Patricia Melton
Well-Known Member
The first step to addressing DHS would be for TDO to decide what that park is supposed to be about in the year 2012 and beyond when there is never going to be any sort of active filming there. That was supposed to be the point of DHS in the very beginning, that it would be a working studio for guests to learn how movies and TV shows were made. In my opinion the mission statement and guiding principles of DHS need to be reconcieved as "DHS is the park that celebrates great movies from Disney and other artists".
So much could be done with that concept. There could be a whole Star Wars Land, a land for Indiana Jones with lots of fun attractions, an area for Pixar Films, the Muppet Studios, etc. It would be the one place where it would feel totally appropriate to base a land off a movie franchise because that would be the point of the place.
Tear down all the studio buildings and evict the executive offices that are there now and really go wild with bringing the movies to life.
You want a Potter-Swatter? Well, how about a place where you can visit all sorts of films and not just the Potter ones? That would be amazing.
I'm really fascinated by the remaking of Tomorrowland though. That is another thing that needs its mission statement and guiding principles reexamined. They need to find a way to present Tomorrowland so that it does not need to be remade again for another 50 years. Don't set it in the near future...set it in a make-believe world based on science fiction. I kind of like the idea of it being done up in Steampunk to look like what the people who lived on Main Street at the turn of the 20th Century thought the future would look like. That would be a fun transition from Main Street into Tomorrowland...like you were leaping into the imaginations of those Main Street residents. Disney Imagineers could have a lot of fun with Steampunk.
I'm really excited for October to come. Al Lutz has hinted a few times that Disney would be deciding soon what it's going to do and we'd get an idea somewhat of what's to come for Tomorrowland and Frontierland. I am really crossing my fingers that exciting things are coming down the pipe and this is the beginning of a New Golden Age for Disney parks.
So much could be done with that concept. There could be a whole Star Wars Land, a land for Indiana Jones with lots of fun attractions, an area for Pixar Films, the Muppet Studios, etc. It would be the one place where it would feel totally appropriate to base a land off a movie franchise because that would be the point of the place.
Tear down all the studio buildings and evict the executive offices that are there now and really go wild with bringing the movies to life.
You want a Potter-Swatter? Well, how about a place where you can visit all sorts of films and not just the Potter ones? That would be amazing.
I'm really fascinated by the remaking of Tomorrowland though. That is another thing that needs its mission statement and guiding principles reexamined. They need to find a way to present Tomorrowland so that it does not need to be remade again for another 50 years. Don't set it in the near future...set it in a make-believe world based on science fiction. I kind of like the idea of it being done up in Steampunk to look like what the people who lived on Main Street at the turn of the 20th Century thought the future would look like. That would be a fun transition from Main Street into Tomorrowland...like you were leaping into the imaginations of those Main Street residents. Disney Imagineers could have a lot of fun with Steampunk.
I'm really excited for October to come. Al Lutz has hinted a few times that Disney would be deciding soon what it's going to do and we'd get an idea somewhat of what's to come for Tomorrowland and Frontierland. I am really crossing my fingers that exciting things are coming down the pipe and this is the beginning of a New Golden Age for Disney parks.
