News Disney plans to reboot Voyage of the Little Mermaid stage show at Disney's Hollywood Studios

[Jedi14]

Maybe the mocap they’re doing for Ursula is causing problems.

 

[Splash4eva]

Is anyone really shocked this is delayed just like almost everything else. Im sure all the pixie dusters will come defend them with excuse after excuse but lets face it this is Disney now sadly ….

 

[Brer Panther]

How could it possibly take them so long to get this new show up and running?

 

[dmc493]

I'm always quick to give any project the benefit of the doubt (seeing as construction management is my career), because depending on a million factors, something like a rooftop unit for HVAC systems can go from 16 week leadtime to 6 months with almost no notice, and there's probably several hundred examples of those types of things happening.

Bring in the added factors that come with Disney - their proclivity for delaying work to align with fiscal timelines, fluctuations due to creative decision making, or could be as crazy as last-minute-added design changes to accommodate a relocated future expansion (fingers crossed for AC Monsters).... But end of the day, it could totally just be as reported. You have a big idea for how set pieces or something will work in a space, and you go down the road with developing it, all for it to not work as you intended, and you're back to the drawing board. Ya never know. Smaller projects/tasks can sometimes turn out far more difficult than people expect

 

[dmc493]

^to be clear I'm not giving Disney carte blanche by any means for some of their delays or choices, just spitballing all the things that can happen in a project big or small

 

[ToTBellHop]

AFAIK, this delay is partially necessitated by some changes to the queue and exit access required with AC closing next year for extensive demolition.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

AFAIK, this delay is partially necessitated by some changes to the queue and exit access required with AC closing next year for extensive demolition.

That would certainly make sense.

What a strange park this will end up being.

 

[dmc493]

If they had rotated Roundup BBQ 45 degrees counterclockwise, there could be such a natural pathway towards the AC expansion pad from TSL. it's still feasible but BBQ definitely looks in the way from satellite view. Still leaves Pixar Plaza, WDP-OMD, and VOTLM in a weird purgatory

 

[ToTBellHop]

That would certainly make sense.

What a strange park this will end up being.

I don’t think many will lament the loss of Launch Bay and Disney Jr.

As for TLM, I’ve actually been told this queue and exit movement will allow it to stay long term. The playground would replace its gift shop.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

I don’t think many will lament the loss of Launch Bay and Disney Jr.

As for TLM, I’ve actually been told this queue and exit movement will allow it to stay long term. The playground would replace its gift shop.

What about Brown Derby?

 

[rct247]

I don’t think many will lament the loss of Launch Bay and Disney Jr.

As for TLM, I’ve actually been told this queue and exit movement will allow it to stay long term. The playground would replace its gift shop.

There's not much space for them to work with and those gift shops are very small footprints partially built into the building. The stage itself is along the wall shared by the queue. I wouldn't be surprised if Walt Disney Presents and Mermaid will eventually be removed.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I don’t think many will lament the loss of Launch Bay and Disney Jr.

Oh not at all - I just meant Old Hollywood, modern Mickey, monsters, mermaid, Toy Story land - it’s quite the cluster.

To think we almost had Pixar movies together and the Star Wars and possibly other Lucas movie together as well.

 

[Sneaky]

I don’t think many will lament the loss of Launch Bay and Disney Jr.

As for TLM, I’ve actually been told this queue and exit movement will allow it to stay long term. The playground would replace its gift shop.

For any of you surprised that this originally (rumored) temporary show is no longer temporary: this is Disney’s Hollywood studios. Why did you expect anything esle?

 

[mattpeto]

What about Brown Derby?

The dining is the trickiest part. That’s why I think “Grand Avenue Plan” isn’t going away lightly.

 

[dmc493]

They set the bar very low recently at DCA with rebranding the main path as "Performance Corridor", so here's hoping they can figure out something for TLM and Walt Disney Presents and that area

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

I struggle to see what delays this so badly? It’s a bad look once again announcing something for one time and failing miserably at achieving that. I shouldn’t be surprised anymore yet I still am.

Didn’t they start casting months ago? What happens to anyone found during that? Oh sorry we’re actually not going to hire you for another 7 months?

I am not at all an insider, and I am not at all saying this is an insiders opinion; I am going purely off the vibes of this announcement. But I think we might have just discovered where Monsters Inc. is going and the reason this got delayed is they’re having to make alterations to the building to accommodate it.

 

[PizzaPlanet]

If Monsters goes to AC, is it safe to assume Disney Junior becomes the sushi restaurant? It would make sense since it used to be a restaurant, already has a connected kitchen, etc.