News Mickey Shorts Theater Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Rambozo

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Friends, Friends, read, it does a body good. It's going in the Path of the Jedi building near Echo Lake and Frozen. See the post right before mine.
 
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MrPromey

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The Empress Lilly said:
Anyway, old Mickey shorts are cool and in principle always a good idea for a Disney park, by default.

I vote for a return of the MS cinema. Failing that, a revamped cinema like space in DHS. That gives extra meaning to the shorts, above just playing a few shorts on a screen, which is really just one step up from playing a few on YouTube while you wait for the bus in the parking lot.

Imagine how nice a purposely built little area with a 40s cinema and the Mickey ride next to it would've been....
What a missed opportunity.
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And the great thing about Main Street cinema was it was a small thing with no wait. (and no seats) You go in and stay as long as you want and leave.

That would work with a multi-hour reel of Mickey shorts really well. Not an e-ticket; Not a place most people are going to choose to spend an hour in but air conditioned and with a come-and-go atmosphere.
 
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MrPromey

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WondersOfLife said:
The fact that people were afraid that muppets would be replaced by this, when there are theaters like Jedi, one man’s dream, and little mermaid available that are perfect for this small type of venue? That’s sad.

I always wondered why the Disney & Pixar short film festival wasn’t out in one of HS’s small theatres. Why was that put in such a ginormous usable space.
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Because they needed something cheap and easy that didn't appear dated in this pavilion to take heat off the main attraction and interactive area that both suck.

In principle, I hated the idea of it but in practice, it works better than I expected.

I just wish they'd add more movies. If they did a rotating three sets of three (maybe with Get a Horse as the anchor for all three since that is the 4D gem) they could get so much more mileage out of this one in a day by making it repeatable - still at a cost of almost nothing.

You are right that Hollywood Studios would be a much better fit if they were interested in keeping this as a real attaction and not just a stop-gap once they figure out this pavilion, though.
 
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DisneyDreamerxyz

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MrPromey said:
And the great thing about Main Street cinema was it was a small thing with no wait. (and no seats) You go in and stay as long as you want and leave.

That would work with a multi-hour reel of Mickey sorts really well. Not an e-ticket. Not a place most people are going to choose to spend an hour in but air conditioned and with a come-and-go atmosphere.
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I used to work on Main Street in the former cinema that is now an art store, and they do still play the Mickey shorts in there! we would have families and kids come in and see the cartoons and sit on the floor for as long as they want and watch them. Sometimes the volume is turned down but you can ask a castmember to turn it up.
 
Wendy Pleakley

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Any sort of short-film attraction in the parks holds almost no interest to me. But then, I thought the Pixar shorts were a terrible addition to Epcot and those draw crowds, so what do I know.

I'd prefer this be like the Main Street Cinema where you could come and go and watch as many cartoons as you felt like, but that won't happen. It needs to be an attraction so Disney can use it as another tier 2 Fastpass option.
 
VaderTron

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Steph15251 said:
I have no issue with this at least it is something new and it is replacing something Star Wars related which I think the park has too much Star Wars stuff .
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I agree with you partially, however, I do not think the park has too much Star Wars stuff. I just think Disney should have planned things better and moved it all to the same "land". Star Tours should have been the "through ride" that people could choose to go on with the exit dumping guests out into Star Wars Land. Would have been great theming if the final sequence was hardwired to "land" guests in Black Spire Outpost. (That is one of the random endings, but making it the permanent one would have been great.) There could have been a pathway created next to Star Tours that led to Star Wars Land for guests who didn't want to "fly" to the destination via Star Tours. Launch Bay (or it's equivalent meet-n-greets) should have been relocated to the land as well with something fresh and non-Star Warsy taking over the Launch Bay.

As for Mickey Shorts going where the Path of the Jedi has been playing, I completely agree that it's a good move. No need to have Star Wars stuff every 10 feet. It's Hollywood Studios, not Star Wars Universe.
 
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JohnD

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DisneyDreamerxyz said:
I bet they would prefer to put it where Frozen is now, so you could see it a little better as a tie-in with Runaway Railway, but it's close enough. Let's praise the first Star Wars replacement! Launch Bay next!
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I disagree. Frozen is a huge draw. It also “eats” people just as Indiana Jones does. Great way to distribute crowds. The theater for Path of the Jedi is smaller.
 
MisterPenguin

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ThatMouse said:
This counts as another announcement that is actually a downgrade of an existing space.
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In your mind.

Path of the Jedi was for anyone who didn't know what a Jedi was. And who's left who doesn't know? A recently discovered tribesman from deepest Amazon?

I like the Mickey Shorts. Tho, to be honest, I'll probably never see them in that theater because I've seen them all. Just like I never saw Path of the Jedi because I've seen them all.

But for the sake of MMRR, there are probably more people unfamiliar with the new Mickey Shorts than there are unfamiliar with Jedi.
 
cjkeating

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I think this is a logical addition based on the fact that the Star Wars film has been closed (since last September?).

If anything it is weird it wasn't done a) before the expected Galaxy's Edge crowd and b) that is happening so close to MMRR opening, unless this is further delayed?
 
ThatMouse

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Haha for some reason I seriously thought Path of the Jedi and Jedi Training was the same thing, like maybe it was the starting point of it, they watched a movie, got their light saber and walked over to the stage. Sounds like I just invented a much cooler Jedi Training camp.
 
Fox&Hound

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I just hope that somewhere, on a giant cork board somewhere, is a giant list of upcoming DHS attractions and rides with DHS execs pouring their attention all over it. Please tell me there are a ton of AMAZING new additions ready to be greenlit. This park is turning a real corner and replacing Launch Bay, Mermaid, Indy, and Belle would be the icing on the cake.
 

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