Rumor LM Racing Academy Replacement in the works for Hollywood Studios?

Phicinfan

Phicinfan

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Imagineerwannabe said:
Couldn’t find a post on the plans that are already in motion for replacing Lightning McQueens racing academy at Hollywood Studios…

Couple of options in play for what’s coming here, but looks likely to be villains themed with audience participation.

(I’m sure I’ll get the naysayers here again like last time 😂)
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I have seen nothing about replacing LM racing academy. Are you starting the rumor?
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Your screen name makes me want to trust you.

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Kingoglow

Kingoglow

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Hollywood Studios is a confusing mess. It would be better to scrap the 50's Hollywood theme at this point. The only parts of the parks that still fit this theme are the shops (of course), and a couple of restaurants (but not all) and I can see the argument that the Tower of Terror and Chinese theater are a part of that theme.

So other than a handful of areas in the park, Disney is just going to build whatever. Let's call it Whateverland.
 
Horizonsfan

Horizonsfan

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Kingoglow said:
Hollywood Studios is a confusing mess. It would be better to scrap the 50's Hollywood theme at this point. The only parts of the parks that still fit this theme are the shops (of course), and a couple of restaurants (but not all) and I can see the argument that the Tower of Terror and Chinese theater are a part of that theme.

So other than a handful of areas in the park, Disney is just going to build whatever. Let's call it Whateverland.
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The old time Hollywood section has always been in contrast to the back half of the park. Animation Courtyard and the Backlot Tour were squarely in present day 1989.

There’s things to criticize Hollywood Studios for, but I don’t think this is one of them.
 
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Imagineerwannabe

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Horizonsfan said:
The old time Hollywood section has always been in contrast to the back half of the park. Animation Courtyard and the Backlot Tour were squarely in present day 1989.

There’s things to criticize Hollywood Studios for, but I don’t think this is one of them.
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I always thought it was a confusing mess when they had the cut down backlot, still tried to make it like it was a real backlot when it wasnt. Mish mash of stuff. It has felt a lot more cohesive since SW:GE and Toy Story land were added. It’s just that area around voyage of the little mermaid, old launch bay, Disney junior etc. plus the completely under utilised LM racing academy area
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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Now if only the Animation courtyard area could be turned onto the town square of Toontown...another IP they own...and perhaps clone the Roger Rabbit CarToon Spin...then it would be in line with the olf Hollywood feel of the park, adjacent to the MMRR, and would give them a place for a miscellany of cartoon characters to "live"...While adding another themed area to the park....
 
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Chip Chipperson

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Imagineerwannabe said:
lol, sure. I had similar when I posted previously
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Your references to "when I posted previously" as if people doubted you bit you were eventually proven right made me curious so I clicked on your profile to see older posts. And the previous rumor thread I found that you started involved MSEP returning for the 50th celebration. Is there a different rumor you shared that turned out to be correct that I missed?
 
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Comped

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Bocabear said:
Now if only the Animation courtyard area could be turned onto the town square of Toontown...another IP they own...and perhaps clone the Roger Rabbit CarToon Spin...then it would be in line with the olf Hollywood feel of the park, adjacent to the MMRR, and would give them a place for a miscellany of cartoon characters to "live"...While adding another themed area to the park....
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My research has noted that, at least back in the day, Disney used to justify that characters live at MK (prior to Toontown going away anyway), vacationed at Epcot, worked at MGM/DHS and visited AK. At least that was the internal justification.
 
GhostHost1000

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Kingoglow said:
Hollywood Studios is a confusing mess. It would be better to scrap the 50's Hollywood theme at this point. The only parts of the parks that still fit this theme are the shops (of course), and a couple of restaurants (but not all) and I can see the argument that the Tower of Terror and Chinese theater are a part of that theme.

So other than a handful of areas in the park, Disney is just going to build whatever. Let's call it Whateverland.
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Epcot is a mess now too.

I guess they will mess up AK’s overall theme next
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Chip Chipperson said:
Your references to "when I posted previously" as if people doubted you bit you were eventually proven right made me curious so I clicked on your profile to see older posts. And the previous rumor thread I found that you started involved MSEP returning for the 50th celebration. Is there a different rumor you shared that turned out to be correct that I missed?
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He’s waiting for his fans to come in and recognize him.
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SpectreJordan

SpectreJordan

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This idea seems pretty redundant when they supposedly want to do a villains land.

If they're putting anything here, I'd like for it to be a Roger Rabbit ride so it'd fit the supposed theme of Sunset Blvd.

But they won't do that, so I just say keep this Cars show. Kids like it & I guess it makes more sense next to a ride about a limo than a show about villains would.
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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Horizonsfan said:
The old time Hollywood section has always been in contrast to the back half of the park. Animation Courtyard and the Backlot Tour were squarely in present day 1989.

There’s things to criticize Hollywood Studios for, but I don’t think this is one of them.
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That kind of made sense in the context of the park, though. They were at least themed to studios and movie making; you basically traveled from Golden Age Hollywood onto a studio backlot -- it was just a present day studio backlot, so you were also traveling through time.

Not 100% on point, but it all made a lot more sense than the current DHS. But current DHS has also basically given up on the Golden Age Hollywood theming other than the facades themselves.
 
Horizonsfan

Horizonsfan

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UNCgolf said:
That kind of made sense in the context of the park, though. They were at least themed to studios and movie making; you basically traveled from Golden Age Hollywood onto a studio backlot -- it was just a present day studio backlot, so you were also traveling through time.

Not 100% on point, but it all made a lot more sense than the current DHS. But current DHS has also basically given up on the Golden Age Hollywood theming other than the facades themselves.
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I guess I fundamentally disagree that it no longer makes sense. Or at least that it ever was 100% cohesive with the rest of the park. It’s the entry experience and like the other three parks, the entry land’s main purpose is to squarely say “this is not your everyday life” and subtly “why don’t you buy something or get some food?”.

I see it as no different than entering through an aggrandized 1910s Midwest Main Street to then pass on to a medieval European castle & fair or a colonialist global south. Or passing under a modernist geodesic sphere to then experience pre-20th century pastiches of foreign countries and the US.

If we want to lament the slow killing of entertainment in the Hollywood Boulevard area, I think that’s well warranted. But to say the whole area is somehow now unwarranted because of the dearth of entertainment seems too far.

The whole park was built as such a blatant attempt to squash USF that it’s hard to buy into the notion that it had this noble ideal or cohesion on day one. I mean the park opened with Star Tour’s modern Sci-Fi set decor under construction just steps from a faux late 40s theater complex and a very 1980s stunt amphitheater.
 

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