Maybe it is another bad joke of someone, but I read on wikipedia that they have plans for an expansion (new rides between 2009 and 2013) of the studios. I think it is a joke, but I wanted to let you know.
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You have to look under future projects.
Just had a little read, how exciting! I'm just getting into the whole rumour and news thing about DLRP. Is it often that false rumours are started, or is it that if something is heard down the grapevine then normally it does come true?
however much i would hope for it to be true, wikipedia is not a source i trust
Here's what has been posted on Wikipedia, 'cause I have a feeling it will be removed shortly...
QuoteFuture Projects
On May 21, 2008, it was annouced that an ambitious expansion plan for the park has been commisoned, which will include 3 new attractions in Toon Studio, Soarin' in a newly rethemed 'Theatre District' area, and new dark ride in Hollywood Blvd. The first phase of plans is expected to begin 2009, ending in 2013.
QuoteFuture Projects
On May 21, 2008, it was annouced that an ambitious expansion plan for the park has been commisoned, which will include 3 new attractions in Toon Studio, Soarin' in a newly rethemed 'Theatre District' area, and new dark ride in Hollywood Blvd. The first phase of plans is expected to begin 2009, ending in 2013.
This just sounds like some rumoured items, like the Ratatouille ride and Soarin'. No clue for the Hollywood Boulevard though. This would require some space behind the Tram Tour Station, or even the field behind The Art of Disney Animation, which can be seen as expansion area for Toon Studios, but also counts, in my opinion, as an expansion area for the Hollywood Boulevard.
hmm so we all know it was an other bad joke of someone, the future projects are gone at wikipedia. :(
To bad cause i think it would be better true, the business works very nice, and they need to expand the studios as far as possible, to mange the growth of visitors.
The Studios need more Them in this park, a longer hollywood blvd, 2 or 3 new rides, maybe a second stund show and a stage show to attract the park even more for the guests.
Quote from: "lil-shawn"maybe a second stund show and a stage show to attract the park even more for the guests.
I don't think WDS needs more shows or spectacles. We now have Animagique, Cinémagique, Stunt Show Spectacular, Stitch Live and soon Playhouse Disney Live on Stage. These are all shows for which people have to rely on a schedule. The park now needs more "walk-in and queue" rides, especially "classic" Disney attractions, like dark rides and kiddie-rides that will keep the families in the park. It doesn't have to be much, like said before the Ratatouille dark ride and maybe a few kid-rides like the ones at a bugs land at Disney's California Adventure or the ones at Toon Town.
And of course like you said, the park needs to get bigger. Stretch out the Hollywood Blvd. beyond the STT station and throw in a few streets which guests can walk around in and discover.
QuoteI don't think WDS needs more shows or spectacles.
hmm yeah okay you´ve right at the moment we have enough shows..
QuoteThe park now needs more "walk-in and queue" rides, especially "classic" Disney attractions, like dark rides and kiddie-rides that will keep the families in the park.
Yeah we need more rides for kidds and families at this park, more classics is the best they can do for now don´t turn everything with pixar. I like the movies and for now i think we have a lot attractions based on pixar films now i think we need a good old classic :D
I dont wanna see an Ratatouille dark ride i like more to see an restaurant based on the movie.
I'd like to see the space used for more of the newer films, maybe "Soaring over Narnia", or a "Hunchback" themed ride (after all this is France) How about "Enchanted" the whole journey from cartoon to real has to be possible.
Just think theres enough of the classics in the main park
Well its gone as pure usual, what a waste of peoples time these rumours ! :evil:
Quote from: "Owain"Well its gone as pure usual, what a waste of peoples time these rumours ! :evil:
Come on! Don't say you don't enjoy rumors from time to time! :P Don't you remember when they started construction on the Toilets of Terror. It was so funny how we all went like crazy! ;)
On the other hand, The Tower of Terror rumors were starting to irritate me after a long while. I think the whole rumor lasted for to long, just like the Splash Mountain rumor that's popping up once in a while.
