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Yep, Disney's Going to Ruin The World

Posted Mar 21st 2008 1:11PM by TMZ Staff

Disney adding new characters to Despite heavy protests from angry fans (check out our poll from yesterday), Disney appears to be going through with their plan to add signature characters to a new and improved version of "It's A Small World."

A source was on Disney's Burbank lot yesterday and saw concept art displayed on monitors in the commissary. The video monitors showed Imagineers in the Disney workshop already building pieces for the new ride.

Specifically, Abu (Aladdin's monkey side-kick) appears to have found a home in the Middle Eastern section, Nemo is swimming around an undersea area, and Stitch looks like he might be popping up in the Polynesian section.

What'll be next? Mickey sipping rum with the "Pirates?"

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16. Bring back the mule ride at Disneyland now THAT was fun. I enjoyed the "Indian" (native American) village too.

Posted at 8:03PM on Mar 21st 2008 by toomanydoggies

17. well, the ride was intolerable to begin with, unless you enjoy hearing the same song over, and over, and over again while remarkably caucasian looking animatronic children dressed in "ethnic " clothing dance in circles for what seems like an eternity! even as a child I was tempted to jump from the boat just to get away from the song!

Posted at 8:37PM on Mar 21st 2008 by esby77

18. NO, LEAVE IT ALONE. IT WAS MADE THAT WAY AND US LITTLE PEOPLE WANT IT TO STAY THAT WAY. WHAT NEXT, THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT???

Posted at 1:41AM on Mar 22nd 2008 by alan

19. DId you know that Stitch has been in "it's a small world" (Disneyland version) for a couple of seasons? (But has since been removed the last 2 years.)

As part of the "Christmas" makeover, Stitch was placed on the front of the surfboard (same scene as shown in the photo of the article), he was in a gift wrapped box,

Posted at 8:31AM on Mar 22nd 2008 by David Michael

20. A small world ? What's next ? A Minnie effin' Goofy ?

Posted at 9:15AM on Mar 23rd 2008 by The-Rex

21. Interesting that you compare this to the travesty you think it would be to add characters to the Pirates ride. You live in Southern California. If you've been to Disneyland at all in the past three years, you'd know that that's pretty much what they did when the ride was updated three years ago. I know it's not quite the same as adding Mickey, but characters from the popular Pirates movies were added to the ride in various spots. The characters from the movies are not original to the ride, though the ride partly inspired the movies. My family was worried that their addition to the ride would commercialize it a bit too much and ruin its original aesthetic, but they actually turned out to be pretty cool and helped update the ride to today's audiences a little bit. We really should give the characters' addition to Small World a chance before we complain too much. I of course hope that the addition of favorite characters doesn't detract from the initial aspects of the attraction, but I do agree with another poster who noted that they might help some particularly ignorant members of our country to actually figure out where the heck the dolls are supposed to be from. That may be Disney pandering to our lowest common denominator of this country's fat morons, but at least their kids might actually learn something that their parents obviously haven't.

Posted at 3:20PM on Mar 22nd 2008 by brasso

22. I think i suggested this! but said make it so it is no so obvious!

Posted at 11:47PM on Mar 23rd 2008 by Emz

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