Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt A link to a D23 update posted on Miceage with new details about BV Street. As I suspected it looks like this new area will be my favorite change at DCA. I'm really looking forward to it: <a href="http://micechat.com/forums/d23-disney-twenty-three/157986-d23-live-good-look-buena-vista-street.html" target="_blank">http://micechat.com/forums/d23...eet.html</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Agreed, that is how I have felt since the beginning too. It will be great to see it completed.
Originally Posted By dagobert I really like the new Buena Vista Street. I'm just not that happy with the new entrance. Although it looks nice, it is still a copy of the DHS entrance. DCA deserves a unique one. I'm a little bit sad that the Golden Gate Bridge is removed, but I understand it wouldn't fit very well.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well, to be fair, the dimensions of the Golden Gate Bridge always looked wrong to me anyway as a Bay Area guy (well born and raised anyway).
Originally Posted By dagobert >>Well, to be fair, the dimensions of the Golden Gate Bridge always looked wrong to me anyway as a Bay Area guy (well born and raised anyway).<< Of course it's not like the real thing, but I think it was great building to represent California. I've never been there, but it looked good on pictures.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The problem I had was the supports that went between the two towers drooped too low.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo But I do agree that San Francisco needs a better realisation in DCA than just a toilet. Given San Francisco is one of the GREAT cities of the world, with more cultural offerings than other California cities, it is sad really.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "But I do agree that San Francisco needs a better realisation in DCA than just a toilet." Well they did add a Little Mermaid shop to that building. Still San Francisco really is getting the shaft at DCA, at least for now.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Imagine how Fresno feels. Where is the raisin ride?!>> Don't leave out Bakersfield - Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it. Actually, once complete, Buena Vista Street will make anything masquerading Hollywood of today, very jealous.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I love a lot of what I'm seeing here. The deco details on the front of Elias Dept. Store, for instance. The huge trees being imported. The art glass. And the fact that they WON'T be slapping the characters all over the buildings, or apparently even showing them (i.e. no Clarabelle in Clarabelle's Ice Cream).
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA This looks fantastic. And I have to write this. Too bad this wasn't the idea for the main entrance from the very beginning.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>...it is still a copy of the DHS entrance.<< Not really, though. Buena Vista Street is an evocation of Hollywood in the early 1920s, when it was still a small town with its great future ahead. At Disney Hollywood Studios, it is all about the glitz and glamor of world famous Hollywood in the 30s and 40s. LP will have the complete video of this presentation up some time soon. It's a really impressive effort that is being made The Imagineers have gone out of their way to make this a unique experience, one that evokes the town that Walt Disney experienced when he arrived in 1923, culminating with his great success with Snow White in 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Originally Posted By Sparrow I'm so looking forward for it all to be done. The whole front of the park sure is oogly right now with all the walls and construction.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle So is the idea now that you arrive at DCA "as Walt did" with no characters in BVS, and then as you progressively make your way back through the park via Hollywoodland and/or Golden State, you begin to "discover" characters until ultimately you are in fully-realized character-covered "worlds" such as Bugs Land, Cars Land, and Paradise Pier? It's a stretch, but I guess it make sense...sort of...
Originally Posted By crazycroc You arrive as Walt did, and you are immediately assaulted by Hollywood featuring Jim Henson, Twilight Zone, and Pixar, just as Walt was.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Too bad this wasn't the idea for the main entrance from the very beginning." My feelings exactly.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Yeah, Buena Vista Street will be the sleeper hit of 2012. I think it will help redefine and re-launch the park just as much as Cars Land. I think I'll like it even more than Main Street USA, if only because I'm a Californian rather than a Midwesterner.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I posted this in the far back end of an adjacent thread, before I found this one. It fits . . . Today's "other site" had some interesting pics and even a simulated "fly-thru" video of BVS. I see the flag prominently displayed in the entry plaza, and had been wondering about that, so that's one box checked off. It seems that there are a LOT of 'visual cues' to encourage guests to veer right at Carthay Circle. Not only do the brick framed tracks go that way, so does the pavement itself. Those guests interested in going left into HPB looks like they'll have to negotiate through landscaping and separate paving treatments - it's not like you "can't" do go left, but the non-verbal cues in the architecture and layout of the area all seem to strongly encourage guests veer to the right, and "stay on the path". Not necessarily a bad thing, just an observation from this video fly over. Also - I'm surprised at the prominence and level of detail being provided for a "pumphouse" that supports the new fountain. The old sunwheel icon/thing had a rather ambitious fountain itself, yet we never saw or heard anything about a pumphouse to support it. I wonder why this is different? Finally, I wish there was something more interesting than a restaurant and bar in the theater. This is now going to be the new central wienie to the park, and people will naturally wonder what's inside? Nothing you can't find in any strip mall within a hundred miles of the place. I yearn for more.
