Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[MisterPenguin]

bioreconstruct...

 

[MisterPenguin]

bioreconstruct....

 

[MisterPenguin]

bioreconstruct...

 

[WDWTrojan]

For anybody who has ridden, how does the seating compare to SDMT and other Disney coasters? Looks like the fact the restraint doesn't have a bar on both sides alleviates a lot of the issues that have plagued Mine Train with guest accessibility.

 

[culturenthrills]

For anybody who has ridden, how does the seating compare to SDMT and other Disney coasters? Looks like the fact the restraint doesn't have a bar on both sides alleviates a lot of the issues that have plagued Mine Train with guest accessibility.

The SDD cars are very roomy. Way better than SDMT.

 

[culturenthrills]

As someone who has been in TSL during the day and night the Land looks way better at night. They put in an amazing lighting package. What looks cheap in the daylight looks great at night. It is amazing how much better Slinky is at night with all the lights. Nighttime is the time to enjoy that land. The lack of shade during the day is horrible. Between that and the horrendous lines Woody's Lunch Box is gonna have. Disney has two operational nightmares right from the beginning thanks to poor design and budget cuts.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

You need to get to know who I'm talking to a little bit better.

If they bother you that much, the ignore feature is your friend.

 

[RSoxNo1]

says who

@lentesta said that he could back into Epcot and MK's numbers but called into question DHS's. Simply put, there needed to be more attrition reflected in DHS's number in order for DAK's numbers to be legit. Disney has input in those numbers.

 

[Mouse3268]

I said it LOOKS boring. Which would be an opinion one would form when they LOOKED at it. I didn’t say it WAS boring. I haven’t been on it. And frankly I don’t care how long it takes me to do so. I also haven’t made one comment about it during construction and waited till I saw a POV video to do so.

Nothing about this land makes me want to book a trip, and I would surmise I’m in the majority. On top of that, they did very little to help the capacity problems this park has. Or wait... am I not allowed to talk about capacity issues since I don’t see the internally reported numbers?? I’m so confused. Please tell me what I can and can’t post about. What is acceptable to you?

I'm going on my first trip since Spring of 2008 in October and of all the new things added to the parks since then this is #2 on my list of new things I'm most excited for, only behind Avatar, but ahead of New Fantasyland.

 

[tonymu]

Possibly. I'd say it could make some people push their trips up. Those families who were on the fence but now "Hey they've opened some new rides so why not?"

Then again idk

Here in Houston they have been playing the Toy Story Land commercial on TV a LOT. Today a couple of radio stations broadcasted all day from Toy Story Land.

 

[Mikey73181]

6am they just let people in the gates and walked them to Toy Story Land, Been watching a Facebook Live video since about 540.

 

[smile]

it wasn’t meant to be especially ambitious

mangum publicly compares dhs tsl to dca carsland: deception? ignorance? over-confidence? other?

just like the matterhorn!
- oh, i'm sorry... tall palms

 

[LieutLaww]

Slinky is already at a 180 min wait, Saucers is sitting at 70 mins and damn they opened TSL at 6am

 

[matt9112]

This needs to be repeated over and over for posterity. The Annual Passholder value proposition is NOT a loyalty program. It is deeply discounted park admission for more visits than average. People obfuscate the two and somehow they feel they are more valuable in every single facet than the average guest. Disney rewards your loyalty with a discount on multiple admissions, full stop.

The merch discounts and events are above and beyond perks done to at least ensure you continue to spend something when you do visit for 10% of what the tourist is paying.

Cruise lines are the opposite example. There is no annual pass that's roughly the price of 2.5x 7 day cruises that gets you an unlimited number of cruises over the course of a year. That would be an insane amount of value and I'm sure people would love to drop the cruise loyalty perks 10 times over for that option instead.

APers enjoy your steeply discounted admission. That's your main loyalty benefit, $$$. Which is honestly a far better benefit than a few random events.

to be fair i oftem look at APs in two categories. the resident program (that also discounts normal tickets) and the non resident program with the high tier only option. the first category seems like an industry standard to "give back" to the community and the later is when you want to save money if you have a very long trip that is common with higher income guests. or a few trips a years (also inductive income levels) this tends tobe DVC owners and or Disney fanatics from out of state that might do all the run disney events etc.

i live here and i look at it as a perk of being in the greatest state in the union (trigger alert) no really i moved back from elsewhere because i missed it here. i do not expect previews or additional perks beyond the ones listed in the little packet you get BUT the argument that disney runs out of cherrys is utter garbage. However i also think the argument that locals spend next to nothing is off balance. sure i dont ever stay on site (blame disneys absurd pricing) and i dont stay for weeks on end but coming almost every weekend i still spend a few hundred on average. At the LEAST i spend as much as the lower end value resort vacation guest and i would argue more as i spent 1500 and 1800 on two vacations in moderates before. i spend more than that a year.

just my two cents from my own experience.

 

[Mikey73181]

Don't know how it was the last few days, but on the Facebook Live video i'm watching, all the decorations in the former Pixar Place have been taken down. Including the Pixar Studios sign on the archway.

Right now tho they have the Slinky Dog Dash line in the Pixar place area in the temporary line they were using for TSM while the line was being redone.

 

[matt9112]

My Co-worker has a daughter who is a CM. They rode Slinky six times in one day. Some people will really, really love this ride.

if they had to wait three hours each time would they still love it?

 

[LieutLaww]

Pixar place is going to become a backstage area so it doesn't surprise me it is being stripped.

 

[Mikey73181]

Pixar place is going to become a backstage area so it doesn't surprise me it is being stripped.

I knew that, but especially where they are using it as overflow for the line for Slinky, (probably for the forseeable future) I figured it would remain decorated for now.

 

[LieutLaww]

It is probably a case of plans are already in place for the area so prep work has to be started to stay within the timeline.

 

[Mikey73181]

Currently the END of the line for Slinky is entering thru the old entrance for the line for Great Movie Ride.