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

[HMF]

There are three separate but related debates here. One is the value of a live drawing demonstration by a human versus an Audio-Animatronic, there’s the criticism of Disney’s alleged motivation to cut labor costs,

Why do you think GMR is gone, LWTL is now completely pre-recorded dialogue and Jungle Cruise skippers can't improvise at all anymore and I am amazed they haven't been replaced with automation yet?

 

[HMF]

To anyone who remembers the years after the actual studio closed, the attraction and courtyard was as dead as it was in the latter days of Launch Bay. Why will it work this time?

That is literally because the studio closed.

 

[HMF]

I think the core issue is really that Launch Bay was always a stopgap to quickly put something in the parks nearer to the Lucasfilm acquisition than the timeline for Galaxy's Edge allowed.

Stopgaps in Disney time tend to be five years at the least fifteen years at most Launch Bay took eleven years.

 

[aladdin2007]

8 meet n greets… with characters already available elsewhere in the resort. Not a single unique character.

This is nothing more than a giant version of fairytale hall when you get right down it, meetngreets , added playground, and the animation segment to sort of mask what it all really is. Not even a homage to the Florida studio history by the sound of it unless I missed it in the exhibit details. Its all about the stroller count. Visually Im sure it will be more appealing real estate esp on the outside and gone at least is the ghetto looking area.

 

[MK-fan]

Hey, what’s wrong with MMRR?!?!

Some posters are so negative.

I think a lot of people on here don’t like it because it’s primarily screen based. I can be a negative Nancy when it comes to Disney but I think it’s a pretty creative ride.

 

[HMF]

I think a lot of people on here don’t like it because it’s primarily screen based. I can be a negative Nancy when it comes to Disney but I think it’s a pretty creative ride.

Never mind it replaced a classic and probably should have been put in the space where the topic of this thread is going.

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

This is nothing more than a giant version of fairytale hall when you get right down it, meetngreets , added playground, and the animation segment to sort of mask what it all really is. Not even a homage to the Florida studio history by the sound of it unless I missed it in the exhibit details. Its all about the stroller count. Visually Im sure it will be more appealing real estate esp on the outside and gone at least is the ghetto looking area.

Yeah I guess if you really squint at it and bash yourself in the head with Rapunzel's frying pan hard enough you could come to that conclusion.

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

Never mind it replaced a classic and probably should have been put in the space where the topic of this thread is going.

as someone who went on both, I think MMRR is the better of the two rides.

I would say to do GMR in a completely different way if they were going to do something like it again. But realistically GMR was always going to go. It was promoting other studios films pretty heavily and had that very long drawnout dark ride that just lost a lot of popularity.

 

[MK-fan]

Never mind it replaced a classic and probably should have been put in the space where the topic of this thread is going.

I was just thinking about the Disneyland version but yes, my condolences to all WDW fans, The Great Movie Ride is far superior.

 

[MK-fan]

as someone who went on both, I think MMRR is the better of the two rides.

I would say to do GMR in a completely different way if they were going to do something like it again. But realistically GMR was always going to go. It was promoting other studios films pretty heavily and had that very long drawnout dark ride that just lost a lot of popularity.

We live in an age where people are movie crazy, more so than ever. I think if the ride was gradually updated with new movies, it would have still been very popular and probably would have stayed but In its almost 30 year history, it was never updated with new scenes once. Some of those movies were movies that people had never even heard of even in the 90s.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I can be a negative Nancy when it comes to Disney but I think it’s a pretty creative ride.

I was just thinking about the Disneyland version

yes - when it opened at Disneyland and i experienced it there, I could enjoy it for what it is. It’s especially sad at dhs… that park needs so much more and nobody can argue that GMR was “underutilized”

 

[SteveAZee]

Teaching how to draw marks the beginning of DHS's hard pivot to being an edutainment park. The park will be renamed to Disney Studious.

They could add in a phase, like Molding Great Minds, into the title as well.

 

[HMF]

I was just thinking about the Disneyland version but yes, my condolences to all WDW fans, The Great Movie Ride is far superior.

It's ironic that Disneyland can add new attractions while only taking out some replaceable backstage infrastructure While at WDW it has to take out beloved attractions, so much for the "Blessing of size".

 

[MK-fan]

It's ironic that Disneyland can add new attractions while only taking out some replaceable backstage infrastructure While at WDW it has to take out beloved attractions, so much for the "Blessing of size".

Apparently size doesn’t matter in Florida

 

[Brer Oswald]

Pardon me, but drawing with an AA Olaf in the studios park sounds like that “Disney Magic” to me.

If you find Iger era Disney “magical” perhaps.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It's ironic that Disneyland can add new attractions while only taking out some replaceable backstage infrastructure While at WDW it has to take out beloved attractions, so much for the "Blessing of size".

They both have the same number of *rides.*

Only one of them is forced to squeeze it in in tight areas.

You do know that attractions are being removed in DL, right? You wouldn't cherry pick information and concoct a false narrative that DL never nukes attractions to make way for new ones, right?

 

[Brer Oswald]

They both have the same number of *rides.*

Only one of them is forced to squeeze it in in tight areas.

You do know that attractions are being removed in DL, right? You wouldn't cherry pick information and concoct a false narrative that DL never nukes attractions to make way for new ones, right?

That’s actually a plus for Disneyland and a negative for Walt Disney World. It means greater ride quantity per park, which means more bang for your buck and better guest distribution, which means less time wasted in lines.

What rides have we lost at Disneyland as of late? Splash Mountain? Yeah that one stung, but guess where else we lost that? Mike and Sully to the rescue? Yeah it’s not ideal, but it was a bandaid solution retheme and the park is at least getting two additionally family friendly dark rides to compensate.

 

[etc98]

That’s actually a plus for Disneyland and a negative for Walt Disney World. It means greater ride quantity per park, which means more bang for your buck and better guest distribution, which means less time wasted in lines.

What rides have we lost at Disneyland as of late? Splash Mountain? Yeah that one stung, but guess where else we lost that? Mike and Sully to the rescue? Yeah it’s not ideal, but it was a bandaid solution retheme and the park is at least getting two additionally family friendly dark rides to compensate.

And the red car trolley, which was a huge loss thematically, but not a huge loss at all when it comes to capacity

 

[Basil of Baker Street]

1. It will receive high GSAT's because it replaced (almost) nothing ala Starlight.
2. Seriously? More Olaf?
3. A home run would have been a live animator and an AA with a set or 2 of scripted dialog between them.
4. Back to Olaf. Admittedly, I'm no Animatronical(?) Engineer, but it seems Olaf is one of the more simpler AA's. Just feels kind of mailed in to go with Olaf. Also, Gad is such a Disney fan, he probably does the voice overs for Mickey Bars and pretels.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Mike and Sully to the rescue?

Which may not be leaving anymore….

And the red car trolley, which was a huge loss thematically,

Agreed. That one hurts a lot