2 - UNDER THE STARS - Hollywood Boulevard
Welcome to Hollywood Boulevard! This part of Hollywoodland is all about the real Hollywood, not the drab studio version of it that currently exists. In wdwmagic, a user suggested, "
Finish the Hollywoodland remodel by replacing the false fronts, especially on the Hyperion." [Consumer, How would YOU fix DCA?]
Here is a quote from Parklore on fixing it:
"So now, gazing down Hollywood Blvd. from the Carthay, you’d see this…
A wonderful, historic streetscape of rooftop billboards, dancing neon, Red Car Trolleys, and – at the street’s end – the historic Chinese Theater with the Hollywood Hills beyond (which are actually layered, textured flats serving to disguise the show building that the Chinese Theater facade connects to. (Enjoy my hasty photo-edit, above.) Using natural features to disguise show buildings is a big win for Hollywoodland, in my opinion, which would benefit from any reduction in visible soundstages or “cop-out” views"
In the map in the above post, you can see it put into action...
ATTRACTIONS SUMMARY - Hollywood Boulevard
(In the "Imagineer" forum, there is a very similar concept to this. If this looks like your concept, please send me the link.) Instead of Parklore's proposed Mickey's Runaway Railway, this show building of the TECL Chinese Theater will instead feature...
The Great Movie Ride
This ride was the magnum opus of MGM's studios, the beginning and end of your fabulous journey to Hollywood. The ride is both a classic and a modern marvel. Guests are immersed in this wonderful now non-guided dark ride that will take them into the movies... There are 3 sections to this ride, the beginnings, the legacy, and the new world.
The queue - Inside the show building, the queue is a "temporary" exibhit featuring Walt Disney, which has lots of interactive games, a cinema timeline, and Walt Disney memoir. This place is similar to the Walt Disney Family Musuem somewhere else in California!
The ride - There are three parts to the Great Movie Ride. The Beginnings, the Legacy, and the New World. After entering the main "theater", guests are suddenly transported to a world of black and white, in a garden scene with people looking up to the sky, where a face on the moon has a rocket implanted in it, then a train pulls in... After a few more silent black and white scenes, we reach a whistling tune of Mickey - steamboat willie, as seen in the introductions of Disney animation films, when see him driving the wheel of a boat, and then eerie music begins, and suddenly, the color sound starts flooding out, starting with the brooms scene from the sorcerer's apprentice, and then exiting into fantasia, and then the animation countryside with Mary Poppins. Here, we begin the legacy, as we exit the animation countryside into a London rooftop, where Marry Poppins and Company are singing and dancing. We have arrived at the legacy sections! Guests then move through scenes from classic movies, ending with Wizard of Oz. Then, the black box section! The new world... every year, the scenes are changed with the current popular movie, whether it's Encanto, or avatar 2, who knows!
RIDE OVERLAYS - during the august/september months, a muppets overlay takes over the great movie ride to celebrate its first appearnce! This turns The Great Movie Ride into the Great Muppet Movie Ride, the cancelled ride at Hollywood Studios. Another ovelay is from december to febuaray, which focuses on winter themed movies, like Home Alone or Frozen.
Animation Academy
While the animation building with all those giant projections is a really great place to chill at, it is a really giant waste of space. So, the land from there, including the Disney Junior Dance Party theater, will be repurposed into Avengers Campus. However, Animation Academy and the store,
Off the Page, remains. The Animation Academy experience is virtually the same thing, but the theming off the Academy hall is rethemed, as the current version is very ancient-looking, So, the room becomes themed to
The Sorcerrer's Apprentice from
Fantasia, with giant "papers" with magical projections placed along the room, similar to the Animation Building.
And tomorow... Muppets Courtyard!