What do you like best about DHS?

Originally Posted By leobloom

>it was just supposed to be funny, leobloom. No need to get all...leobloomy about it.>

Sorry to bitch you out, Jim. I thought you were trying to be a thread sniper. I've learned to assume the worst about posters on Disney forums.

 

Originally Posted By leobloom

You can clearly see the tracks on the floor? Is that a legitimate criticism? You can see the tracks for most Disney rides. Hell, at Soarin' you can see the whole mechanical workings overhead. I agree the sfx in the Fifth Dimension aren't perfect; they should have been plussed by now. But the same could be said for the whole park.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

^^^Sure you can see tracks in Disney dark rides. But most of them are ground based attractions.

Mr. Toad's is a car -- Roger Rabbit is a taxi cab -- Alice in Wonderland is a caterpillar -- Indiana Jones is a transport jeep --- they're all on the ground.

With the 5th Dimension room -- I wasn't looking for flaws, but I immediately noticed that it was hot in that show building, and for whatever reason, my eyes were drawn to the floor, and there was this well-worn set of tracks that the elevator was going to be travelling on.

Maybe a 'Peter Pan's Flight' sort of mechanism to give the sensation of floating, I don't know...

Maybe rough up the floor with a textured paint so that it isn't so obvious.

We all have varying levels of what accounts for detail -- that 5th Dimension room sort of ruined it for me.

 

Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt

Has anyone mentioned TSMM? That was great!! A won a virtual bunny!! I think Wii should market a game I can take home w/me!!

I also enjoy Ariel & Walt-One Man's Dream. I see somethhing new everytime I do the walk thru.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<I wasn't looking for flaws, but I immediately noticed that it was hot in that show building>>

I've never noticed that, but then we always go to WDW in January or at Thanksgiving.

 

Originally Posted By Ursula

TOT.

Our last trip, we went to DHS just to ride it a few times.

RNRC: Husband's favorite. We rode that too.

Then we left. We were there for 12 days and had this luxury.


(Okay I work in a studio so...)

I do love their TSMM better than ours. I wish they had Fastpass.

Shopping: Syd's place is amazing. I swear I drop some cash each time I'm there. I believe that they buy celebrity stuff from auctions that raise money for charity, so I'm happy to pay whatever for whatever. I ALMOST made DH buy the $65,000 Dick Van Dyke jacket from Mary Poppins. (It was half-off, so $32,500, but he said no.)

I like the Movie Ride very much.

I do wish they'd do something with Sounds Dangerous. It makes those of us who work in sound seem lame. It could be so much, well, better! (I have ideas...)

I love the dinosaur in the middle of the lake.

I love walking down the street then seeing Darth Vader appear near the Star Tours. The little kids we saw were just insane over seeing DARTH VADER (I was too!)

I like Prime Time Cafe.

 

Originally Posted By barboy

Great stuff at the Disney Studios:

1)The blvd's are very attractive

2)Great movie Ride--although dated it is still a Disney masterpiece. That Wicked Witch of the West kicks ass for an AA!

3)Tower of Terror another top notch ride

4)Star Tours has a masterful entry area

5)One Man's Dream is the most underrated feature in **any** of the 11 Disney theme parks......how any true Disney fan can not be spellbound is beyond me.

6) some outstanding eats there--- only Epcot and Disney Sea have better.

 

Originally Posted By Ursula

<6) some outstanding eats there--- only Epcot and Disney Sea have better.>

Wow, I totally disagree! I only seem to like Prime Time Cafe. I also don't like fussy food, so there you go.

I can eat myself obese at Epcot, though.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

Wow... Brown Derby is my favorite restaurant at WDW!

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

I absolutely love the architecture of MGM/DS/DHS. The atmosphere really seems alive, especially when all the performers are out, and about. Echo Lake is a great place just to relax, and do some people watching. It definetly has several of the most popular rides at WDW, plus some pretty good restaurants.
Nighttime really sets this Park off.

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

>> Has anyone mentioned TSMM? That was great!! A won a virtual bunny!! I think Wii should market a game I can take home w/me!! <<

Maybe he could be a Pen Pal with my towel bunny Winky!

 

Originally Posted By leobloom

>>Sure you can see tracks in Disney dark rides. But most of them are ground based attractions.

Mr. Toad's is a car -- Roger Rabbit is a taxi cab -- Alice in Wonderland is a caterpillar -- Indiana Jones is a transport jeep --- they're all on the ground.>>

Not sure why it matters if the ride is "ground-based" or not. Visible ride tracks are visible ride tracks.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

<Not sure why it matters if the ride is "ground-based" or not. Visible ride tracks are visible ride tracks.>

Because in the opening of 'The Twilight Zone' which the 5th Dimension Room emulates, you're floating through space.

So, the 5th Dimension Room is supposed to give the illusion that you're floating through space -- which, when there are tracks on the ground, doesn't help to support that notion.

In other news, let's plan on NOT taking our Walt Disney World vacation together.

 

Originally Posted By carribean queen

Toy Story Mania is great we had a blast on it, I would definately go back for it. However, my second favorite, and I'm sure I'll get chewed up for this, is the power rangers. It is my sons favorite and when he's happy in a 100degrees, I'm ecstatic!

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

<<However, my second favorite, and I'm sure I'll get chewed up for this, is the power rangers. It is my sons favorite and when he's happy in a 100degrees, I'm ecstatic!>>

I certainly won't blast you. I think too often people forget that Disney Parks need to appeal to a wide range of tastes and ages, and not everyone thinks Pirates of the Caribbean is the end-all and be-all.

 

Originally Posted By carribean queen

<<and not everyone thinks Pirates of the Caribbean is the end-all and be-all.>>

Bite your tongue Johnny Depp is the end all be all. Ha Ha Ha and he is looking fine in the pirates! ;-)

 

Originally Posted By leobloom

>>Because in the opening of 'The Twilight Zone' which the 5th Dimension Room emulates, you're floating through space.

So, the 5th Dimension Room is supposed to give the illusion that you're floating through space -- which, when there are tracks on the ground, doesn't help to support that notion.>>

I've never sensed that the Fifth Dimension is supposed to be floating through space. Did you read that somewhere or just make it up?

Here's my thinking: if you're floating through space, why would you end up in the hotel building all during the drop sequence? I always thought the Fifth Dimension was just a trippy hotel floor, not a flight through space (maybe you're getting this confused with Star Tours).

>>In other news, let's plan on NOT taking our Walt Disney World vacation together.>>

Don't worry about that. I wouldn't take a vacation to WDW.

 

Originally Posted By Disney and beyond

I notice the tracks a little, but I am to ennamored by the 5th Dimention stuff around me. ToT is still my all time favorite ride in any park in the world.

I cried the first time I saw the One Man's Dream film. I wish I could oen that on DVD.

Toy Story Midway Mania is my mom's new favorite ride. She absolutely loves it.

I will take a WDW trip with anybody! I would just love to be there with another Disney fan. I'm open for Disney Debating.

 

Originally Posted By Ursula

Isn't the Fifth Dimension not of space or of time, and not a floor in a hotel room. (I also just KNOW we are supposed to be floating somewhere, but not in a Hotel floor.)

You end up coming out of it into the hotel you first entered, thus the whole premise of the ride.

 

Originally Posted By MPierce

>> Isn't the Fifth Dimension not of space or of time, and not a floor in a hotel room. (I also just KNOW we are supposed to be floating somewhere, but not in a Hotel floor.) <<


It's a singing group from the late 60's
early 70's.