The Leader of the Club
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DHS What should they do with Animation Courtyard?
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JenniferS
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The Leader of the Club
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He still believes this is Grand Avenue, even if he now thinks Star Tours survives
JenniferS
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Do we know otherwise? It feels like the location of Monstropolis and “CarsLand” have been left deliberately vague … unless I missed new info whilst at work today.
The Leader of the Club
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We don’t. Jury still appears to be out on whether this ends up replacing Launch Bay or MuppetVision. Probably due to infighting with execs who don’t want to lose their offices in the old animation building.
Gringrinngghost
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Brayden… just go spend time bellyaching about Disney on the Blu-ray.com forums. I already know you do anyway boo
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Also, for those wondering, I had the disdain of seeing the post over there when going to talk about other movies.
Miru
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For any of the older DHS attractions, even if Monsters Inc (which looks decent on paper actually) doesn’t come for them, they’re being kept fattened up as sacrifices for Marvel and quite possibly the Simpsons/AniDom as well depending on Universal’s plans. (And no, not even RNRC and ToT are safe, given that I consider Enchanted Wish to be a retheme)
I think while twilight zone may be gone, tot is still gonna be “the Hollywood Tower Hotel”
Miru
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Yeah. Whether Disney will use the Shriki Utundu story or do something else isn’t clear. But with MV3D… it belongs in a museum.
Yeah. I really wanted to believe that muppets would be around forever, it seems like it’s eventually toast. It’s a damn shame. I was hoping for it to become Florida’s permanent “cult classic” attraction ala tiki room (bears isn’t really that anymore). I also wish moving it was possible, but the only plans for that was a magic eye move, that came with a potential plan of retheming imagination to muppet Labs, who lnows what would’ve happened to figment (which is a shame too, because a muppet labs pavilion at Epcot is SUCH A FUN IDEA). I do hope muppets can find life elsewhere if need be.
The Leader of the Club
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For real. I love that they give Dr. Honeydew and Beaker a booth at Food & Wine now. Hopefully that merch sells well enough to make an impression on WDI.
I'm sure Simpsons is as far as Disney will ever go in that de facto block of adult animation, in terms of park representation. We will never get Quagmire in the parks, and even Brian is a stretch. Roger is a even less of a chance then Quagmire... And King of the Hill, while not as problematic as the other two, is definitely less theme park appropriate.
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So... @lentesta is saying something big could be announced here when Epic Universe opens. What are we thinking this will be? @wdwmagic has previously indicated that an IP has already been selected.
Will it be Zootopia (eye roll)? Will it be, gulp, Simpsons? Or might it be something actually CROWDPLEASING?
Will it be Zootopia (eye roll)? Will it be, gulp, Simpsons? Or might it be something actually CROWDPLEASING?
Moth
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They're not going to announce an AC expansion/makeover unless it's at their press conferences. Unless it's a HUGE IP (ex: Disney somehow acquired the LOTR park rights and is making THAT AC, which, LOL!), I just don't think Disney would do that outside of the August conventions.
The only scenario I see on Disney announcing the AC expansion is that if it's a huge IP get (LOTR (LOL!!!), or they somehow wrestled Marvel or Simpsons (ehhh....) from Uni early) and they call a press conference early. They're not going to do something like announce a whole land in a blog post.
I can suspect they may start dropping crumbs about something else that might be materializing that might debut at Destination D23 though, especially if they wanna make the locals happy.
eddie104
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With seemingly no response to EU I think by announcing this major project it would be a bold decision but a smart one as well.
Why not piggyback on all the press that Universal’s brand new park is getting.
It’s only good for us theme park fans in the long run so I could care less about the optics of it.
TheDisneyParksfanC8
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Someone over on the IU forums speculated that if Disney announces their fast tracked plans for AC, it would probably be done in a blue sky what if format.
Another person on IU who thinks it might be Simpsons said Disney's logic for doing it would be to force Universal to shutter Springfield earlier than they may have wanted to. Fine by me if it means we get Pokemon in USF before 2030.
And if Len is right and an animation courtyard replacement is being fast tracked, where would it fit in the first half of the ten year parks plan which is slated for completion in the 2029-2030 timeframe? I was under the notion that Disney was keeping the second half under wraps until D23 2028.
Agent H
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What optics?
Agent H
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Please not Simpsons.
Moth
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Hm.... Hmm......
Yeah, I can see it now. Still going to be awkward not having it be apart of D23/D23 related events but I assume the announcement will be
"We're bringing Simpsons to DHS! Here's some concept art and we'll be talking more during Destination D23 in Orlando! Keep an eye out as Star Wars Launch Bay and Disney Junior will be having their last days later this summer".
Rising tide lifts all boats etc etc