Telling Them What They Wanna Hear...

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:00 pm

Ok. Time for the Dr. to jump in.

Listen, here's the deal. When Auto finally opens on or around May 5th, when the show is not being performed the Backlot tour is set to drive across the stage to give you an even better look at everything.

True to what has been said, the concept of the Studios being a "behind the scenes look" type park has gone to the way side. Disney is on the move to fix these problems (Hence bringing Auto to the Studios as part of their "going back to old school Studios concept").

Indiana Jones, unfortunately will eventually close within the next 5-7 years (You can read my report on the matter over at my website), which will bring up a problem for them in trying to throw the Studios back to the "Behind the scenes look" idea.

All they need is to wait for Auto to open, test the Backlot Tour in those waters then begin working on bringing the Backstage Pass Tour back and they will almost have this thing figured out.

Unfortunately, Disney basically grabbed their balls and crush them when they decided to close the Animation department down here, leaving them with, well, not a damn thing. So they are back to square one again.

Another problem is that when Eisner left Universal, he came with the knowledge of them planning Universal Studios, and in order to compete with that, he decided on the Studios, but the problem is the idiot (in his infinate wisdom) but the Studios in a LAND LOCK (Buena Vista Drive on one side, World Drive behind the studios, the main entrance to the parking lot. Dont even think about the marsh back there behind the parking lot because just on the opposite side of that marsh is the road that leads to Pop Century).

The ONLY thing they can do is close rides down and replace them (Like what they did with residential street for L! M! A!).

Now people will be getting pissed soon, why? Because Tower of Terror will be going down for rehab (One side at a time) for about a month all together and if I remember right, Fantasmic! will be closing for rehab (To make more footpaths for the exit after the show, PM me for more info). Shortly afterwards, Star Tours is set to go down for about a month or two for rehab (Removing the FP machines apparently and a few other minor things...LIKE CLEANING THE DAMN VIDEO!!!!)

So yeah, the Studios is screwed, but there's not a damn thing we can do about it. I had the chance to blow Eisner out of the sky the other day when he was flying over the resort checking out Auto, Everest and Soarin but no...they wouldn't let me near the rockets that guests dont know about and they you didnt hear about from me. If they would have let me have just ONE! We could have been free to work on the Studios without him around to screw us again!!

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:22 pm

leftcoaster wrote:Maybe they can have the tram do a loop around the other side of the park and go through the Indiana Jones sets. Something. Anything other than the "Backlot Tour." Maybe they can make it: Catastrophe Canyon: The Ride.

Wouldn't happen even if it could. One reason is due to how much the traffic would get jammed back there in the area. Not to mention, during the parade, all traffic is killed until the floats have cleared the area.

Second, and the biggest killer to your comment is that Epic is private property. Disney esentially only owns the rights to have the Indiana Jones theme. Disney has nothing to do with the show (Other than them being part of the team that helped build the stage and sets as well as provide the engineers). The show is run completely by a company based out of California.

And yes, even if you are a CM and you are backstage, you can get terminated for going onto the set even setting one foot on there backstage since it is considered trespassing to an extent.

Sounds harsh but its the truth.

Now a long time ago (Im talkin late 80s-very early 90s), the backlot tour ENTRANCE was where the Animation area is today. The tour used to be a hell of a lot longer since it would work its way from there, over to costume design, down Residential, over to the canyon, and then back to the station).

One thing that hits me as interesting is that when the explosion hits at the canyon, you can hear the damn thing ALL THE WAY OVER AT COASTER... Thats a lot of buildings those sounds are getting passed... Be interesting to see what comes from the stadium for Auto being a jump away from the Canyon and how the explosion will effect those on the third level. Hell, you can hear the cars and bikes over on the OPPOSITE SIDE of the Coaster building, without even trying, these puppies are loud, loud, loud when they want to be.

leftcoaster · Post by **leftcoaster** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:09 am

Thanks for the info I&M. :D I don't claim to be an expert, so your behind the scenes into is really helpful.

I didn't think they had any missles at MGM. I thought they were inside the casle?

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:50 am

I have contacts that allowed us to aquire a few of their missles...

TheManator · Post by **TheManator** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:12 pm

Eisner came from Paramount, not Universal.

Scott45 · Post by **Scott45** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:37 pm

But are the Blade Runner cars still there or did they bury them with Nemo's submarines? :shock:

Scott45

IndyandMarion · Post by **IndyandMarion** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:42 pm

No. Blade Runner cars were sent to Lucas Ranch for their "museum"

Still have a few items from the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Sad to see that the plane from Epic isn't there anymore (But that was removed with the latest rehab anyways)

RebuildtheKingdom · Post by **RebuildtheKingdom** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:51 am

Polar33 wrote:
TheManator wrote:Eisner came from Paramount, not Universal.
I always thought he came from the innermost depths of Hell...

LOL, over the years he's gotten quite good at brushing his hair to hide the horns...

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:30 pm

Polar33 wrote:
TheManator wrote:Eisner came from Paramount, not Universal.
I always thought he came from the innermost depths of Hell...

No, I seriously doubt he *ever* rode Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

TheManator · Post by **TheManator** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:01 pm

I stand corrected.
Well, wherever he is from, hopefully he has some better ideas for MGM in the time coming.