News Walt Disney World's iconic Twilight Zone Tower of Terror billboard to be permanently removed

Brer Panther

Brer Panther

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insert name here said:
What’s next? The Animal Kingdom billboard that says “catch a 3D Flick”?
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That one and the Mission: Space billboard were removed back in... 2017, I think? Not sure why. I think it had something to do with the gondolas...

Weirdly, I distinctively remember there being more billboards on property before it was whittled down to just three. Is my mind just playing tricks on me?
 
Kamikaze

Kamikaze

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
Seems like you misread his post - his literal point is that there are already a lot of people who were ****ed at Disney before this move.

Where your opinions divide, it seems, is that he sees that preexisting outrage as something that’s been justified, a symptom of the way the parks have been run in recent years, and you seem to see it as some sort of sign of the times where people just choose to be outraged habitually and things get swept into that vortex. Am I close?
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Don't cry about every change is my stance. Cry about whats actually important.

If the fanbase didn't explode with outrage over every little single thing, then Disney might actually listen if it complained about something.

If the complainers let unimportant things like this sign go without it being a rage inducing moment, then they might listen if you had a large amount of complaints against something like changing Splash Mountain. But since every single thing gets the same level of complaints, they listen to exactly none of it.
 
eliza61nyc

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matt9112 said:
This.....is rubbish..... can't wait for all the die hards to swoop in and defend disney by telling us how trivial this sign is and how it has zero impact on ones vacation so why should anyone care.

Stuff like this made disney unique and god there on a record pace to be as plain and normal as possible.
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Not me, this totally sucks
 
djkidkaz

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Brer Panther said:
That one and the Mission: Space billboard were removed back in... 2017, I think? Not sure why. I think it had something to do with the gondolas...

Weirdly, I distinctively remember there being more billboards on property before it was whittled down to just three. Is my mind just playing tricks on me?
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I believe those were removed when the work started on all the enhancements to the magic kingdom entrance roadways. The bugs life one was definitely in the way of the new road being constructed, not sure if mission space one was. It might have been also as they added that road towards that avoids the parking tolls and goes towards fort wilderness.
 
Squishy

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Chapek after hearing another piece of nostalgia has been removed
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Brad Bishop

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matt9112 said:
This.....is rubbish..... can't wait for all the die hards to swoop in and defend disney by telling us how trivial this sign is and how it has zero impact on ones vacation so why should anyone care.

Stuff like this made disney unique and god there on a record pace to be as plain and normal as possible.
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I'm with you on, "Stuff like this made Disney unique." It was a cool ad for Tower of Terror. Still.. It was a billboard.

I'd like to think that they tore this down because it's time to advertise a more modern ride in a similar way. That's probably not the case. It'd be cool if they did, but that costs money and you're already about to pay them so my guess would be: Why bother?

Still, it's just a billboard. A cool one, but a billboard.

I'd argue, if it's still there, that "A Bug's Life" billboard will be next.

On a certain level I'm surprised they took it down as that costs money.
 
Brad Bishop

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Smiley/OCD said:
I’m sure someone found it “problematic” therefore it had to be removed…but in all honesty, anything on property that moves I.e. animatronics on an attraction, billboards, costs too much to maintain so we will systematically get rid of everything and replace them with projections and screens…you thought it was just TGMR and Splash…we’ll, think again…
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Something Tomorrowland originally had (doesn't any longer) was a very kinetic environment. You had:
- The skyway
- The Peoplemover
- Monorail (DL)
- Autopia
- Astrojets (probably have that name wrong - Dumbo in the sky)

Lots of things constantly moving and it gave a feeling of excitement. Over the years those things have been peeled away to where it now feels more like a dead zone.

I bring this up because I saw a video on YouTube talking about Super Nintentoland in Universal and they made the land VERY kinetic and just looking at it make you want to go there. It looks pretty fantastic (just being inside the land).

I think you're right with regards to the sign. From what I understand, they ride-vehicle on the sign was broken (had stopped moving) and they tried to fix it last year. It ran for a bit and then stopped again and it probably came down to:
- we could fix it again (my guess: they didn't fix it right a year ago and just band-aided some bits together to make it work)
- we could tear it down (and, thus, never have to fix it again).

...so they went with #2. Again, I'm a bit surprised they didn't just leave it there to rot but maybe because it's a centerpiece on World Drive that made it more prominent than allowing it to rot in the parks somewhere.
 

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