The actual Disneyland in Anaheim. Hi Jim, Crusader Rabbit 148 West Main St / PO Box 658. Marvin was born in Montreal on January 25, 1937, to Bella and Moses Zalman. Your email address will not be published. Shnookums & Meat Only then could you go over to the actual attraction and get in line for that experience. 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? (H&K seperately, and Buzzy,m Katnips longtime crow star, already were established by 1947). I just love how in the above shot Felix the Cat is fighting back tears as he helps to carry Acmes casket. Toward the end, Jessica knees Maroon in the groin and he crumples to the ground as she storms off. SpongeBob SquarePants But because we all bought into his version of Eddie Valiant, we rejoiced when this long-in-his-cups ex-cop finally let go of the bottle. 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. Whereas I Ive always pointed to Bob Hoskins performance and said that this was the element that actually made that movie work. Little Roquefort A large safe was dropped on his head and fortunately that action occurs offscreen. Will Metro that Cars Spin-Off Which Disney Developed Ever Get Made? And given that Jim Hill Media is basically a two person shop, if we were both really finally going to get on top of this respiratory-related ailment (which Im just being honest here hasnt been helped by pollen season), it was now time to step away from the site for a few days and just concentrate on getting healthy. 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So thats what happened around here last week / earlier this week. Brodhead, KY 40409. Stumbo the Giant Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on SATURDAY, APRIL So below youll see (going L to R) Catnip the Cat, Tom, Jerry & Andy Panda. They were using the temporary closure of the Jungle Cruise to revamp that operation. 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). In spite of his cheating with Roger's wife, Jessica, he was a humorous fellow who genuinely loved toons enough to have them own their own town in accordance to his will. Which then cues Foghorn Leghorn to begin his sermon. Which bring us to Eddie Valiant, the down-on-his-luck private dick that Bob played in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.. This resulted in lower net profits compared to the prior year. If we built a Swiss Family Treehouse in the Park Well, that then means a steep set of stairs first going up into that tree and then a second steep set of stairs coming down out of that tree. Cubby Bear ( Van Beuren ) In closing, thanks for all your kind notes. 4 at the box office that year, behind Spartacus, Psycho, and Exodus.. Great story and discussion. Long story short: It was never a smart thing to bet against Walt. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon Ouest, on Monday, February 13 at 10:00 a.m. Burial at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, 1250 ch. And in the middle of a work week that featured some pretty amazing professional opportunities (i.e., being allowed to cover this years Actors Fund Gala, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. A hearse, and a line of black limos are parked in the lane. To be specific, Frontierland & Adventureland. 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 For as Eddie exits that mausoleum who comes motoring up but Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Humphrey Bogart & Clark Cable. When out of the corner of his eye (through a gap in the fence that surrounded this cricket pitch) John spied this beautiful Samaan tree with a huge 200 foot-wide canopy of leaves. But as soon as Casper says Will you be my friend? , in a faithful recreation of that old cartoon cliche, both the toons & the humans at graveside scream A G-G-G-G-G-G-GHOST ! This kid-friendly area (called the Magic Kingdom Golf Course) featured elaborately themed holes with recreations of attractions that could be found right next door at Disneyland Park. Once you got to the front of that line, you then had to open your wallet and purchase enough tickets for your entire family to enjoy that attraction. CHIP 'N DALE. Mind it, it wasnt just time & money that tripped up this particular sequence. 28. Its an argument that Ive been having with animation fans for nearly a quarter of a century now. 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. but sorta makes you MISS the appearance[s] of Tom & J, Popeye, Casper, Herman & K , Baby H, Little A, etc. 2. The next time you get the chance, sit down and watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit and watch how Hoskins emotionally grounds this movie. A deleted scene involving the infamous Toon Pig Head would've featured a brief cameo of Witch Hazel. With Pingo, Pingg, Pongi and Pengy ( Pingus other friends ) and Pingi ( Pingus girlfriend ) frowning with misery ! 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. But is Who Framed Roger Rabbit a perfect film? So the Happiest Place on Earth was a learn-as-you-go operation. etc. I think King Features wouldnt let Popeye, and therefore Bluto, be used in the picture. 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. and Little Lulu ! Anyway, the scene wouldnt have added much to the film, but its nice that other 1940s characters had been planned to appear. Just to clarify whos where, heres an additional couple of storyboard drawings which suggest camera moves and/or close-ups. In addition to the 4000+ articles Jim has written for the Web, he also co-hosts a trio of popular podcasts: Disney Dish with Len Testa, Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor and Marvel US Disney with Aaron Adams. Mr. Hill makes his home in Southern New Hampshire with his lovely wife Nancy and two obnoxious cats, Ginger & Betty. 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). The studios were all cooperative and guys like Richard Fleischer were fantastic and came by the studio to approve the Betty Boop and Koko animation. If the funeral scene had been included in the film, no doubt the same stipulation would have been made for the bit with Bugs, Mickey, Humphrey and Clark in the convertible. Stupid was the dumb one. Keep In Mind That WFRR Totally Had Mixed Reviews ! Hoskins had a real gift when it came to playing tough guys with soft centers. I Wish Pingu Appeared In Who Framed Roger Rabbit ! He is angrily confronting her. But Hoskins matter-of-fact retelling is so real & so raw that from here in on in this movie you then just cant help but feel for this character. 