Haha you are so right! I work at the HM, and those are the closest restrooms to us! But I also get asked a million times, "What is that?" or "Can we go in it?" or "Is it a ride?" or "Can we meet Rapunzel there?" and I hate having to sugar coat it when I really just want to say, "No. There are pretty bathrooms."
Walt called it a Weenie!
Wow. Have we come to the point where place making is completely ignored? People complain that the hat is terribly ruining the theme on Hollywood Boulevard, but it's fine to see it from World Showcase? I agree with you last statement though. It needs an "APT RELOCATION". In a proper place, where theme isn't ruined. Also, the examples you provided are high places where those icons are meant to be seen. You are not supposed to see a bright blue cone from Epcot.But I can see Everest from summit plummet and I can see the tree of life from there too - hell I can see the top of France in a Epcot from rooms in beach club and can even see Spaceship rasht from dare I say it rooms in hotels at Downtown disney area .... It's a feature so why does it need to be hidden it just needs an apt re location
Completely different. The castle acts as a gateway into a land that agrees with the castle's theme. It fits thematic quality as it is actually separated from Main Street, and is placed in a proper area. The hat is just plopped down in the middle of a land based on the booming city of Hollywood, it doesn't act as a gateway to any thematically agreeing area, and it blocks the real castle that is a continuation of the proper land.
I disagree.
The Imagineers thought differently.
Imagineers had little to do with it. Hat was meant to be temporary and has overstayed it's welcome. I would love to see it moved somewhere but it is completely blocking the theater that the Imagineers DID want you to see as you walked down the boulevard.
They did two video games about that already. Other then making certain characters relevant again, it didn't work out that well.
Almost five years later....is the clock still ticking and why is this thread open?
The clock or the hat? lol
I didn't say you said that. But others do, so what would be the fix if you just fixed one view and displaced another? To your second point, IMO it's just as much of a part of the park as the Theater and I agree it would be great to have that back. But why make it a part of World Showcase too? To your final statement, I agree. I never disagreed. But you can still see DHS without the Hat. I also agree that the hat should be salvaged, but elsewhere...let's agree to disagree then.At the end of the day everyone has different opinions here. I didn't say that it 'terribly ruins' the view at Hollywood studios - I really thought it was a nice addition when it was first put in - but I missed the Chinese theatre at the end of the street on entry. I feel that it is really part of Disney's Hollywood Studios now and it would be a shame to not keep that connection by just removing it or ditching it somewhere else. Let's make use of it somewhere.
I find that seeing other parks and theming from different vantage points and areas really quite nice - it reminds you that you are visiting the happiest place on earth - Walt Disney World and tomorrow you could be there at DHS enjoying RNRC or chilling at Blizzard beach.
Change is sometimes good.
