yensidtlaw1969
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DHS Indiana Jones Land?
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rle4lunch
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Muppets is a weird attraction and IP for that matter. The ONLY reason people have started coming back to the 4d thing is because all the other attractions have long wait times. That show sat walk-in empty for a decade. The last couple years I've been shocked to see an actual line for it. It needs to go away or have a massive refurb imo.
I love Muppet ip. I wish that area was redone though with a more major ip possibly using Muppets area and startours area and finally creating Indiana Jones lost expedition or something else major. and relocate the Muppets area and to an open air Henson studios themed area where the pond and retro diner is.
Surferboy567
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DHS needs more Muppets, not a removal of them.
aladdin2007
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too bad The Great Muppet Movie Ride never came to be.
I had a nice response composed but decided otherwise, because I realized I can sum up your post thusly:
I meant relocate Muppets to the front of the park in a Henson Studios open air courtyard with Muppets Theater and Food options still avail. Maybe even a small Muppets spinner or something for very young kids
rle4lunch
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Thanks again, but it's an opinion forum.I had a nice response composed but decided otherwise, because I realized I can sum up your post thusly:
Good movie!
The Great Gonzo
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I'm glad you liked it, but in my opinion it looks horrible.
I don't think people are interested in Indy because the last one was so bad. And worst of all everything coming out of Lucasfilm (Mandolorian) hasn't been good.
SpectreJordan
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The problem with that is that you'd have to get rid of the Muppets, which they absolutely shouldn't do.
Is there any room in Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland to fit Star Tours like in Disney Land? It feels out of place in Hollywood Studios, but I'd hate to see it go.
Casper Gutman
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Yeah, that Andor, what a stinker.
I think you could build an "explore a lost ruinous jungle temple" area with or without the indy IP. Just as an awesome Adventureland type area. But regardless I want IJ and the lost expedition land built please. In either Studios park. Or both, but with different themed locations.
cheezbat
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Absolutely. There just so happens to be a parking lot where they had plans at one time to build a Main Street theater….I think that would be a great place for it.
Centauri Space Station
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Highly disagree I think it fits DHS great and has no place in Tomorrowland
The best person to take on the mantle of indiana jones already had it, and he died on Halloween 1993.
Overlaying Star Tours with anything is a pretty wild concept to me. Under current WDI timelines, that bones would be 40 years old by the time that overlay would kick in. How many simulators are that old? Run it into the ground and then retire it.
SpectreJordan
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It used to, but it's very oddly placed now that Galaxy's Edge exists.
It'd honestly be better if it was on the other side of the park. But Star Wars ride --> Muppets --> Star Wars land is very awkward.
Kamikaze
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yensidtlaw1969
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The way they failed to naturally integrate the Star Wars additions into Hollywood Studios kind of astounds me.
Especially because there was, at one point, a proposal to build a Star Wars Land back behind Star Tours so that everything would be in one area. Though I also recall that proposal was not nearly as ambitious as Galaxy's Edge ended up being.
Instead now we end up with an impressively large but somewhat under-appealing Star Wars Land that's fully separate from the simpler, aging Star Wars Ride that happens to actually feature the characters that interest most Star Wars fans . . . with Frogs and Pigs squeezes nonsensically in the middle.
SpectreJordan
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I love Galaxy's Edge so I'll take that over a smaller land that fits in more naturally. But I would like them to try & adjust that area of the park some more in the future.
Even with all of the love it's gotten in the past decade, Hollywood Studios should still be a focus for expansions. I don't know if the numbers back me up, but with how busy HS always is I have to imagine it's their #2 behind MK right now. It's crazy that Disney doesn't see its current popularity & doesn't go "We need to keep adding to that one!"
The goal should be to turn it into their Islands of Adventure.
yensidtlaw1969
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I feel like DHS these days is a clear example of Disney losing the forest for the trees at WDW. I agree that crowds at DHS seem to suggets it's taken the #2 spot behind MK (not sure if that's actually true or not, but it sure feels like it). They seem to ignore the fact that DHS has the most thematic latitude and the most need for expansion of any WDW park outside of MK.
I'm not personally someone who likes to see Disney treat their Studios Parks as a catch-all for Intellectual Property, but there are definitely properties added to WDW in the last decade+ that would have been better suited for Studios than where they actually went, and there are properties at DHS that are being totally underused, and there are properties that would fit in DHS that are begging for parks representation but haven't been used anywhere at all. Add to that the fact that DHS structurally has some pretty good bones, a strong lineup of headliners, and plenty of disused buildings and the benefits of investing in the park start to seem like a no-brainer. Guests WANT to go to Hollywood Studios. They just need places to be once they get there.
DHS could absolutely be pulling more serious weight in WDW if they just made a few strategic choices. Galaxy's Edge (Rise of the Resistance in particular) was a good start. They could get that park fully off the bench and into starting lineup without breaking a sweat, I don't get why they don't.