Improving Disney Animation (open brainstorming)

[mharrington]

As with so many other things at Disney's Hollywood Studios/Disney Hollywood Adventure, I honestly think that something needs to be done with The Magic of Disney Animation.

There was a time when it was a real working studio, one that produced a lot of the animated movies in the 1990s and into the 2000s. But in 2004, all production of animation were consolidated at Burbank, thus robbing Florida of the great artists. Now what does it have? A simple show, and not the great "Back To Never Land" movie, either. Instead, it was another show that involved an "animator" (quotes, because it's probably just a cast member pretending to be an animator) and personalized the story of the creation of Disney films. And what else does The Magic of Disney Animation have? Not much, I'm afraid, except for some meet-and-greets for the latest movie, probably just plopped down in the area with no concern at all for theme, a few interactive spots and an animation gallery.

How can we fix up Disney Animation here?

 

[Twilight_Roxas]

Give it the disney animation that is in Disney California Adventure with the lobby and stuff.

 

[mharrington]

Give it the disney animation that is in Disney California Adventure with the lobby and stuff.

I think it's kind of already like that right now (except for the lobby): http://allears.net/tp/mgm/m_animation.htm.

I really want to make this something worthwhile again.

 

[comics101]

I've always felt an elaborate darkride through classic Mickey Mouse Shorts would be lovely hear, and in my latest park, I came up with an idea to turn the tour into an elaborate EPCOT Center-like darkride that would litterally take you inside the animation process, though I didn' really come up with very many details for it...

 

[mharrington]

I've always felt an elaborate darkride through classic Mickey Mouse Shorts would be lovely hear, and in my latest park, I came up with an idea to turn the tour into an elaborate EPCOT Center-like darkride that would litterally take you inside the animation process, though I didn' really come up with very many details for it...

The Mickey Mouse-type dark ride should be in Toontown. So for Disney Animation, you want to make it pretty much like Journey Into Imagination at Epcot?

 

[ScorpionX]

We could do a show where various Disney characters take you through the animation process and its history.

 

[comics101]

The Mickey Mouse-type dark ride should be in Toontown. So for Disney Animation, you want to make it pretty much like Journey Into Imagination at Epcot?

Mmm...yes and no I suppose. I just imagine something hosted by Jiminy Cricket done in the style of the old Disneyland television series, but taking inside the process. So when you go past the storyboard rooms, you're actually going to be taken into a StoryBoard. Does that make any sense?

 

[mharrington]

What happens when you go into the storyboards?

 

[comics101]

What happens when you go into the storyboards?

Gosh idk. Perhaps it starts off with some narration by Jiminy Cricket explaining the storyboard process, and he then turns it over to an animator, who begins explaining the story, just as storyboard and concept artists do (I like to imagine Walt's voice). The flat storyboards would then come to life right in front of you, either through 3-D video technology (Spiderman or TSM) or through animatronics (think the Hefalumps and Woozles scene from Winnie The Pooh).

 

[mharrington]

I don't know, I think all of this just seems too simple and too direct. I was thinking of making it like the Back To Never Land show, only that was a movie. So how could we do something like that?