Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerer Mickey Hat icon at the Studios? YES!

aladdin2007

aladdin2007

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G00fyDad said:
I just can't stand Pitbull. It irritates me how he talks and raps out of the side of his mouth. He's trying to look smooth, but he ends up looking like half of his face is paralyzed. Also, I just cannot stand rap. It isn't music. I cannot sing, but I can do that rap garbage. If I can do it then it is most definitely NOT music. :depressed::hungover:
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and yet look what they get paid to hop around and not even sing, I dont know anything about him but I dont understand how he got to where he did. not sure I want to lol...... oh yes the hat, sayonara!
 
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Goofyernmost said:
That still leaves the blame on the fact that it stopped being a working studio though right? I don't recall the exact time that the studio stopped being a studio, but, nothing much worthwhile has happened since then that I recall.
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I can tell you that WCW wrestling shows were taped at DHS after Tower of Terror. I am saying that because my aunt told me that her and my Cousin saw professional wrestling being taped at DHS. This happened when WDW was celebrating its 25th anniversary and it was the only time they went to Walt Disney World.

WCW was a major wrestling promotion at the time and was the most popular wrestling organization in the United States at the time before it was mismanaged.WCW matter of fact caused the WWE have money issues for a couple years

I also did an internet search and found WCW had wrestling tapings up to 2000 at Disney MGM Studios when budget cuts were made to that wrestling organization.

Having WCW tapings was worthwhile at the time. Professional Wrestling was getting very popular in the 1996 to 1998 time frame.
 
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Cesar R M

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aladdin2007 said:
and yet look what they get paid to hop around and not even sing, I dont know anything about him but I dont understand how he got to where he did. not sure I want to lol...... oh yes the hat, sayonara!
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the hilarity is.. if you go to the original youtube page of that video.. 99% of the people were there to see keisha singing, because she is way better...
Infact, a lot of commenters were "I wish pitbull would shut up" so they could enjoy the rest of the song.
 
AEfx

AEfx

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Prince Thomas said:
From what my quote just said, how would it block it??? .....and even if it wasn't MK, I'm sure there could be a spot found for it somewhere.....
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I'm sure @marni1971 can confirm if I am correct or not, but I don't think moving it is possible. I was there when they were building the thing, and I think the only way it's coming down is in pieces. More accurately, chunks - big ragged broken chunks. It wasn't exactly designed with permanence in mind, and putting it back together somewhere would be like trying to glue back together a vase that you broke when you disobeyed mom and played ball in the house.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

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pasamike said:
They could pack it with Explosives and have a special "sorcery in the sky" hard ticket! I'd go.

In related news Theme Park Connection is going to have the gold swirls and Mickey hand for sale on eBay 4 times over next year! You can have this one of a kind item! o_O
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Nah put an Atlas-Centaur stage under it and light that candle!
 
Phil12

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Theme is important but so is variation. As a matter of fact they go hand in hand. The sorcerer's hat and 1940's Hollywood go hand in hand as well. The major Hollywood studios of the 1940's were corrupt and anticompetitive. It was only after the studio/theater ownership monopolistic practices were outlawed that smaller studios such as Disney had a real chance to compete on a level and fair playfield. The BAH is symbolic of cleaning up Hollywood! :D
 
ToTBellHop

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Phil12 said:
Theme is important but so is variation. As a matter of fact they go hand in hand. The sorcerer's hat and 1940's Hollywood go hand in hand as well. The major Hollywood studios of the 1940's were corrupt and anticompetitive. It was only after the studio/theater ownership monopolistic practices were outlawed that smaller studios such as Disney had a real chance to compete on a level and fair playfield. The BAH is symbolic of cleaning up Hollywood! :D
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How about a 140-foot cigarette? That would be wonderfully symbolic of 1940s Walt. The smoke effect would fail after 6 months though.
 
G00fyDad

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Phil12 said:
Theme is important but so is variation. As a matter of fact they go hand in hand. The sorcerer's hat and 1940's Hollywood go hand in hand as well. The major Hollywood studios of the 1940's were corrupt and anticompetitive. It was only after the studio/theater ownership monopolistic practices were outlawed that smaller studios such as Disney had a real chance to compete on a level and fair playfield. The BAH is symbolic of cleaning up Hollywood! :D
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Sorry, but that is stretching it a bit. The BAH is about as 1940's Disney as Pinocchio. Would you like to see a huge wooden doll at the end of the street?
 
Goofyernmost

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Phil12 said:
Theme is important but so is variation. As a matter of fact they go hand in hand. The sorcerer's hat and 1940's Hollywood go hand in hand as well. The major Hollywood studios of the 1940's were corrupt and anticompetitive. It was only after the studio/theater ownership monopolistic practices were outlawed that smaller studios such as Disney had a real chance to compete on a level and fair playfield. The BAH is symbolic of cleaning up Hollywood! :D
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Again it is not that the BAH isn't significant to the overall Disney history. It never was that, it is now and always has been the placement of the hat that has been the topic of anger and upset over the years, just like the hand and wand was at Epcot.

It wasn't that either of them didn't have some degree of significance it's just that the balance and beauty of the area was compromised with the inclusion of it as a permanent structure in either place. Personally, I liked the hand and wand at Epcot because I felt that it added connection and excitement to the park, but, I haven't missed it since it was taken down because SSE can standout on it's own without any help. (please get rid of the graveyard in front now and we can all breath easier) The BAH threw off the balance and beauty of the DHS park entrance and initial theme like putting it on the end of Main Street USA would have done. It was just in the wrong place to become a permanent thing. In other words, the hat wasn't a mistake, where they put it was a huge one.
 
G00fyDad

G00fyDad

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Goofyernmost said:
Again it is not that the BAH isn't significant to the overall Disney history. It never was that, it is now and always has been the placement of the hat that has been the topic of anger and upset over the years, just like the hand and wand was at Epcot.

It wasn't that either of them didn't have some degree of significance it's just that the balance and beauty of the area was compromised with the inclusion of it as a permanent structure in either place. Personally, I liked the hand and wand at Epcot because I felt that it added connection and excitement to the park, but, I haven't missed it since it was taken down because SSE can standout on it's own without any help. (please get rid of the graveyard in front now and we can all breath easier) The BAH throw off the balance and beauty of the DHS park entrance and initial theme like putting it on the end of Main Street USA would have done. It was just in the wrong place to become a permanent thing. In other words, the hat wasn't a mistake, where they put it was a huge one.
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Precisely. I'd have preferred for it to be placed on a rise or hill to the right side of the entrance to the park. Heck, even as something you walk under before entering the park would have been cool. But to have that old "Hollywood" feel for years and then.... BAM! A big ugly hat right in the middle. Very out of place.
 
G00fyDad

G00fyDad

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marni1971 said:
It was looked at being moved, as recently as this past fall.

If this will happen I don't know.
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Seeing as it was a big enough investment to make the thing you'd think they would want to keep it and just move it somewhere. Then again, it would have made perfect sense to move Mickey and Minnie's houses, put them somewhere outside of Mainstreeet USA, create a themed "side street" to the houses, and turn them into meet and greet locations. Instead, they junked those. :(
 

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