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

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DisneyHead123

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If it's a good play area, I'll be happy. HS doesn't have a lot for young kids and they need some additions there. To my mind, young children are the one crowd who often do better with something simpler and with fewer bells and whistles. They're in shock and awe mode when they see a spinning toothbrush or even a cardboard box, add too much and they'll just get overstimulated. My son is just beginning to age out of this era, but he's still at the age where he has similar levels of fun at a McDonald's Playplace and the Magic Kingdom (actually, probably more at the Playplace, to be honest.)

E tickets are great, but people eaters - especially ones that don't take years to build - help everyone's experience too, by spreading out crowds.
 
jah4955

jah4955

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WorldExplorer said:
They can't even make moving images, a staple of fantasy and something they already have other places on property, without it being tied into an IP somehow.



Disney doesn't want any animators to be. They just dropped a billion into Sora. Those kids aren't getting jobs at Disney Animation when they grow up.
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Yea...I'm very concerned there's going to be an ever increasing dearth of creativity in the future.
 
seabreezept813

seabreezept813

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DisneyHead123 said:
If it's a good play area, I'll be happy. HS doesn't have a lot for young kids and they need some additions there. To my mind, young children are the one crowd who often do better with something simpler and with fewer bells and whistles. They're in shock and awe mode when they see a spinning toothbrush or even a cardboard box, add too much and they'll just get overstimulated. My son is just beginning to age out of this era, but he's still at the age where he has similar levels of fun at a McDonald's Playplace and the Magic Kingdom (actually, probably more at the Playplace, to be honest.)

E tickets are great, but people eaters - especially ones that don't take years to build - help everyone's experience too, by spreading out crowds.
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Ya there's a lot of criticism, but an indoor air conditioned kid-friendly space will be such a blessing in Hollywood Studios. And I know the naysayers will say that bar is too low, but Hollywood Studios is the most miserable park in the heat. And space like Communicore, etc are great for kids to run off some unstructured energy. I realize I benefit as my 7 and 4 year old still need this, but I don't see myself resenting spaces like this in the future either. It feels family friendly to have a space for play and to cool down in parks that can be a lot and overwhelming.
 
HMF

HMF

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DisneyHead123 said:
If it's a good play area, I'll be happy. HS doesn't have a lot for young kids and they need some additions there. To my mind, young children are the one crowd who often do better with something simpler and with fewer bells and whistles. They're in shock and awe mode when they see a spinning toothbrush or even a cardboard box, add too much and they'll just get overstimulated. My son is just beginning to age out of this era, but he's still at the age where he has similar levels of fun at a McDonald's Playplace and the Magic Kingdom (actually, probably more at the Playplace, to be honest.)

E tickets are great, but people eaters - especially ones that don't take years to build - help everyone's experience too, by spreading out crowds.
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"I felt there should be something built, some kind of amusement enterprise built where the parents and the children could have fun together"-Walt Disney.
 
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DisneyHead123

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HMF said:
"I felt there should be something built, some kind of amusement enterprise built where the parents and the children could have fun together"-Walt Disney.
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Yes but that was in the 1950s when I assume parents put down their cigars and Scotch on very rare occasion to take junior on vacation (wait, it was the 1950s, so they just drove down the road while smoking the cigar and drinking the Scotch), and so canoeing their kid around at Disneyland for 20 minutes seemed like whimsical fun. Then junior was sent back outside to raise himself until the next summer.

My kid already does 8,000 yearly crafts / slimes / potions, has some sort of outing or event every weekend with me by his side, classes, daily playtime involving the most boring games with Little People that have ever existed and literally cause time to slow down, walks, museums, train rides... trust me when I say that I am having out-of-body-experience levels of fun when he is entertaining himself at a PlayPlace and I have a Diet Coke and my phone. There is not a price you can put on that type of fun.

So yeah, it looks a little different in 2025, but mission accomplished. Parents and kids having fun.
 
