Wreck-It Ralph

@Bad Wolf: They added Dragon Maleficent to Fantasmic a few years ago. They haven't really changed what happens, though.

I don't think there is a Wreck-It Ralph section in World of Color. They could still add one, I suppose.

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Now I'm picturing an even crazier Turbo who runs around reciting overplayed 90's pop songs all the time.

Did they? I was under the impression that she was always in there.

Are you sure they didn't just update her a few years ago? I seem to remember hearing that the original puppet never worked quite right.

edited 14th Jan '13 6:27:09 PM by BadWolf21

We could probably look it up somewhere, but I believe they added Hercules and Mulan to the bubble musical montage, and Frollo and Hades to the villain line-up. Someone found a recording of the old Disneyland version's soundtrack for me once, and there was a whole Peter Pan scene instead of the Pocahontas one, and I think Ursula was the one who introduced Chernabog back then. Then it's easy enough for them to change up the characters on the final ship, like how it has Lilo and Stitch now.

Mm, I think I see what's going on here.

Fantasmic is different between Disneyland and Walt Disney World. One of them has Peter Pan, and the other has Pocahontas, because it was upcoming when that version was being developed.

World of Colour actually exists for two reasons. First, so that California Adventure has a nighttime show to keep people in the park. Second, because Fantasmic is so difficult to change. World of Colour is entirely modular, so you can easily remove part of the show, and replace it with something else, or rearrange the pieces.

Yeah, I guess she was always there, but before she was just, essentially, a head on a stick, and now it's a full-bodied animatronic dragon.

edited 14th Jan '13 6:34:45 PM by Beorc

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I dunno, but I think the dragon puppet looks a lot better if you're sitting in the center than if you're way back and off to one side. It's probably just the perspective on the wings that makes the difference.

edited 14th Jan '13 6:39:25 PM by BagofMagicFood

Never played Rally-X, but I do have plenty of memories of its Commodore 64 expy, Radar Rat Race (in which you were a mice trying to fetch pieces of cheese).

Never be normal.

@Bagof Magic Food - Oh gosh, that's a fantastic mental image of Turbo!

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I've put together a list of all the pose-copying from the books I noticed in the graphic novel someone posted a download link to Tumblr.

edited 14th Jan '13 7:46:58 PM by MewtwoWarrior

I wonder how many of those pages were reused for the iPhone storybook.

Once again, that's not what I meant. First off, design isn't merely visual (though as an interesting point, compared to many of the others Turbo's design is actually kind of simple, but that doesn't entirely matter).

Turbo is his setting - most villains are - and he's one of the first Disney villains to embody a wildly different one. Neverland and Agrabah are good examples: as they aren't very different from each other. They're both based off of basic folklore - magical, but still grounded a bit in reality. It's the real world made fantastic.

Turbo is intentionally based off of a medium that is very removed to all the others - with wildly different rules and aspects of existence (not even Gantu comes from a world so alien) - his characteristics reflect that and you can't just ignore about him. The fact that the world he comes from is quite different from all the the others ought to be emphasized, not cast aside.

Disney usually pays attention to all that stuff, even when putting characters in their live action shows or giving them one-shot appearances in their tv shows, so I'm not worried, though.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

You know, it's a good thing Disney fans aren't as argumentative as Tolkien fans, because if they were, I have a feeling Maleficent's horns would be Disney's own "Balrog wing debate".

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

Just wait for the Maleficent movie to come out for that.

And on (slightly) related matters: finally saw The Hobbit. Troli was right, it WAS very enjoyable *despite* its length. I just hope it doesn't drag on in the later films like Lot R did.

I'm just waiting for Turbo to hijack my copy of X-Com 2012 and get into my operatives roster so I can feed him to Chryssalids :V

edited 14th Jan '13 11:41:19 PM by AceOfScarabs

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!

[quoteblock]Abilities: He doesn't have any beyond being able to race a car, and knowing the code to get into the room where game code is housed.[/quoteblock] That code cannot and should not be understated, seeing how it gives him the ability to rewrite the very fabric of their existence. It basically makes him a god within that world.

Never be normal.

Well, she's got horns in that, but in Once Upon a Time, they're just a weird hat thingy. That's what I was getting at.

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

I had this idea about why the password was the Konami code, if you believe that King Candy was a real character that Turbo killed in order to steal his identity. The passcode could have been the original King Candy's, who was inspired by stories of Konami characters hiding caches of extra lives that way, and he created the lock mainly to prevent the kids from stumbling inside and hurting themselves, not to be the securest vault ever. At some point Turbo got Candy drunk enough on root beer to spill the code to him, though he never did learn the trick to changing the password—must have seemed too risky to do anything with the code room that wasn't strictly necessary.

edited 15th Jan '13 8:56:14 AM by BagofMagicFood

Yet another awesome idea.

How long can you listen to Ralph's wrecking theme?

Oh God I think my ears would be sore.

Challenge accepted!

edit: Hahahaha oh wow, the replaygain on the track is broken. Oh well, tweaking the volume makes it less painful.

edit 2: Hahahahaha I've passed the halfway mark :P

edit 3: Challenge completed :P

edited 15th Jan '13 9:31:10 AM by AceOfScarabs

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!

Very nice tune, but gives me the feeling of a drill penetrating my ear.

x5 I like that theory! Everyone here on this thread is so much better than me at coming up with these great explanations for stuff.

Glad you liked it! I agree, it could have been a tad shorter, especially since it covers only a third of the book. I personally felt that the LOTR movies didn't drag as much, but that might be because I'm such a huge Sam fangirl.

I recently saw the Hobbit as well, and I'd have to agree - the way each part of the adventure is suddenly segwayed into another again and again, all while reinforcing the characters of the True Companions, actually works very well for the kind of story it is - it makes the tale a very classical adventure.

In fact, it probably wouldn't have been as good if it were shorter - the only bit I would crop a little would be the rock giant segment.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I'm finally gonna see this movie today.

WOOO YEAH HELLL YEAH

I'm on Youtube Reviewing Things Cause I can.

: Challenge complete, and I quite liked it.

edited 15th Jan '13 3:22:56 PM by Ronnie