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

UNCgolf

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If Animation Experience is moving back from Planet Watch to Magic of Disney Animation, it makes sense to have something else at Planet Watch to keep it open. After all, before Animation Experience, Planet Watch was permanently closed

It was never permanently closed; just shut down for refurbishment. They made other changes during that period beyond adding the Animation Experience.

EDIT: It looks like some of the initial reporting said it was closing permanently, although I'm not sure Disney ever said it was. But it wasn't too long after it closed that articles mentioned it was just closed temporarily for refurbishment.
 
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Gusey

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Also, concept art for the meet and greet area inside Magic of Disney Animation
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And that’s just the beginning! You’ll also be able to venture into “Off the Page!,” a stunning area born of collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering. Here, you can meet some of your favorite friends from beloved Disney stories across six unique departments from the animation studio:
  • Story
  • Layout
  • Hand-Drawn Animation
  • Computer Animation
  • Lighting
  • Effects
Each space offers incredible photo opportunities: you can meet Mulan in the Story department, posing in front of an oversized storyboard panel. Or, step into the Layout department where Rapunzel awaits in a setting inspired by the classic multiplane camera. Align your photo just right, and you’ll see layers of backgrounds and painted cells come together like magic!
 

Casper Gutman

Well-Known Member
Also, concept art for the meet and greet area inside Magic of Disney Animation
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And that’s just the beginning! You’ll also be able to venture into “Off the Page!,” a stunning area born of collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering. Here, you can meet some of your favorite friends from beloved Disney stories across six unique departments from the animation studio:
  • Story
  • Layout
  • Hand-Drawn Animation
  • Computer Animation
  • Lighting
  • Effects
Each space offers incredible photo opportunities: you can meet Mulan in the Story department, posing in front of an oversized storyboard panel. Or, step into the Layout department where Rapunzel awaits in a setting inspired by the classic multiplane camera. Align your photo just right, and you’ll see layers of backgrounds and painted cells come together like magic!
Glad they’re leaving a huge expansion pad we’ve been told for years was just on the cusp of being turned into something exciting empty for another decade so we can get… four meet n’ greets.
 

James Alucobond

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Glad they’re leaving a huge expansion pad we’ve been told for years was just on the cusp of being turned into something exciting empty for another decade so we can get… four meet n’ greets.
While I'm sure many of us wish this were different, I don't really think it's reasonable to hold Disney accountable for something they never said they were on the cusp of doing. It's always been just rumors, and it would only be particularly lamentable if there weren't other more immediately accessible places to expand the park.
 

Casper Gutman

Well-Known Member
While I'm sure many of us wish this were different, I don't really think it's reasonable to hold Disney accountable for something they never said they were on the cusp of doing. It's always been just rumors, and it would only be particularly lamentable if there weren't other more immediately accessible places to expand the park.
If Disney hasn’t been close to replacing what has been a huge, largely abandoned chunk of park blocking off a large expansion pad for well over almost two decades, that’s a huge indictment of their behavior and thinking.
 

James Alucobond

Well-Known Member
If Disney hasn’t been close to replacing what has been a huge, largely abandoned chunk of park blocking off a large expansion pad for well over almost two decades, that’s a huge indictment of their behavior and thinking.
It’s not abandoned, though. They could remove much of what’s back there with some effort, but it’s also clearly less readily expanded than areas that abut parts of the cast parking lot.
 

Figments Friend

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If they were wanting to stick with the ‘Animation’ theme and mix in a bit of Florida Animations’ own colorful history they should use these four characters for the Meet n’ Greets.
All from films produced for the most part at WDFA Florida -

Mulan or even better, Mushu ( Mulan )
Kenai or Koda ( Brother Bear )
Stitch ( Lilo & Stitch )
Roger Rabbit ( two of the three Roger Rabbit shorts produced here )

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aladdin2007

Well-Known Member
If they were wanting to stick with the ‘Animation’ theme and mix in a bit of Florida Animations’ own colorful history they should use these four characters for the Meet n’ Greets.
All from films produced for the most part at WDFA Florida -

Mulan or even better, Mushu ( Mulan )
Kenai or Koda ( Brother Bear )
Stitch ( Lilo & Stitch )
Roger Rabbit ( two of the three Roger Rabbit shorts produced here )

-
agree but this sounds nothing more than another princess meetngreet.
 

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