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Topic: Will Disney Breath New Life into VMK?

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RoyalBlur

I'm sure many of you probably played Disney's legendary but short lived and yet very, very successful Virtual Magic Kingdom. Millions of gamers shuddered in dismay upon hearing that Disney was laying the axe to the root of VMK back on May 21, 2008.

Now a ray of light seems to be cresting the horizon as news is spreading rapidly that Jon Favreau the man behind Zathura and Iron Man has been selected by the Walt Disney company to produce "Magic Kingdom" a new movie that will explore what happens at Walt Disney World Resort after the sun sinks behind the evening horizon and the moon and stars ascend into the night sky. There seems to be speculation that the film will have a Nightmare at the Museum/ Jumangi vibe to it. My only question is will the Disney/ Hyperon "Kingdom Keepers" books have any effect on this movie? And I'd like to know if this means Kingdom Hearts will get either a movie or anime television series on either Disney XD or Cartoon Network? And more importantly will this spawn the revival our beloved "Virtual Magic Kingdom" at http://www.vmk.com?

Source: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/jon-favreau...

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KanrakusPizza

Nice to know someone else played this great game. To many online daters though...

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bro2dragons

what would this movie have to do with VMK or Kingdom Hearts??? neither are in any way related to disney world. color me confused.

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KanrakusPizza

bro2dragons wrote:

what would this movie have to do with VMK or Kingdom Hearts??? neither are in any way related to disney world. color me confused.

VMK was an online game where you play as a guest in the Magic Kingdom (aka Disneyworld). If that doesnt have to do with Disney, I dont know what does.

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Birdman

Wow, I loved VMK a lot. Then, with the lack of innovation that often overcomes many MMOs, I got bored. I held out to the end though.

Anyway, I don't see VMK making a comeback. It was designed as a promotion for Disneyland's 50th B-Day that went way past how long it was supposed to last, garnering over 6,000,000 avatars over it's 2.5 year lifetime if I remember correctly. It wasn't extrordinarily fun, and, simply put, making no money at all whatsoever pretty much doomed it from the start.

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LzWinky

I doubt this would bring back the virtual game

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TokyoRed wrote:

And I'd like to know if this means Kingdom Hearts will get either a movie or anime television series on either Disney XD or Cartoon Network?

Why the heck would you come up with this question from a movie about Disney World? You do know Square Enix owns part of Kingdom Hearts and, to my knowledge, there's not even an anime in Japan

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7th_lutz

The movie title "Magic Kingdom" has not to do with VMK. This movie you are referring to is really a movie based off a book for young people called The Kingdom Keepers: Disney after Dark. That book takes place at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.

The movie title "Magic Kingdom" appears to based off the novel "The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark". The Kingdom Keepers: Disney after was released as book in 2005 and it was the first book of a series of Kingdom Keepers books. The Kingdom Keeper novels takes place at different Walt Disney World theme Parks depending on the novel.

Kingdom Keepers was submitted as a movie in 2006 and resubmitted in 2008. This appears to the next attempt to make Kingdom keepers: Disney after Dark as a movie, but under a different name.

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bro2dragons

@Kanraku: yes, both are related to disney. no doubt about that. Neither of which have anything really to do with Disney World.

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RoyalBlur

lz2010 wrote:

TokyoRed wrote:

And I'd like to know if this means Kingdom Hearts will get either a movie or anime television series on either Disney XD or Cartoon Network?

Why the heck would you come up with this question from a movie about Disney World? You do know Square Enix owns part of Kingdom Hearts and, to my knowledge, there's not even an anime in Japan

Well there were talks a few years back between Disney and Square Enix regarding the potential of a Kingdom Hearts television series and movie but so far not much has been made known about what went down behind the scenes in regards to that issue.

Still, the makers of Kingdom Hearts have expressed interest in an anime as they already created a Kingdom Hearts manga which is distributed through TokyoPop.

@7th lutz, thanks! I'm familiar with the books. Although it is worth pointing out that the author did include homage VMK in the books. For more on that hit this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Magic_Kingdom#In_Modern_...

BTW there is news on the web that there are talks at Disney to bring VMK back to life although it's suppose to have something of an optional subscription and cash shop like function to help fund the game.

Edited on by RoyalBlur

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