Disney Hollywood Studios?!?

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Re: Disney Hollywood Studios?!?

Post by mechurchlady » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:00 am

I can understand Disney's problem with advertising. They have tons of stuff they can advertise, sell merchandise, improve areas with and give guests a wide variety of stuff. Where to do you put Baby Einstein for example? AK MK or EPCOT? Would a Baby Einstein show really work in EPCOT for example.

When was it the golden years of Hollywood? I know clear back in 1998 it was not all Hollywood. Currently there are .

On the left is Al's Toy Barn, Indy, Star Tours and the lake which have nothing to do with Hollywood's Golden days.

On the right there is Beauty and the Beast, Tower of Terror, Fantasmic, Voyage of the Little Mermaid and Playhouse Disney.

In the back is the backlots and facade street sceens along with the studios. HISTA, Muppets, Sounds Dangerous, Hunchback which is gone, Millionaire which is gone, and the animation tour.

None of that was MGM or related to the "Golden Era" of movies. The only attraction that was directly tied to the "Golden Ear" of movies is Great Movie Ride. Everything is supposed to be tied to media of some sort like movies and television but nowhere other than in the main street at the beginning of the park do you see the Golden Era of movies or anything closely related to the great movies of the past.


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Re: Disney Hollywood Studios?!?

Post by leftcoaster » Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:51 am

mechurchlady wrote:I can understand Disney's problem with advertising. They have tons of stuff they can advertise, sell merchandise, improve areas with and give guests a wide variety of stuff. Where to do you put Baby Einstein for example? AK MK or EPCOT? Would a Baby Einstein show really work in EPCOT for example.

When was it the golden years of Hollywood? I know clear back in 1998 it was not all Hollywood. Currently there are .

On the left is Al's Toy Barn, Indy, Star Tours and the lake which have nothing to do with Hollywood's Golden days.

On the right there is Beauty and the Beast, Tower of Terror, Fantasmic, Voyage of the Little Mermaid and Playhouse Disney.

In the back is the backlots and facade street sceens along with the studios. HISTA, Muppets, Sounds Dangerous, Hunchback which is gone, Millionaire which is gone, and the animation tour.

None of that was MGM or related to the "Golden Era" of movies. The only attraction that was directly tied to the "Golden Ear" (sic) of movies is Great Movie Ride. Everything is supposed to be tied to media of some sort like movies and television but nowhere other than in the main street at the beginning of the park do you see the Golden Era of movies or anything closely related to the great movies of the past.
But isn't that what a studio company property looks like? You walk from 1940's/1950's into say "a Western," or into Chicago, or San Francisco, etc.

BTW, there is no animation tour anymore.

What the park needs is more things to do. How many sound stages are black? The backlot tour is a shell of what it once was. It would be nice to at least update the beginning of the backlot tour. Indiana Jones has been running for a long time, but nothing will be done to it because of Indiana Jones 4 coming out. Plus it takes in a lot of people, so anything that would replace it would have to be some sort of stage show. Also, the theater is built into the side of a hill, so anything replacing it (if not a stage show) might have to have major landscaping changes.

LMAX...beh...I've seen the show twice. Not worth it to see again. BATB is also old. Maybe Disney could create another stage show for the same theater, and alternate shows with two separate casts ?

Sounds Dangerous is a great place to sleep.

And if they get rid of Fantasmic, I will not even step foot in the park! :mad:



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