Originally Posted By MPierce Don't get me wrong. I like the Studios. It's a beautiful park, and it has some of the best, and most popular rides at WDW. It's just a difficult park for first timers to get around in, it's almost like wandering through a maze. It just feels disjointed to me. It's shorten hours, and lack of really good restaurants make it less desireable for me also. While I enjoy the couple of hours while I'm there, I always look forward to the boat ride over to Epcot.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer It's just disjointed. You step out of 1939 Hollywood and onto a Sound Stage becuase you passed some security booth? At least in other parks, like in the MK, large changes are made from land to land gradually, not with one step. The park suffers from size, in that respect.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> The park suffers from size, in that respect. << That is a major problem. It just feels crowded to me. Even when there are only few people there.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<It's just a difficult park for first timers to get around in, it's almost like wandering through a maze. >> The overall layout is pretty bad, I'll agree with that. But it's always been like that, really. <<It's shorten hours, and lack of really good restaurants make it less desireable for me also.>> Well the short hours is TDO's fauly, don't blame the park for that one! Haha. While there aren't a lot of restaurants, the ones that are there are great, IMO, making DHS automatically better than the MK and DAK with respects to dining. Mama Melrose and 50s Prime Time are some of the best in WDW, although I've never eaten at Brown Derby. Obviously the park can't compare to Epcot in this respect, but NO park can compare to Epcot as it pertains to dining.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<At least in other parks, like in the MK, large changes are made from land to land gradually, not with one step.>> Ummm, the ONLY gradual change in the MK is from LS to Frontierland. Every other land is a jump. Have you ever gone from Fantasyland to LS or Tomorrowland? Come on.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<At least in other parks, like in the MK, large changes are made from land to land gradually, not with one step.>> Ummm, the ONLY gradual change in the MK is from LS to Frontierland. Every other land is a jump. Have you ever gone from Fantasyland to LS or Tomorrowland? Come on.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Well the short hours is TDO's fauly, don't blame the park for that one! Haha. << I have to take it into consideration none the less. I'll admit I'm so down on Disney Dining that it it hard for me to be objective in that area. You do have to admit though the lack of Fantasmic playing at least once every night hurts the Studio badly.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<You do have to admit though the lack of Fantasmic playing at least once every night hurts the Studio badly.>> Oh no doubt. TDO's handling of all the parks' hours/entertainment has been pretty piss poor the past few years.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> Ummm, the ONLY gradual change in the MK is from LS to Frontierland. Every other land is a jump. Have you ever gone from Fantasyland to LS or Tomorrowland? Come on.<<< LS to FL is fine. Everything is blocked off with the buildings and there are many subtle changes as you get closer. The only really bad one in MK is the TL/FL one. But that's just ONE. DHS, as a whole, has these problems everywhere. The lay out sucks. I honestly don't think that it was ever intended to be a major theme park...but it was popular when it was new, because it was simple back then. When they expanded it out because it was so popular, they forgot to keep it simple.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<DHS, as a whole, has these problems everywhere.>> And they don't take away from the story at all. It's not like you're going to different lands, you're in Hollywood the whole time. <<The lay out sucks.>> Sure, but the theming is top notch, along with having the best line-up of attractions, and Streetmoshpere.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 <<but the theming is top notch>> I'll give you Hollwood Blvd (minus the hat) and Sunset Blvd, but the rest of the park is a mess. You go from New York St to Muppets to Star Wars to Indy with little to no transition at all. Then they have that stunt show and horribly pointless remnant of the Studio Tour thrown in there too. The whole backside of the park should be bulldozed (again!) and they should start over!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>And they don't take away from the story at all. It's not like you're going to different lands, you're in Hollywood the whole time.<<< Maybe it's not a good story, then, seeing that it doesn't feel right. It feels VERY out of place. >>>Sure, but the theming is top notch, along with having the best line-up of attractions, and Streetmoshpere.<<< Theming, sure, in the North part of the park, attractions, some of the best, but it needs more, and YES, it does have the nest Streetmosphere.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper << It feels VERY out of place.>> I don't agree, but whatever. And it doesn't need many more attractions. Once Monsters happens, it'll need two nice dark rides, and that's really it.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer ^That would complete it, for now. Was thinking about this on tonights bike ride... MGM should have never opened here. It should have been DL's 2nd gate. It's obvious...They have the REAL Hollywood RIGHT. THERE. That would have left the "working studio" angle, which was perfect, and unique, and would have been great for the nearby Disney Studios.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Meh, I disagree. It'd be the same dumb thing as DCA. Why make a park dedicated to something right down the street?
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer And DCA is going to be amazing after this overhaul. And they would dedicate it to something down the street to DISPLAY what's there. It would actually work out there, where hear, the industry was separated from the medium in which it was displayed.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper The working studio thing was a dumb idea, but they're almost done moving away from that and the park is improving greatly. And DCA will be good after the refurb. I don't know if I'd go amazing.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>> The working studio thing was a dumb idea, but they're almost done moving away from that and the park is improving greatly.<<< Yeah, to a generic "entertainment" vibe....Which I don't find a good thing.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper I find nothing generic about where their going. Almost all the recent additions have been pretty good.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer It's all synergy, all tie ins. I find that generic. Granted, it's needed SOMETIMES, but I am getting sick of the same thing over and over. It's what Spirit calls walmarting. Same movies, same characters, same stuff. Getting REALLY sick of it.
