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Disney's Hollywood Studios (General Discussion)

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There's still plenty of room for future expansion. I'd like to see RnRC loop around to TSL in the future plus the potential new land when Star Tours goes.
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Yeah, the old Animation buildings are definitely future park expansion space in the future.
 
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Nick C. said:
Soundstage signs continue to come down around the park:
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Is this the side facing TSL?
 
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Is this the side facing TSL?
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The blue is facing TSL... they are in the middle of painting the entire show building.

With the park moving away from the Studios theme, all Soundstage signs will be coming off the buildings and repainting will be happening over the next few years.
 
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Nick C. said:
The blue is facing TSL... they are in the middle of painting the entire show building.

With the park moving away from the Studios theme, all Soundstage signs will be coming off the buildings and repainting will be happening over the next few years.
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Is the name change still going ahead?
 
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What's surprising is that I never noticed the beige soundstage. The second it became blue it stuck out like a sore thumb when you drive around the perimeter of the park in other guest areas.
 
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scott_walker said:
Is the name change still going ahead?
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I haven't heard any real reputable talk on the name change in quite some time, but I would expect so.

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What's surprising is that I never noticed the beige soundstage. The second it became blue it stuck out like a sore thumb when you drive around the perimeter of the park in other guest areas.
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Same, from World Drive I notice it way more than I ever did before.
 
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I haven't heard any real reputable talk on the name change in quite some time, but I would expect so.


Same, from World Drive I notice it way more than I ever did before.
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Is it not go away blue or whatever? It seems darker, and stands out more than it should.
 
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Is it not go away blue or whatever? It seems darker, and stands out more than it should.
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It's not one of the standard "invisibility" colors. It's more like they found the leftover paint from Innoventions blue side and decided to use it.
 
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It's not one of the standard "invisibility" colors. It's more like they found the leftover paint from Innoventions blue side and decided to use it.
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From what I understand, it was painted blue so that it blends in with the sky (sort of) when seen from the Slinky Coaster.

Basically what they tried to do with Soarin'.
 
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Here's an aerial pic of the RNRC building:
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Nick C. said:
Here's an aerial pic of the RNRC building:
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PHOTOS: Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Gravity Building Being Repainted For New Lands - Blog Mickey
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Damn. I never realized how big that is
 
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LintemuthStudios said:
Damn. I never realized how big that is
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It has to contain this ugly mess:
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Other than Monster's Inc, what else would you like to see come to DHS in the future after SW:GE?
 
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Other than Monster's Inc, what else would you like to see come to DHS in the future after SW:GE?
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Me? Hell if I know exactly what I want to see next, but I would love a completely new animation area, An adventure based land that has Indy and Shanghai Pirates as it's anchor IPs.

Here's what I wrote down in a sleepless night about 2 months ago:
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So we all know DHS could use some major help. I was looking at the park map and thinking what I would do with Billions in mind (which it really needs AFTER SWL and TSL) for the park. By 2019 (or whenever SWL opens), the park will have 9 rides and 5-6 shows.

Here's what I would do (can you tell I can't sleep??):

1. Bulldoze the animation building and the adjacent parking garage (yes, the one they are currently hiding). Move all operations run out of the animation building and all offices to elsewhere on property.

2. As a segue from Toy Story Land, you would enter a Monstropolis themed area where you would find the Monster's Inc. Door Coaster and Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor. Both would take up a rather small amount of space. Perhaps there would be a B-ticket type ride as well. Moving Laugh Floor would free up space in Tomorrowland as well. Harryhausen's would be a table service restaurant in Monstropolis (Japanese Restaurant).

3. From Monstropolis, you would walk behind where The Little Mermaid show currently sits to give you an idea of where we are. The Little Mermaid show would be updated to the DCL version of Tangled: The Musical. Then opposite of the theater would be a Tangled boat ride, filling a park need... a ride for all ages and the lack of a boat ride in the park. The Snuggly Duckling would be the quick service in this area.

4. By this point we are starting to run out of room as you have to take backstage space into account. So last in this area would be an Up-based Paradise Falls Rafting Adventure Ride, filling another park need, as DHS doesn't have a pure water ride either. This ride would be far longer than Kali and would be extremely well themed.

Since this would be built completely on backstage land, it's a true expansion and a gain of 4 rides (all exclusive), 1 new show (replacement) and a attraction moved from another park. Also 2 new restaurants, 1 QSR and 1 TSR.
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You also have to focus on the bottom half of the park however if the park is going to see it's full potential:

5. Move all essential buildings for daily operations ASAP. Once everything is moved, Demolish everything from Indiana Jones on back, Sounds Dangerous/Frozen building, Jedi Training stage and ST outdoors queue.

6. Starting at about Hollywood & Dine, the area would start to turn into more of a Caribbean/Adventure feel. Once you pass where H&D is, you would stumble upon Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure. The show building for this would be located in the parking lot, but the entrance to the ride would be roughly where Indiana Jones is now. The queue would be similar to Space Mountain as far as the long walk to get to the ride. I think two Pirates rides can co-exist as the ride and the films are very different. This would also allow the original pirates to revert to it's original form, sans Jack Sparrow.

7. To the right of the entrance to Pirates would be an Indiana Jones mini-land. Since Pirates was put all the way back into the parking lot, there's a lot of room to play with still. There would be two main attractions: an updated version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril and an all new, state-of-the-art Indy ride (not IJA). Backlot Express would be turned into something similar to Jock Lindsey's to complete the Indy area. To finish off this adventure area, a clone of Tokyo DisneySea's Journey to the Center of the Earth would be put in place

8. If Star Tours would escape demolition, a change of theme to The Muppets would be ideal. You don't want to put a big IP in an ancient ride system and Muppets are right next door. Muppets also have so much content to choose from that they could easily randomize sequences just like ST2.

Since this would be built on backstage land and currently used attraction space, the park lost two shows (IJ and Frozen sing-a-long), but gained 4 rides, bringing my theoretical park total up to 16 now, while the number of shows drops to 5. I can't even imagine how many Billions it would take to accomplish this knowing how Disney spends money though. And even then there's upgrades to be made. Fantasmic! and BatB for example.
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LintemuthStudios said:
Damn. I never realized how big that is
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The building is virtually invisible to anybody in the park minus the people riding TOT. It's only maybe going to be visible once TSL opens depending on how well that poop coloured fence blocks it.

Hopefully, this might allow for future expansions if it's proven it can be hidden.

Edit: I never actually noticed it was in the background at the entrance to RnRC until I just looked back at some photos from last year:

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scott_walker said:
The building is virtually invisible to anybody in the park minus the people riding TOT. It's only maybe going to be visible once TSL opens depending on how well that poop coloured fence blocks it.

Hopefully, this might allow for future expansions if it's proven it can be hidden.
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It will be visible from the Slinky Coaster... many, many things will be visible from that coaster.
 
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Nick C. said:
It will be visible from the Slinky Coaster... many, many things will be visible from that coaster.
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"Oh look, I guess Andy has a Millennium Falcon toy in his backyard."
 
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It has to contain this ugly mess:
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One of the reasons I greatly prefer enclosed coasters in real Theme Parks.
 
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Nick C. said:
It has to contain this ugly mess:
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Is that really RnRC? Pretty cool how the coaster is built before the building.
 
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ConvolutedFrippery said:
Is that really RnRC? Pretty cool how the coaster is built before the building.
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RnRC is actually a clone (well almost). I believe there's one in Europe if I'm not mistaken, so that picture may not be of RnRC.
 
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