With the addition of Toy Story Land and the upcoming SW:GE, Disney Hollywood Studios is going to soon have a serious capacity issue on its hands. This blue sky concept is the type of solution I would like to see implemented which fits both the theming of the front portion of the park, as well as helping to flesh out both attraction capacity and the C/D ticket roster within the park.
Hope you enjoy!
-John
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Maroon Cartoon Studios and Roger Rabbit’s Toontown
This new land sits on the site of Animation Courtyard, and utilizes backstage portions of the former Backlot Tram Tour and Disney Feature Animation Orlando.
--Maroon Cartoon Studios--
Keeping the animation courtyard as a chiefly intact “Phase 1” for this new expansion is a representation of Maroon Studios, from 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The Animation Courtyard’s three surrounding buildings would remain largely untouched on the exterior, with cosmetic updates to fit the new setting of a 1940s Hollywood studio. As you enter the gateway (now topped with “Maroon Cartoons” in place of the Disney Hollywood Studio logo, you encounter…
Roger Rabbit’s 4-D Mayhem! at the Maroon Cartoon Theatre
This state-of-the-art 4D film takes place in the studio’s screening room, where R.K. Maroon approves pictures before their release. Roger Rabbit has invited studio visitors in to preview his madcap short while R.K. is out taking care of other business. But Roger hasn’t quite asked permission, and doesn’t quite know how to use the projector. Akin to M:V 4D, Roger’s antics ricochet around the theatre, which uses 3-D projection screens on each wall of the space to surround the audience with action. Exiting the theatre, directly across the courtyard guests encounter…
The Maroon Cartoon Studios Cafeteria
Feeding the animated and famous, this quick service dining location offers fast fare in a relaxed, art deco atmosphere surrounded by autographs and posters from some of the industry’s leading cartoon stars. Sharing a kitchen with the Hollywood Brown Derby, this location serves tasty meals at an affordable price. At night, this location transforms into a TS all-you-care-to-eat character dining experience featuring Goofy, Donald, and Roger Rabbit. Outside the doors and to the right, at the end of the courtyard, is
Maroon Cartoon’s Art of Animation with Roger Rabbit
This walkthrough attraction harkens back to the days of the original plans for Disneyland, as guests – accompanied by a studio tour guide – walk through a tour of “how cartoons are filmed” at R.K. Maroon’s prolific studio. Guests visit props, wardrobe, makeup, and a few different sets, each with a gag or illusion which helps underline just why you can’t trust a toon to get the job done. The walkthrough exits out the rear of the building, into
--Roger Rabbit’s Toontown--
Modeled on the heart of 1940s Los Angeles, this version of Toontown presents a cracked mirror image of the park’s Hollywood Boulevard. Cartoonish art deco buildings bulge out over the walkways and bend into the sky, enveloping to guest in a horizonless land. Guests exiting the Maroon Cartoon studio walk past a chain-link fence to their left demarking the studio’s parking lot, which has been transformed into
Benny’s Crazy Cabs
Benny the Cab has started up an entire toon transit company, and his cabs have gone a little wild. Hop in one of Benny’s brothers and spin out in this teacups-style spinning ride. The fast you turn the cab’s wheel, the faster you’ll burn rubber. Smoke and lighting effects help complete the chaos. Guests enter and exit through Benny’s Service Station which the conniving cab has turned into a way to make a quick buck as a souvenir shop.
