It’s a clear example of sort of copying an element but not understanding its context. As a style, Streamline Moderne emphasizes the horizontal and not the vertical. Vertical ornamentation emphasizes a point of significance, usually the entrance, by contrasting with this horizontal composition. The towers of the Pan Pacific Auditorium are amongst the most iconic works of Streamline Moderne but they are part of a larger horizontal entrance design that is itself part of an even more horizontal auditorium.
The Disney’s Hollywood Studios Skyliner station takes design cues from the Pan Pacific Auditorium towers but applies them to the columns of the structure and not a point of significance. Even in vertical structures like towers, Streamline Moderne does not demonstrate the more Modern celebration of the column. The silhouette of a typical Streamline Moderne building is a vertical mass possibly with a contrasting vertical accent to mark significance. The silhouette of the Sklyliner station is nothing like this, instead it is multiple large columns connected by a horizontal.
This is why the bus stops, despite being simpler, are better themed. They follow the style of their context. Most Walt Disney World bus stops are simple post and beam structures with columns at all four corners and additional ones added along the edge inline with the corners. The Disney’s Hollywood Studios bus stops don’t use such a scheme which creates heavy vertical edges that define the composition. Instead they use a cantilever to remove the columns from the edges, reduce their number from four to two and make them as small as possible. The result is a simple shelter in which the horizontal now defines the composition. The stops also don’t feature a vertical ornament because they lack the mass to create contrasting accent and such a marking of significance would confuse the heirarchy of the Park entry.
