DHS Soundstage 1 Renovation - Toy Storia Mania expansion

[marni1971]

Tracks been on site for several months now.

If the schedules still on track it should be in by now. I think someone posted recently it is.

 

[Monorail_Red_77]

Exactly, it would keep people on the ride longer. I want to be an imagineeer out of college, so I always like it when people understand and like my ideas.

I also want a monorail expansion to HS..... Anybody, anybody? Ahh... Who am I kidding.....

shhh!! You had me at monorail... LOL

 

[Monorail_Red_77]

I completely agree! It's so close to Epcot!

Don't make me bust out my monorail wishful thinking map again. LOL

DHS and EPCOT are so close they could almost get away with linking them together with a peoplemover ride. They could have the entrance/exits within the park boundaries and check your ticket at the ride entrance. Boom, no baggage checks.

Did I mention I hate having to get bag checked at each park when hopping.

 

[danlb_2000]

Tracks been on site for several months now.

If the schedules still on track it should be in by now. I think someone posted recently it is.

Do you know if all the screens have been installed?

 

[marni1971]

Do you know if all the screens have been installed?

I don't. I assume is happening or happened already.

 

[MonorailLover]

Don't make me bust out my monorail wishful thinking map again. LOL

DHS and EPCOT are so close they could almost get away with linking them together with a peoplemover ride. They could have the entrance/exits within the park boundaries and check your ticket at the ride entrance. Boom, no baggage checks.

Did I mention I hate having to get bag checked at each park when hopping.

You and I sir need to do some arm chair imagineering...

 

[RSoxNo1]

Any confirmation about the entrance change?

 

[danlb_2000]

Any confirmation about the entrance change?

Seems pretty obvious from the concept art, and just makes sense.

 

[doctornick]

Any confirmation about the entrance change?

It makes too much sense and fits with the art not to.

My question is when the switch would occur. In an ideal world, they open the third track and new entrance/exit at the same time as TSL but it seems expected that TSL will take longer than the third track addition. So, will they open the additional track with the entrance/exit on Mickey Ave and then have to switch both the entrances and the exits to the other side of the building?

 

[ToTBellHop]

It makes too much sense and fits with the art not to.

My question is when the switch would occur. In an ideal world, they open the third track and new entrance/exit at the same time as TSL but it seems expected that TSL will take longer than the third track addition. So, will they open the additional track with the entrance/exit on Mickey Ave and then have to switch both the entrances and the exits to the other side of the building?

That would make sense.

 

[danlb_2000]

It makes too much sense and fits with the art not to.

My question is when the switch would occur. In an ideal world, they open the third track and new entrance/exit at the same time as TSL but it seems expected that TSL will take longer than the third track addition. So, will they open the additional track with the entrance/exit on Mickey Ave and then have to switch both the entrances and the exits to the other side of the building?

Yeah, I can't see them waiting for TSL to be complete to open the third track. When the reconfigure things to use the third track they could in theory set everything up so that the switch to the other side would be easy, that would allow for a quite switchover when TSL is done.

 

[1023]

Yeah, I can't see them waiting for TSL to be complete to open the third track. When the reconfigure things to use the third track they could in theory set everything up so that the switch to the other side would be easy, that would allow for a quite switchover when TSL is done.

Think emergency exit. That is....if they had to move it because it would be in a backstage area....

*1023*

 

[roj2323]

Seems pretty obvious from the concept art, and just makes sense.

I'm thinking it's just a meet and greet building with a connection to the main building. I don't see any reason why they would want to Or need to close off the current entrance when they are building a huge new bypass, namely toy story land. The bypass in conjunction with the relocation of the woody/buzz meet and greet and the addition of a 3rd track to TSMM should virtully eliminate the current congestion problem.

 

[Monorail_Red_77]

You and I sir need to do some arm chair imagineering...

Sounds like fun....

 

[danlb_2000]

I'm thinking it's just a meet and greet building with a connection to the main building. I don't see any reason why they would want to Or need to close off the current entrance when they are building a huge new bypass, namely toy story land. The bypass in conjunction with the relocation of the woody/buzz meet and greet and the addition of a 3rd track to TSMM should virtully eliminate the current congestion problem.

But I would think they would want the main entrance to the ride to be in the new land. There are also rumors that the current Pixar Place path will be closed off and become backstage space.

 

[Rob562]

But I would think they would want the main entrance to the ride to be in the new land. There are also rumors that the current Pixar Place path will be closed off and become backstage space.

While I understand that moving the entrance for TSMM kinda-sorta makes sense, and the entrance to the queue would be fairly simple and straight-forward, I'm having trouble envisioning how they could possibly reconfigure the exit without huge exit hallways.

As it exists now, the exit simply walks out the front of the building. Presumably the new 3rd track would exit out the front of its building too. But now try and get the Guests exiting the current TSMM around to the back side of the building. If you build a hallway around the Narnia side of the building, you have bathrooms and the maintenance shop to deal with. (The new track would presumably also have its own maintenance area that you'd have to contend with)

The only options I can come up with would have Guests either merging with the new side and exiting around the Soundstage 1 end of the building, though that would require a very long hallway around for the original side, or exit the guests in the original side to the corner of the building where the bathrooms are. This would put them outside the Toy Story Land expansion and very far away from where they parked their strollers.

One other option would be to switch the entrance and exit sides of the loading area, looping incoming riders around to the exit platform, and then exiting up and over the track, somehow threading them between the ride area and the queue.

-Rob

 

[danlb_2000]

While I understand that moving the entrance for TSMM kinda-sorta makes sense, and the entrance to the queue would be fairly simple and straight-forward, I'm having trouble envisioning how they could possibly reconfigure the exit without huge exit hallways.

As it exists now, the exit simply walks out the front of the building. Presumably the new 3rd track would exit out the front of its building too. But now try and get the Guests exiting the current TSMM around to the back side of the building. If you build a hallway around the Narnia side of the building, you have bathrooms and the maintenance shop to deal with. (The new track would presumably also have its own maintenance area that you'd have to contend with)

The only options I can come up with would have Guests either merging with the new side and exiting around the Soundstage 1 end of the building, though that would require a very long hallway around for the original side, or exit the guests in the original side to the corner of the building where the bathrooms are. This would put them outside the Toy Story Land expansion and very far away from where they parked their strollers.

One other option would be to switch the entrance and exit sides of the loading area, looping incoming riders around to the exit platform, and then exiting up and over the track, somehow threading them between the ride area and the queue.

-Rob

How do you exit the ride now, I am not clear on this?

 

[chiefs11]

One other option would be to switch the entrance and exit sides of the loading area, looping incoming riders around to the exit platform, and then exiting up and over the track, somehow threading them between the ride area and the queue.

-Rob

Hadn't thought about this idea before, but I think this makes the most sense. I was assuming they'd have to make a hallway exit all the way back around the front and maintenance side. But your way lets the exit be right next to the new entrance and much shorter.

 

[ToTBellHop]

How do you exit the ride now, I am not clear on this?
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There will have to be lengthy exit corridors starting at the red exits on your diagram. No other way. Granted, Mission Space has some very long exit corridors and so does Soarin (it'll be super long for the third theater there) and people make the walk.

 

[Jon81uk]

How do you exit the ride now, I am not clear on this?
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On that plan the exit is the pink line, partially shared with the handicapped line.