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News Monster Inc Land Coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios
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UNCgolf
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They basically have to if they want this to actually improve the park experience for guests.
If they just replace Muppets with the coaster, it's a lateral move at best, and possibly hurts the park on an average day.
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UNCgolf
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Plus, the Play Pavilion getting axed was a good thing.
ToTBellHop
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Mary Poppins seemed charming enough and modest. Honestly a bit surprised it hasn’t been approved as a small Epcot addition for 2026 when not much else is coming online.
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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I'm just bringing up the point that there have been officially announced projects that never happened. Those are all recent so they're in my mind, but I can go super far back into the company's history:
(These are only projects that were publicly announced and advertised to the public, it doesn't include any scrapped projects that were never announced like the Snow Queen's Palace)
Entire Parks/Resorts
- Mineral King Resort
- St. Louis Park
- Disney's America
- WestCot
- Edison Square
- Liberty Street
- International Street
- Rock Candy Mountain
- Land of Oz Dark scenes for Storybookland inside of RCM
- Mickey's Starland
- Indiana Jones Stunt Show
- Hollywoodland
- Dick Tracey's Crimestoppers
- The Great Movie Ride
- ToonTown Transit
- Baby Herman's Runaway Baby Buggies
- LucasPort / VenturePort
- Star Wars Rollercoaster
- Tomorrowland 2055
- Alien Encounter
- Plektu's Fantastic Galatic Revue
- Here Come the Muppets
- MuppetVision 3D (Replacing Lincoln)
- Little Mermaid Dark Ride
- Thunder Mesa
- Western River Expedition
- Mine Train Coaster
- Log Flume
- Discoveryland
- Flying Saucers
- Astronomer's Club
- Plektu's Fantastic Galactic Revue
- Pixie Hollow in New Fantasyland
- Equatorial Africa, Israel, Spain, Soviet Union, and Switzerland at World Showcase
- Meet the World in Japan
- Mt. Fuji Coaster in Japan
- Rine River Cruise in Germany
- Space Pavillion
- Hollywood Pavillion
- Cherry Tree Lane
- Mary Poppins Teacup Ride
- Play Pavillion
- Journey to the Center of the Earth in the Backlot Tour
- Dick Tracey's Crimestoppers
- Maroon Studios / Roger Rabbit's Hollywood
- ToonTown Transit
- Baby Herman's Runaway Buggies
- Roger Rabbit Rollercoaster
- Mickey's Movieland
- Muppet Studios Land at MGM Studios
- Great Muppet Movie Ride
- Swedish Chef Restaurant
- Gonzo's Pizza Restaurant
- Beastly Kingdom
- Dragon Rollercoaster
- Unicorn Maze
- Galaxy's Edge
Credit to YesterWorld's video on this topic for most of these.
There's probably a lot I'm missing for the other parks, but after Animal Kingdom, Disney started to keep planned projects secret until they were most likely happening.
EDIT: Organized the list by Park!
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It was. They would have curtailed the walking portion of the tour.
SpectroMagician
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Josh Gad is not a "Disney Legend". He voiced one character that is kind of annoying.
But the point that Disney should stop removing things and just focus on adding net new is real.
But the point that Disney should stop removing things and just focus on adding net new is real.
PREMiERdrum
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They could build the slightly-lessened version they planned to do anyways just by shaking the change out of the seats on CoP. Alas, it wouldn't move merch or bump LL sales. And that's how we decide things now.
Back on topic, the AC plot has been earmarked - so to speak - for a larger expansion. An expansion that isn't funded yet. They were caught flat-footed with their HoP plans and are historically bad at adapting. Pressure seems to be having a tiny bit of effect, which is more than the typical zero. Still think this boots MV - which was going to be leaving within the next few years anyways under a few different plans - while AC soldiers on without another real expansion funded.
is muppets in HOP dead basically?
PREMiERdrum
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Coaster Lover
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- In the Parks
- No
I mean, he was also in the Live Action BatB movie, he narrated that really cool show on Disney+ about the animals at Animal Kingdom, he's done "one off" voice cameos for a bunch of other Disney cartoons, and he was in Artemis Foul (though I can forgive you if you didn't see that)... but otherwise, I agree with your sentiment...
All I want is for muppets to live on at wdw in some way. I get if muppetvision has to go eventually, but they deserve some spot.
Horizonsfan
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It’s odd that Disney wouldn’t consider putting a new iteration of the Magic of Animation back into the Launch Bay building as a stop gap until AC is ready for redevelopment.
Is launch bay truly more popular than the animation exhibits were?
Is launch bay truly more popular than the animation exhibits were?
TrainsOfDisney
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Or maybe wet cement?
Well it never closed really… the frozen sing along was an overlay that didn’t take out any of the muppets infrastructure. It was temporary. After frozen it became philharmagic. I actually think if they had given muppets a street facing marquee like they did for philharmagic it would be getting decent numbers - it was very well hidden.
That’s an interesting thought…. It would be very easy to reroute just use the old extended Q and take down the marquee. If the theatre was going to remain anyways - this lowers the budget for the land since they don’t have to create a new show.
The animation studio is not abandoned - that’s part of the issue.
He is a Disney Legend - you may not agree but he is. Haha.
PREMiERdrum
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This is the type of "integrity of craft" so sorely lacking in today's WDC.
The focus used to be on producing quality and nuance that generated success. Now they just try to create success. Different approaches.
WorldExplorer
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They chose a very interesting year to give Frank Oz the Disney Legend title.
Gad is nowhere close to a Disney Legend, unless you lower the bar to the floor and have little-to-no standard on what constitutes a "Disney Legend". Oh wait...
TrainsOfDisney
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I mean technically he is, none of us get to decide who is or isn’t.
I wasn’t necessarily a fan of his but I saw him in “Gutenberg the musical” on broadway and he completely won me over. The guy is a very talented entertainer.