Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I say they retheme RNRC to that. 1930's Cop Chase/Dick Tracy fits Sunset BLVD much more than the modern music industry.>> RNRC is too damn short. My idea for this ride would be much more epic than RNRC's sub-one-minute run time.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Did you enjoy the rest of my babel, EE? If they had half a brain and would loosen the wallet I think it would be great. Of course they don't have half a brain so...
Originally Posted By sjhym33 Had Dick Tracy been a hit and spawned a franchise we would have seen the Dick Tracy attraction and some other things come from it. But as soon as Dick Tracy didn't perform the way Disney had hoped all that was abandoned. Though Calling Dick Tracy is my second favorite Disney theme park stage show of all time.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>RNRC is too damn short. My idea for this ride would be much more epic than RNRC's sub-one-minute run time.<<< It sounds awesome...and it would get rid of RnRC, which really clashes with the rest of Sunset.
Originally Posted By mstaft Disney dropped the ball with Sunset Blvd- It should have had a couple of C ticket dark rides in it to round out Tower. Enter a storefront into an attraction. They just let too much time go between building (and then maintaining) attractions. Although DAK was once my third favorite park with DHS last, after my last visit to DAK, that order is now reversed. Mark www.InsightsandSounds.blogspot.com
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Disney dropped the ball with Sunset Blvd- It should have had a couple of C ticket dark rides in it to round out Tower. Enter a storefront into an attraction. They just let too much time go between building (and then maintaining) attractions. <<< It was planned to have those things. Instead, we got the Tower, BATB stage show (which makes NO sense there), RNRC (kinda makes sense), and Fantasmic. Not bad...but the theme is 1930's Hollywood. Where are those attractions.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<It sounds awesome...and it would get rid of RnRC, which really clashes with the rest of Sunset.>> I like RNRC where it is. And it fits in that area of the park. I don't think it clashes with Sunset at all. The way I look at Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards is a place that even though the rest of the world changed around it, it stayed in that Roaring 50s kind of era. So basically, even though you're visiting in present day it didn't change much, other than the old hotel becoming haunted and a new record producer moving into the old recording studio.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Instead, we got the Tower, BATB stage show (which makes NO sense there)>> BATB could make sense if it was given some story and theming outside as themed to a musical production, rather than just an outdoor amphitheater
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>BATB could make sense if it was given some story and theming outside as themed to a musical production, rather than just an outdoor amphitheater<< I think (Servo, probably) someone said that it was a replica of a old H-Wood Building and THAT made it fot. (not.)
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I think (Servo, probably) someone said that it was a replica of a old H-Wood Building and THAT made it fot.>> It is, but it needs more explanation than that.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>It is, but it needs more explanation than that.<<< I agree. And so does the rest of the studios, in that respect.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Again, I disagree there. It just needs to do the complete flip, rather than languishing between two identities.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Though Calling Dick Tracy is my second favorite Disney theme park stage show of all time.> 'cause it was good! I liked it too! It was at the Videopolis stage and it was called "Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double-Cross" here you go... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-9J9TIctE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...9J9TIctE</a> Enjoy!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA The 2:00 mark on that You Tube video starts the awesome 'Calling Dick Tracy' theme song.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Some great points/posts by Jim In Somewhere California and sjhym33 ... although I certainly am glad TPFKaTD-MGMS was built. But I recall many of the issues they mention, although more fondly as I didn't have to work thru them. The park was hamstrung by Disney not pricing it less, a lesson not learned with second gates in Paris and Anaheim. Not enough attractions. A great, long, cohesive studio tour. Great fixing bar at Backlot Express. Then ... those extra long hours ... 7 a.m. openings ... 1 and 2 a.m. closings to deal with the crowds. The phenomenal Sorcery in the Sky ... and some great stage shows that didn't go on forever (like say B&B). A REAL animation studio. Just a shame that the place was rushed and has never really recovered.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^Not to mention where Disney-MGM Studios was placed. Sitting right next to two major roadways. So, you can look right in from the street and also you're essentially cut off from expansion by two major WDW Roadways. I guess they needed to listen to Walt's EPCOT presentation, and the 'blessing of size' pitch before they plopped it there. Then again, don't get me started on the Swan and Dolphin.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Yep. And that's why expansion there is always been haphazard. Even when they expanded the parking lot ... and the few times they have redone the WDW bus stops ... and how many times has cast parking been ripped up and moved? And all those once backstage areas that are now onstage. In some ways the BAH really is the perfect symbol for the park ... just the way it has no place where it is and was just dropped down by some force. Even the great Sunset Blvd was never planned for where it went. The original Theater of the Stars was located right where Sunset starts. Just a very strange park that has steadily changed, but not really evolving into something better.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Yep. And that's why expansion there is always been haphazard. Even when they expanded the parking lot ... and the few times they have redone the WDW bus stops ... and how many times has cast parking been ripped up and moved? And all those once backstage areas that are now onstage. In some ways the BAH really is the perfect symbol for the park ... just the way it has no place where it is and was just dropped down by some force. Even the great Sunset Blvd was never planned for where it went. The original Theater of the Stars was located right where Sunset starts. Just a very strange park that has steadily changed, but not really evolving into something better.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>>>>^^^Not to mention where Disney-MGM Studios was placed. Sitting right next to two major roadways. So, you can look right in from the street and also you're essentially cut off from expansion by two major WDW Roadways.<<<<< No excuse for the odd layout of the place. It's a blob. What ever happened to Walt's idea of a Hub, and his talking about "Museum feet"?