I like a rumour... it's exciting... gets the imagination going! :)
Quote from: "Stitch"I like a rumour... it's exciting... gets the imagination going! :)
Absolutely :lol: :cheshire_bounce: :stitch_bounce:
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Grandmath reports on Disney Central Plaza that height tests with coloured balloons were performed today on the grass behind Art of Disney Animation. :wink:
Quote from: "raptor1982"Grandmath reports on Disney Central Plaza that height tests with coloured balloons were performed today on the grass behind Art of Disney Animation. :wink:
Wow, that's great news, thanks for posting Raptor. I can still remember when they did the balloon test for Crush a few years back. This can only mean positive things, and that we can expect some development there in the next few years :mrgreen:
Wow, I wonder what this could be? I would not be surprised if it were Toy Story Mania. Now that the R&D is complete and it is screen technology, it would be fairly cheap to install compared to other dark rides (especially if they cut out the Mr Potato Head), it would be a much needed family friendly dark ride and it would fit the theme of the place. The down side would be that it is similar to the last dark ride on property - Buzz.
Or could it be a much needed table service restaurant? Or maybe Philharmagic?
At any rate, even if it were a toilet (though unlikely since there is already one at the back of Animation), it is very exciting.
I think it's the Ratatouille dark ride :)
Oelalala what is going to happen there??? Let te speculation begin :P
Thanks for sharing Kristoff ;)
Quote from: "Japper"I think it's the Ratatouille dark ride :)
Don't you think the space is a bit too small for a dark ride? I mean, it would need a decent backstage area as well for the ride vehicles etc. I'm just thinking, does it HAVE to be an attraction with ride vehicles? It could be a restaurant, or a boutique or maybe even a few small attractions put together like a bugs land in DCA.
Hehe... but we like rides Raptor... hehe... well not me... I'm a chicken when it comes to the scary rides!
so are you going to try ToT on your next visit? :wink:
I agree that they need more family friendly rides in the Studios...
Quote from: "raptor1982"Grandmath reports on Disney Central Plaza that height tests with coloured balloons were performed today on the grass behind Art of Disney Animation. :wink:
Interesting. :-k I'm personally hoping for a dark ride, but I think a restaurant would probably be better for the park. Or maybe just a themed area with no rides? Did Grandmath say how high the baloons were?
Quote from: "RnRCj"Did Grandmath say how high the baloons were?
I guess he left his camera at home that day? Or perhaps he still has to upload them. I suppose he would've made pictures of them! :lol:
Hello to all! ;)
The balloon (yes, they used just one, but they moved it around at different locations) was pretty high, mm maybe as high as Crush's Coaster main building. Seems pretty tall for a dark ride, but yet again, we don't know what is planned there. Maybe the DR will be built on several levels, such as Phantom Manor or POTC.
As for the space, in fact don't consider that the grass area is the perimeter for the building. I saw an expansion map with this building on it, it was stuck to the Costuming building, and expanded on the current tram tour road. Therefore the Tram Tour station was relocated as well, to fit with this new building (and allowing for the extension of Hollywood Boulevard).
I'm sure that this is some signs of larger things to come, not just a simple building on the grass area. Tram Tour is surely being involved too... but then again, we'll see in a few months! :D
ps: no i didn't make any pictures, as I didn't have my camera.
Thanks for sharing Grandmath! Expanding over the Tram Tour route just proves to what extend Imagineering is going to make up for the mistakes of the past. Exciting times once again for a WDSfan! :mrgreen:
This news sounds very exciting! Thanks for sharing! Always take your camera with you... :mrgreen: Just kidding.
It's indeed always good to hear when Imagineering isn't taking any limits. It was already expected by some rumours, but now it becomes more clear every day that the area will probably be looking very different in a few years. Probably unrecognizable from its current situation.
