Assuming they care about the "theme concept" of "Andy's back yard, and the fact that were supposedly shrunk to the size of the toys, and recreation of a "human-sized" Pizza Planet just wouldn't fit. I believe that there WILL be a QS back there (and it may well serve pizza), but no idea of what the theme may be.
It's the Pizza Planet Play Set. Now it fits!
Clearly this means Disney is buying Merlin and will actually be building Lego Toy Story Land.SYNERGY!!!!!
The more I look at the pedestrian underpass between Toy Story Land and Star Wars, the more it looks like it will double as a backstage access road. With the park's current design, the backstage area behind The Great Movie Ride (including service areas for ABC Commissary, SciFi Dine-In, Writer's Stop, and Studio Catering Company) is essentially an island, without direct access to other backstage areas
For the new design, it seems like this backstage area will grow, and will include service areas for additional stores and restaurants. Given this, I think they would see value in adding vehicular access, so they can restock during the day and perform other back-of-house duties without using the guest walkways
There is a similar transition in Tokyo DisneySEA, between Mysterious Island and Mermaid Lagoon (in large part because tunnels are impractical with the waterway surrounding the park), also serving the central areas of the park. From Mysterious Island, guests walk through a narrow canyon with a waterfall, then pass through a cave/tunnel and emerge seamlessly into Mermaid Lagoon. Here's an aerial photo that shows the backstage road:
And a view of the Mermaid Lagoon side. The portal itself is on the far left side of the photo, and the road is hidden behind the wall with the aqueduct-type arches:
Photos of the Mysterious Island side are tough to find, but I did find a walkthrough video showing what the transition looks like (during a blizzard, naturally). That area begins around 24:55
Obviously the architectural styling would need to change to match the respective lands in WDW, but this seems to be the concept they're using. And if it's good enough for TDS...
If actually jealous of Japan and France after seeing these images and the parks are still open.
But even with this line of thought it fails ESPECIALLY if we are comparing it to what Springfield did for the Simpsons ride. Which was create a cohesive area around it with dedicated themeing here all that initial themeing has been cut to its barest form. There is no excusing it. Is there a nice new coaster sure but the other details that made this land even passable all get thrown out in favor of a very dull area.
Fair enough...
I guess we will never let this become a reality now that Pizza Planet is gone.SYNERGY!!!!!
Many have said that it is wrong, yet, there are so many examples of things that Walt did that everyone thought was crazy. Disneyland being one of the biggest. He didn't always reach out and ask what the pulse of the nation was, he did what he thought he wanted and felt that others would think so too. He was right many times, but, he also had some pretty gigantic failures along the way that almost ruined the company more then once. If we are all going to quote history so much, lets make sure we know what the history actually was.
Looks like a quick service location and yeah the original pizza planet is being converted into a muppets eatery. I would hope this would be a new immersive quick service location themed to the pizza planet from the film in order to tie it into being next to the alien spinner. But something tells me that's not the case.
They showed this bit of art for the initial presentation and even then this segment was not in the version they presented. I am just going to mark it up as a fluff piece to give some form of content.The thing that really bothers me with tsl and especially the slinky coaster concept video (besides lack of theming) is that it appears as if we can easily see the cm parking garage. What are they going to do about that or do they really care? Also this concept art was shown again at the presentation yesterday yet the overall concept video and art of the land show no feature resembling this, not sure what's up with that.
The CEO of a conglomerate isn't supposed to micromanage everything. In the past 20 years four men have been the top dog for Disney's theme parks. Only two of them had any prior theme park experience, Paul Pressler and Jay Rasulo. That alone should speak volumes on Disney's attitude regarding themed entertainment.
Plenty of companies have shareholders who look past losses for the bigger future. Disney just doesn't inspire that sort of confidence.
I've often had the same notion...They showed this bit of art for the initial presentation and even then this segment was not in the version they presented. I am just going to mark it up as a fluff piece to give some form of content.
