EPCOT Center took 3 years to the day to physically build.
I think you may be giving them a bit more credit than is due on 7DMT. It is meant to be a nice little diversion...emphasis on the little. There is no reason for it to take 3 years to build.
Good grief
Residential Street was a lot more impressive to me until Dave Smith let it out of the bag that the houses weren't even the real ones used on film. They were replicas of the fake houses...explain that one to me.It worked for a while. Both Disney and Universal created the parks in Florida with intent of being real working studios. Both had many years of success and both opened with studio tours. Universal's closed way early in 1995. Slowly Universal Studios Florida lost most of it's production. They still do film some wrestling shows in a soundstage or two, but they lost mostly everything else (I'm still bitter about Nickelodeon). Disney had a very impressive tour up until 2003. The backlot tour would take you through facilities such as costuming (used both for films and attractions), a special effects scene called Catastrophe Canyon, and you would go down a street called Residential Street which had houses such as the one used in Golden Girls, and would drive down New York Street. Then they decided we needed Lights, Motors, Action and chopped the tour in half into the sad state it's in now. Wait no, about two years ago they made it even sadder by removing the live tour guide with a recorded spiel. And here we are almost 10 years later with Lights, Motors, Action teetering on the chopping block and a sad, sad little backlot tour.
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Same here. Especially the animation studio. Some real beauties were created there (Mulan, Brother Bear, and Lilo & Stitch to name a few).
Is that any worse than Universal Studios Florida's Bates Manor and Motel only having been used for Psycho IV just so they could say it was actually used in a film?
I suppose it is worse, yeah.
It worked for a while. Both Disney and Universal created the parks in Florida with intent of being real working studios. Both had many years of success and both opened with studio tours. Universal's closed way early in 1995. Slowly Universal Studios Florida lost most of it's production. They still do film some wrestling shows in a soundstage or two, but they lost mostly everything else (I'm still bitter about Nickelodeon
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Same here. Especially the animation studio. Some real beauties were created there (Mulan, Brother Bear, and Lilo & Stitch to name a few).
This is a valid point. It's not speaking to the complexity of the Transformers vs. Seven Dwarf's Mine Train, but sculpting rock work by hand, even with the technological advancements made in the area is still a slow process. We can also see that New Fantasyland is going to look spectacular, the issue though is that it doesn't have the anchor attraction that will really move attendance. Radiator Springs Racers is one of those attractions, as are Transformers The Ride, and the Gringotts Coaster.
They did. They even had a tram tour that showed you the pedestrian accessible theme park. A lesson for the bigger topic. Sometimes cloning makes sense, other times it is just silly and ignores the differences between places.