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DCBaker

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Original Poster
Disney has launched a page for Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live!:

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MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
Cmdr_Crimson said:
It's also interesting to know that Mickey seems to have more attractions for him at DHS than any other park...

Summer Fun
Runaway Railway
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+
Fantasmic
And of course his M&G
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Well, in MK there is...
  • Town Square Theater (Main Street, U.S.A.) M&G
  • Mickey’s PhilharMagic (Fantasyland)
  • Mickey’s Magical Friendship Faire – Live show on the stage in front of Cinderella Castle
  • Let the Magic Begin – Short opening‑moment show at the castle right before regular park opening
  • Festival of Fantasy Parade – Afternoon parade
  • Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away -- nighttime electric parade

Seasonally:
  • Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party -- parade, stage show
  • Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party -- parade, castle fireworks show

And if you count MK resort character meals...
  • one in the Contemporary and one in the Polynesian
 
jah4955

jah4955

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MisterPenguin said:
Well, in MK there is...
  • Town Square Theater (Main Street, U.S.A.) M&G
  • Mickey’s PhilharMagic (Fantasyland)
  • Mickey’s Magical Friendship Faire – Live show on the stage in front of Cinderella Castle
  • Let the Magic Begin – Short opening‑moment show at the castle right before regular park opening
  • Festival of Fantasy Parade – Afternoon parade
  • Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away -- nighttime electric parade

Seasonally:
  • Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party -- parade, stage show
  • Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween Party -- parade, castle fireworks show

And if you count MK resort character meals...
  • one in the Contemporary and one in the Polynesian
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I read up on this profusely (especially WSJ when it was a vastly better publication than today) around the time (before & after) the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" (1998) was being passed.

Although every passing year (in perpetuity) more individual Disney films, etc. will become "public domain," Disney owns the trademarks forever, and no one else can make a Mickey, etc. if people can easily be led to believe it was made by Disney.

Hence all the horror films with Mickey, Pooh, etc. That's safe.

However, I remember also reading that this was with the expectation Disney consistently "uses" their Trademark (if you don't use it, you can lose it!)

For example, it was not long after the legislation passed I noticed Mickey a lot more often on TV: Mouse Works, House of Mouse, Clubhouse, Racers, Paul Rudish,, etc. Whereas not long before Disney didn't even show him in a 1993 Bonkers episode about Mickey. Arguably from one extreme to the next.

Nevermind all the other Mickey offerings "through the 'ears" (sorry couldn't resist!),.

Today is a far cry from when Mickey was mostly found either in a parade or if you were in the right place/right time for a "meet & greet" (especially between when MMR closed in 1980, and 1988 when Birthdayland opened).

If anyone "pushes back" on this (or if I get time) I'll try to re-pull my sources.
 
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MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
jah4955 said:
I read up on this profusely (especially WSJ when it was a vastly better publication than today) around the time (before & after) the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" (1998) was being passed.

Although every passing year (in perpetuity) more individual Disney films, etc. will become "public domain," Disney owns the trademarks forever, and no one else can make a Mickey, etc. if people can easily be led to believe it was made by Disney.

Hence all the horror films with Mickey, Pooh, etc. That's safe.

However, I remember also reading that this was with the expectation Disney consistently "uses" their Trademark (if you don't use it, you can lose it!)

For example, it was not long after the legislation passed I noticed Mickey a lot more often on TV: Mouse Works, House of Mouse, Clubhouse, Racers, etc. Whereas not long before Disney didn't even show him in a 1993 Bonkers episode about Mickey. Arguably from one extreme to the next.

Nevermind all the other Mickey offerings "through the 'ears" (sorry couldn't resist!),.

Today is a far cry from when Mickey was mostly found either in a parade or if you were in the right place/right time for a "meet & greet" (especially between when MMR closed in 1980, and 1988 when Birthdayland opened).

If anyone "pushes back" on this (or if I get time) I'll try to re-pull my sources.
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My post wasn't about copyright or trademark.
 

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