Die-hard fans of ABC’s lost are currently circulating a petition calling for Disneyland to overhaul its Tom Sawyer Island and re-make it as a “Lost” attraction. The present incarnation is an unholy mash-up of pirate crap and old Disney movies like Swiss Family Robinson, so this is actually one of the less harebrained things cooked up by “Lost” fans.
The wishful thinkers behind the petition are making it easy for Disney [which of course owns ABC]: As the OC Weekly points out, the organizers even suggest components to the ride, including ruins, a smoke monster, Jacob’s cabin, and a submarine ride. Clearly, a lot of thought has gone into this plea to let “Lost” live. [Yahoo]
Sounds pretty good to me. The only thing I’d add is a cage where I can have sex with Evangeline Lilly. Oh, and children should be attacked by polar bears and kidnapped. You’ve got to keep it faithful to the source material, you know?
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Lilly’s cage is likely to be found in Jacob’s Cabin which sounds like a delightful place for rape.
i’ll go only if there’s a pointless hatch there where i pointlessly have to reset numbers.
/hatch plot in season 2 was completely pointless if i hadn’t made that clear
//if there are statues filled with heroin lying around, i might stay there for a while
This could actually prove convenient for eliminating all the Lost fans in one fell swoop…
“and children should be attacked by polar bears and kidnapped.”
Children in peril is old hat for Disney. Maybe kill off a few of the parents on the show too.
Quit fucking with Disneyland, specially with Adventureland! They already turned the Swiss Family Robinson house into Tarzan’s house. Next thing you know they’ll replace all the Sambo-faced animatronic pygmies in the Jungle Book Ride with successful African American robots with law degrees and non-threatening haircuts.
Lil’ Wayne Chrebet, the button was actually pushed to prevent an overload of electromagnetic activity that would destroy everything. You find out a lot more in season 5 actually..
Rebecca, it became Tarzan’s Treehouse YEARS ago, you should really be complaining about the political correctness they added to PotC. But since you called The Jungle Cruise “the Jungle Book Ride”, your opinion now means nothing, sorry ;_;
MrSParkle07, what he meant was that they could just as easily have left out the hatch scene and never had the “electromagnetic whatever-thef#*k” problem in the first place if the writers were doing a solid job like in the first season. They should have been focusing more on the interpersonal roles instead of crazy new scheme of what “ben” jacob” “dharma “the island” etc were doing Instead, they made the show ridiculous, pointless, and embarrassing from seasons 2-5. Lost is a big FAIL
You’re right, MrSparkle. Is it obvious I haven’t been to Disneyland in like eight years? Bring back Captain EO!
The smoke monster’s agent needs to work out the details first:
“My client would rather be called by his first name, Rufus, or simply be called “Mr. Smoke Monster”
Sounds good, but when you reach the end you find out that the whole ride was just purgatory.
I just want to say that I did an awesome job of Photoshopping that polar bear into the picture.
@matt
it was such a good job that i didnt even notice it.
@mrsparkle
i know the actual reason for the button and i’ve seen every episode. i was just stating the fact as bobbylight added, that the whole plot could’ve been avoided and that the writers are better than that
I really can’t wait for this FAIL meme to go away, though I’m not optimistic. It always feels to me that when people call something a fail (like what bobbylight called over 90 episodes of Lost) it’s like they’re saying they have the final word on the subject and no other point of view is possible for it is FAIL by association. Bobbylight, you called about 80 percent of one of the WORLD’S most popular shows (it is aired in a ridiculous number of countries) a failure. ABC is probably happy you don’t work for them.
Lil’ Wayne Chrebet (love, love, LOVE the username) has a good point though. The Hatch storyline was at best difficult and at worst a total turn off however I don’t think it was totally useless. Upon rewatching the Second Season with my girlfriend I liked it a lot more than when I watched it live. For starters it gave us Desmond whose Season 4 centric episode The Constant is one of show’s best. Either way the second and third seasons could have been better if DC and CC had a negotiated end date for the show beforehand. Stranger in a Strange Land…guh…
Rebecca: EO will be back sometime this year actually, whee.
Matt: I didn’t notice it the first 5 times I looked at it, but when I did, it was awesome.
Lost haters:
I think they had a somewhat idea of what they were going to do and most of those storylines were already hinted at subtly early on. Season 6 is supposed to mirror season 1 like 5 did for 2, so maybe you’d enjoy it.
i really really hope they make this happen if done right its gonna be so cool and if it sucks its still gonna be kinda cool like mr toads wild ride