castlecake2.0
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Was thinking that too!
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DHS Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Yankee Mouse
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Completely agree and putting it right next to a bathroom takes the land to a level beyond perfect.
Purduevian
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I assume it's to share a kitchen with Woody's lunch box?
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
2032, the outdoor seating area for this snack stand will finally be ready!
FigmentFan82
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TSL really does need at least 1 more ride attraction, dedicated M&G, a playground (just replicate the Honey I Shrunk the Kids one) and some themed shading (toy boxes etc)
Casper Gutman
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They probably should have designed this land before they built it.
I heard the land was designed by Imagineers who never stepped foot in WDW. They had no clue as to the heat and humidity in Florida. Can anyone confirm this rumor? If so, what a tragic mistake.
James Alucobond
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The conditions are known at this point. It’s not a mystery, and I would wager someone on the design team had been to Florida considering somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of all Americans have visited. They just chose to ignore it, as they have done many times with WDW since its inception.
HMF
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That would describe a not insignificant percentage of WDI.
lazyboy97o
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Kathy Magnum made a very public relocation for the project because much of the design work was done in Florida. The architecture and landscape architecture firms involved were also both Orlando companies.
EricsBiscuit
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How were they so incompetent?
Animaniac93-98
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To be fair, this was only WDI's 4th attempt at a Toy Story Land
5th times a charm?
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
The (probable) next one is literally being built in a desert, but it will obviously be the only part of the Abu Dhabi park built outdoors.
TrainsOfDisney
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Bugs Land at DCA was much more shady and charming.
Nothing about TSL actually makes you feel you are in a different scale the way bugs land and honey I shrunk did.
Animaniac93-98
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The problem with all these Toy Story Lands is that they want these characters to exist solely as toys in a world where they can only be literally and figuratively seen as plastic toys. Frontierland at Disneyland Paris is actually a better representation of the kind of cowboy fantasy Andy might imagine while playing much more than a suburban backyard at giant scale.
Because that's not how children play with toys, not even in the movies these lands are based off of. The toys themselves are the launching point for an imagined world where they exist as living personalities with fantastical adventures. This is realized wonderfully in the opening scene of Toy Story 3. That's what Andy is thinking about when playing, even if his sets and props are just cardboard and other bits of things taken from his home. Looking at toys, backyards and bedrooms as just those things is what adults do from a distance. Shrinking us down to Green Army Men size has an inherent novelty, but that's not representative of what imaginary play is for children. A better Toy Story Land would take us to that world, with these characters at our side.
There's a gag in Inside Out where Riley is playing "the floor is lava" and we cut to her mind where the floor is shown as actual lava with furniture floating in it. That's the kind of creativity you could have taking the real world and making it unreal from the imagination of a child. Ironically, Disney's first Toy Story ride is the one that understood this better.
Because that's not how children play with toys, not even in the movies these lands are based off of. The toys themselves are the launching point for an imagined world where they exist as living personalities with fantastical adventures. This is realized wonderfully in the opening scene of Toy Story 3. That's what Andy is thinking about when playing, even if his sets and props are just cardboard and other bits of things taken from his home. Looking at toys, backyards and bedrooms as just those things is what adults do from a distance. Shrinking us down to Green Army Men size has an inherent novelty, but that's not representative of what imaginary play is for children. A better Toy Story Land would take us to that world, with these characters at our side.
There's a gag in Inside Out where Riley is playing "the floor is lava" and we cut to her mind where the floor is shown as actual lava with furniture floating in it. That's the kind of creativity you could have taking the real world and making it unreal from the imagination of a child. Ironically, Disney's first Toy Story ride is the one that understood this better.
HMF
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The fact that it's better than the other three is a pretty sad statement.
I think the best thing that could happen to TSL would be to gut the 3rd track of TSM and use that half of the show building for an indoor play area themed to andys toybox or something. Make it a huge air conditioned undoor area with meet n greet, large play area themed to cool stuff, gift shop that acts as exit to TSM and new entrance/exit into Pixar Alley or whatever that alley is called. Maybe theres enough space for a small ride as well?
ToTBellHop
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Personally, I’d add those things elsewhere. The park certainly has space. The park needs those things but it doesn’t really matter where.
I could be in Andy's room, like Midway is.
TSM still gets long lines. The third track was to deal with very long lines.
There are other places in which to expand DHS's TSL.