I'd like to see Toontown at DHS.

[FettFan]

While I know everyone wants to see Star Wars or Pixar take over the space left by the Backlot Tour's demise....I think they should take it another route: build Toontown.
Not the kiddiefied "Mickey's Toontown" from Magic Kingdom....but the real, honest to goodness haven of joy (and madness!) that was Toontown as it appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Why Toontown? Well, because back in the heydays when the park was known as Disney-MGM, Toontown was a planned expansion, based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It would have had the "Toontown Trolley" motion sim, "Baby Herman's Rubber Baby Buggy" ride, and a few other aesthetic additions.

Now I know a lot of people aren't going to go for Roger Rabbit....but there is another rabbit who has made a splash over on the West Coast....if you've been paying attention, you know that now Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is meeting and greeting at DCA (Oswald Killed Duffy!)

DHS Toontown could be part of what was planned, but also expanded for more rare-character meet and greets and attractions...everyone from Horace Horsecollar to the Reluctant Dragon.

Who knows, they might even be able to put a newer, better incarnation of Mr. Toad there with actual props and animatronics instead of flat cutouts.

TALLY HO!​

 

[Tom]

I like it! I've always wanted the REAL Toontown brought to life.

 

[DisneyDaver]

Who knows, they might even be able to put a newer, better incarnation of Mr. Toad there with actual props and animatronics instead of flat cutouts.

I'd even settle for a return of the flat cutouts version of Mr. Toad's. It was one of my favorites!

 

[LAKid53]

Anything, as long is it's not more Frozen....

 

[MarkTwain]

Curious about when you said "Oswald killed Duffy". Did DCA discontinue Duffy to make room for Oswald?

 

[Matt_Black]

Curious about when you said "Oswald killed Duffy". Did DCA discontinue Duffy to make room for Oswald?

If he did, then I say it's justifiable homicide. I seriously do not get the appeal of that bear.

 

[Gullywhumper]

Yes, it's about time MGM get's a new land.

 

[FettFan]

Curious about when you said "Oswald killed Duffy". Did DCA discontinue Duffy to make room for Oswald?

Yep. Duffy is no longer M&G at DCA. He wasn't drawing crowds.

 

[copcarguyp71]

Toontown was actually supposed to happen. The exposed brick and trolley tracks at the dead end where you split off to either RnR or ToT was supposed to be the beginning of the transition...another victim of fiscal knuckleheadery

 

[LAKid53]

While I know everyone wants to see Star Wars or Pixar take over the space left by the Backlot Tour's demise....I think they should take it another route: build Toontown.
Not the kiddiefied "Mickey's Toontown" from Magic Kingdom....but the real, honest to goodness haven of joy (and madness!) that was Toontown as it appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Why Toontown? Well, because back in the heydays when the park was known as Disney-MGM, Toontown was a planned expansion, based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It would have had the "Toontown Trolley" motion sim, "Baby Herman's Rubber Baby Buggy" ride, and a few other aesthetic additions.

Now I know a lot of people aren't going to go for Roger Rabbit....but there is another rabbit who has made a splash over on the West Coast....if you've been paying attention, you know that now Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is meeting and greeting at DCA (Oswald Killed Duffy!)

DHS Toontown could be part of what was planned, but also expanded for more rare-character meet and greets and attractions...everyone from Horace Horsecollar to the Reluctant Dragon.

Who knows, they might even be able to put a newer, better incarnation of Mr. Toad there with actual props and animatronics instead of flat cutouts.

TALLY HO!​

I was never a big fan of Roger Rabbit, but if Disney can do a Toontown like the picture, that would be amazing!

 

[rob0519]

Toontown was actually supposed to happen. The exposed brick and trolley tracks at the dead end where you split off to either RnR or ToT was supposed to be the beginning of the transition...another victim of fiscal knuckleheadery

That's a real shame. It could have been great. The characters would have had to been limited to Disney though. I'm sure otherwise licensing would have been a killer anyway.

 

[WondersOfLife]

I am now going to write the average forum response: ............"Well, that's very unlikely to happen since Disney doesn't live up to the standards they used to serve. We can only dream!"

Adieu.

 

[FutureCEO]

Yes, it's about time MGM get's a new land.

Does MGM even have lands? I know technically Pixar Place and Sunset Blvd but those are not really lands to me.

 

[Matt_Black]

Does MGM even have lands? I know technically Pixar Place and Sunset Blvd but those are not really lands to me.

Hollywood Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
Echo Lake
Streets of America
Animation Courtyard

 

[danpam1024]

Since the WFRR film was both Disney and WB, wouldn't that cause some "problems"?
I do remember a RR type area (really small) back by the Studio Catering CO- where there is now a small store that sells random stuff.

 

[JiminyandTink]

I would love this too, but where they originally planned it made so much sense. The Hollywood/Sunset architectutre really would have transitioned well into Toontown and looked just like the movie.

 

[Gullywhumper]

Does MGM even have lands? I know technically Pixar Place and Sunset Blvd but those are not really lands to me.

Hm...I guess a new area? I don't know though, lol.

 

[FettFan]

Since the WFRR film was both Disney and WB, wouldn't that cause some "problems"?
I do remember a RR type area (really small) back by the Studio Catering CO- where there is now a small store that sells random stuff.

It was executive produced by Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment....which might kinda-sorta technically be kinda-sorta Dreamworks today.

BUT.... Disney owns the rights to the movie and the characters; they purchased the rights to WFRR from Gary Wolfe in 1981 and started working in the first version of it, which had none of the polish and charm of the Zemeckis movie. It even had Paul Reubens as the voice of Roger.


Disney maintains these rights today, hence the Car Toon Spin at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, while Roger and Jessica meeting and greeting in Paris.

And there are no words to describe just how creepy this is.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

The better idea was not just a Toontown...You have to look at "WHERE" the toons worked....And all you had to look is right above Peevy's stand...

The Faux Building Archway would have been a great way to be used as an entrance but then splitting it into 3 Maroon/Acme Factory/Toontown...Thus the way they can then utilize the different worlds used in Roger's Hollywood..

Then we would have seen the Sim Ride Roger Rabbit's Toontown Trolley

The other would have been a Baby Herman Runaway Buggy ride..

From 2719 HYPERION Blog

Baby Herman's Runaway Baby Buggy Ride was yet another component of the ill-fated Disney Decade, an ambitious slate of theme park projects announced in 1990 by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells, most of which went unrealized. The ride was inspired by the St. Nowhere hospital setting from Tummy Trouble. A 1990 Disney Crew publication described an attraction where, " . . . guests zoom through the cartoon sets of Toontown Hospital, fly down stairs, crash through doors and bound over beds."

At the Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World, the ride would have been part of Roger Rabbit's Hollywood, an area located on Sunset Boulevard that would have also included the Toontown Trolley and the Benny the Cab Ride. At Disneyland, it would have been part of a proposed Hollywoodland that had been projected to open in 1999.

 

[FettFan]

The trolley ride could easily be dusted off And reworked for Oswald and Ortensia.