Jones14
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...and in terms of length and thrill, they're similar, which is what I said.
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Toy Story Land expansion announced for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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Goofyernmost
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I presume that since your screen name is Disneyhead'71 that you will be one of the Disney fans singing its praises! And why not, it's the most that has been in the works over the past decade. I see that as a reason to sing praises, don't you?
Don't listen to the adults, ask kids. Around here it's all adult opinion about kids rides, or at best "my ______ told me".
Has anyone ever been asked if their kids be surveyed?
The magical interactive queue, the 'queue as an attraction itself" was supposed to mollify us.
lazyboy97o
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Kids will eat dirt.
Keep the customers happy!
Kate F
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I understand that this coaster is not meant for me and that kid-friendly rides are desperately needed in this park. I know not everything needs to be on the level of Star Wars or Avatar and for what it is, I'm sure it will end up being a nice addition to the park. I still don't care too much for the theming and I'm kind of concerned that the land as a whole is going to look really tacky, but hopefully they manage to make it look somewhat appealing.
I'm just hoping Disney doesn't hype this thing up too much like they did with Mine Train.
I'm just hoping Disney doesn't hype this thing up too much like they did with Mine Train.
Mike S
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It doesn't matter that they're targeting kids with this expansion because as you said we're still getting SWL. What matters is that after it's done TSMM and GMR will still be the only rides in the park with no height requirements. What this expansion should've been was DHS's own Fantasyland but with Pixar. DCA has a nice Monsters Inc. dark ride that could've been cloned pretty cheaply or even better the one in Tokyo. Ratatouille also has no height requirement and would've fit right in. There's plenty of possibilities. Then there's the tacky theming TSL.
lazyboy97o
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Pixar not a theme. Just tossing their stuff together is no different than all of the other disregard for theme because it is all owned by The Walt Disney Company.
Mike S
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And how is Fantasyland any different? It's Disney's animated movies tossed together in the same fashion.
PiratesoftheHM
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They are all European fairytale movies; as opposed to completely unrelated movies about monsters, toys, rats and fish.
lazyboy97o
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Fantasyland is not just any and all Disney animation. The present films tend to share genre and literary tradition.
Goingdown13
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Tower of terror is a 40" height requirement. As well as star tours. Height has nothing to do with excitement or length.
Capsin4
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Fantasyland is the popular Disney animated films from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Just happens that they were lifting popular fairy tales and books at the time. IMO, Peter Pan, Mr. Toad, Dumbo, winnie the pooh and Small World never really had a good reason to be in a fairy tale castle environment regardless of what they called it, but it works, I think, because it was new and now we're used to it.
Edited decades.
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Mike S
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I did say there's other possibilities. I just gave one idea.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Too bad they didn't do what they are doing with Star Wars and come up with a never seen before Pixar Land that had their popular movies in it - UP, Monsters, The Incredibles, Cars, Toy Story and Ratatouille to name a few. And you could clone some of the rides. That way it would be a nice, rounded themed land that hopefully everyone could find something that they enjoyed.
Nailed it. Carefully chosen IP placement would have solved the parks demographic and capacity problems no end.
But what we have is one D and one C still two years and more away that's costing a rather large amount of money for the end result.
Cliff Racer
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How do you theme around "UP, Monsters, The Incredibles, Cars, Toy Story and Ratatouille"? That doesn't sound like a themed land at all. Although single franchise lands are kind of a bad idea I give Toy Story a pass just because of how neat everything looks with the giant children's toys. Whatever Toy Story stuff I see in the parks, be it parade floats, attractions or the theming outside of TSMM has always looked brilliant.
So, are you providing those two rides as proof of your third statement?