Earfell Tower to be removed

[wdwgreek]

Although this means the death of the studio concept now we will have Old Hollywood 20,30, 40's. Era. And then star wars and then Toy story land and Muppet land. It feels very shoved together and contrived. I wonder how the new name and Icon (whatever it is) will tie it all together?

 

[raven]

In all honesty, they've done away with the "studios" theme completely cause they aren't using it for that purpose anymore. Now it's merely a park themed around movies...and such. And quite honestly, even though I love it, RnR's theme is going to look out of place other than the Hollywood sign in the ride.

 

[SpaceMountain77]

The icon should be Chinese Theater. At three of the four Walt Disney World theme parks the icon is the largest structure at the hub or front entrance.

 

[JohnD]

Inside the Magic says it's closing: http://www./2016/01/more-closures-p...dios-due-to-star-wars-toy-story-construction/

 

[ToTBellHop]

Although this means the death of the studio concept now we will have Old Hollywood 20,30, 40's. Era. And then star wars and then Toy story land and Muppet land. It feels very shoved together and contrived. I wonder how the new name and Icon (whatever it is) will tie it all together?

Contrived? Still seems like an entertainment park to me. The lands being added fit here much better than similar lands at DL and DCA.

 

[JohnD]

The icon should be Chinese Theater. At three of the four Walt Disney World theme parks the icon is the largest structure at the hub or front entrance.

I really could care less what the supposed "icon" should be. All I know is that I'd like Earful Tower to stay.

 

[danlb_2000]

Off Topic, but the Sentinel slideshow still have NBA replacing DisneyQuest, hasn't that changed?

Not officially.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Are we fans if we don't know it's spelled Earffel? Too late now....

 

[JohnD]

Big Walt Disney World news today today. Should have seen it coming. Dump the news on a Friday before a three day weekend.

 

[Prototype82]

Why would they go through the trouble of moving it when the park will no longer represent a studio?

Well Spaceship Earth isn't going to get torn down over at Nemo, Frozen, Donald Duck land, so....

 

[ToTBellHop]

Big Walt Disney World news today today. Should have seen it coming. Dump the news on a Friday before a three day weekend.

So tacky.

 

[SpaceMountain77]

Contrived? Still seems like an entertainment park to me. The lands being added fit here much better than similar lands at DL and DCA.

I agree. The Star Wars Land addition to Disneyland Park seems incredibly out of place and Disney California Adventure is essentially Pixarland with some California storytelling around the front half of the park.

 

[wdwgreek]

Contrived? Still seems like an entertainment park to me. The lands being added fit here much better than similar lands at DL and DCA.

I just feel that even with a guise of an all encompassing umbrella of entertainment is vague at best. The place where it seems contrived is the front two lands, Classic Hollywood and war era Hollywood are now shoved together with 3 Intellectual properties lands. The two go together I guess but I feel like they are award bed mates. They don't fit anywhere else so let's put them here under the entertainment umbrella. Also DCA still so strange I agree with that/

 

[Horizons '83]

I couldn't care less if this removed, it neither added or took away from my park experience. Lets be serious here, did anyone here REALLY look forward to see a tower from afar? Its not even an attraction.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I just feel that even with a guise of an all encompassing umbrella of entertainment is vague at best. The place where it seems contrived is the front two lands, Classic Hollywood and war era Hollywood are now shoved together with 3 Intellectual properties lands. The two go together I guess but I feel like they are award bed mates. They don't fit anywhere else so let's put them here under the entertainment umbrella. Also DCA still so strange I agree with that/

Perhaps if we are meant to believe we are walking into the worlds of Star Wars and Toy Story, we are also stepping into films set in the 1930s and '40s? It would be easy enough to replace the outstanding Citizens of Hollywood with more appropriate streetmosphere.

 

[JohnD]

I couldn't care less if this removed, it neither added or took away from my park experience. Lets be serious here, did anyone here REALLY look forward to see a tower from afar? Its not even an attraction.

Didn't realize it had to be accessible via park admission to be worth anything. I like it. It gives the park character. I'll leave the debate over whether it's the official "icon" to someone else.

 

[Horizons '83]

Didn't realize it had to be accessible via park admission to be worth anything. I like it. It gives the park character. I'll leave the debate over whether it's the official "icon" to someone else.

Its purely nostalgia. I get it but really its just an empty water tower with ears on it. It looks cool but thats really it for me.

 

[captainmoch]

I'd like it if Animation Courtyard and the RNRC/Sunset Showcase area got linked and were turned into the only remnant of the Studio theme, and a smaller Earful Tower could be made there. So the Hollywood side of the park could have "Hollywood Boulevard" with GMR and the Echo Lake dining areas, "Sunset Boulevard" with TOT, Fantasmic, and the BATB theater, and "Hollywood Studios" with the Earful Tower, RNRC, Disney Jr, the LM theater, and Sunset Showcase. Maybe they could put something in the Animation Academy's place as well, such as a dark ride or a refined animation exhibit. Then the other half of the park could be where all the IP worlds go. That way, everybody wins.

 

[Jon81uk]

I'd like it if Animation Courtyard and the RNRC/Sunset Showcase area got linked and were turned into the only remnant of the Studio theme, and a smaller Earful Tower could be made there. So the Hollywood side of the park could have "Hollywood Boulevard" with GMR and the Echo Lake dining areas, "Sunset Boulevard" with TOT, Fantasmic, and the BATB theater, and "Hollywood Studios" with the Earful Tower, RNRC, Disney Jr, the LM theater, and Sunset Showcase. Maybe they could put something in the Animation Academy's place as well, such as a dark ride or a refined animation exhibit. Then the other half of the park could be where all the IP worlds go. That way, everybody wins.

DCA has a studios themed bit like that with an animation exhibition. But ther parts never really worked and it now has a Monster Inc ride that doesn't quite fit alongside other bits of that section.

 

[wdwgreek]

Perhaps if we are meant to believe we are walking into the worlds of Star Wars and Toy Story, we are also stepping into films set in the 1930s and '40s? It would be easy enough to replace the outstanding Citizens of Hollywood with more appropriate streetmosphere.

Disney's Hollywood Adventure " step into your favorite films and relive the excitement, thrills, and fun" I love the streetmosphere characters as is, hopefully the new lands add their own flare of streetmosre. I'm curious what icon the icon will be for the park now.