Hooray for WDS! :D
Indeed Hooray for Hollywood and the Walt Disney Studios!
Seems that we get an more then one full day park in the next year and I like that idea very much!
With the reports I've heard in the past about it being difficult to find a table to sit at to eat during the peak days and also the fact that this side of the park has no Restaurant of any kind I'm putting a bet on it being a new restaurant.
DCP member Elessar snapped a photo of a group of Imagineers in front of the Studio Tram Tour station.
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He overheard them saying things like "what do you think of option 1 or option 5, ..."
But the most interesting thing Elessar heard was: "So the guests walk past that area and then see San Francisco"....
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Quote from: "raptor1982"But the most interesting thing Elessar heard was: "So the guests walk past that area and then see San Francisco"....
:shock:
Yes, I read that too... The most obvious guess is that they are entertaining the idea of copying DHS' San Francisco set. As excited as I am about all this knocking-down-the-backdrop expansion talk, I can't say I'm thrilled at that thought.
The SF sets at DHS are nice and detailed, but they're also
just sets. They contain no rides, shops or restaurants and the "ooh, look it's all forced perspective" gag wears off awfully soon.
At DCA's Hollywood Pictures Backlot, that it's-all-a-set gag is to to be replaced by a traditional, immersive Disney atmosphere as part of the $1 billion makeover. Building a big SF set at the WDS would be failing to learn from that mistake.
Of course, it's all wild speculation...
Although if we had a Hollywood Set, then a San Francisco Set, we would then have good reason for a Soarin' over California.
Quote from: "pussinboots"The SF sets at DHS are nice and detailed, but they're also just sets. They contain no rides, shops or restaurants and the "ooh, look it's all forced perspective" gag wears off awfully soon.
Well, don't forget most of those sets at DHS were built back when they planned to use the park to actually shoot movies, weren't they? So they were planned to be shut to the public a fair amount of the time and have only more recently been passed off as a real part of the park.
If they build street sets at WDS, we can't assume they won't integrate attractions, shops, restaurants, etc, into them.
The rumours of San Francisco are quite refreshing, I'd have guessed New York. But, since we already have Hotel New York, and no hotels themed to Hollywood or SF, it might make sense.
Quote from: "Baloo"Well, don't forget most of those sets at DHS were built back when they planned to use the park to actually shoot movies, weren't they? So they were planned to be shut to the public a fair amount of the time and have only more recently been passed off as a real part of the park.
If they build street sets at WDS, we can't assume they won't integrate attractions, shops, restaurants, etc, into them.
The rumours of San Francisco are quite refreshing, I'd have guessed New York. But, since we already have Hotel New York, and no hotels themed to Hollywood or SF, it might make sense.
I'm not too familiar with the history of DHS, although I know that that particular area used to be a part of the Tram Tour and was inaccessible to guests otherwise. But interesting.
Okay, this is just my opinion (and Kevin Yee's, but people hate him too, haha. Darn foamers!). It's just that they have a real chance here to make things right for the WDS, and I really hope they don't screw it up.
Disney is on the right track -- DCA, which includes a studio section, is getting an immersification makeover. The WDS' ToT was built without any tacky faux film set crap (that is to say, it wants you to feel like you're in the Hollywood Tower Hotel, not a set of a movie "where
you're the star" or similar advertising copy nonsense). It's obvious that this unnecessarily complex, postmodern "it looks real but it's actually a set which is actually fake" stuff is not the zenith of the Disney experience, and in this post-Pressler era, Disney is slowly steering away from it. Perhaps with the exception of Epcot, the ambition of every Disney park is now pretty much to be as close to Tokyo DisneySea as possible. Hyperbolically speaking of course. You know what I mean.
We haven't the faintest clue what they're planning to do once the Hollywood backdrops bite the dust, so this is -- to say the least -- premature. But I really hope they continue on the path that started with the wonderful ToT and not attempt to become this fake Universal Studios, because that's just not worth it.