Opposite Benny’s Crazy Cabs, in front of the Maroon Studio building, is
Toontown City Park
This splashzone features a giant fountain in its center, and large representations of the trees from the 1932 Silly Symphonies Flowers and Trees – dancing, playing musical instruments, and watering the gardens. Across from the park is the
ACME Gag Warehouse
Guests pile into a forklift to help the Acme Company organize the gags and gassers , getting them ready to ship out to pranksters nationwide. But when the Weasels return to dip Toontown, it’s up to the guests to foil their plans and save the day. A hybrid between Disneyland’s Car Toon Spin and the newest trackless ride systems, this ride attempts to tell a whole new story in the Roger Rabbit universe. Acme’s Joke Shop offers some of Marvin Acme’s greatest gags (and Acme Gag Warehouse branded merchandise). Leaving the Acme courtyard and turning left, guests encounter
The Ink and Paint Club
Hidden down a “dark” alleyway, the Ink and Paint club is a recreation of the speakeasy that appears in the 1988 film. With a rotating animated cast (using projection mapped props for a suitably animated stage show), this table service location offers a rolling dinner theatre show approximately one hour long. With cocktails, mocktails, and the best food Toontown can offer, the Ink and Paint Club is a new peak in experienced-based signature dining. On the opposite end of the street from the Ink and Paint Club is
The Toon Saloon
Offering quick service sandwiches and salads, the Toon Saloon is Toontown’s answer to a 1940s/1950s diner – with neon looping and corkscrewing through the seating area and a kitchen window that’s constantly spouting the sounds of frantic cartoon short order cooks Donald Duck, Goofy, and Mickey Mouse. Across the street is
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Inside the Toontown Water Works run by (who else?) the Brooms from Fantasia, Sorcerer Mickey is running into a heap of trouble. This mild indoor flume ride takes guests on a crashing, splashing trip through the sewers and canals of Toontown, all the while with brooms hoping to get the guests soaked from their ever-present and overflowing buckets. Next door, is the
Fantasia Arms Apartments (Character M&G)
Where the signs of just about ever star of Fantasia – from the tutu’d Hippos to the stomping dinosaurs – can be seen in windows, on fire escapes, and dangling from the roof. Inside, guests make their way through the halls (and a few apartments) to meet Sorcerer Mickey in his suite.
The entrance to the land at the northern edge, coming through the Sunset Market is marked by a towering façade of cartoon hills, topped with a Toontown sign. Guests enter through a cartoonish tunnel similar to that which works as the portal to SW:GE.
The southern entrance of the land meets with Toy Story Land, passing beneath a backstage access skybridge and into Andy’s backyard. To the right is an Al’s Toy Barn Playset that houses both a TSL M&G location and a retail shop.
Hope you enjoy!
-John
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Maroon Cartoon Studios and Roger Rabbit’s Toontown
This new land sits on the site of Animation Courtyard, and utilizes backstage portions of the former Backlot Tram Tour and Disney Feature Animation Orlando.
--Maroon Cartoon Studios--
Keeping the animation courtyard as a chiefly intact “Phase 1” for this new expansion is a representation of Maroon Studios, from 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The Animation Courtyard’s three surrounding buildings would remain largely untouched on the exterior, with cosmetic updates to fit the new setting of a 1940s Hollywood studio. As you enter the gateway (now topped with “Maroon Cartoons” in place of the Disney Hollywood Studio logo, you encounter…
Roger Rabbit’s 4-D Mayhem! at the Maroon Cartoon Theatre
This state-of-the-art 4D film takes place in the studio’s screening room, where R.K. Maroon approves pictures before their release. Roger Rabbit has invited studio visitors in to preview his madcap short while R.K. is out taking care of other business. But Roger hasn’t quite asked permission, and doesn’t quite know how to use the projector. Akin to M:V 4D, Roger’s antics ricochet around the theatre, which uses 3-D projection screens on each wall of the space to surround the audience with action. Exiting the theatre, directly across the courtyard guests encounter…
The Maroon Cartoon Studios Cafeteria
