Disney sure milks every drop out of it’s successes. After first becoming a musical, Finding Nemo – On Ice is about to tour in Australia. It’s quite interesting to see how they have tackled the puppets, however. For a quick overall impression, you can see a range of them on the video linked on this page, and there are some good photos by Conrado4 at Flickr. It seems like I was not the only one to find the idea of ‘finding Nemo on ice’ amusing, and wonder about the placement of the fish eyes.
It’s not so much the repetition of a favourite story that is so depressing about productions like this, but that they have to follow the exact same path and shiny look every time, there are no variables, and it’s all locked in. When my kids were babies I had a similar reaction to Fisher Price activity centres, though I am yet to meet someone who felt the same dislike of them. I see they are now collectable vintage on Ebay.
