Theme Park Bits: Paramount Park Features ‘Star Trek’ And ‘Mission Impossible;’ Plus ‘Tomorrowland,’ ‘Waterworld,’ ‘Ratatouille’
By Germain Lussier/Feb. 11, 2014 3:00 pm EST
Director Brad Bird tweeted the above image last week to announce, even though it won’t hit theaters until May 2015, Tomorrowland has finished filming. The production finished up at Disneyland in Anaheim with a scene that takes place at the 1964 World’s Fair. You can see spy photos here. To celebrate, he and composer Michael Giacchino took a ride on Space Mountain.
Celebrating the wrap of TOMORROWLAND with a ride on Space Mountain with @m_giacchino (composer of its & our music)! pic.twitter.com/MM6HD34x0t
— Brad Bird (@BradBirdA113) February 6, 2014
The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train will be opening later this year at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida and the Imagineers uploaded this video to give some details of the designs.
The official Disney blog also uploaded a bunch of detailed photos from the ride to show the care that went into the design. Head there to check them out.
Moving away from Disney for a second (don’t worry, there will be more), apparently a Paramount Pictures theme park has just received a huge funding influx and will aim to be open in Alhama de Murcia, Spain late 2015. Disney and More has dozens of pieces of concept art, detailing each of the lands and rides based on Star Trek, Rango, Spiderwick Chronicles, Sleepy Hollow, Mission: Impossible, Grease and more. Here are just a few of the choice images:
Those images, and the ones at that link, make this park seem too good to be true. We’ll keep an eye on it.
Fans of Universal Studios Hollywood will be happy to know that, according to Inside Universal, the Waterworld stunt show is getting a significant change and will more closely resemble the show as it is performed in Singapore. You can head to that link to see a video. There’s no set date for when the show will reopen.
Inside Universal also has a few new details on the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem ride which opens in a few short months including the name of the attached restaurant, some changes to the queue and more.
Back to Disney (told you!) CEO Bob Iger recently said there’s “active development” to expand the Frozen brand into theme parks, onto Broadway and back to the big screen. There’s already a meet and greet in Anaheim but maybe that Epcot rumor will come true too.
Michael Giacchino is also working on the music to the ride.
Finally, a few months back we reported that Disney legend Richard Sherman had written a new song for web series based on It’s A Small World, and that show is now online. There are tons of episodes on YouTube, all of which are aimed at kids, but here’s just one example. Thanks to Cartoon Brew.
