Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[J. D.]

If work has stopped it happened very recently because all the recent aerials we have seen show active work going on.

Work is definitely going on.

 

[roj2323]

Sorry tried it right now and it worked. Anyone else having trouble seeing it?

https://mobile.twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/774001602864812032/photo/1

If you delete "mobile." from the URL it works.

 

[Next Big Thing]

If you delete "mobile." from the URL it works.

Studio Catering has seen more demo since yesterday (from bioreconstruct):

 

[Next Big Thing]

Also, with all of these facades down, i've really begun to notice just how ugly the Sci-Fi Dine in building is. That building also really peers over Commissary Lane, allowing limited sunshine onto the street. With mediocre food and the studio theming still present within the restaurant, I wouldn't mind seeing that building hit the dust for something better.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Also, with all of these facades down, i've really begun to notice just how ugly the Sci-Fi Dine in building is. That building also really peers over Commissary Lane, allowing limited sunshine onto the street. With mediocre food and the studio theming still present within the restaurant, I wouldn't mind seeing that building hit the dust for something better.

It's the middle of Florida, I fail to see how anything, including a building that provides relief from the surface of the sun would be viewed as a bad thing.

 

[TheOrangeBird01]

Also, with all of these facades down, i've really begun to notice just how ugly the Sci-Fi Dine in building is. That building also really peers over Commissary Lane, allowing limited sunshine onto the street. With mediocre food and the studio theming still present within the restaurant, I wouldn't mind seeing that building hit the dust for something better.

No. No. No. Sci Fi is my favourite restaurant on property and I would be crushed if it ever went away. For now it's safe and I hope it will be for a looooooong time.

 

[Marlins1]

Sci Fi and Brown Derby are easily two of the best things in DHS.

 

[Next Big Thing]

No. No. No. Sci Fi is my favourite restaurant on property and I would be crushed if it ever went away. For now it's safe and I hope it will be for a looooooong time.

Sci Fi and Brown Derby are easily two of the best thing in DHS.

I've never understood the love for Sci-Fi. Obviously everyone has their own personal likes/dislikes, but to me none of the food here is anything I can't get at a Steak n Shake for much, much less. I understand people like the theme, but does that really make up for paying so much for mediocre food?

 

[MagicHappens1971]

I understand people like the theme, but does that really make up for paying so much for mediocre food?

Be Our Guest? My family only ate lunch there but wasn't impressed with the food

 

[Next Big Thing]

Be Our Guest? My family only ate lunch there but wasn't impressed with the food

I never said BoG was good or bad so i'm confused on your response here.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

I never said BoG was good or bad so i'm confused on your response here.

I was using it as an example sorry

 

[matt9112]

Really, I would think that it would be massively beneficial for people to understand that Disney and Pixar are now one and the same. If one loves Disney and one loves Pixar, it is a perfect marriage. Nothing but a positive as far as I can tell.

i agree...but there needs to be a distinguishing element of a Disney park for me its not meant to be an extension of your movies but an entirely new place that makes you ask why a movie isn't made about xyz? sure IPs cant be stopped but it should be done in such a way that your first reaction isnt oh look the movie.

 

[TheOrangeBird01]

I've never understood the love for Sci-Fi. Obviously everyone has their own personal likes/dislikes, but to me none of the food here is anything I can't get at a Steak n Shake for much, much less. I understand people like the theme, but does that really make up for paying so much for mediocre food?

For me it's the experience of going in the "car", watching retro Sci-Fi clips and drinking a great milkshake. Throw in a nice steak and some onion rings and you've got yourself a winner in my book.

 

[Goofyernmost]

i agree...but there needs to be a distinguishing element of a Disney park for me its not meant to be an extension of your movies but an entirely new place that makes you ask why a movie isn't made about xyz? sure IPs cant be stopped but it should be done in such a way that your first reaction isnt oh look the movie.

OK, but I have to ask... when was the original Disneyland anything other then an extension of movies and television. It was 100% that. Later they added a few original thoughts, like Haunted Mansion and Pirates and it wasn't until the 60's when things like Small World, Carousel of Progress, Lincoln, etc. ever made their showing. The only real original early on was the Tiki Room if I recall and Autotopia, which everyone is now convinced doesn't belong in any park anywhere, anymore. Why should all that space be wasted on kids, when there are so many of us adults to keep entertained?

 

[lazyboy97o]

OK, but I have to ask... when was the original Disneyland anything other then an extension of movies and television. It was 100% that. Later they added a few original thoughts, like Haunted Mansion and Pirates and it wasn't until the 60's when things like Small World, Carousel of Progress, Lincoln, etc. ever made their showing. The only real original early on was the Tiki Room if I recall and Autotopia, which everyone is now convinced doesn't belong in any park anywhere, anymore. Why should all that space be wasted on kids, when there are so many of us adults to keep entertained?

Most of the opening day attractions were original to the park. A genre is not an intellectual property.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Most of the opening day attractions were original to the park. A genre is not an intellectual property.

How does that stop them from being extensions of movies and TV? Even the castle was done to promote the upcoming movie. Sleeping Beauty didn't come out until after.

 

[lazyboy97o]

How does that stop them from being extensions of movies and TV? Even the castle was done to promote the upcoming movie. Sleeping Beauty didn't come out until after.

Sleeping Beauty Castle was a naming decision that came well after the decision to have a castle, one often referred to as simply Fantasyland Castle. That is not at all the same as Enchanted Storybook Castle being specifically created to support and promote the Disney Princess franchise. Disneyland was an extension of storytelling across different mediums. Attractions were not created based on box office performance and merchandise sales as is the case today.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Sleeping Beauty Castle was a naming decision that came well after the decision to have a castle, one often referred to as simply Fantasyland Castle. That is not at all the same as Enchanted Storybook Castle being specifically created to support and promote the Disney Princess franchise. Disneyland was an extension of storytelling across different mediums. Attractions were not created based on box office performance and merchandise sales as is the case today.

Didn't say they were based on box office anything in the form of success. They were, however, tools used to promote projects. Some to be enforced by movies or TV that preceded it and other to promote before or during their initial exposure by other media. Sleeping Beauty Castle was so named before the release of the movie others were after. So there is no real difference except in the minds that don't want to believe the purpose for their existence. It also took a while for Walt and Co. to get really savvy on the merchandise thing, once they did figure it out, they were in it big time.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Didn't say they were based on box office anything in the form of success. They were, however, tools used to promote projects. Some to be enforced by movies or TV that preceded it and other to promote before or during their initial exposure by other media. Sleeping Beauty Castle was so named before the release of the movie others were after. So there is no real difference except in the minds that don't want to believe the purpose for their existence. It also took a while for Walt and Co. to get really savvy on the merchandise thing, once they did figure it out, they were in it big time.

Nobody said you said anything about box office. That is the different motivation you just keep ignoring. Fantasyland was always going to have a castle, that is not at all the same as including a castle only to specifically promote Sleeping Beauty. Even then, most of the park content had nothing to do with any films versus now where the mandate is that a new attraction must be related to a franchise.

 

[Sped2424]

Sleeping Beauty Castle was a naming decision that came well after the decision to have a castle, one often referred to as simply Fantasyland Castle. That is not at all the same as Enchanted Storybook Castle being specifically created to support and promote the Disney Princess franchise. Disneyland was an extension of storytelling across different mediums. Attractions were not created based on box office performance and merchandise sales as is the case today.

I mean the castle in Disneyland is loosely inspired by the one in the film at best

So your statement of the name decision coming after the idea for the icon holds very much true.