Next Big Thing
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It's better than having the strollers just parked wherever anyone feels like leaving them. What else is going to go in that space anyway?I just noticed the stroller parking in the concept art.
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Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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And the cute little coaster test car out front.I just noticed the stroller parking in the concept art.
I noticed the queue is unthemed switchbacks. Why couldn't have Andy at least used Green Army Men to restage the Battle of Okinawa for his guests?
Movielover
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He's going to need lots of ketchup packages...
Amidala
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The face character version of Rapunzel is aware that she's a princess but still has long blonde hair, which is also a continuity error. Although I guess it's not anymore, since the new series shows her hair growing back. Then again, like you all said, none of this matters! 100% agree that if TSL underwhelms, it will have very little to do w/ continuity.
AndyMagic
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I've looked everywhere to find an answer to this and I apologize if this was already asked and answered but once TSL opens, what exactly will happen to Pixar Place? Since they're building a new entrance to Midway Mania within TSL, does that mean Pixar Place will be left with zero attractions? What will happen to the original entrance to Midway Mania? Will the entire section of the park just be beautiful brick facades hiding TSL and that's it? Will it still be labelled Pixar Place on maps?
Pixar Place will become backstage.
AndyMagic
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So just to be clear, there won't be guest access through the existing Pixar Place or the theme of the area will be "backstage"? I really enjoy the lovely brick facades so it would be a shame if it's no longer an area guests can access. Seems like a huge waste.
You'll get as far as the current restrooms and have to turn right into TSL. Today's walkway will become a cast only area. Sadly the ideas for Pixar Place were ditched for TSL.
Horizons '83
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Door Coaster?
AndyMagic
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Ugh. Thanks for clarifying. And to think, they could have just expanded Pixar Place and included a Monsters Inc. attraction and another Pixar IP attraction instead which would have allowed them to keep the existing urban campus theme. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when clueless executives decided to devote so much space to such an ugly and creatively limiting theme instead of just expanding what was already there which would have allowed freedom to build all kinds of great Pixar attractions.
What ideas could that be? Was the third track for TSMM going to be a different Pixar attraction? Otherwise, Pixar Place is a narrow canyon with walls on either side which are the sides of rides. What else could they have done with it?
AndyMagic
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What do you mean? They could have simply expanded the land in the same direction that Toy Story Land is being built but kept the Pixar Campus theme and added the Monsters Door attraction and an Inside Out D-ticket and boom... theme park awesomeness instead of kiddy-park sadness.
Casper Gutman
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Yes, my impression is that Pixar Place would have extended out into what will now be SWL back when SWL was going to be over at Echo Lake.
Pixar Place would have continued to LMA. Door Coaster would have taken up Studio One and more and a Cars attraction would have taken part of the backstage tour. LMA staying or going would have dictated the scale of Cars and future phases (note, this was not DCA CarsLand)
HMF
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Which may have made the DHS makeover something worth anticipating to the relatively lackluster experience it will be. (Outside of Galaxy's Edge.) Was TSL another Kathy Mangum vanity project idea?
Fox&Hound
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See, I feel the opposite. If we would have gotten any verion of the above described Pixar Land it just would have been a mashing together of a lot of very different IP that have no cohesive theme except "pixar" which is irrelevant in many people's eyes because Disney=Pixar and vice versa. When people see Woody, Buzz, and WalleE and the like, I think most just see them as Disney characters and in time, more will as Pixar being its own studio will be a distant memory. I fail to see how Pixar studios with its concrete buildings and brick exterior would be a better enviorment than TSL. Would the rides have been better? Maybe, but what about theme? I find it funny that some of the same people who bemoan Guardians going into Epcot or Mickey replacing GMR would suggest that a random collection of Pixar properties would somehow help DHS with its identity problems...
Kman101
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And that would have hands down been the better option. Even doing all that they still could have added the two Toy Story rides to add even more to the park. Shame. And SWL should have stuck to expanding into the parking lot. Really disappointed in the change of direction this "expansion and makeover" took.
Rich T
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Totally agree. Pixar Place would've possibly made sense 10 years ago when Pixar had a clear identity. Today it would be pointless and limiting. Joe Public doesn't care about the "Pixar Campus" or whether it was Disney or Pixar that released Inside Out or Zootopia. If they build an animation studio land, it should be open to whatever properties would make great attractions from all sources of Disney-produced animation.
It's weird enough that DCA is getting the bizarre Pixar makeover of Paradise Pier.
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Amidala
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My main issue w/ TSL is that "Andy's backyard" isn't the kind of movie setting guests want to immerse themselves in. I can understand seeing Monsters Inc. and thinking "I wish I could walk through Monstropolis" or seeing Inside Out and thinking "I wish I could explore the inside of Riley's brain" because these are the kinds of locations that can only be found in their respective Pixar movies. Anyone in suburban Middle America can look out the window and see exactly what Andy would see in Toy Story. Not saying TSL is inherently a failure, just that there are more distinctive & unique "worlds" in Pixar that would really have lent themselves to immersive theming. For me, the point of an IP-based land is to transport guests somewhere they could never visit elsewhere, and Andy's backyard is the exact opposite of that.
I love Toy Story, but I think it's the characters and premise that makes these movies stand out, not the setting. As much as I enjoy TMM, it could be rethemed easily enough–there's already the Buzz ride in Tomorrowland, so this would actually make TMM feel less redundant, and guests would still flock to it due to the interactive ride mechanics.
I love Toy Story, but I think it's the characters and premise that makes these movies stand out, not the setting. As much as I enjoy TMM, it could be rethemed easily enough–there's already the Buzz ride in Tomorrowland, so this would actually make TMM feel less redundant, and guests would still flock to it due to the interactive ride mechanics.