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Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Jon81uk
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This discussion happens every few pages on this thread. The theme of Toy Story Land is that you are shrunken to the size of the toys while in the land, therefore Pizza Planet would be out of place as Andy was child size when visiting pizza planet.
A real Pizza Planet, in order to accommodate the large number of guests who'd want to play the games, would have to be the size of DisneyQuest or a huge Dave & Buster's. So, they blew it by not converting DQ to a PP a long time ago. And there's really no space in the parks for such a large arcade. Not to mention the arcade fiasco the Florida legislature created a few years ago which made Disney eject all arcades from the parks.
A Pizza Planet without the arcade is not a Pizza Planet, and Disney ain't going to do arcades anymore. You'd need a 3rd party vendor to license the name and open one up in Disney Springs for it to ever come about.
Slowjack
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Wow. Fired? To be honest, I don't think a "real" Pizza Planet would be a good idea, so I'm not at all surprised that Disney has opted against it. The Pizza Planet in the movies is an obvious homage to, or satire of, a Chuck E. Cheese type of place. Which is to say, a restaurant with lousy pizza that parents are dragged to by their children who want to play video games. So this would be the restaurant equivalent of Dino-Rama: a Disney-fied facsimile of something Disney purports to rise above.
matt9112
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you could romanticize it and just steal the theme and look and drop the games and crappy food. js.
Jon81uk
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Which is in part what has just been turned into PizzaRizzo...
Back in my DHS days guests would forever be asking how to get to Pizza Planet. Believe it or not there'd be guests there for rope drop and they'd ask how to get to Pizza Planet. I'm not even sure it was ever even open that early but I have to think that there was significant demand for a Pizza Planet restaurant. I'm confident most guests who didn't know any better were bitterly disappointed when they arrived, but the idea of it did seem to have widespread appeal.
Rich T
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And then it wouldn't be Pizza Planet and what would be the point? There are hundreds are more appealing ideas for themed eateries Disney can develop. Getting the "opportunity" to spend too much money at a recreation of fictional tacky pizza joint sounds about as exciting as Dino-Rama 2.0. The appeal of Toy Story is in the characters, not the parodies of real world locales. No one cares about Pizza Planet, Toy Barn, The Whatitsname Daycare Center or the Junkyard. Or Andy's back yard for that matter.
Brian Swan
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It may have to do with checking the gauging of the track to make sure that it is within tolerances. I would think this would have to do with rolling an actual car around the track - perhaps the reason for "looking through the trees".
Brian Swan
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I've not been since all of the construction started. Can any of Slinky Dog be seen from other portions of the park (not counting top of ToT)?
rocketraccoon
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Right now you can see a tiny bit of it from the Star Tours area, but it'll be covered up when the transition tunnel to Star Wars Land is done. After that, no not really.
PizzaPlanet
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Apparently the Chew got to see some construction. From Bioreconstruct:
bclane
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Terrain coasters are the best imo and although this is not a terrain coaster per se, the fact that it is so close to the ground will make it feel faster than it really is. Love it!
ToTBellHop
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It’ll be the most thrilling 20 seconds of your day!
bclane
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Well if I'm gonna stand in line for 2 hours for this I need at least a good 20 seconds of thrill.
Timothy_Q
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"Highly-themed coasters are the best! This one isn't tho. Love it!"
bclane
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I see what you did there.
What I was trying to say was basically that even though it isn't what you would consider a terrain coaster, it has sections that are low to the ground like terrain coasters...and that aspect of the ride should make it feel like it's going faster than it really is.
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ToTBellHop
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Perhaps that’s because it was supposed to be a terrain coaster until the faux terrain was cut.I see what you did there.
What I was trying to say was basically that even though it isn't what you would consider a terrain coaster, it has sections that are low to the ground like terrain coasters...and that aspect of the ride should make it feel like it's going faster than it really is.
bclane
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Was it really? Dang it! That would have been so much better!