RSoxNo1
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Studio Backlot Tour Closing on September 27, 2014
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PhotoDave219
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I'm not anticipating anything else back there closing before the holidays are over.
They are going to need as much guest capacity is they can get
LeRaposa
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It'd be shame to tear down Catastrophe canyon as it looks remarkably similar to Tatooine from Star Wars. They could retheme the whole tour to Star Wars. The queue could be themed to some sort of Imperial Base on Tatooine and the boneyard would be the Imperial Fleet's boneyard. They'd have to reroute (and retheme) the trams though and not to mention the entire area would have to be themed. All in all though it would cost less than simply demolishing it all and building new stuff. It's not out of the question as we all know how much TDO loves rethemes.
Unplugged
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With that tanker truck, I always saw it more of a wet Mad Max set.
RSoxNo1
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I'll respectfully disagree here. Disney has a horrible success rate with shoehorning new things into existing areas. A tear down and new build-out is going to be better most of the time.
LeRaposa
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I never said they were good at it. I just said TDO loves rethemes. Whether or not they're good at it is another conversation.
You just reminded me of another movie it could pass as, Wall-E. There wouldn't need to be much work done on it to turn it into something from Wall-E. The whole park looks like an apocalyptic wasteland!
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Tom Morrow
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The Catastrophe Canyon set is little more than rockwork (which is all scorched from years of fire hitting it). The bulk of the canyon isn't the rockwork, but rather the massive tank and pipe system it covers. There wouldn't be any point in keeping the entire thing just for the rockwork.
Haymarket2008
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If anything Catastrophe Canyon looks like it belongs in Cars Land. That would be kinda cool to incorporate the Canyon into the setting of the rumored Cars ride at DHS. And keep the truck and just put eyes on it. A little homage!
ParksAndPixels
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- In the Parks
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I thought same thing, just a quick scene with possibly even some minor water effects or something.
Cesar R M
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the waterfall on the CARS movie (towards WheelWell motel)
Kman101
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Just how far in advance are guide maps printed up? LOL
If we do get a Cars ride, they could always enclose Catastrophe Canyon if they wanted to spend the time and money. I wouldn't mind it being included. There had been long rumors (not sure if they were true or not, or just fan talk) that they would use it in any Cars ride but who knows? It depends what they build there and it probably could just be easier to level it. Who knows what shape it's all in?
If we do get a Cars ride, they could always enclose Catastrophe Canyon if they wanted to spend the time and money. I wouldn't mind it being included. There had been long rumors (not sure if they were true or not, or just fan talk) that they would use it in any Cars ride but who knows? It depends what they build there and it probably could just be easier to level it. Who knows what shape it's all in?
ToTBellHop
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Perhaps they can run a ride with the BLT Trams around the parking lot.
PhotoDave219
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It would still take 20 minutes to get to the front of the park. Those tram operators take their sweet time. I can walk faster than it takes for them to get me from my car to the front gate…
No clue. For what it's worth, Legend of Jack Sparrow was not on the new map and it had been just closed one day prior. Really not sure what the deal is with leaving Backlot Tour on things over a month after closing...
WondersOfLife
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RAXIP
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It's not listed on the map. The trams, Catastrophe Canyon and the props have been removed from the image.
TomP
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Yet, the BAH is still on that map.
DinoInstitute
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That's because it hasn't been taken down yet...
Kman101
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I think we'll all know when that sucker starts demo. I expect to see a party thread with a daily countdown and photo updates. Unless they knock it out as quickly as possible overnight as if it never existed. I'd be OK with that too.