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. 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. He genuinely cares about all Toons and has promised that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. During this chaos, a convertible pulls up near Valiant. Also the Goons from Sleeping Beauty & the Jungle Book vulture (seen briefly at the end) as well. Little Audrey 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. 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. Whereas poor Nancy currently sounds like a harbor seal with a head cold. It would have been a fun scene with all those disparate Toons but Katzenberg was right that it wasnt necessary to tell the story. Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. HECKLE AND JECKLE. Pink Panther So this change in the way that Disneyland Park operated during the off-season made things easier for Walt and Disneys book-keepers back in Burbank. Roland and Rattfink Marvin Acme's death. FernGully Giving us all an intriguing look at what might have been. Which Im told resulted in all sort of angry people at the entrance of Disneylands parking lot. 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. 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 !. A live action look-alike for actor Humphrey Bogart is driving. 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. Mind you, theres a fun little button on this sequence. Quacky the Duck ( Screen Gems ) Donations in Marvin's honor may be made to the charity of . It's 1947 Hollywood and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a down-on-his-luck detective is hired to find proof that Marvin Acme, gag factory mogul and owner of Toontown, is playing hanky-panky with. If Disney and Amblin Had A Contract with Trickfilmstudio and Editoy, Then Ill Be Very Proud ! The Trapped Safari was basically supposed to be something that made Guests think Ooh, I need to get over to Adventureland while Im here at the Park and go check out that new, improved version of the Jungle River Cruise that everyones talking about.. Let me share something that I just found in the 1958 edition of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Who now that Acmes funeral has wrapped up this famous foursome is heading off to play some golf. Counter this with Lightning Lane. 16. 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. This area was specially illuminated for night-time play. 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. 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+. Bugs, chomping on a carrot, leans out to ask Valiant, Pardon me, Doc. 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. Flippy Doggenbottom from *Toontown Online* Its worth noting here that the Disneyland Hotel (with Walts permission, by the way) on those days when Disneyland was closed would offer its Guests the opportunity to visit Knotts Berry Farm as well as Universal Studios Hollywood. ! and then run off in terror. This collection of animated shorts literally sent Lightning McQueen & Mater off on a road trip. Sorry I declined to participate in this post, just too much work for nothing, I guess. 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. Now what really would have been great about this proposed sequence for Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasnt just Marvins pallbearers. Among them the TWA Moonliner, the Submarine Voyage, the Painted Desert from Frontierland (this is the area Guests traveled through when they experienced Disneylands Mine Train thru Natures Wonderland attraction), Tom Sawyer Island, the Fort in Frontierland, not to mention Skull Rock as well as Monstro the Whale from Disneylands Fantasyland. Only Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest sold more tickets in 2006) that Disney execs asked John Lasseter to develop a sequel. 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. Three was Sleeping Beauty Castle. Back when the Mouse didnt have to have ALL of the money when it came to the Southern California tourism market. Valiant cant hear what is being said but by the pantomined actions can see it is on the verge of becoming violent. Which produced home premieres like those TinkerBell movies) began actively looking into ways to expand this lucrative franchise? Cars 3 would eventually arrive in theaters in June of 2017. Because Id dearly love to see whats in those other 80 drawings. 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. Build up the cave that was behind that pride of lions which was watching over that sleeping zebra so that the Trapped Safari would then have a stronger reveal. He Wouldve Been In The Marvin Acmes Funeral Scene Sadly Playing The Violin as the Coffin goes down into the grave ! Sally Sargant ( Terrytoons ) That was the original plan, anyway. 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. Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux (You can read all about this in Walt Disney Productions annual report for 1961. When you think of all the then-A-list actors that Steven Spielberg & Robert Zemeckis reportedly pursued to come play this part (example: Harrison Ford, Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy to name just a few), we are just so lucky that Hoskins ultimately won this role. To find out what other sorts of gags the Roger Rabbit production team dreamed up for Marvin Acmes funeral. Its now the Spring of 1961 and attendance at Disneyland Park has actually fallen off from the previous year by 200,000 people. Whats kind of intriguing about the plot complication that sets Act 3 of National Lampoons Vacation in motion (i.e., that just as the Grisworld arrive at Walley World [after a harrowing cross-country journey] they discover that Americas favorite family fun park is closed for two weeks for cleaning and to make repairs) is that Well, its based on something that Hughes learned about the real Disneyland. Baby Huey 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 Because the storyboard artists took what Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman had originally written for this part of their Roger Rabbit screenplay and really expanded on the concept of animated-characters-attend-a-human-funeral idea. Popeye makes a joke back about how Were bearing Paul? Probably Maurice LaMarche, who had voiced the muscular mariner in Popeye and Son for Hanna-Barbera in 1987. Sadly, the Imagineers werent able to base any other theme park attractions on Ken Annakin movies. But he tells me that there are another 80 or so pages of drawings of classic cartoon characters that were storyboarded from this proposed Roger Rabbit sequence. The famous never-filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney/Amblin, 1988). But she & Walt put on hard hats. Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. (Again going L to R) Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Baby Huey, Hippety Hopper, Dick Tracy & Tubby the Tuba all goggle the playful spirit for a second or two. In 1965, this Adventureland Attraction even after taking those costs into consideration still managed to turn a profit of $313,000. Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935 . 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. 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. Jim Hill is an entertainment writer who has specialized in covering The Walt Disney Company for nearly 40 years now. Review. Interesting side note: Its now an established part of the on-going Disney theme park narrative that Going to the Parks has just gotten to be too expensive and/or complicated, what with the institution of Lightning Lane and then forcing people to use virtual queues if they want to experience newer attractions at the Parks like Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at Epcot or Mickey & Minnies Runaway Railway out in Anaheim. Something that even today in our age of seamless interaction between CG characters & human performers actually holds up beautifully because Bob made the audience believe that Toontown & all of its residents were real. 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. If Dad hadnt shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever. Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. When It Comes To Deleted/Unused Cameos. That high, high, I say that high-larious place up in the sky. 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?. Theres Barely Any Famous Studios Characters ! 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. Storyboards for this scene recently surfaced on EBay. Tel: 1-606-758-9600. He had a high, lilting voice, and giggled a lot. Sorry folks. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat . TOM AND JERRY. Walt was over in Switzerland for the start of shooting on Third Man on the Mountain in 1958 and evidently really liked what he saw. 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. But only this week, Ive learned that the original storyboards for this cut sequence are floating around out there. Which after being renamed / rethemed as the Tarzan Treehouse in June of 1999 will revert to being the Adventureland Treehouse later this year. And what does the Company do with this info? No. However, when some of the photography for other composite scenes came back with a scratch on the negative and needed to be re-shot, it would put the production in jeopardy of missing its Christmas deadline. Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman Bendy An animated Bugs Bunny is sitting next to him. But wait. Posted by u/[deleted] 8 years ago. Lets look for ways to make the rides there funnier. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat, and more. 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. 1. Under which flowed the water that traveled from the Jungle River Cruise into the Rivers of America). Let me remove any doubt here. John Hughes adapted his own short story (i.e., Vacation 58, which had run in National Lampoon magazine less than four years earlier. photographed on the island of Tobago in the West Indies and that it is shaping up into such an exciting and thrilling picture that the Swiss Family Robinson shows every promise of equaling or surpassing every production our Company has ever put out. And that was Marvin Acmes funeral. 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. I thought we were bearing Acme. Marvin Acme is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. Whats more, what initially drove him to seek out and then purchase this amazing animation artifact was my August 2011 story about scenes that had been cut out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.. A Terrytoons Mighty Mouse is crying while in the hand of a Fleischer Superman who is on his knees sobbing away. The Disney Dish Podcast is part of the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network. 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. With his former writing partner, John Cawley, he authored several animation related books including The Encyclopedia of Cartoon Superstars, How to Create Animation, Cartoon Confidential and Get Animateds Animation Art Buyers Guide. Anyway, heres hoping that you folks enjoyed todays story. Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. We say goodbye to a man who was more generous than a homely widow with Sunday supper. The September 1979 issue, to be exact) to the screen. Which again I remind you was published on December 23rd of that year: This current year, we are operating the park during the winter months on a five-day schedule with resulting savings in operating costs and in the hope that a full weeks business can be compressed within the five days. That from 1958 through 1985 [a total of 27 years] the Happiest Place on Earth used to close two days a week during the slower times of year. 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. Which is a trifle ironic. Required fields are marked *. The Marvin Acme funeral scene was deleted, but it would have been fun to see. 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