Wow, we're already on page 2 of this thread, and no one is complaining about it yet.
I agree, good use of space, hope they do more with the Incredibles in the future.
I’m not sure Pixar Place would help much with crowds. The passage is pretty narrow and it will not connect directly into Galaxy’s Edge. It now dead ends into a backstage roadway with the berm to SW Land on the other side. The berm isn’t just landscaping, it’s elevated. If they allowed guest to turn left on that road it would dump them out around the Grand Ave SW entrance. Not sure that helps at all with crowds. If they allowed guest to go right the Toy Story entrance to SW Land is right there. You would basically allow guests to skip Toy Story and go direct to SW, but the paths in TS Land are probably wider and easier to navigate. Not sure it’s a big gain for crowd control.
There is a plan to potentially utilize the former pixar place as a one way exit out of Star Wars land upon opening. All entry will be via the muppets area and all exit will be out this side keeping the exiting crowds out of Toy Story.
That helps with massive crowds overwhelmimg TSL but overall it doesn’t really help with SW crowds since there’s still only one, narrow space to exit through.
You ever done Disneyland’s Fantasmic?
Right, but in this case the bottleneck is not TSL it’s getting out of SW Land. There’s 1 narrow way out so whether the crowds are routed through TSL or down Pixar Place there’s still a narrow exit. At least with MK there are multiple ways to get to the hub before going down the Main Street bypass.
I thought the goal was to give guests stuff to do at a park that’s charging $100+ a day. If the goal is to just push people in and then out of SW Land why not just close the rest of the park or even better open a back door directly in/out of SW Land from the parking lot. I’m not saying this meet and greet area is some great addition, but IMHO they will need more “filler” (not less) for the massive crowds once SW Land opens since there aren’t new rides coming beyond Great Mickey Ride. They need “stuff” worth stopping for.
Agreed. I think they are winging a lot of this on both coasts. They at least have Carsland and Pandora in recent history but these crowds could very well make both of those look tiny. At least at DL there’s 30+ rides to take up people’s time before/after their visit to a galaxy far, far away. DHS could get ugly. I hope they add a bunch of temporary exhibits or minor attractions to keep people entertained.
Whatever happened to the building from Narnia/Jack Sparrow? Is there any chance of another temporary exhibit coming there? Seems like a place that could house another temporary cheap attraction. Maybe the upstairs of PizzaRizzo becoming Muppets Walkthrough exhibit. that building was a walkthrough exhibit originally before they built Pizza Planet.
Isn’t the Jack Sparrow building where the entrance to Toy Story Land is now or is the building still there?
Isn't the idea of Metroville as a SW Land exit just speculation? Like, don't the insiders just keep sayin it is possible but probably not because it would require people to exit through a very narrow backstage area that is used often by cast and has a trash compactor? So, I've been assuming that this is just an extra thing they are adding for Star Wars crowds rather than assuming it would open and close within 6 months.
That makes a lot more sense to me too. Someone a few quotes back said the plan was to use it as an exit.
True, but not too long before that is @MisterPenguin saying it was highly unlikely unless the crowds are significatly more than Disney expected. So, maybe it is being kept in mind in case it becomes needed, but I feel like they wouldn't open this up as a (presumably lightly) themed guest space if they weren't planning to use it as one.
The way I interpreted this was that it was less about (directly) creating more exit flow from SW:GE and more about avoiding creating a log jam in TSL.***
Yes.
