Rumor: Details on Disney's Hollywood Adventure

[TabulaRasa]

Nope. No indication of it one way or the other.

My better judgement knows this, I'm just currently freaking out at the prospect that it's even being mentioned as a rumor.

 

[Brer Panther]

We've been over this a million times - Disney does not CARE what Universal does.

They'll care once people stop coming to the parks. Again, I blame Bob Iger... Notice how the trend of building things at the pace of a turtle began once he became the guy in charge?

Realistically though, DHS needs a totally reworking. And it's tough to do that without closing significant amounts of attractions so they can be demolished and a new setup built. DHS has been expanded piecemeal since it opened and (quite frankly) that option isn't working well. The layout of the park sucks and needs mulligan and a fresh restart.

Well, of course. But it doesn't seem like they're even doing THAT. Did they do this sort of thing with Disney's California Adventure, too?

 

[SpaceMountain77]

Nope. No indication of it one way or the other.

Might its future presence be tied to the success of ABC's Muppets comedy?

 

[PhotoDave219]

They'll care once people stop coming to the parks.

THEY HAVE.

Do you even read my attendance/crowd analyses? Do you even pay attention that DHS pulls an off-peak crowd 38% of this year, 5% worse than the 33% of all of last year?

Or that despite the Frozen singalong, they still draw an average or below crowd 58% of the time during the first six months of this year?

Or that DHS is on the outlier of all the parks in every attendance category?

You take June away from DHS and they're having an abysmal year.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Might its future presence be tied to the success of ABC's Muppets comedy?

No idea.

 

[Brer Panther]

THEY HAVE.

Do you even read my attendance/crowd analyses? Do you even pay attention that DHS pulls an off-peak crowd 38% of this year, 5% worse than the 33% of all of last year?

Or that despite the Frozen singalong, they still draw an average or below crowd 58% of the time during the first six months of this year?

Or that DHS is on the outlier of all the parks in every attendance category?

You take June away from DHS and they're having an abysmal year.

All the more reason they should DO SOMETHING!

 

[PhotoDave219]

All the more reason they should DO SOMETHING!

They are.

Or are you not paying attention?

 

[doctornick]

Well, of course. But it doesn't seem like they're even doing THAT. Did they do this sort of thing with Disney's California Adventure, too?

What do you mean? Who knows what they will be doing, but I would expect that with $2.8B going towards DHS that there will be some significant changes to the layout, including many structures being demolished and new ones being built.

 

[Brer Panther]

They are.

Or are you not paying attention?

Still, they're taking forever to get started. The more rides they close without getting started on new ones, the more likely it is that people are gonna stop coming to the park. Time is of the essence, Disney!

 

[PhotoDave219]

Still, they're taking forever to get started. The more rides they close without getting started on new ones, the more likely it is that people are gonna stop coming to the park. Time is of the essence, Disney!

What makes you say they're haven't?

I mean other than they haven't sent a marching band and parade to your house, complete with a herald of trumpeters, that they have read your message board posts and have decided immediately and shall commence construction forthwith of their $2.8B makeover of Disney's Hollywood Studios.

 

[articos]

@articos addressed this issue in the other thread, but it seems it needs to be repeated here:

RE: TCM and GMR, they are a natural match for each other. There hasn't been further discussion on whether TCM would be a sponsor for any other attraction other than GMR. Not to say that couldn't happen in the future, however, if the sponsorship works creatively.

 

[misterID]

Still, they're taking forever to get started. The more rides they close without getting started on new ones, the more likely it is that people are gonna stop coming to the park. Time is of the essence, Disney!

There are a lot of shenanigans that goes on with contractors and WDI that's gone on for a long time and really doesn't have anything to do with Iger. They approved the plans, budget etc. The ridiculous time frames have little to do with Iger and Disney so much. Universal Creative is much different than WDI in a lot of aspects of operations and why there's such disparity in time frames and money when it comes to projects.

 

[jt04]

They are.

Or are you not paying attention?

Frustrating, isn't it?

Heh.

 

[Can we go yet?]

Late to this news..opps. Sorry if this has been answered already, but I realize Animation has been confirmed to close, One Man's Dream has been rumored, but are the rumblings about Muppets closing also true?

It's odd that they didn't just wait until now to close Backlot....

 

[PhotoDave219]

Late to this news..opps. Sorry if this has been answered already, but I realize Animation has been confirmed to close, One Man's Dream has been rumored, but are the rumblings about Muppets closing also true?

It's odd that they didn't just wait until now to close Backlot....

This question was addressed within this thread earlier.

 

[Brer Panther]

Late to this news..opps. Sorry if this has been answered already, but I realize Animation has been confirmed to close, One Man's Dream has been rumored, but are the rumblings about Muppets closing also true?

It's odd that they didn't just wait until now to close Backlot....

I think Voyage of the Little Mermaid or Disney Junior is next on the chopping block...

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

What makes you say they're haven't?

I mean other than they haven't sent a marching band and parade to your house, complete with a herald of trumpeters, that they have read your message board posts and have decided immediately and shall commence construction forthwith of their $2.8B makeover of Disney's Hollywood Studios.

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Yep, they need to get it right this time around. They have seen the bump in attendance at DCA. But you just can't go in there with a wreaking ball. You have a budget, timeline, permits, construction and so on. Like @PhotoDave219 has said plenty of times on the threads - have patience.

 

[ford91exploder]

Taking it only TSPL will be planned to ready by spring 2017...not sure if that's enough to justify another visit before it's all completed. Unfortunately I would want 4 full day/ multi day parks to justify the added cost of staying on resort at Disney.

No No No, Construction will be started on TSPL in 2017, the crew will consist of 3 workers and a foreman and construction will take 10 years...

 

[bcoachable]

I am apologizing ahead of time in case this was already discussed. I was on the Disney blog site today and they have a post up regarding the wildfire rumors about the 3+ billion budget approved for DHS (and other stuff). They were discussing how Disney can't use the main Marvel based characters east of the Mississippi. However, one point of interest in the blog was the following:

...yesterday evening James Gunn, who directed Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and is currently in pre-production on its sequel, held a periscope chat where he didn’t talk too much about the sequel, but I’m told he did mention how excited he was about an upcoming Disney World ride based on Guardians of the Galaxy. Wait? Could that even happen? Gunn has since deleted the periscope, so perhaps he leaked something he wasn’t supposed to?

So, do people on other sites not as cool as this one make stuff up? Or did anyone else anywhere here about this? Just curious.

I was armchair imagineering the other day with my family and we are calling it now......

GoTG make over of RR

 

[gonnichi]

Just wondering if any insiders can confirm if the new Pixar expansion might be following these old plans. This image is of the backstage DHS area with Catastrophe Canyon below the bottom left corner.