Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jun 26, 2016 16:33:15 GMT
Marvel is currently publishing a series known as Disney Kingdoms, which has nothing to do with kingdoms (except the Magic one). Each 5-issues-long story arc is based on a particular Disneyland ride (sometimes on ones that weren't built in the end).
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Completed - By Dennis Hopeless and Tigh Walker - Based on Big Thunder Mountain - “Abigail Bullion, the teenaged daughter of the owner of the Big Thunder Mining Company, is caught in a dangerous situation when she moves to Big Thunder after the death of her mother, where she becomes embroiled in her father's business.”
Figment - Completed - By Jim Zub and Philipe Andrade - Based on Journey into Imagination - “In 1910 London, Blair Mercurial (who will later become the Dreamfinder) works on a machine designed to produce energy from sheer brainpower. His invention works better than expected and can make anything he imagines come true. Unable to control the device, Blair is sucked into a dreamland he accidentally created himself. He is soon joined there by Figment, a little talking cartoonish dragon, and one of the earliest creatures young Blair imagined. But all is not well: while Blair tries to escape his self-made Wonderland, the order-obsessed chairman of the scientific academy messes with the machine and accidentally create an army of clockwork creatures who seek to rule the world to destroy all chaos.”
Figment 2 - Completed - By Jim Zub and Ramon Bachs - Sequel to Figment - “Through the dream-traveling vehicle built by the Dreamfinder at the end of Figment, Blair and Figment wind up a hundred years in the future… in modern-day Florida, where he finds he has become an almost-legendary figure. The doubt-stricken Dreamfinder suddenly finds it difficult to live up to the new generation's expectations, and from this doubt, a nightmarish being takes shape thanks to the dream machine…”
Seekers of the Weird - Completed - By Brandon Seifert and Karl Moline - Based on the unbuilt Museum of the Weird - “Brother and sister Maxwell and Melody Keep are sent to the weirdest and most magical place in the world, the Museum of the Weird, where generations of 'Guardians' have gathered cursed or otherwise dangerously magical items, by their previously-thought-dead Uncle Roland. There, amongst the hundreds of potentially deadly artifacts, they must collect a set of magical furniture and give it to the evil Shadow Society, who hold their parents hostages… What does Uncle Roland hide? And why does the Shadow Society seek the strange but mostly harmless magical objects they asked for in particular?”
The Haunted Mansion - Issues 1 to 3 released - By Joshua Williamson and Jorge Coelho - Based on The Haunted Mansion - “A young boy is lured into the notorious Haunted Mansion by ghostly psychic Madame Leota. The Mansion is supposed to be a retirement home for 'happy haunts', but it has been taken over by the corrupting ghost of pirate captain Bartholomew Gore, who will stop at nothing to find the treasure he believes the old manor holds, even if it means turning every single spirit in the house into evil lackeys or draining the manor of its magic. Only a living boy, immune to the Captain's black magic, could save them all…”
The Enchanted Tiki Room - Announced - By Jon Adams and Horacio Domingues - Based on The Enchanted Tiki Room - “Unlike the previous Disney Kingdoms series, The Enchanted Tiki Room will be an anthology of shorter, comedy-oriented stories. The eponymous Tiki Room is home to mischievous tiki spirits and fun-loving parrots, who all have no greater joy in life than playing pranks on the guests who visit the room…”
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Completed - By Dennis Hopeless and Tigh Walker - Based on Big Thunder Mountain - “Abigail Bullion, the teenaged daughter of the owner of the Big Thunder Mining Company, is caught in a dangerous situation when she moves to Big Thunder after the death of her mother, where she becomes embroiled in her father's business.”
Figment - Completed - By Jim Zub and Philipe Andrade - Based on Journey into Imagination - “In 1910 London, Blair Mercurial (who will later become the Dreamfinder) works on a machine designed to produce energy from sheer brainpower. His invention works better than expected and can make anything he imagines come true. Unable to control the device, Blair is sucked into a dreamland he accidentally created himself. He is soon joined there by Figment, a little talking cartoonish dragon, and one of the earliest creatures young Blair imagined. But all is not well: while Blair tries to escape his self-made Wonderland, the order-obsessed chairman of the scientific academy messes with the machine and accidentally create an army of clockwork creatures who seek to rule the world to destroy all chaos.”
Figment 2 - Completed - By Jim Zub and Ramon Bachs - Sequel to Figment - “Through the dream-traveling vehicle built by the Dreamfinder at the end of Figment, Blair and Figment wind up a hundred years in the future… in modern-day Florida, where he finds he has become an almost-legendary figure. The doubt-stricken Dreamfinder suddenly finds it difficult to live up to the new generation's expectations, and from this doubt, a nightmarish being takes shape thanks to the dream machine…”
Seekers of the Weird - Completed - By Brandon Seifert and Karl Moline - Based on the unbuilt Museum of the Weird - “Brother and sister Maxwell and Melody Keep are sent to the weirdest and most magical place in the world, the Museum of the Weird, where generations of 'Guardians' have gathered cursed or otherwise dangerously magical items, by their previously-thought-dead Uncle Roland. There, amongst the hundreds of potentially deadly artifacts, they must collect a set of magical furniture and give it to the evil Shadow Society, who hold their parents hostages… What does Uncle Roland hide? And why does the Shadow Society seek the strange but mostly harmless magical objects they asked for in particular?”
The Haunted Mansion - Issues 1 to 3 released - By Joshua Williamson and Jorge Coelho - Based on The Haunted Mansion - “A young boy is lured into the notorious Haunted Mansion by ghostly psychic Madame Leota. The Mansion is supposed to be a retirement home for 'happy haunts', but it has been taken over by the corrupting ghost of pirate captain Bartholomew Gore, who will stop at nothing to find the treasure he believes the old manor holds, even if it means turning every single spirit in the house into evil lackeys or draining the manor of its magic. Only a living boy, immune to the Captain's black magic, could save them all…”
The Enchanted Tiki Room - Announced - By Jon Adams and Horacio Domingues - Based on The Enchanted Tiki Room - “Unlike the previous Disney Kingdoms series, The Enchanted Tiki Room will be an anthology of shorter, comedy-oriented stories. The eponymous Tiki Room is home to mischievous tiki spirits and fun-loving parrots, who all have no greater joy in life than playing pranks on the guests who visit the room…”