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

[mikenatcity1]

Any pictures of this being removed??

 

[TomP]

Hopefully. Disney have certainly heard people here saying they wish they'd paint the roof, anyway - WDI is hard at work on the plans for that:

Curse you @BrerJon for putting that image in my head.

 

[DisneyJayL]

49 days to take down the BAH, so I'd say, roughly... 27 more days.

Thanks. Looks like the walls will be up there when I am there.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Thanks. Looks like the walls will be up there when I am there.

No one is posting updates anymore so it is hard to tell what, if anything, is happening behind the walls. When I saw the most recent pictures of what is left, my first thought was that the platform will become a stage area for special events and perhaps a sitting area when nothing else is happening. I am only guessing, we will have to see what develops.

 

[JohnD]

Someone get out your camera and take a photo. Are the walls down yet?

 

[Magenta Panther]

Hopefully. Disney have certainly heard people here saying they wish they'd paint the roof, anyway - WDI is hard at work on the plans for that:

"My brain hates my eyes for seeing that." - Big Hero 6.

 

[Rasvar]

I'm still partially sad we never got a giant set of Mickey's shoes or pants in the other two parks. We could have a boneyard exhibit with all of Mickey's outerwear that was spread over the property.

 

[DisneyElephant]

And do this as well....

Danny Kaye??? "We're going to have the happiest EPCOT since EPCOT was introduced by Danny ******* Kaye!"

If only that were actually true.

 

[articos]

Thanks, that's brilliant news, it shows even Disney is acknowledging that the theatre looks great.

And yes, as to the urban legend, I guess Iger must have ponied up the money to buy the rights back from Graumans!

Complete urban legend. While the steel was exposed, the photographers turned around to give a view that didn't have a construction mess in the picture. Otherwise, there are no rights issues at all to photographing a building that Disney owns in their park. It is referred to as "the Chinese Theatre". The real thing in Hollywood is owned by 2 movie producers who bought it from a partnership of Warner Bros and Viacom, who bought it from the Mann Theater Circuit prior. The land it sits on is owned by CIM Group, who own the Hollywood & Highland development. It is currently sponsored by TCL group via naming rights. But none of that has any bearing on the Disney park version.

 

[chris chris]

New thread idea: Is the clock ticking on the 'Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerers Hat Icon at the Studios? YES' thread?

 

[roj2323]

there is now a backhoe within the walls.

 

[Brian]

New thread idea: Is the clock ticking on the 'Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerers Hat Icon at the Studios? YES' thread?

Congrats on the 8000th post of this thread!

 

[matt9112]

there is now a backhoe within the walls.

this is so they can begin to build the support structure needed to begin death star construction.

 

[roj2323]

this is so they can begin to build the support structure needed to begin death star construction.

Hey as long as they make it large enough to encompass the entire park and air-condition it I'm game

 

[WDWArchitectureGuy]

To all the doubters, and non believers, take a look at around the 8:26 mark.

 

[Coaster3001]

Here are a few pictures I took from today.

 

[yedliW]

Complete urban legend. While the steel was exposed, the photographers turned around to give a view that didn't have a construction mess in the picture. Otherwise, there are no rights issues at all to photographing a building that Disney owns in their park. It is referred to as "the Chinese Theatre". The real thing in Hollywood is owned by 2 movie producers who bought it from a partnership of Warner Bros and Viacom, who bought it from the Mann Theater Circuit prior. The land it sits on is owned by CIM Group, who own the Hollywood & Highland development. It is currently sponsored by TCL group via naming rights. But none of that has any bearing on the Disney park version.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'll play one on the internet.. I have a friend who is a photographer who said that anything that can be seen with your eyes can legally be photographed. It may be different on private property, so they may be able to restrict photos, but more likely, due to the sheer number of cameras that are present at any given moment at a Disney park, if an entity has reason to restrict photographs of something at the park, they would only be able to restrict/limit Disney Photogs from taking pictures of it. Or it could be part of an agreement to share IP.

 

[BrerJon]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'll play one on the internet.. I have a friend who is a photographer who said that anything that can be seen with your eyes can legally be photographed. It may be different on private property, so they may be able to restrict photos, but more likely, due to the sheer number of cameras that are present at any given moment at a Disney park, if an entity has reason to restrict photographs of something at the park, they would only be able to restrict/limit Disney Photogs from taking pictures of it. Or it could be part of an agreement to share IP.

Also pretty much every building in Hollywood Boulevard is based on a real one, so that would be a lot of IP if they had to get permission from every one.

 

[WDWArchitectureGuy]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'll play one on the internet.. I have a friend who is a photographer who said that anything that can be seen with your eyes can legally be photographed. It may be different on private property, so they may be able to restrict photos, but more likely, due to the sheer number of cameras that are present at any given moment at a Disney park, if an entity has reason to restrict photographs of something at the park, they would only be able to restrict/limit Disney Photogs from taking pictures of it. Or it could be part of an agreement to share IP.

I'm not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I'm qualified to copy and paste from a legal website:
"The Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act (AWCPA) only protects 'architectural works' created on or after December 1, 1990, and some earlier designs so long as they were unconstructed and unpublished as of that date. In determining when a design was created remember that a drawing can be created gradually, as each part is committed to paper."

 

[AndyS2992]

Hopefully. Disney have certainly heard people here saying they wish they'd paint the roof, anyway - WDI is hard at work on the plans for that:

I actually really like the look of that, the red, blue and yellow compliment each other very well..