Hollywood Studios Sorcerer Hat

Brian_B

Brian_B

Member
WeLComeHomE OKW said:
I totally understand this argument.

HOWEVER, most of the scenes are from movies that were released in the 80s. The ride was originally trying to be hip by mostly including movies recently released within the past decade.
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Let's see.

Busby Berkley musical extravaganzas - 1920s/30s

Singin' in the Rain - 1952

Mary Poppins - 1964

The Public Enemy/James Cagney Gangster films - out of vogue by the 1950s

John Wayne / Clint Eastwood westerns - 1950s and 1970s, respectively

Alien - 1979. Closest your absurd argument has come so far, but if you knew the first thing about film you'd understand that Alien is regarded as maybe the single best horror and/or sci fi movie pretty much ever

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1980s. Yeah, you're right. It was fashionable in 1989 to like Raiders/Indiana Jones. NOBODY even knows about THAT tired franchise anymore...:lookaroun

Mummy Movies / Horror Films - harkening back to the serials of the '30s and '40s (says so in the ride spiel)

Tarzan as portrayed by Johnny Weismuller - I'm not exactly sure, but I'm going to venture a slight guess and say that Johnny Weismuller was probably in a walker in the 1980s, if he was even alive. He sure as heck wasn't swinging from a vine.

Casablanca - Nothing says 1980s like Casablanca! I especially loved the scene where Rick and Sam "get down" to Cyndi Lauper while driving their Delorean through neon-drenched downtown Miami.

The Wizard of Oz - so old that the inclusion of color reversal was regarded by audiences as a special effect.

The finale film - Here's where the '80s influence makes sense. Discounting The Chronicles of Narnia, Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean, Armageddon, Star Wars IV, Malcolm X, Forrest Gump, Sister Act, Chicago, The Godfather, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben Hur, The Great Train Robbery, Charlie Chaplin in general, Fantasia, Gone with the Wind, Sunset Boulevard, A Streetcar Named Desire, Some Like it Hot, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Alien, Shanghai Knights, Klute, 10, Giant, The Public Enemy, Lady and the Tramp, Anchors Aweigh, Saturday Night Fever, Take the Money and Run, North by Northwest, Apocalypse Now, Pearl Harbor, Shakespeare in Love, From Here to Eternity, Arsenic and Old Lace, Blazing Saddles, Jailhouse Rock, The Absent-Minded Professor, San Fransisco, The French Connection, Grand Hotel, A Place in the Sun, The Ten Commandments, Babes in Arms and A Plumbing We Will Go, you are ABSOLUTELY and TOTALLY correct.*

:wave:

*Note: this is an impartial list. There are MANY MORE films in the finale that were decidedly NOT made during the 1980s.

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot! Give me a couple of my buddies from Hoboken, an equal number of blowtorches and hacksaws, plus on Apache helicopter, and I can have that terrible eyesore in the Gulf of Mexico overnight.
 
Grlwonder

Grlwonder

New Member
I like the hat, it's been in DHS for so long that I don't remember how it was before the hat (the only thing I can remember was that firework show in front of the Chinese Theater). The hat does represent a Hollywood hit movie, Fantasia, if you recall. I think once it's taken down and I return to DHS, the area will feel empty. I can't think of a place to put the hat. For me the hat is the icon for DHS and will always be. It's like when I think of Magic Kingdom I think of Cinderella's Castle. When I think of DHS I think of the great big hat, and that's all I think, not thr water tower. The water tower is so small and in the back it doesn't stand out as other park icons. I will miss the big great hat.
 
lilclerk

lilclerk

Well-Known Member
Grlwonder said:
I like the hat, it's been in DHS for so long that I don't remember how it was before the hat (the only thing I can remember was that firework show in front of the Chinese Theater). The hat does represent a Hollywood hit movie, Fantasia, if you recall.
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We all love and appreciate Fantasia now, but it was pretty much a huge flop when it was first released. :shrug:
 
wm49rs

wm49rs

A naughty bit o' crumpet
Premium Member
lilclerk said:
We all love and appreciate Fantasia now, but it was pretty much a huge flop when it was first released. :shrug:
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Which was roughy 50 years before DHS opened. By that point Fantasia had reached the level of acclaim it enjoys now.....
 
marni1971

marni1971

Park History nut
Premium Member
glee said:
Me too! Its become a symbol for Hollywood studios and it should stay there.
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Digging up yet another hat thread, the park had plenty of symbols before 2001 blah blah blah.

Let Glendale have their way. Everyone will be happy.
 
Astronaut Jones

Astronaut Jones

New Member
I'll be happy to see the hat go. I think the Chinese Theater is too cool a sight to be covered up like it is. Also, I know the hat is from Fantasia which is a movie, yet, all the same, the hat has always seemed kind of arbitrary to me -- at least as a park centerpiece but that's just me.
 
Rob562

Rob562

Well-Known Member
Grlwonder said:
I like the hat, it's been in DHS for so long that I don't remember how it was before the hat
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And that harkens back to the exact same arguements that cropped up about The Wand.

The majority of people who liked/loved the Wand seemed to be people who never knew Epcot pre-Wand. Just as I'll bet that most of the people on these boards who say they love the Hat never visited (or were too young to remember clearly) the Studios pre-Hat.

There are those of us who remember the Epcot entrance pre-Wand and pre-LaL...
There are those of us who remember the Studios pre-Hat.
And while I'm all for progress in almost all areas of WDW, the original designs of these plazas is still far superior to what we have now.

I liked the Hat as a 100 Years of Magic "gimmick", similar to how I was kinda-OK with the Wand when it was just for the Millemmium Celebration. Both outlived their welcomes long ago, and thankfully one of them is gone, with the other hopefully right behind it.

-Rob
 
K

kingdaniel97

New Member
I hear people talk about how they never knew the Earful Tower was the symbol of Disney-MGM Studios but I distinctly remember a topiary outside of the Studios shaped like the Earful Tower when I was little...
 
GoofyFan1

GoofyFan1

Active Member
Rob562 said:
And that harkens back to the exact same arguements that cropped up about The Wand.

The majority of people who liked/loved the Wand seemed to be people who never knew Epcot pre-Wand. Just as I'll bet that most of the people on these boards who say they love the Hat never visited (or were too young to remember clearly) the Studios pre-Hat.

There are those of us who remember the Epcot entrance pre-Wand and pre-LaL...
There are those of us who remember the Studios pre-Hat.
And while I'm all for progress in almost all areas of WDW, the original designs of these plazas is still far superior to what we have now.

I liked the Hat as a 100 Years of Magic "gimmick", similar to how I was kinda-OK with the Wand when it was just for the Millemmium Celebration. Both outlived their welcomes long ago, and thankfully one of them is gone, with the other hopefully right behind it.

-Rob
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Saw it both ways and I still prefer the Hat.
 

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