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DHS Makeover - What we know so far.....
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bristol's mom
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Isn't there going to be another major attraction in DHS? I guess it is Cars Land then.
Sue_Vongello
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No more meet and greets please. I just got back from DL and it's so refreshing to see the characters just walking around and interacting with guests instead of ONLY at designated areas.
That being said ... if the new concept of DHS is to have the front be like "old hollywood" and the back be like "in the movies" ... then why couldn't you have all those pixar characters etc ... walking around like they live/exist in old hollywood. I think that would be phenomenal.
Sue_Vongello
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There is speculation that there is more coming and there is land they want to use for expansion and Carsland is referenced here alot. So yeah you're probably on the right track.
And please don't think I was trying to be antagonistic towards your post ... I just saw you mentioned Frozen and thought it was peculiar and wanted to ask if someone had mentioned that or if that is a rumor because honestly ... that'd be so weird to have lands in two different parks, right?
Disneyhead'71
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Maybe later. Right now, Star Wars Launch Bay is going in the spot the Blue Sky Lounge was rumored to go in.
1023
Provocateur, Rancanteur, Plaisanter, du Jour
There are more than a few pieces missing from the puzzle. The presentation was a Cliff's notes version of an unfinished story with pages torn out and run over by the passing tractor. Then the DoD got out the black marker and redacted the heck out of it.
The most straight forward thing presented at D23 Expo for the "parks" was Toy Story (play)Land. The concept art for Star Wars was limited to overall shots or "elevations". The concepts presented as attractions were intentionally vague. The attraction list provided is incomplete.
Watch things start to happen (in Florida) as early as October and as late as January. You can indulge your Anaheim inferiority complex until then.
*1023*
Mawg
Well-Known Member
So I just had a thought, The BOD supposedly approved a 3.4 bil budget for HS with a chunk going of 300 mil going to MK and Epcot (don't recall if those numbers are exactly right). But what if the chunks where approved for the other parks because changes to HS where going to directly affect the other parks, meaning they are really still part of the HS budget for improvements but to make it work they are going to have to make changes to these other parks as well. As an example, what if there is an MI area planned and they don't want to keep the Laugh Floor in MK when they have a new MI land at HS, so they have to kick 300 mil to the MK for a replacement so that HS can move forward (same could be said for Space Ranger). It's really still part of the overall plan for HS that they would have presented to the BOD. Just a thought.
MKeeler
Well-Known Member
This is why I'm just cautiously optimistic about both of the announcements. If the new lands are going in the most heavily rumored spots for each location, I fear that this will leave DHS with the worst attraction count of any Disney theme park. If Star Wars Land is indeed taking over the area directly left of Hollywood Blvd including the Sounds Dangerous and Superstar Theaters and the Indiana Jones Stunt Show area, and if Toy Story Land is going behind Toy Story Mania, I get 15 or 16 attractions remaining in DHS depending on the rumors:
1. Tower of Terror
2. Rock-n-RollerCoaster
3. something @ Beauty & the Beast
4. Great Movie Ride
5. Disney Jr.
6. Something in Animation Academy - Launch Bay
7. Jedi Training
8. Millenium Falcon
9. First Order/Resistance Attraction
10. Star Tours?
11. Muppets?
12. LMA?
13. Slinky Dog
14. Toy Story Mania
15. Little Green Men
16?. something @ Little Mermaid?
To put things in perspective, Disney Studios Paris has 17 attractions. That's terrible, especially for a park with capacity issues already. DHS needs the RC Racer and a revamped Parachute Drop added to Toy Story Play Land and a complete A Bug's Land in addition to whatever will be revamping the LMA/SOA/Muppets area, just to address capacity.
Hopefully any announcements in the future will show that Disney recognizes this need. Otherwise I fear you will see extremely long lines for the few attractions they have and everyone else dumped out to admire lush themed environments.
Sue_Vongello
Well-Known Member
So I wasn't the only one ... sigh ... I was hoping I was just a crazy old lady now.
Mawg
Well-Known Member
I have a feeling that internally they are having issues that are going kind of like this. Let's add a bugs land, wait we already have It's tough to be a bug at AK, so do we remove it or not build a Bug land or have it in both places. How about Indiana, no...I like Indiana better at MK, let's save it for future MK development. They have spread their IP's so far across the four parks it's probably hard to come to any kind of agreements.
MKeeler
Well-Known Member
One could hope, but it would just play into my other fear that they have absolutely no long term plan for DHS (or any other park for that matter). To me, the idea that Star Wars Land would start immediately off of Hollywood Blvd with no transition and no room for any other Lucasfilm property expansion is the biggest symptom of that .
stretchsje
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What were the rumors years ago about an Incredibles ride? Wasn't that pure fan-made hopes and dreams? Where was it to go?
A Monsters, Inc ride was definitely developed and leaked out in ~2008. Jim Hill says they're circling back on the idea but it's not a lock yet. Cars Land seems like a no-brainer based on its success in California (plus a 3rd movie on the way) and several insiders confirmed this as likely.
Were there ever any other credible ideas ("credible" as in someone who could know corroborated the possibility) floating around on the short list of other Pixar IPs to put in Hollywood Studios? There's so much fan-generated armchair engineering that it's hard to remember what has been substantiated (even in the smallest of ways) over the past five years.
A Monsters, Inc ride was definitely developed and leaked out in ~2008. Jim Hill says they're circling back on the idea but it's not a lock yet. Cars Land seems like a no-brainer based on its success in California (plus a 3rd movie on the way) and several insiders confirmed this as likely.
Were there ever any other credible ideas ("credible" as in someone who could know corroborated the possibility) floating around on the short list of other Pixar IPs to put in Hollywood Studios? There's so much fan-generated armchair engineering that it's hard to remember what has been substantiated (even in the smallest of ways) over the past five years.
Tomorrowland, MK
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Well, we know Toy Story land is going almost entirely in what is currently back stage areas. If a version of Carsland or something like it takes the area where LMA is, that will be a net plus since it will LMA is only performed twice a day.
please dont close voyage of the little mermaid its a great show. agree? disagree?
It's not my decision… Although honestly and I don't mean this to be hurtful, if it was my decision it would be long gone.
That show jumped the shark and jumped relevancy years ago.
Matt_Black
Well-Known Member
... You're Ursula, aren't you?
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Nearmap.com just updated their aerial photos from August 5th, no evidence of anything having been done to the Backlot tour.
No but it's been 20 years, that show should've changed at least three or four times. It's just a basic blackbox theater. That would've been the prime location to put shows pegged to movies that just came out recently.
Same with beauty and the beast. Both of those locations were designed to be easily switch now and not have the same show run for 20 or 25 years…
It's old, it's stale, time to move on.