MikeTaylorSound
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This was back in '97. Nice site line to the Great Movie ride.
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Back When It Was MGM
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maxairmike
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Were they all modified to be retractable? I thought only a few were. If not all of them were retractable, then that's probably not a good sign.
Oh. Well what the heck man? Where do they hold the cartoon drawing?
Tom
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In the Animation Pavilion, which is really just a large meet-n-greet area with a drawing class and a gift shop.
Blackburn23
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Yes!!! Has been my favorite since I was a kid. Always had to say goodbye to Pluto on the last day
This? Love it. Think my last trip was the first time I had spotted it.
Bairstow
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In the place that used to be an actual animation studio.
Matt_Black
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I remember the house from Adventures in Wonderland, as well as the boats from both The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage and Thunder in Paradise.
stevehousse
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Remembering the "good old days" of DHS has been great! I also think its a little sad to see how that park has transformed just so far from what it used to be.
What I miss most is getting to meet actual famous people that would be there when it was a real studio, and Michael Eisner walking the parks on a regular basis. I got to meet him and go on a private tour of the park by him and some other "important" people back when I was 7. So exciting!
What I miss most is getting to meet actual famous people that would be there when it was a real studio, and Michael Eisner walking the parks on a regular basis. I got to meet him and go on a private tour of the park by him and some other "important" people back when I was 7. So exciting!
unkadug
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The only thing from Home Improvement/Tool Time that I remember were the carved wooden figures they used for a "Claymation" episode they did once.
John
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The only thing left of the original concept in the park is maybe the architecture. Stars walking the streets? Hardly what was there in the past. The movie star parade was wonderful. It doesn't even compare to once was. if MGM/DHs isn't an example of the "death by a thousand cuts".....I don't know what is.
I remember all the talk about the spot lights being turned off. Walking in to MGM was like walking in to a production. It had a genuine Hollywood feel to it. Now it is a amusement park with a Hollywood overlay.
Gone is the Hollywood charm. There are probably more attractions now then there was before but when you went to MGM is was never considered a "half day park" It was more of an experience. Who can remember the CM's at TOT and the schtick they used to put on. All of them were always in character. I big part of the attraction were the Cms. Same thing goes for the GRMR. It goes on and on. DHS is a microcosm of WDW.
Disney feels that Avatar will rescue AK from the same fate and it just might. In the mean time DHS is screaming for help. Don't get me wrong I would totally love to see a huge Star Wars presence at DHS. But what I would rather see is some of the Hollywood charm restored to the park. Even with the addition there will always be something missing for me at the park.
I remember all the talk about the spot lights being turned off. Walking in to MGM was like walking in to a production. It had a genuine Hollywood feel to it. Now it is a amusement park with a Hollywood overlay.
Gone is the Hollywood charm. There are probably more attractions now then there was before but when you went to MGM is was never considered a "half day park" It was more of an experience. Who can remember the CM's at TOT and the schtick they used to put on. All of them were always in character. I big part of the attraction were the Cms. Same thing goes for the GRMR. It goes on and on. DHS is a microcosm of WDW.
Disney feels that Avatar will rescue AK from the same fate and it just might. In the mean time DHS is screaming for help. Don't get me wrong I would totally love to see a huge Star Wars presence at DHS. But what I would rather see is some of the Hollywood charm restored to the park. Even with the addition there will always be something missing for me at the park.
Cmdr_Crimson
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The idea of the "Hollywood than Never was and Always Will Be" changed after the park became DHS. Whenever I heard on the Backlot Tour or other attractions that mention that were filming a big Hollywood Production Now....I just laugh because they seized filming anything since it discontinued in the late 90's early 00's..
The Backlot tour isn't even an attraction to go on anymore..What are we seeing on the backlot of now? Just corporate offices with views of their cars in the parking lot, a few fake props, all the outfits being made for other parks, scenery or props for other parks, Pass by Lights, Boring, Action, Cars from movies some couldn't even remember "Oooh look the car from The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag!", Walt's Plane (Which I think they should at least do something better with than put it in such an odd area), Catastrophy Canyon, See more of Fake Action Movie: The Movie (LMA), and see More props from movies that you might have seen in your tv listings on saturday afternoon...
The idea of this is horrendous and if they ever gut out LMA and take time to rethink that area for expansion..I do hope that they could also get a better area for closeups of the Earful Tower...The satellite imagery shows that it's not too pretty below the tower and I wish they could at least incorporate it to be used in an expansion.
The Backlot tour isn't even an attraction to go on anymore..What are we seeing on the backlot of now? Just corporate offices with views of their cars in the parking lot, a few fake props, all the outfits being made for other parks, scenery or props for other parks, Pass by Lights, Boring, Action, Cars from movies some couldn't even remember "Oooh look the car from The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag!", Walt's Plane (Which I think they should at least do something better with than put it in such an odd area), Catastrophy Canyon, See more of Fake Action Movie: The Movie (LMA), and see More props from movies that you might have seen in your tv listings on saturday afternoon...
The idea of this is horrendous and if they ever gut out LMA and take time to rethink that area for expansion..I do hope that they could also get a better area for closeups of the Earful Tower...The satellite imagery shows that it's not too pretty below the tower and I wish they could at least incorporate it to be used in an expansion.
Matt_Black
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Dude, you get to see an A-Wing from Star Wars and the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator; what more could you possibly want?!?
Cmdr_Crimson
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More things to see.....
stevehousse
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And as awesome as getting to see those are, u really have had to go on the old ride to appreciate what it used to be. Not sure if u ever went on the old ride, but it was a 2 hour tour before! Seriously almost 2 hours! It's now what, 20 minutes...so much had changed for that ride it's sad...
Matt_Black
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Yes, I had. I mentioned one of the house fronts earlier in the thread.