spacemt354
Chili's
I agree that this park lacks a unifying identity. Things are placed in such random areas. You have Pixar Place in the back of the park, yet Pizza Planet is next to the Muppets. You have the old hollywood themed streets as you walk into the park, but make a quick left and you see the modernized american idol, as well as a random lake with a boat and dinosaur? And the rest of the park is just such a mess. It's so congested. I thought the whole point of going to Florida was for the blessing of size that they didn't have in california. Why go to Florida to then build a park with such narrow, winding streets that lead to dead ends? If you look on google earth, there is plenty of room around DHS so that they could have built an Epcot sized park.
And from my family's experiences going in the summer, the nighttime Extra Magic Hours are rarely ever worth it. At the other parks, the night EMH tends to disperse the crowds and bring the wait times down for the most park. Yet in DHS, they only have like 5 rides open, 3 of which generate most of the crowds (ToT, RnRC, TSMM) And now on top of the park being narrow and congested, everyone in the park is now gravitating towards those rides. So rather than riding RnRC over and over, you're lucky you get on once while also hitting the other rides you want to see.
Some changes that could be made? First, update the park's signature attraction, the Great Movie Ride. I would do a spaceship earth time travel concept where you start with the old classics like singing in the rain, wizard of oz, then work your way through the progression of cinema. I think that's what the point of the ride is now, but we seem to have stalled the progress of cinema at like 1980 haha, and then we randomly go back in time to the wizard of oz at the end. So going form the past to the present of film is what I would focus the update on. And last scene could be on an imax screen or in 3D, showing how even the way we watch movies have progressed through time.
Then the rest of the park is really up for grabs. I would try to make concrete lands to try and unify areas of the park. Lucasland, or Sci-Fi land, could be one "land" An expansion of Pixar Place and an addition of Marvel could be down the road as well. I just hope it's not too far away.
And from my family's experiences going in the summer, the nighttime Extra Magic Hours are rarely ever worth it. At the other parks, the night EMH tends to disperse the crowds and bring the wait times down for the most park. Yet in DHS, they only have like 5 rides open, 3 of which generate most of the crowds (ToT, RnRC, TSMM) And now on top of the park being narrow and congested, everyone in the park is now gravitating towards those rides. So rather than riding RnRC over and over, you're lucky you get on once while also hitting the other rides you want to see.
Some changes that could be made? First, update the park's signature attraction, the Great Movie Ride. I would do a spaceship earth time travel concept where you start with the old classics like singing in the rain, wizard of oz, then work your way through the progression of cinema. I think that's what the point of the ride is now, but we seem to have stalled the progress of cinema at like 1980 haha, and then we randomly go back in time to the wizard of oz at the end. So going form the past to the present of film is what I would focus the update on. And last scene could be on an imax screen or in 3D, showing how even the way we watch movies have progressed through time.
Then the rest of the park is really up for grabs. I would try to make concrete lands to try and unify areas of the park. Lucasland, or Sci-Fi land, could be one "land" An expansion of Pixar Place and an addition of Marvel could be down the road as well. I just hope it's not too far away.
Then, if they take Alien out of the Great Movie Ride, an Alien Encounter type attraction could be put where Sounds Dangerous used to be. You could include the sci-fi dine in theater in this land as well. Then remove american idol and replace it with another sci-fi theme. Tron possibly? There is alot to work with in that genre.
