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MGM could become the best Disney park......
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sanctumsolitude
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This thread just never goes away. 
I guess I might as well say what I would do if I was in charge of Disney-MGM Studios and had a couple billion dollars...
1) Rename and change the area around Indy and Star Tours to be the LucasFilm area, unifying the theme. Replace Sounds Dangerous with a THX experience. Add the Indy ride.
2) Move the hat to the entrance to the park, before the gates.
3) Cover Commisary Lane. Emphasize the ABC connection with architectural similarities to the ABC building and with TVs, set props, etc.
4) Put in Toontown (Disneyland style) in the space from Hollywood Blvd to the Animation Courtyard. Entrances will be on each side, with the Hollywood Blvd entrance the Griffith Park tunnel.
5) Open up the backlot to foot traffic since its no longer being used. Replace the buildings with TV and Movie sets including some special effects encounters, other attractions.
Anyway, that is just what I would do.
I guess I might as well say what I would do if I was in charge of Disney-MGM Studios and had a couple billion dollars...
1) Rename and change the area around Indy and Star Tours to be the LucasFilm area, unifying the theme. Replace Sounds Dangerous with a THX experience. Add the Indy ride.
2) Move the hat to the entrance to the park, before the gates.
3) Cover Commisary Lane. Emphasize the ABC connection with architectural similarities to the ABC building and with TVs, set props, etc.
4) Put in Toontown (Disneyland style) in the space from Hollywood Blvd to the Animation Courtyard. Entrances will be on each side, with the Hollywood Blvd entrance the Griffith Park tunnel.
5) Open up the backlot to foot traffic since its no longer being used. Replace the buildings with TV and Movie sets including some special effects encounters, other attractions.
Anyway, that is just what I would do.
metscool
Active Member
Would you get rid of LMA and put the houses back?
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
My ideas would be....
I used this as a Thread but, Add a water ride based on some movie from disney
Since the Block Party was scrapped...how about Disney's Animation Celebration parade..Having all the characters in Chronological order of there movies. Same premise of the Block Party but Disney rather than Pixar characters
Muppet Studios & The Great Muppet Movie Ride...enough said
More Streetmosphere characters
Scrap the Backlot tour...nothing is good anymore place the props around Planet Hollywood in DTD no one will know the difference considering that all the props are replicas. They can add an all new area to that section and also a better viewing of the Original Icon The Earful Tower.
I used this as a Thread but, Add a water ride based on some movie from disney
Since the Block Party was scrapped...how about Disney's Animation Celebration parade..Having all the characters in Chronological order of there movies. Same premise of the Block Party but Disney rather than Pixar characters
Muppet Studios & The Great Muppet Movie Ride...enough said
More Streetmosphere characters
Scrap the Backlot tour...nothing is good anymore place the props around Planet Hollywood in DTD no one will know the difference considering that all the props are replicas. They can add an all new area to that section and also a better viewing of the Original Icon The Earful Tower.
sanctumsolitude
Active Member
No. I am talking about the parking structures and sound stages. Tear those down and replace it with a "movie studio." Not a working movie studio, but a fictionalized, utopian movie studio with sound stages as entrances to exciting worlds, where the spaces between the sound stages are home to performers and actors.
Right now Disney-MGM Studios has a variety of themes. The Hollywood theme is well done and I wouldn't change that. However, the actual studio aspect of the park has diminished quite a bit over the years. The area behind the Great Movie Ride has always seemed a little barren and it would be nice to rework this area of the park.
dxwwf3
Well-Known Member
In a heartbeat. Actually I would trade the houses JUST for the Osbourne Lights over Lights Motors Action. LMA was something I have seen once and I have NO desire to ever watch again. I thought it was very underwhelming.
Marge10369
Member
Underwhelming? My husband and I thought it was the most boring thing we ever saw! The one thing we were grateful for was that we didn't wait to get in - Put the Osbourne Lights back the way they were. I really dislike okay hate the way they are set up now!
hammysammy59
New Member
Ha, I think I'm just about the only person on this board that actually LIKES Star Tours, LMA and the Indy show as is. Probably because I only have gotten to go to WDW every 5-6 years(hopefully I can correct that by saving up), and really, my last trip was the first time I actually checked out any shows.
So yeah, I really wouldn't change/remove Star Tours, LMA or the Indy show. However...
I would add an Indy dark ride. Hells yeah.
Let's put that big-______ hat someplace that makes a little sense.
Muppet dark ride? Yes please. One condition though, we must get cameos from Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal and Labryinth characters. Sesame Street most of all though.
New Star Wars ride? How about zipping through the forests of Endor on speeder bikes? Sign me up.
Is the MGM part of Disney-MGM Studios still there? Let's get an effing James Bond attraction, PLEASE. A Buzz Lightyear-style shoot'em ride, preferably.
Monorail stop, please!
WHERE IS ROGER RABBIT!?! I mean, come on, such a no-brainer.
