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

[note2001]

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Remaining Frisbee anyone ?

Maybe if they could get the Yeti off his butt he could use it to play with Universal's King Kong who's rumored to be just hanging out waiting for his first day of work.

 

[danlb_2000]

It looks like the Tower of Terror is going to be the new Icon for Hollywood Studios. The My Disney Experience app now shows Cinderella's Castle for Magic Kingdom, Spaceship Earth for Epcot, Tree of Life for Animal Kingdom and Tower of Terror for Hollywood Studios.

Personally I don't think they have any idea what they want the new icon to be.

 

[Clamman73]

Personally I don't think they have any idea what they want the new icon to be.

I'm wondering if there's anything in the cards for these Studios expansion/remakes of areas that could become a new icon...*shrugs*

 

[Rose&Crowner]

For the past year the app had star tours, no one once noted that.

 

[Rose&Crowner]

It looks like the Tower of Terror is going to be the new Icon for Hollywood Studios. The My Disney Experience app now shows Cinderella's Castle for Magic Kingdom, Spaceship Earth for Epcot, Tree of Life for Animal Kingdom and Tower of Terror for Hollywood Studios.

Clearly this is not an exact science.

 

[Andrew C]

New vacation planning DVD seems to be highlighting the earful tower. Here's a shot from it below.

 

[jdmdisney99]

Ahhh, but nobody knows the Earful Tower exists because the Sorcerer's Hat has been the icon and marketed at the icon for over 10 years. When Disney-MGM Studios first opened the Earful Tower was actually the icon.
It was marketed that way. So if they chose to market it that way again.....people would start to look for the tower, recognize the tower, and identify the tower with Hollywood Studios.

It's all a matter of marketing....and Disney excels at that.

Wait, why am I quoted?

 

[Cesar R M]

Yeah, they are currently marketing both.. I honestly don't think people need a huge icon to know what park they are in. It says "Disney's Hollywood Studios" on the entrance gate and on the animation courtyard arch and you should already know it's hollywood themed by the entrance architecture. If people actually do not know a park from an other and solely use icons to know what park then they are obviously first time visitors. I'm 99.9 percent sure all of us are not those people. I personally want the Earful Tower to be the official icon, but the people who manage MDE had other thoughts even though the Disney Design Group (the people who create all the merchandise designs) is using Earful Tower on all merchandise.. It's probably going switch between the two in future.

And you can see the Earful
Tower through the remaining Hat's ear odly enough. I'm hoping it will be much more visible if/when the expansion where backlot tour was happens.

the earful tower is very easy to spot before the turn for entering disney hollywood studios (from the main avenue).

I think its visible enough. Just not from the front of the park.

 

[Arthur Wellesley]

When Disney-MGM Studios first opened the Earful Tower was actually the icon.
It was marketed that way.

Not always.

 

[Captain Neo]

I want this framed on my wall! Awesome poster!

Is this a real poster?

 

[cosmicray]

Is this a real poster?

It is, it's for Star Wars Weekends this year...Hoping I can buy it somewhere, I love the design of it!

 

[Captain Neo]

Earful Tower on SWW poster

What is that ship right next to the AT-AT? Thats not from Star Wars unless its a poorly drawn Snowspeeder

Edit: NM it might be the Ghost from SW Rebels cartoon

 

[Cesar R M]

What is that ship right next to the AT-AT? Thats not from Star Wars unless its a poorly drawn Snowspeeder

Edit: NM it might be the Ghost from SW Rebels cartoon

IMHO..its actually the "transport" ship from STAR TOURS.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Wait, Mexico and the upside down tree are the new icons for lowercase Epcot and Animal Kingdom??

 

[tirian]

Not always.

Why are you teasing us with images of the Good Ol' Days? This simple collection represents the heights from which WDW has fallen as an all-inclusive resort for everyone, not just 5-year-old princesses.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Yeah and Michael Jackson was still alive, there were only 3 Star Wars movies, no Indiana Jones IV and Horizons was still open. Everything sucks now!

 

[Communicore]

Throwback time!

 

[Captain Neo]

IMHO..its actually the "transport" ship from STAR TOURS.

I'm talking about the ship right bellow the ATAT s face not the StarSpeeder at the bottom

 

[Captain Neo]

Yeah and Michael Jackson was still alive, there were only 3 Star Wars movies, no Indiana Jones IV and Horizons was still open. Everything sucks now!

Those were the good times. Hopefully as we go forward things will get better again like they used to be.

 

[BrerJon]

Throwback time!

That video should be compulsory viewing for anyone who thinks the BAH was a good idea, especially the explanation of the theatre at 8:25.

It's also sad to see how far the company has fallen. Watch Michael Eisner's comments at around the 4:45 mark, where he pretty much defines the Disney way of doing things as the opposite of how they are done in the Staggs/Iger era.