. Marvin D. McCune De Smet, SD - Marv McCune, age 66, of De Smet, SD, passed away Sunday, April 18, 2021 at the Mayo Hospital in Rochester, MN. Bugs, chomping on a carrot, leans out to ask Valiant, Pardon me, Doc. Valiant cant hear what is being said but by the pantomined actions can see it is on the verge of becoming violent. Back when the Mouse didnt have to have ALL of the money when it came to the Southern California tourism market. Your email address will not be published. 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. We shed no tears for we know that Marvin is going to a better place. As Well as Robby the Seal ( Pingus Friend ) Crying as Acmes coffin gets lowered straight right down into the grave. Because Id dearly love to see whats in those other 80 drawings. When It Comes To Deleted/Unused Cameos. A hearse, and a line of black limos are parked in the lane. Wed have to rip that up and then reroute that water system., The Imagineers then said But Walt. And since people in Feature Animation thought that that was a pretty solid story Well, thats how we wound up with Disneys animated version of Robin Hood in November of 1973. More more MORE!!!! Also the Goons from Sleeping Beauty & the Jungle Book vulture (seen briefly at the end) as well. 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. In 1965, this Adventureland Attraction even after taking those costs into consideration still managed to turn a profit of $313,000. And Walt followed through on that promise. And in this case, the thinking was Walt really liked those live-action movies that Ken Annakin directed for the Studio. The Wuzzles Which the Imagineers (back then, anyway) felt was money wasted. Really stilted. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. A Terrytoons Mighty Mouse is crying while in the hand of a Fleischer Superman who is on his knees sobbing away. 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. That high, high, I say that high-larious place up in the sky. Pingu At this point, the Disneyland Hotel is the largest hotel in all of Orange County with over 300 rooms. Not to mention adding all sort of restaurants & shops to the area surrounding that hotels Olympic-sized pool. Attendance had been dropping on the Jungle River Cruise attraction because it was largely unchanged from when Disneyland Park first opened back in July of 1955. Three was Sleeping Beauty Castle. While this work was being done along the shore of the Rivers of America, over towards the entrance of Adventureland, the Imagineers were reconfiguring that restaurant that faced out towards Disneylands Hub. This 70-foot-tall faux tree (with its 80 foot-wide canopy of 300,000 pink plastic leaves) opened just in time for Thanksgiving of 1962. Let me remove any doubt here. Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. Meanwhile, back out at graveside, as Foghorn Leghorn is wrapping up his sermon, who comes rising up out of the ground but Casper the Friendly Ghost. Clustered around a gravesite are the mourners TOONS of every stripe. TOM AND JERRY. Well, then consider this: In just the first five years that the Cars film franchise existed, global retail sales of merchandise related to these Pixar movies approached $10 billion. Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. The Mighty Heroes ( Terrytoons ) Gerald McBoing-Boing There were many variations in the actual funeral proceedings but here is probably the most likely version that I have patched together from Mel Blancs vocal script, the storyboard done by Amblin artist Marty Kline offered for sale on eBay in 2014, talking with some of the people who worked on the film and other sources: R.K. Maroons Packard roars up amidst all the black limos and hearse parked along the roadway near the site of Acmes funeral. Paul Bearins shore hard work, aint it? Mind it, it wasnt just time & money that tripped up this particular sequence. John Hughes adapted his own short story (i.e., Vacation 58, which had run in National Lampoon magazine less than four years earlier. 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. Mark. Marvin William Leiter. Back to Disneyland Park closing on Mondays & Tuesdays during the off-season When did this practice start? So did this change in the way that Disneyland Park ultimately operated off-season ultimately work out? Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman 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. While amusing, some in the audience were puzzled why Valiant was taking a shower while Judge Doom and the weasels were in hot pursuit and time was running out for Roger. - And R. K. Maroon. 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?. It is pretty morbid, really, not funny enough. He was a columnist for a variety of animation magazines. Bluto thinks that Popeyes comment is disrespectful. He is angrily confronting her. Thanks for all your dedicated work for Roger Rabbit history. That said, its worth noting here that just in the past year or so weve seen Disney & Pixar attempt to expand the turf that these two characters could comfortably cover. That is until brother Acme painted up his backyard for us to live in. The pallbearers of the coffin kept shifting but generally included Yosemite Sam (who is struggling to carry the coffin from underneath it), Elmer Fudd, the silent screen version of Felix the Cat (with a Sob thought bubble above him), Popeye, Bluto, Herman the Mouse and in at least one version, Goofy. Its a pretty ridiculous story (SPOILER: After he robbed the First National Bank of Toontown of a zillion simoleons, Judge Doom drops a piano on this pair of private detectives from 15 stories up. He promised the Toons that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. One that might send Lightning McQueen & Mater off to explore the gritty inner-city world that we glimpsed in all that concept art for Metro, that never-produced Cars spin-off. What I remember is that for Ruby-Spears, they licensed the girls (hopefully they didnt tamper their designs much unlike a certain studio that owns them right now) and most bizarrely, Herman & Katnip (Im not sure this was a smart idea). 4. Prior to this, if you wanted to go on a ride at Disneyland, you had to first get on line at one of the Parks omni-present ticket booth. More to the point, since Disneylands 1959 expansion project was largely focused on Tomorrowland This time around, the work will largely be focused on the other side of the Park. Who now that Acmes funeral has wrapped up this famous foursome is heading off to play some golf. Were they planned to make cameos in the movie, or at least considered ? Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) clip with quote - Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme. and 17. 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