hrcollectibles
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Well I will probably Still call it that Eventually I could get used to it. I mean It took me a while to Call Epcot Epcot when I used to call it by ita Full name Epcot Center....
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Well I will probably Still call it that Eventually I could get used to it. I mean It took me a while to Call Epcot Epcot when I used to call it by ita Full name Epcot Center....
ToTBellHop
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I thought you were going to say that it took you a long time to call it Epcot and not EPCOT hahahaha...I never called it EPCOT Center, though.
Disney-Pixar Studios has more pros than cons:
Pros:
- Will motivate John Lasseter to take a more active role in the development of Walt Disney World something people have been clamoring about for some time.
- Forces Disney to make major changes and add major new additions to help rebrand the park in peoples minds, get people into the gates, and fight off Harry Potter & the Universal armada.
- Hopefully, all pixar rides and tie-ins will be placed in this park where it will make sense themeing wise rather than at the other Disneyworld parks.
-Might bring animators back to the Studio and began the process of turning the studio park once again into an active production studio
Cons:
-People are so used to saying MGM studios it is going to be difficult to change the way everybody thinks. Its human nature to resist change.
-Too much focus on Pixar (but hopefully all pixar tie-ins will go into this park instead of MK, Epcot, and animal kingdom where they really dont belong).
Pros:
- Will motivate John Lasseter to take a more active role in the development of Walt Disney World something people have been clamoring about for some time.
- Forces Disney to make major changes and add major new additions to help rebrand the park in peoples minds, get people into the gates, and fight off Harry Potter & the Universal armada.
- Hopefully, all pixar rides and tie-ins will be placed in this park where it will make sense themeing wise rather than at the other Disneyworld parks.
-Might bring animators back to the Studio and began the process of turning the studio park once again into an active production studio
Cons:
-People are so used to saying MGM studios it is going to be difficult to change the way everybody thinks. Its human nature to resist change.
-Too much focus on Pixar (but hopefully all pixar tie-ins will go into this park instead of MK, Epcot, and animal kingdom where they really dont belong).
darthjohnny
Active Member
No matter what it's called, I think a bunch of people will still call it "MGM."
But this is kind of an interesting theory if they don't call the whole park Disney-Pixar Studios.
If they just call one specific area Disney-Pixar Studios, it represents the Disney's Studios Pixar division.
That way, they can call the park just "The Disney Studios" and they can still put a bunch of Pixar things there, but not have the whole park dedicated to Disney-Pixar which some people complain about. This way everyone wins.
Intersting. I can't wait to find out more.
slappy magoo
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Maybe they should call it Disney-CBS-Cayuga-Productions Studios.
Wait! I forgot about Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Casablanca and Alien!
So Disney-MGM-Cayuga-Paramount-Fox-Warner Brothers-Lucasfilm Studios!
Feel free to make the list longer as you remember movies referenced in The Studios I forgot!
I feel fairly confident that this "armada" wont even show as a blip on Disney's radar.....
Then you underestimate the fanbase of Harry Potter and The Simpsons
Most of the Simpsons fanbase is alienated by the poor quality of the show over the past few seasons.
I think you overestimate the amount of people that Universal fan actually handle at this point. Even if they gain 2 million per park, which would basically cap out their capacity, they won't even be effecting WDW's bottom line. WDW would still have 30 million more through the gates every year.
Not when word of mouth spreads.
Remember at one time GM was the most sucessful car company in the world. Now Toyota has surpassed them.
That wasn't overnight. Or in any short period of time.
It took decades.
And that wasn't because of anything Toyota did, it was because GM chose to do nothing new, and sit and be stagnant. Disney isn't showing any signs of doing that, as evidenced by the daily whine posts about changes at WDW around here.
WDWFigment
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Uhhh...you forgot Aerosmith. Personally, I think The Disney-Steven Tyler Studios has quite a ring to it!
DisneyGigi
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:ROFLOL:Uhhh...you forgot Aerosmith. Personally, I think The Disney-Steven Tyler Studios has quite a ring to it!
Exactly just like Walt Disney World. Look at Magic Kingdom...the last e-ticket attraction was Splash Mountain back in 1992 and the last major revamp was tomorrowland in 1994 since then the MK has become stagnant, poorly maintained, and the small changes that have been made are mostly for the worst (despite what the people hear think Stitch and monsters inc are NOT popular attractions) and pooh's playground is a sick joke no matter how you try to spin it.
Disney MGM-Studios is a mess and until the rumors become fact it will still be a mess of a park and toy story mania isn't going to help change that.
Epcot is a mess starting from the tombstone/tacky wand combo that greets you as you enter to mediocre "in your face/Wanna be hip" attractions such as Ellen's energy adventure, test track, mission:space, and journey into your imagination. World Showcase has not seen a major new addition since Norway in the 80s. Talk about staleness and stagnation.
All of the changes made to the parks in the past few years have been very minor and if they continue this course people will start walking away. Yes Expedition Everest (2006) and Soarin' (2005) are great additions but they are not enough.
A 3D toy story ride just isn't going to cut it when you have a richly themed Harry Potter Land plus other entertainment offerings a few miles away. Disney as a whole has been extremly lazy these past few years (due to poor management, no compeition, laying off talented individuals at Imagineering, cutting down R&D, and a toxic culture at WDI) well some of those things have supposedly been fixed now so lets see Disney get off their butt and do some amazing things again before the general public starts thinking like the disney nerds realizing that Disney is doing too little to warrant the expense of taking a trip there and they start to take their money to other entertainment in Orlando where those companies are working hard to impress people.
You might have valid points, except for the fact that WDW is GAINING market share, not losing it.
And if you're going to talk about sitting stagnant, take a look at Universal. They do MUCH less than Disney on a year to year basis. Two new rides and a retheme on two others does not make them competition to WDW. Blue Man Group won't draw people in. It might be a popular show, but people won't go to Universal just because of it. How many new attractions has Universal ever added to their parks that wasn't a replacement of another attraction?
Your assuming that Harry Potterville is going to be richly themed because of the concept drawings?
ToTBellHop
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well-themed, yes, but based on its $230m budget, it's nothing to write home about--sure it'll attract people, but Disney has nothing to worry about.Your assuming that Harry Potterville is going to be richly themed because of the concept drawings?
And if you were in charge of Universal, you would be very dissappointed in a couple of years...
AnimalMagnetism
Member
I don't really get this - you think Disney is ruining MK because it isn't making additions to it - and it's ruining Epcot because it is making additions to it (3 new E-tickets in the last decade) - I don't really understand.
Is Universal really a rival to WDW? Do people on their vacation to Florida really think "so shall I go to Universal or WDW?" or do they think "with all these days I'm spending at WDW, can I really fit Universal in?" I'm sure you're right that Simpsons and Potter will boost Universal's attendance, but I'm sure Disney will "retaliate", as the recent posts about MGM's forthcoming (long-overdue) developments attest.
Epcot only has 1 new "e-ticket" and thats soarin. mission:space is a fiasco and test track has been around for almost a decade now as for those recent posts im waiting for the official news from Disney before I comment on how effective the retaliation will be.