After discussing it all over with my dad (my partner in crime involving all things disney) for a few days he brought up a good point. The entire park is bein completely gutted. Do I like Star Wars? Yes, if it's done right. Do I like Muppets, not exactly, but that will change the back part of the park. Pixar place? Toy Story Land? Now a marvel themed land. Keep in mind they will have to change the name too. Right now it looks like a hodge-podge of crap, random movies and lands popping up everywhere. But if the rumor sticks they will likely retheme that whole area. Get rid of RnR and God forbid Fantasmic (although to me Fantasmic has a universal theme that could be justified to go along with the new park). In the long run its a business move, and will probably make a crap ton of money. Do I like it? No, absolutely not, but do you think the 500 people on this forum will make an impact on their decisions probably not. Frustrating and beyond disappointing. But if you can see the "big picture" it makes (a minuscule if that amount of) sense.
Again, I am not in favor of this whatsoever. However with the entire park changing it seems like they're out of options. They can either keep sunset blv. and that area completely the same, compromising the storyline or theme, or they can change it to marvel and hope it all works itself out.
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Completely disagree. Don't see how, in any way, how dumping Sunset Boulevard could be considered the only or a preferred option.
Sunset Boulevard is fantastic (though the Aerosmith themed RnRC is an awkward fit) and there is absolutely no need to re-theme it for the new DHS. Dumping the working studios theme in favor of the Hollywood/movie adventure theme doesn't render Sunset Boulevard a bad fit or compromise any story-line. In fact, quite the opposite, if that area is goes, the new park becomes MORE of a hodge-podge and disjointed. Keep Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard and Echo Lake as the general ode to Hollywood and the movie & television entertainment world, and then from there immerse yourself in a few of the greatest movie & television entertainment franchises of all time - Star Wars, Toy Story, the Muppets, and [Indiana Jones or whatever else]. If they want to do a token Marvel presence through Guardians of the Galaxy, and, instead of something new, won't consider anything, but a shoehorn fit into an existing attraction, change up the RnRC. The theming is much less critical to the attraction and far less integral to the rest of Sunset Boulevard. And there are lots of possibilities.**
On the "business move" and "probably make a crap ton of money," I don't buy that either. On the short term, I don't really see a re-theme of the Tower of Terror to Guardians of the Galaxy as being a draw that will pull back in single-day DHS admission visitors or will get people to extent their WDW stay. In the long term, they won't need to spend resources re-theming Sunset Boulevard because the Star Wars and Toy Story lands will be driving people into the park.
I've not been to California Adventure to see what ToT and the associated area theming is like there to know whether changing ToT there would be an awkward and disruptive move. If it's not the same presence and anchor that it is at DHS, and it's sitting at the gateway to the area that makes the most sense for building out a substantial Marvel presence, one could understand why a change may be considered over there. But this whole idea has never made a single bit of sense whatsoever for Florida and DHS or whatever it's going to end up being called.
** Do something in front if it like an old comic book store promoting the latest Guardians of the Galaxy issue. In addition to the primary GotG comic focus, they could secondarily feature old school Disney character comics and comic illustrations featuring characters appearing both in comics and Disney movies like the Lone Ranger, Davy Crockett, Swiss Family Robinson, etc. They could easily work in one of their precious gift shops with a Marvel and comic focus, related memorabilia and whatever. Have the queue/pre-show be comic illustration style and with some of the music from the mix-tape or maybe, to fit the older Hollywood theme, old, crackly radio broadcast show type readings/narration of GotG comics. The coaster could be the where the GotG comic world is transformed into the real world with some more music from the mix-tape.
