ToTBellHop
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Chinese Theatre
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DinoInstitute
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I get what you're saying. I think it works because it's not just a haunted hotel, but can well represent the Old Hollywood theme. In addition with the Twilight Zone IP it also features the classic tv/movie aspect of the park.
ToTBellHop
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This is something that has always confused me about this jumbled mess of a park. Ostensibly it's a working studio, thus the false facades. Yet Hollywood Blvd is really in the 1930s and Sunset Blvd is really in the 1940s with RnRC and ToT set in the present day? Star Tours is a Hollywood set until it's real?
Is Hollywood Tower Hotel a movie set (nothing actually suggests this in the theme) or are we meant to believe it is real?
Christian Fronckowiak
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- In the Parks
- Yes
Hollywood Boulevard is real. Sunset Boulevard is real. Echo Lake is "really Hollywood" with some backlot-ish sets where Star Wars and Indiana Jones are being filmed... ?... Once through the studio arch, everything is a production facility, even though you can walk through SoA through the Echo Lake side. And then Mickey Avenue became Pixar Place which became a "real studio filtered through Mickey's Toontown" where the characters are "movie stars."
Idk.
ToTBellHop
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Sunset is real 1940s but RnRC and ToT are present day? It doesn't work for me.
I just feel like the Chinese Theatre is neglected. It remained for more than a decade behind a giant Mickey hat (because why not) and, when the Hat finally came down, the Theatre was rewarded with a fresh coat of paint and a sponsorship. Not even an "icon of the park" status.
And that's it.
And now, rumors say that the Great Movie Ride (which, IMO, is what still - kind of - holds the park together by addressing the "movies/Hollywood" theme as a whole) will be rethemed into a Mickey ride of sorts (and that could mean that the Theatre facade would be replaced by something else - because why not, again).
My main complaint about the park is that it started with such a coherent theme (Hollywood and the art of making movies) that, after many years of replacements and readjustments, the original idea simply fell apart. Now, we have "Star Wars Launch Bay" on Animation Courtyard.
So, by (~) 2025, this park should be basically made of Toy Story, Mickey (???), Star Wars, random recreations of 30/40's Hollywood-inspired streets, and a haunted hotel (if ToT doesn't become GotG:MB til then).
Disney's Hollywood Studios: the Hollywood that never was, and always will be.
Not really.
And that's it.
And now, rumors say that the Great Movie Ride (which, IMO, is what still - kind of - holds the park together by addressing the "movies/Hollywood" theme as a whole) will be rethemed into a Mickey ride of sorts (and that could mean that the Theatre facade would be replaced by something else - because why not, again).
My main complaint about the park is that it started with such a coherent theme (Hollywood and the art of making movies) that, after many years of replacements and readjustments, the original idea simply fell apart. Now, we have "Star Wars Launch Bay" on Animation Courtyard.
So, by (~) 2025, this park should be basically made of Toy Story, Mickey (???), Star Wars, random recreations of 30/40's Hollywood-inspired streets, and a haunted hotel (if ToT doesn't become GotG:MB til then).
Disney's Hollywood Studios: the Hollywood that never was, and always will be.
Not really.
FigmentForver96
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The hotel was built in 1917 and the incident in 1939. If the street is 1940s then perhaps that's enough to pass for a convincing theme. I mean Tower is the pinnacle of Disney imagineers and it definetly fits the theme of the entire front half very well. Although, I do agree it does not benefit the entire park as the icon.
DinoInstitute
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I've always been under the impression that the front half of the park with the Hollywood areas are 'real'. And the rest was part of the studio tour half.
It's a mix. Architecture is 30s. If a guest is meant to be in the 30s or present day is for them to decide. I guess it decides if you see any streetmosphere. Tower and RnRC are very much present day.
ToTBellHop
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"The time is now on an evening very much like the one we have just witnessed."
PizzaPlanet
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Or maybe time passes as you walk down Sunset. At first you are in the 40s, but by the time you get to ToT you are in present day.
Pixie VaVoom
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Ok, with all that time travel - NOW I have got a headache !!
Well, there's almost nothing to the theater. It' mostly decorated tall walls...
If it were gone:
If it were gone:
- they'd be an almost straight path to TSL
- you can then create a huge and nicely theme entrance to TSL that everyone will see
- you can remove the Animation Courtyard entrance wall, too, seeing that the Animation Tour and Workshop is gone
- you can then use the decorations of the Chinese Theater facade to be the facade for one of the actual theaters in the park, or, use it to frame the main entrance to the park (you're entering the world of movies)
- you can then put up a bigger and better facade that's nicely themed and is centered under the fireworks and more appropriate for projections (higher up and bigger and flatter)... yes, even something that resembles a giant screen... (screens and movie lands go together)... it could be one of those billboards that have rotating slats that show different scenes during the day and switch to white for the nighttime projections shows.
- and while we're centering the projection show and fireworks, ditch Min&Bills and pave over Echo Lake so that there's enough viewing area in the 'hub'
Haymarket2008
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All this talk of the icon and what they will settle on and we still have no idea what the new name of the park will be.
Goofyernmost
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This is a discussion board... knowledge almost never enters into it.
About that, are there any new rumors?
Two and a half years.
elchippo
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Good call! I feel more like TOT is to DHS what the Matterhorn is for Disneyland.
righttrack
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The park icon and lack of an overall cohesive theme stems from the fact that they built it to spoil the opening of Universal in Orlando. They built a tour-able "studio" because that is what they expected Universal to do but Universal had other ideas. They built Universal Orlando as a theme park from the ground up rather than the "working studio" they had in Los Angeles. So WDW has constantly tweaked this park and now they have reached a crossroads. Say what you want but it's no more disjointed than the competition at Universal.