DHS Disney Animation-Inspired Experience Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

[lazyboy97o]

They don’t design stuff and then intentionally just put it on the shelf for several years. They don’t know what will happen in 5 or 10 years under completely different leadership. This is the plan for the foreseeable future until they actually decide to do something else. No chess moves waiting on this space or that space or something to happen with other companies.

 

[Streetway Again]

On this week's Disney Dish, Jim has some new details on The Magic of Disney Animation 2 - Electric Boogaloo.

Jim says this, the new show for Disney Junior, and the current Mermaid show is the 10-year plan for Animation Courtyard.

The most likely candidate for the new show in the Disney Junior space is Bluey, especially with Disney releasing the upcoming Bluey movie in 2027.

I thought these were more like 5-year placeholders. 10 years is a long time.

The new Mermaid and Villains shows are rated very highly (4.5 stars, much higher than the things they replaced). So the thinking might be that this is good enough.

 

[Brer Oswald]

Well, I live in Ca, but I’m so thrilled for DHS! Because I’ve heard they used to have a hand drawn animated studio there, until Michael Eisner end it for his greedy deeds. Anyway, I think this is a step of the right direction. Oh by the way, for those of you haven’t seen Once Upon A Studio, here it is:

Eisner was the one that started that studio in the first place.

 

[BrerWalt]

It’s a shame that this space is just having another bandaid slapped on for the next decade or so. Just another example of Modern Disney and their penny pinching. Ugh.

 

[TsWade2]

Anyway, I wonder DHS will do something similar to this:

 

[Casper Gutman]

On this week's Disney Dish, Jim has some new details on The Magic of Disney Animation 2 - Electric Boogaloo.

Jim says this, the new show for Disney Junior, and the current Mermaid show is the 10-year plan for Animation Courtyard.

The most likely candidate for the new show in the Disney Junior space is Bluey, especially with Disney releasing the upcoming Bluey movie in 2027.

I thought these were more like 5-year placeholders. 10 years is a long time.

The new Mermaid and Villains shows are rated very highly (4.5 stars, much higher than the things they replaced). So the thinking might be that this is good enough.

So Animation Courtyard remains a dead end, a vast wasted space in the middle of the park.

Where are all the posters who used to assure us Disney had big plans for the space?

Another decade of the ancient and underwhelming Mermaid show is atrocious.

 

[dmc493]

Another decade of the ancient and underwhelming Mermaid show is atrocious

You mean the one that’s like two months old? And getting rave reviews?

 

[Casper Gutman]

You mean the one that’s like two months old? And getting rave reviews?

It’s the show that debuted the year Clinton was elected president with an additional song and some utterly embarrassing CGI. So yes, I mean that one.

 

[James Alucobond]

It’s the show that debuted the year Clinton was elected president with an additional song and some utterly embarrassing CGI. So yes, I mean that one.

To be fair, you’ve based much of your annoyance with Monsters around the replacement of a show that debuted when H. W. Bush was president. If it’s a quality issue, make it about that rather than the year something debuted.

 

[Bocabear]

I think most people could agree though that the BATB show is long in the tooth... It really needs either a complete replacement, or a complete reimagining...It's a prominent piece of real estate for a 34 year old show... As long as it is not based on Frozen or Wish...lol

 

[lentesta]

So Animation Courtyard remains a dead end, a vast wasted space in the middle of the park.

Where are all the posters who used to assure us Disney had big plans for the space?

Another decade of the ancient and underwhelming Mermaid show is atrocious.

Agree. I feel like that space could be a lot more.

I think I said upstream that neither of the two re-do ideas I'd heard for AC did anything to get me excited.

Mermaid is getting 4.5 stars out of 5 in our surveys. I'm sure a Bluey show would do boffo business. And the Magic of Disney Animation 2: The Second One, might be fun for a few years.

If you're Disney and you can get three highly-rated, high-capacity attractions in there for relatively cheap, I can see how you'd look at other areas in other parks as a higher priority. Not saying I love the idea. Just that I understand the thinking, if that's the case.

 

[rd805]

The new Mermaid show is actually done really well, and the updates are very good.
With that said, this "update" to go back to the Animation Courtyard is definitely LACKING. Upgrade over Launch Bay? Without a doubt. Kind of lame? Absolutely.

I too agree that BATB needs to be Old-Yeller'd though, and THAT should have been where the Villains show was placed...Ya know...right next to Fantasmic...

I don't understand their thought processes sometimes.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

It’s a shame that this space is just having another bandaid slapped on for the next decade or so. Just another example of Modern Disney and their penny pinching. Ugh.