Put a sweet Fantasia ride inside of Bald Mountain, please.
Either get rid of or MASSIVELY improve the Backlot Tour (bring back Herbie, you ________________!). Please.
I actually like the idea of a Harry Potter ride, but since the movies are handled by Warner Bros., I can't really see that happening. If this unlikely ride DID actually happen, I can't tell if I'd rather have it in MGM or in Fantasyland at MK...
Even though it would make WAY more sense in EPCOT or Tomorrowland, I still want to see a Tron ride, and I honestly wouldn't care if they stuck it in MGM. It IS a movie, so erm... yeah.
I'd love to see a Nightmare Before Christmas ride, but I feel like it'd make more sense in Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom.
Either way, any/all of that stuff would be insanely awesome. But what I'd really, REALLY love to see...
Is a Godzilla ride. And no, not based on that godawful American travesty, I mean the REAL Godzilla. If Disney got together with Toho Studios and put together a Godzilla ride, I'd be constantly emptying my bowels with unspeakable delight.
I want to just barely dodge the scorching-hot atomic breath of a 150 foot tall invincible radioactive dinosaur from hell, and if anybody can pull that off, it's the big D. The ride can end with us witnessing an insane four way battle between Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla. Ideally, the ride would capture the movie series' transformation from nuclear apocalyptic horror to ridiculous '70's camp to something half-way between the two.
Equally improbable would be a shoot'em up ride based on Ghostbusters. I'd love to go on a ride where I sit in a tiny Ecto-1 and blast the crap out of Slimer. God, the grand finale with Mr. Stay-Puft would be mind-blowing... they could just recycle technology from the non-existent Godzilla ride.
Also, these last two rides will probably never happen, even though I want them SO BAD. Even more than James Bond, Roger Rabbit, Tron, Fantasia, Muppets, ANYTHING. MGM would instantly become my favorite park of all time if it got either one of those never-gonna happen rides. Sure, they're not very "Disney" but neither is Aerosmith, the Twilight Zone or Indiana Jones. That's whats so cool about MGM. It still has that Disney magic, but with the edginess and excitement of show-biz.
So yeah, I really wouldn't change/remove Star Tours, LMA or the Indy show. However...
I would add an Indy dark ride. Hells yeah.
Let's put that big-______ hat someplace that makes a little sense.
Muppet dark ride? Yes please. One condition though, we must get cameos from Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal and Labryinth characters. Sesame Street most of all though.
New Star Wars ride? How about zipping through the forests of Endor on speeder bikes? Sign me up.
Is the MGM part of Disney-MGM Studios still there? Let's get an effing James Bond attraction, PLEASE. A Buzz Lightyear-style shoot'em ride, preferably.
Monorail stop, please!
WHERE IS ROGER RABBIT!?! I mean, come on, such a no-brainer.
Put a sweet Fantasia ride inside of Bald Mountain, please.
Either get rid of or MASSIVELY improve the Backlot Tour (bring back Herbie, you ________________!). Please.
I actually like the idea of a Harry Potter ride, but since the movies are handled by Warner Bros., I can't really see that happening. If this unlikely ride DID actually happen, I can't tell if I'd rather have it in MGM or in Fantasyland at MK...
Even though it would make WAY more sense in EPCOT or Tomorrowland, I still want to see a Tron ride, and I honestly wouldn't care if they stuck it in MGM. It IS a movie, so erm... yeah.
I'd love to see a Nightmare Before Christmas ride, but I feel like it'd make more sense in Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom.
Either way, any/all of that stuff would be insanely awesome. But what I'd really, REALLY love to see...
Is a Godzilla ride. And no, not based on that godawful American travesty, I mean the REAL Godzilla. If Disney got together with Toho Studios and put together a Godzilla ride, I'd be constantly emptying my bowels with unspeakable delight.
I want to just barely dodge the scorching-hot atomic breath of a 150 foot tall invincible radioactive dinosaur from hell, and if anybody can pull that off, it's the big D. The ride can end with us witnessing an insane four way battle between Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla. Ideally, the ride would capture the movie series' transformation from nuclear apocalyptic horror to ridiculous '70's camp to something half-way between the two.
Equally improbable would be a shoot'em up ride based on Ghostbusters. I'd love to go on a ride where I sit in a tiny Ecto-1 and blast the crap out of Slimer. God, the grand finale with Mr. Stay-Puft would be mind-blowing... they could just recycle technology from the non-existent Godzilla ride.
Also, these last two rides will probably never happen, even though I want them SO BAD. Even more than James Bond, Roger Rabbit, Tron, Fantasia, Muppets, ANYTHING. MGM would instantly become my favorite park of all time if it got either one of those never-gonna happen rides. Sure, they're not very "Disney" but neither is Aerosmith, the Twilight Zone or Indiana Jones. That's whats so cool about MGM. It still has that Disney magic, but with the edginess and excitement of show-biz.