Figment Movie in the works!

[gaastra]

Hope it's as good as the marvel comic based on the ride. Also why was this not announced at D23 a few weeks ago?

https://deadline.com/2022/09/disney-cha ... 235129748/

[Ben]

Starring Leo! Yay!

That barrell you hear being scraped is The Diz searching through what other more obscure characters and properties they own, before starting over on the remakes…

The Gummi Bears Movie won’t be long now…

[Daniel]

Not before the inevitable Orange Bird movie!

[EricJ]

OR, that they wanted to announce one as just ornamental announcements to go with the Epcot 40th anniversary, seeing as...they aren't really doing that much else about it.

Sometimes they make movies just for the promotional thematic tie-in thrill of announcing they're making them, as we know from Toy Story 4.

[Ben]

Yes. Yes of course they do.

"Let’s announce a movie…and then actually make it! That’ll get 'em"…

[gaastra]

That barrell you hear being scraped is The Diz searching through what other more obscure characters and properties they own, before starting over on the remakes…

Again, the marvel comic was good. Also note figment is hugely popular at the parks. His popcorn bucket of all things had two hour line and over $100 online prices on ebay! A meet and greet is announced again. He is the main mascot of epcot.

They sell bunch of his merch at the parks.

He had a tv show on the disney channel back in the launch but due to the price they only made and aired a few episodes! It's lost media now!

Shame they "updated" his ride and made it worse.

I'm more shocked it took them this long to do a movie or cartoon.

[EricJ]

Yes. Yes of course they do.
"Let’s announce a movie…and then actually make it! That’ll get 'em"…

Yes. Yes of course they do.
Like when Bob Iger just happened to announce Cars 3 around the same time Disneyland opened their Radiator Springs land, and left it to Pixar to figure out what the heck the plot would be about.
(You know what would happen if they announced a project and ultimately didn't make it...)

Remember, the movie will only last two weeks in theaters, but hype that "We're exploiting our hit IP for a Major Motion Picture in production!" can last six months to two years.

[Daniel]

Cars 3 was announced in October 2015, Cars Land had already been opened since June 2012.

[EricJ]

Oops, wait, maybe I'm confusing it with Iger announcing Cars 2, just to prove the marketing was successful, in the wake of critics roasting Disney over Cars' opening and the claim that the first Cars would "beat Nemo",and then left Pixar to figure out what the heck THAT plot would be about.
Iger was really good at thinking up sequel titles.

(And then, I hear folks asking "Why 'Hocus Pocus 2'?"...)

[ShyViolet]

The Gummi Bears Movie won’t be long now…

Tale Spin!

[gaastra]

I would love a gummi bears film by the way.

[Ben]

(You know what would happen if they announced a project and ultimately didn't make it...)

Yes. Newt and Gigantic say hi, to mention two recent ones.

[Dacey]

Yes, Cars 2 only happened because the Oscar-nominated Cars—which at least one review claimed should be “seriously considered for Best Picture”—was “roasted” by critics at the time. It had nothing to do with merch sales being through the roof at all.

[EricJ]

Oh, you sweet summer child...
Welcome to the 00's, where frustrated box-office analysts (still trying to vindicate themselves for their "2-D is dead!" theories of '01-'03) were drooling at the bit for the other shoe to drop and the mighty Pixar to get their pride-goeth fall and have their first "flop", as they were "supposed" to, by this point in the narrative, especially fresh after Nemo-mania and the Eisner-vs-Pixar backstage drama.
And, when Cars didn't "outgross Nemo" as studio hubris predicted, box-office analysts piled the wood on their blazing bonfire of Pixar, claiming a "disaster for the studio!" And when "Nacho Libre" had a brief Friday burst at early #1 on the second week (because family film weekends do better business on Sat/Sun.), analysts rushed to their headlines to proclaim "The king is dead!"...Only to discover that Cars had retaken #1 for the rest of the second-weekend business, and then the same analysts treated Pixar as an arrogant "interloper" who'd "stolen" box-office away from the underdog, and didn't lie down like everyone knew they were supposed to.

And then Bob Iger announced they'd be doing a Cars sequel, and the studio would figure out the plot later. So there. Nyeah.

[Dacey]

No.