Just found this little article on Toy Story Mania which I think may be news worthy, is this confirmation of a Ratatouille ride?
Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25210747 (http://www.cnbc.com/id/25210747%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
There's no question that Pixar is an increasingly important driver of Disney parks. The last big attraction Disneyland launched was its "Finding Nemo" Submarine ride last year, it's working on a big "Cars" attraction for Disneyland and a "Ratatouille" ride for Euro Disney outside Paris. All these rides further proof of the fact that Disney's acquisition of Pixar was about much more than just a movie studio, it was about building brands to exploit across all its platforms, which is CEO Bob Iger's big strategy.
GREAT Find...
But I found this section most interesting...
Quote from: "http://www.cnbc.com/id/25210747"Pixar's next movie, "Wall-E," is opening a week from Friday, and Lasseter tells me it's great. Perhaps even more importantly he also mentioned that it could make a great theme park attraction.
Well It would be for Lasseter to say the movies great... but to already be pitching the ideas for an attraction on WALL-E without its cinematic release, Lasseter is really fulfilling the quote I use for my signature... And without the need to jump through the normal hoops of Imagineering we could be see yet another Pixar attraction in the parks... (Not that I'm Complaining)
Quote from: "Captain Pan"GREAT Find...
But I found this section most interesting...
Quote from: "http://www.cnbc.com/id/25210747"Pixar's next movie, "Wall-E," is opening a week from Friday, and Lasseter tells me it's great. Perhaps even more importantly he also mentioned that it could make a great theme park attraction.
Well It would be for Lasseter to say the movies great... but to already be pitching the ideas for an attraction on WALL-E without its cinematic release, Lasseter is really fulfilling the quote I use for my signature... And without the need to jump through the normal hoops of Imagineering we could be see yet another Pixar attraction in the parks... (Not that I'm Complaining)
I didn't even notice that bit, well spotted!
I really do hope that they theme Ratatouille and the surrounding area well, I would not like to see another studio building like they did with Crush. Plus this is the perfect oportunity to get a fountain put in, if you remember there is a beautiful fountain outside Gastreaus' restaurant in the film.
I have a great pic of it but I'm not sure how to attach on here.
Good i found this old topic befor i start a new one with the same stuff....
now we have a lot of new rumours here, lets imagineer how we can
make the WDS more interresting and bigger, beautyfull ect.
my idea is to combinate The Backlot and Prod. Courtyard with the Hollywood Theme and make
to an own land, the hollywood blvd. need extansion across the tram tour station and a new street lets say Sunset blvd. between moteurs action and armageddon across the tram tour route to make a little circuit. The entrance to RnRc get a style like the one in orlando, the armageddon building will get a new style, like a lot of hollywood houses ore something else.
behind TOT when the two streets come together there is space open for restaurants and shops or a little garden....
the street behind AoDA will not connecting toon studios and hollywood blvd, because there are new buildings for the street so u come into toon studios from the circuit on top of the hollywood blvd. so now we have enough space to make this toony land bigger and the studios get good pathways, a structure and style.. and someday they will find new stuff like the new york street or something like this to make a new land and to complete the circuit....
how u like this idea? i didn´t put any attraction or special restaurant in this cause i don´t really know what to put in :P
now its your turn, imagineer ur idea to make the studios bigger, better, more beautyfull ect...
I thought there already was a Hollywood Boulevard , were the tower of terror is, because when i went there in febuary this year , a sign said 'welcome to Hollywood Boulevard' Don't know if it was though :?
Quote from: "15yearsofMagic2008"I thought there already was a Hollywood Boulevard , were the tower of terror is, because when i went there in febuary this year , a sign said 'welcome to Hollywood Boulevard' Don't know if it was though :?
It is Hollywood Boulevard :P
People are just talking about expanding it further :)
How big will it be ?