Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios

[MileZXO]

i actually think they did well with this land, they didn't cram it with gift shops for theming/immersive purposes.

 

[mikejs78]

The treatment worked very very well.

I'm gneually curious - was it some kind of thing where Andy was pretending it was Also Toy Barn? Some kind of playset?

 

[peter11435]

I'm gneually curious - was it some kind of thing where Andy was pretending it was Also Toy Barn? Some kind of playset?

Correct

 

[Coaster Lover]

Seems if you don't have a FastPass, getting to DHS by 6:30 is the next best stratigy... seems they opened around then again today with lines now at 90 mins for SDD...

 

[JohnD]

Seems if you don't have a FastPass, getting to DHS by 6:30 is the next best stratigy... seems they opened around then again today with lines now at 90 mins for SDD...
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Now twice as long.

 

[PizzaPlanet]

This just in:

WDW has set up a therapy tent for children running out of Toy Story Land when they notice not all the toys fit the same scale or that toys that didn't appear in the movie from Andy's childhood are also in the land. WDW is hiring more clinicians and continuity specialists to care for the emotionally broken children.

You joke, yet there are poor imagineers who are killing themselves right now to get this level of accuracy in SWL. They are the ones who will need emotional help when all is said and done.

 

[wdisney9000]

Currently ToT is a 10 minute wait and RnR is at 25 min. Not too bad considering the park has been open for 2 hours. Will be interesting to watch how wait times hold up throughout the day now that the park has 2 additional attractions open.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Now twice as long.
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That escalated quickly!

 

[Casper Gutman]

Disney does not give any numbers to TEA

I’m not sure I would call it a trend just yet. At least not in the parks. Pandora, Norway Expansion, Storybook Circus, New Fantasyland, and Carsland all feature well themed merchandise locations appropriate for their locations. Even the merch carts within Toy Story Land are themed and anything but bland. This is obviously a rushed job when they realized they didn’t have enough retail within the land itself

Now resorts is another story... yacht club I’m looking at you.

I’d add in the new World of Disney stores (at least from what we have seen in Cali) and, more subjectively, much of Disney Springs. Pandora’s shop isn’t awful, but it’s not themed to the level a store in a land of that caliber should be. CL, as in so many other ways, is the huge exception. I expect SWL also to be an exception.

As to TEA, please forgive my misunderstanding.

 

[LieutLaww]

its now at 245

 

[JohnD]

Currently ToT is a 10 minute wait and RnR is at 25 min. Not too bad considering the park has been open for 2 hours. Will be interesting to watch how wait times hold up throughout the day now that the park has 2 additional attractions open.

Except it’s all about TSL right now so heavily weighted there freeing up other popular attractions more than usual. It will be a while until things even out.

 

[JohnD]

That escalated quickly!

And... it’s now 245.

 

[wdisney9000]

Except it’s all about TSL right now so heavily weighted there freeing up other popular attractions more than usual. It will be a while until things even out.

My point was that because its all about TSL right now, the other major attractions have much lower wait time (Which is obviously a good thing). I agree that it will be awhile before things calm down and even out especially considering how Pandora is still pulling majority of AK guests in. Both Pandora and TSL openings being as popular and crwoded as they are, it puts a little perspective on how ridiculous Galaxies Edge opening is gonna be.

 

[peter11435]

I’d add in the new World of Disney stores (at least from what we have seen in Cali) and, more subjectively, much of Disney Springs. Pandora’s shop isn’t awful, but it’s not themed to the level a store in a land of that caliber should be. CL, as in so many other ways, is the huge exception. I expect SWL also to be an exception.

As to TEA, please forgive my misunderstanding.

World of Disney is not yet finished so I don’t think we should judge it but so far I agree. However that is not in a park which is what I was referring to.

I disagree regarding Pandora’s store. It’s themed very well IMO and themed exactly as it should be.

 

[Gringrinngghost]

And... it’s now 245.

SDD: 265
Alien: 65
TSM: 45

My favorite thing is waiting 4.5+ hours for 2 minutes of my life I will never get back.

 

[JohnD]

SDD: 265
Alien: 65
TSM: 45

My favorite thing is waiting 4.5+ hours for 2 minutes of my life I will never get back.

Yeah but if it were me I would enjoy the ride. I had no wait for the new AK bird show and I really felt it was 30 minutes I’ll never get back.

 

[matt2394]

I don't care what ride it is; I would never wait in the July heat for over 4 hours to ride a 2 minute ride.

 

[JenniferS]

An upside down toilet at a landfill is not the same as one in a gallery.

Yeah, it is.

 

[JohnD]

I don't care what ride it is; I would never wait in the July heat for over 4 hours to ride a 2 minute ride.

I am on record as saying that Summer visitors can have it. I might wait an hour or so though. Regardless, I’m waiting until December.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It's one thing to say the numbers don't quite make sense. I trust @lentesta and believe him when he says that. He may be right. There could also be a flaw in his model. Either way, either Len or the TEA is wrong. (This assumes that Len still hasn't figured out how the numbers make sense... He could have an explanation by now, his comment was from when the numbers first came out...).

It's quite another to chalk this up to some consipracy of Disney cooking their numbers... Worst case here, TEA got it wrong. I doubt there's any purposeful misinformation campaign going on here...

Other people coming up with nutty explanations don’t discredit Len’s original question.

I have no inside information, but a major corporation fudging the numbers they give to a non-governmental body like TEA doesn’t really rise to the level of “conspiracy.” I’m not sure it even qualifies as “surprising.”

The numbers are an estimate created by AECOM Economics. The TEA funds and publishes this work which was previously funded by Amusement Business prior to that publication’s collapse. The TEA itself is largely a volunteer organization with only a few actual staff members.