DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

[lazyboy97o]

Main Street Vehicles are still a thing? I have not seen them operating on Main Street in years except for entertainment. You used to be able to take a double decker bus, a horse drawn trolley, a fire truck... but I think all of those are footnotes now...back from when it was an A ticket....

They still come out for little bits of time. Rode one last year.

 

[Bocabear]

They still come out for little bits of time. Rode one last year.

I am glad to hear that...I have not been there on the days they use them I guess....except to ferry the Main Street singers position... Have not seen the horses in years either.....

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

While I agree it was bad when it opened, when this photo was taken

This photo was taken from the Coronado Springs tower relatively recently. What did they do to improve it?

 

[ToTBellHop]

I am glad to hear that...I have not been there on the days they use them I guess....except to ferry the Main Street singers position... Have not seen the horses in years either.....

They were out Christmas week.

 

[danlb_2000]

They still come out for little bits of time. Rode one last year.

Usually early in the morning before things get to busy on Main Street.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

This photo was taken from the Coronado Springs tower relatively recently. What did they do to improve it?

oh…. Maybe it still looks that bad from Coronado - I thought that was an old photo.

When it opened the views from DAK parking lot and the over pass on the road to AKL were terrible - they added some foliage to hide it and they also painted it with some designs to make it look better from a distance.

Still was a mistake to not just build the thing full 360 of course.

 

[Ayla]

Main Street Vehicles are still a thing? I have not seen them operating on Main Street in years except for entertainment. You used to be able to take a double decker bus, a horse drawn trolley, a fire truck... but I think all of those are footnotes now...back from when it was an A ticket....
Then we lost the Swan Boats, The Skyway...and the Mike Fink Keelboats and Canoes...Followed by the 20k Submarines...
The next chapter will be the Rafts to Tom Sawyer's Island and the Riverboat. That is a lot of attraction transportation to completely lose in a theme park...

Main Street Vehicles are still out, usually for a short time right at park opening.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Main Street Vehicles are still a thing? I have not seen them operating on Main Street in years except for entertainment. You used to be able to take a double decker bus, a horse drawn trolley, a fire truck... but I think all of those are footnotes now...back from when it was an A ticket....

In the past year I’ve ridden Main Street vehicles at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Paris. Disneyland operates the most, and for the longest schedule. But they all still operate.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Main Street Vehicles are still out, usually for a short time right at park opening.

That's how it was for most of my visits, because we were night owls and got to the parks once all the vehicles were put away or just parked.

 

[Ayla]

That's how it was for most of my visits, because we were night owls and got to the parks once all the vehicles were put away or just parked.

Once Main Street gets crowded, it isn't safe for them to be out...because people are oblivious morons.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Once Main Street gets crowded, it isn't safe for them to be out...because people are oblivious morons.

That makes sense to me, but Disneyland gets just as crowded and they still run the vehicles for longer. In fact, I think that's the only place I've ever ridden them.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Once Main Street gets crowded, it isn't safe for them to be out...because people are oblivious morons.

I’ve seen them operating when the parks were completely packed and didn’t see anything dangerous - when it’s extra crowded an extra CM will often walk ahead of the horse trolleys to help clear the path but I think that’s mostly so the horse doesn’t have to start and stop the trolley (starting the trolley is when the horse actually has to work…)

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

They were out for about 2 hours in the morning, and another hour around 4:00, in July

 

[Nobody nobody]

Uni has no interest in removing their grip from Marvel at Florida. You can make a billion "rumor" news stories but the cold hard fact is that Universal has the upper hand for superheroes right now and it'd take Batman being available for licensing for them to release Marvel (and that's me guessing!).

I'm of the notion that EPCOT is the bigger target for Mahvel than DHS.


I don't expect Simps 100% either, but almost every IP under the sun I feel has been pitched for AC so who's counting?

out of curiousity, if you can answer: how much of the backstage space is in play for the “AC replacement”? Just launch bay? Launch bay and the garage? Even more areas next to the afformentioned two? Wondering about the hypothetical scale. Image attached to better illustrate it. Excuse the crudeness.

 

[Moth]

Depends on IP, scope, and budget.

I'm aware some buildings are absolute no-gos due to being needed for daily operations that can't be moved easily.

 

[Nobody nobody]

Depends on IP, scope, and budget.

I'm aware some buildings are absolute no-gos due to being needed for daily operations that can't be moved easily.

Yeah, about what I expected. My small hope is that they connect something RNRC plaza eventually (dead end, and that plaza does feel kinda weird anyway, hope muppets spruces it up.), but that building inbewteen could be one of those “daily use” buildings. I’m sure they’ve thrown everything at the wall, I hope what sticks is worthwhile.

I just feel weird about the state of DHS and it’s future.

 

[Professortango1]

For most MK is a full day park. For that poster MK is a half day park cause he doesn't ride a lot of the Fantasyland rides.

I've said it's actually the lack of quality Fantasyland rides which is half of the problem. Alice, Pinocchio, Mr. Toad, Matterhorn, Casey Jr, Storybookland, Snow White...all absent from MK's Fantasyland.

The park is also lacking modern E tickets with the exception of Tron. Star Tours, Rise, Indy/Dinosaur, even Mickey & Minnie all are located at other parks rather than MK.

I remember my friends who were locals in Florida and one was meet & greet Mickey, they were all so disappointed when SDMT opened. They were excited about MK finally getting a new ride that they might enjoy and it turned out to be a second Barnstormer with some decent rockwork around it. They were hungry, because most of the star attractions at MK were designed in the 60's and 70's rather than a blend of old and new like we see at the castle parks elsewhere.

 

[Agent H]

I've said it's actually the lack of quality Fantasyland rides which is half of the problem. Alice, Pinocchio, Mr. Toad, Matterhorn, Casey Jr, Storybookland, Snow White...all absent from MK's Fantasyland.

The park is also lacking modern E tickets with the exception of Tron. Star Tours, Rise, Indy/Dinosaur, even Mickey & Minnie all are located at other parks rather than MK.

I remember my friends who were locals in Florida and one was meet & greet Mickey, they were all so disappointed when SDMT opened. They were excited about MK finally getting a new ride that they might enjoy and it turned out to be a second Barnstormer with some decent rockwork around it. They were hungry, because most of the star attractions at MK were designed in the 60's and 70's rather than a blend of old and new like we see at the castle parks elsewhere.

Yes I do wish there were more dark rides

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The 1/2 day park term is usually used to say it’s “under developed” - which compared to Disneyland Park is always going to be the case when compared with the number of attractions, food options, and live entertainment.

1/2 day is certainly not a realistic term, since it’s very easy to spend a full day at any of the WDW parks.

 

[etc98]

While I agree it was bad when it opened, when this photo was taken - they have improved it, and they spent money to do it. They at least acknowledged it looked bad from guest areas and tried to fix it.

Which is the point… they used to care a bit more.

Radiator Springs Racers - which is completely exposed from the back and that is very visible from outside the park.

Disney - stop exposing your backside!!! Literally and figuratively haha.

This was the view from my hotel on my last trip to Disneyland. The back of the Cars Land rockwork towered over the hotel.

I actually thought it was really cool though, and didn’t mind it at all.