DHS Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios

Bocabear

Bocabear

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MisterPenguin said:
You left out a picture of the boring room in which almost nothing happens!

(But aside from that one room, it does look very good over all.)
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It seems like the BATB ride could just spend a little less time in the boring room....actually all the dancing rooms except for the Be Our Guest room... It's a good looking ride.... and would be a Magic Kingdom Classic....Just leave the current restaurant facade, but make a better larger castle for the top, and gut the structure adding on from behind. They could even use Enchanted Tales With Belle as the queue and use the current restaurant entrance as the attraction exit.
it would fit something like this if it were inclined the identical way... So we know that won't work...lol
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HMF

HMF

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Brer Panther said:
Don't a lot of the modern Marvel movies have a lot of "meta" humor in them? If so, I feel like their success might be part of the reason why "meta" humor is EVERYWHERE now.
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The Guardians Tower in California has some of the stupidest and openly fan insulting jokes in the Disney Parks. I believe the queue of Guardians in EPCOT does as well. The only attraction other than that I can think of in WDW like that was Tiki Room Under New Management which was thankfully burned out of it's misery.
 
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EricsBiscuit

EricsBiscuit

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I took this picture of the show building of the BATB ride in TDL from the monorail. It is the small building in the center. The theater is to the left and Frozen in Fantasy Springs is to the right. IMO, WDW should be able to plop this somewhere.
 
HMF

HMF

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EricsBiscuit said:
The BatB ride in TDL is very underrated by park fans stateside. It doesn’t come across as well on video but the motion of the teacups helps you get through each scene. I had the pleasure of experiencing it in person two weeks ago. Absolutely my favorite ride at TDL it would make for a great addition to MK as the ride matches MK’s grand scale.
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Much better than anything done at WDW in the past 25 years.
 
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James Alucobond

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HMF said:
There would be if we tear out the overrated Be Our Guest Restaurant and Belles magical cardboard meet and greet.
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The M&G is actually solid, though the library itself should be way more impressive. I wish all indoor M&Gs were similarly well-considered. I agree that the restaurant is actual garbage at this point, though. The lunch was the only okay thing. The last time I was there, the study was basically gutted, the food had gotten even poorer (shocking for the price tag), Beast just speed walked through for five seconds, and they hadn't updated anything with regard to the seating to account for the fact that it's essentially permanent table service now. Cinderella's Royal Table does it way better on all fronts, and I would not be at all sad to lose it for an attraction of some kind.
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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Brer Panther said:
I'm okay with that. Tokyo's Beauty and the Beast ride isn't that great.

Don't a lot of the modern Marvel movies have a lot of "meta" humor in them? If so, I feel like their success might be part of the reason why "meta" humor is EVERYWHERE now.

This is something that pleasantly surprised me about the new Country Bears show. I was expecting there to be meta humor and instead we got actual jokes.
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I would not lay this on Marvel. Meta humor had been getting increasingly popular in all walks of entertainment for over a decade before it became everything like it is today. Honestly, even a bit longer with the Shreks of the world, but I would say Shrek was something of an outlier until the internet started becoming the culture controller.

Once social media began to have a more direct influence on filmmaking (specifically meme culture influencing filmmaking) in the mid-2010s, that meta humor began to trickle in. No one franchise or person started it, it just sort of started happening until suddenly everyone was approaching things as meta or knowing deconstructions of old tropes.
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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I want to support @lazyboy97o responses on this one. I think @Mr. Sullivan was well meaning, but you jumbled a few things together.

Most of the exclusivity was related to HKDL’s fear of SDL. As Lazyboy said it was largely useless, they basically held back their Toy Story Playland until 5 years to the date in Shanghai. Originality, ironically, ensures them more exclusivity. There’s no such deal with their recent investment pipeline.

OLC’s issue was that Disney kept pitching them projects they really didn’t want and felt largely taken advantage of. Disney was trying to get OLC to prop up a portion of R&D on projects they had engaged in domestically. Namely Cars, Pandora and Galaxies Edge. Things that did not tickle the populaces fancy - they wanted more princesses. The D23 in Tokyo was part and parcel with a failed attempt to pitch the resort on a copy of Pandora.

There’s absolutely nothing preventing B&TB being copied. Now that said - current management, for whatever reason, seems to have an earnest desire to not copy things. I don’t know what has changed. Obviously WDI likes the position as it generates more work for them. I assume this is a Josh endorsed strategy, I think he pays attention a lot more than past parks execs have. We’ll see how long that lasts.
 

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