While I agree, at the same time I appreciate the bandaid being slapped on. It's not ideal but it is fitting. I just hope they deliver. It has the potential to be good.

 

[Moth]

This band-aid needs a flat or two.

Nothing crazy, but maybe some high capacity flats with no height limits would be good here.

 

[Streetway Again]

Agree. I feel like that space could be a lot more.

I think I said upstream that neither of the two re-do ideas I'd heard for AC did anything to get me excited.

Mermaid is getting 4.5 stars out of 5 in our surveys. I'm sure a Bluey show would do boffo business. And the Magic of Disney Animation 2: The Second One, might be fun for a few years.

If you're Disney and you can get three highly-rated, high-capacity attractions in there for relatively cheap, I can see how you'd look at other areas in other parks as a higher priority. Not saying I love the idea. Just that I understand the thinking, if that's the case.

I do wonder what the next move for DHS is. Echo Lake? Tower Update? Star tours? GE Fixes? They seem like that side will be next again. Many things ARE getting up there in age.

I’m most dissapointed about the muppets show being probably no longer to happen. While I likely expected this (what were they thinking, Villians show was well received, ofc they wouldn’t can it for the muppets so soon.), I’m still greatly disappointed the only theme park presence the muppets will have is RNRC, as I don’t think it’s a good environment for the characters to truly be themselves and tell jokes and such. Not expecting much of rnrc either.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Agree. I feel like that space could be a lot more.

I think I said upstream that neither of the two re-do ideas I'd heard for AC did anything to get me excited.

Mermaid is getting 4.5 stars out of 5 in our surveys. I'm sure a Bluey show would do boffo business. And the Magic of Disney Animation 2: The Second One, might be fun for a few years.

If you're Disney and you can get three highly-rated, high-capacity attractions in there for relatively cheap, I can see how you'd look at other areas in other parks as a higher priority. Not saying I love the idea. Just that I understand the thinking, if that's the case.

I'm getting mixed up...are these connected to the ideas you heard for the Sunset Showcase area that also didn't get you excited? Or is that something separate?

 

[The Leader of the Club]

I do wonder what the next move for DHS is. Echo Lake? Tower Update? Star tours? GE Fixes? They seem like that side will be next again. Many things ARE getting up there in age.

I think Beauty and the Beast is a sleeper pick. That show is showing its age and its plot could hold a small dark ride (if they don’t just decide to put a new show there).

 

[Purduevian]

Agree. I feel like that space could be a lot more.

I think I said upstream that neither of the two re-do ideas I'd heard for AC did anything to get me excited.

Mermaid is getting 4.5 stars out of 5 in our surveys. I'm sure a Bluey show would do boffo business. And the Magic of Disney Animation 2: The Second One, might be fun for a few years.

If you're Disney and you can get three highly-rated, high-capacity attractions in there for relatively cheap, I can see how you'd look at other areas in other parks as a higher priority. Not saying I love the idea. Just that I understand the thinking, if that's the case.

Since we now know those two re-do ideas are not happening any time soon. Are you allowed to say, or at least hint at what IP would have taken over? I think you mentioned on the podcast a series or properties that were only connected because they were the same studio.

So... Pixar (presumably without Cars, Monsters, or Toy story)
Disney animation (maybe a combo of Hercules, emperors new grove, ect)
Lucas film land (Indy, Willow)
20th century fox ( Ice age, planet of the apes, alien, the croods)
Searchlight pictures ( I really can't see this one)

 

[The Leader of the Club]

20th century fox ( Ice age, planet of the apes, alien, the croods)

Croods is Dreamworks, so those rights are with Universal

 

[DisneyHead123]

I think it’s a little premature to judge the space without knowing what it will look like (the plans so far are pretty vague), although I will say I don’t love the idea that this is supposed to be for 10 years only. If something is high quality there shouldn’t be any foreseeable time limit on it, to say it’s semi-temporary kinda indicates it might be “mid”, as the kids say.

That said… there are so many indoor playgrounds and children’s museums now, run by small business owners who don’t have millions to invest. Honestly it’s pretty amazing what they have for kids now in fairly average settings. If Joe Schmoe business owner can put together some really cool stuff in a local mall, I would hope Disney, undertaking the same project with a few million, can put together something really stellar, relatively speaking. If the area is done well, it could redirect tons of families and help with crowds. What parent with little kids doesn’t want an air conditioned space to let their children entertain themselves for a bit? Disney has a lot of experience building spaces for play on their cruise ships, maybe they bring some of that to this project and make something really cool (although so help me Disney, if this ends up being the never-used instrument wall you see at every local playground and one of those boards where you push buttons to make lights change color, I will judge you so hard. )