Feeding the animated and famous, this quick service dining location offers fast fare in a relaxed, art deco atmosphere surrounded by autographs and posters from some of the industry’s leading cartoon stars. Sharing a kitchen with the Hollywood Brown Derby, this location serves tasty meals at an affordable price. At night, this location transforms into a TS all-you-care-to-eat character dining experience featuring Goofy, Donald, and Roger Rabbit. Outside the doors and to the right, at the end of the courtyard, is
Maroon Cartoon’s Art of Animation with Roger Rabbit
This walkthrough attraction harkens back to the days of the original plans for Disneyland, as guests – accompanied by a studio tour guide – walk through a tour of “how cartoons are filmed” at R.K. Maroon’s prolific studio. Guests visit props, wardrobe, makeup, and a few different sets, each with a gag or illusion which helps underline just why you can’t trust a toon to get the job done. The walkthrough exits out the rear of the building, into
--Roger Rabbit’s Toontown--
Modeled on the heart of 1940s Los Angeles, this version of Toontown presents a cracked mirror image of the park’s Hollywood Boulevard. Cartoonish art deco buildings bulge out over the walkways and bend into the sky, enveloping to guest in a horizonless land. Guests exiting the Maroon Cartoon studio walk past a chain-link fence to their left demarking the studio’s parking lot, which has been transformed into
Benny’s Crazy Cabs
Benny the Cab has started up an entire toon transit company, and his cabs have gone a little wild. Hop in one of Benny’s brothers and spin out in this teacups-style spinning ride. The fast you turn the cab’s wheel, the faster you’ll burn rubber. Smoke and lighting effects help complete the chaos. Guests enter and exit through Benny’s Service Station which the conniving cab has turned into a way to make a quick buck as a souvenir shop.
Opposite Benny’s Crazy Cabs, in front of the Maroon Studio building, is
Toontown City Park
This splashzone features a giant fountain in its center, and large representations of the trees from the 1932 Silly Symphonies Flowers and Trees – dancing, playing musical instruments, and watering the gardens. Across from the park is the
ACME Gag Warehouse
Guests pile into a forklift to help the Acme Company organize the gags and gassers , getting them ready to ship out to pranksters nationwide. But when the Weasels return to dip Toontown, it’s up to the guests to foil their plans and save the day. A hybrid between Disneyland’s Car Toon Spin and the newest trackless ride systems, this ride attempts to tell a whole new story in the Roger Rabbit universe. Acme’s Joke Shop offers some of Marvin Acme’s greatest gags (and Acme Gag Warehouse branded merchandise). Leaving the Acme courtyard and turning left, guests encounter
The Ink and Paint Club
Hidden down a “dark” alleyway, the Ink and Paint club is a recreation of the speakeasy that appears in the 1988 film. With a rotating animated cast (using projection mapped props for a suitably animated stage show), this table service location offers a rolling dinner theatre show approximately one hour long. With cocktails, mocktails, and the best food Toontown can offer, the Ink and Paint Club is a new peak in experienced-based signature dining. On the opposite end of the street from the Ink and Paint Club is
The Toon Saloon
Offering quick service sandwiches and salads, the Toon Saloon is Toontown’s answer to a 1940s/1950s diner – with neon looping and corkscrewing through the seating area and a kitchen window that’s constantly spouting the sounds of frantic cartoon short order cooks Donald Duck, Goofy, and Mickey Mouse. Across the street is
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Inside the Toontown Water Works run by (who else?) the Brooms from Fantasia, Sorcerer Mickey is running into a heap of trouble. This mild indoor flume ride takes guests on a crashing, splashing trip through the sewers and canals of Toontown, all the while with brooms hoping to get the guests soaked from their ever-present and overflowing buckets. Next door, is the
Fantasia Arms Apartments (Character M&G)
Where the signs of just about ever star of Fantasia – from the tutu’d Hippos to the stomping dinosaurs – can be seen in windows, on fire escapes, and dangling from the roof. Inside, guests make their way through the halls (and a few apartments) to meet Sorcerer Mickey in his suite.
The entrance to the land at the northern edge, coming through the Sunset Market is marked by a towering façade of cartoon hills, topped with a Toontown sign. Guests enter through a cartoonish tunnel similar to that which works as the portal to SW:GE.
The southern entrance of the land meets with Toy Story Land, passing beneath a backstage access skybridge and into Andy’s backyard. To the right is an Al’s Toy Barn Playset that houses both a TSL M&G location and a retail shop.
