Whoopi Goldberg Calls For Disney Parks To Create Wakanda Attraction Instead of ‘Frozen’
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Whoopi Goldberg, 64, took to Twitter to urge Disney parks to consider the idea of a Wakanda attraction to honor the memory of Chadwick Boseman insisting “we don’t really need another Frozen land.”
https://twitter.com/WhoopiGoldberg/status/1300259333834407942
“Dear People in charge of building NEW experiences Disney Land and World we don’t really need another Frozen land BUT what we could use is Wakonda,” she tweeted. “Please Disneyworld Disneyland PLEASE build in Chadwick Boseman’s name WAKONDA”
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On Friday, Boseman, the 43-year-old actor who played the hero King T’Challa in the 2018 Marvel superhero film Black Panther, passed away from colon cancer at age 43.
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Chairman of Disney, Bob Iger, has spoken about how proud he is of Black Panther before.
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“I received more calls and notes than I’d ever received about anything I’d been associated with in my career,” Iger wrote in his memoir, The Ride of a Lifetime, about the reaction to the film in 2018. “There may be no product we’ve created that I’m more proud of than Black Panther,” he continued.
We are all heartbroken by the tragic loss of #chadwickboseman -- an extraordinary talent, and one of the most gentle and giving souls I have ever met. He brought enormous strength, dignity and depth to his groundbreaking role of Black Panther; shattering myths and stereotypes,
— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) August 29, 2020
There are several “Frozen” attractions at Walt Disney World in Orlando, including “Frozen Ever After” and a chance to meet Anna and Elsa at Royal Summerhaus at Epcot, plus “A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
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A dedicated Marvel expansion has been announced by Disney, with the Avengers Campus due to open in Disney California Adventure park in 2022 but nothing dedicated solely to Wakanda. According to Disney, visitors will “find heroic encounters throughout the campus, including Black Widow, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, superheroes from Wakanda & Asgard, and Iron Man.”
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