Disney Design: Sunset Boulevard
Walt Disney World: What would you include?
From Tim W
Posted August 30, 2009 at 3:22 PM
If you were designing a new ride for Sunset Boulevard at Disney's Hollywood studios, what would it be like? What type of ride would it be. The land shows disney's hollywood studios at its best with the thrilling rockin roller coaster, and the fantastic tower of terror. To make it even better, one might consider a thrid ride for the land. So if you were recruited to design the next ride what would you choose? A water ride, thrill ride, or maybe a kidee ride? What type of theme would it have? Enjoy imagineering the ride.
I would put in an omnimover ride that would include the themeing of the Nightmare Before Christmas.
Some kind of Dark Ride where the row of stores are. What? I have no idea. I am trying to think of something that would fit the theme.
Disney should make more Dark Rides,
Superstar Limo would be good if it wasn't so darn creepy!
From Tim W
Posted August 30, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Couldnt there be room for a ride between Tot and RnR? or at least it could place underground or something. I like the idea of nightmare before christmas actually.
They use the space between Tower and Coaster for special events, cast parking during busy times and other things. Its a utility space and can be converted to suit anything.
Disney's Hollywood Studios could use a face lift. How about adding an attraction based on the history and culture of music. Rhythms in Motion.Perhaps a time machine tour through the different eras where your car/pods actually dance in sync with the various eras. From The Charleston to break dancing to modern day hip hop. Or how about an attraction where you board giant sofas and blast off into a giant television and relive televisions greatest moments. From I love Lucy to The Golden Girls. Audio animatronics in both attractions mixed with Disney's special effects would be steller.
Good idea,
What about a Marvel water ri....oh forget it!
I would like to see Superstar TV back. It was a fun show and Disney has enough of its own shows to put in the show: Lost, Two and a Half Men, ESPN stuff, Jimmy Kimmel, the View.
Leave Sunset alone. Blow up the Chinese theatre and build a Marvel themed dark ride.
From Tim W
Posted August 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Oh that way another facade can be blocked by the hat...lol. Well i like the idea of a marvel water ride maybe.
How about a decent earthquake dark ride? Anything would be better than that lame thing at USF.
From Tim W
Posted August 31, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Takign everything into play, Maybe Iron Man ride should be placed here. Although im still a big supporter of the water ride and TNBC. However im sure if imagineers looked through endless titles of movies and tv shows they can find something that works perfect!
From Rob P
Posted September 2, 2009 at 2:41 AM
Something prehistoric to tie in with La Brea Tar Pits ?
Who owns the rights to Ice Age ?
If Disney had those then there are options aplenty.
"Tar Pits?" LOVE IT!
I think Sunset is perfect the way it is, but if I was asked to add something this would be it:
A Hollywood Mysteries attraction. make a nice, big art/pueblo deco building with an attraction like a real life game of Cluedo. Guests are asked to solve a mystery and are asked to solve the problem by wandering round a number of famous Hollywood locations. To solve the mystery guest would have to participate in a number of mini-games and have lots of interaction with the attraction itself.
This kind of attraction would be made at minimal cost as there's no expensive ride system. As it's a walk through it could handle a relatively large number of guests and if you chance the ending and the path they take for each party people will want to visit time and time again.
Perhaps create an updated Adv. Club?
Another idea would be a Tip Top Club near Tower of Terror, where it's all 1930's themed right down to the music. Great food and an ample selection of drinks.
Here is where I can talk about the Tower of Terror.
As some may know the Hollywood Tower Hotel has 12 stories for hotel guest while the top story the "13th" is called the "Tip Top Club" I believe Anthony Fremont is performing today? At the exit of the ride right after the photo printing and before you through the gates into the gift shop there is locked up room with chains and a big lock. Its called the "Sunset Room" or the "Sunset Lounge" I forget what actually it is called. But originally they were going to put a full service restaurant in there. i think they should open it up.
How about Roger Rabbit's Toon Spin (or a version of it)?
It fits in with the theming of the area with Who Framed Roger Rabbit taking place around the time the five guests went into the Twlight Zone at the Holywood Tower Hotel.
I wouldn't mind seeing the resturant in Tower of Terror with singing perhaps, but wouldn't it be too similar to the Brown Derby?
Yes, it is called the Sunset Room Dan, and that's a great idea!
From Tim W
Posted September 3, 2009 at 4:01 PM
I think they could make the restaurant creepy. Somethin similar to jekkyl and hyde pub in nyc. It be cool!
From Tony Duda
Posted September 3, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I like the scary restaurant idea and suggest it be themed as an Abbott & Costello movie showcase. They did all those Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula, Mummy and Invisable Man movies in the 1940's and a dark ride attached to a themed restaurant would be great and fit in perfectly with the Sunset Blvd. area. I went to their web site and read that, in 1991, The Disney Channel did specials on them, so there must be some kind of agreement with them.
Here is my plan for the studios:
Leave Sunset Boulevard alone, it is already the best section of the park.
Start out by salvaging the extremely bare Backlot tour. Leave the queue/preshow alone. Gut out everything else except for catastrophe canyon. Turn it into a special effects/movie set tour. A tour to show guests how its all done. Including Pearl Harbor, Catastrophe Canyon, an explosion scene, an Armegedon scene, and several sets/soundstages.
Gut Narnia since Disney doesn't own the rights to the rest of the movies, and put the interactive mystery attraction in their, expanding the building into one mans dream, it was gonna go anyway.
Say goodbye to sounds dangerous and put in an attraction based on the greatest movie soundtracks of history. Sit in the theater and listen to their power while watching some of the greatest movie moments on screen. To include, but not limited to Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Call it the Art of Sound or something.
Replace Playhouse Disney with an Enchanted Musical.
Update Indy to include movie 4.
Re-theme honey I shrunk the kids to something more recent, such as the jungle island from the Incredibles.
Next, put an attraction in Pixar Place. I was thinking a family roller coaster/dark ride based on the doors scene from Monsters Inc.
Last, but far from least, update Fantasmic and return it to nightly showings.
I believe this would increase the quality and appeal of DHS, and put more of a movie/behind the scenes feel to it that it should have.
From Tim W
Posted September 4, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Good calls Andrew. Obviously some people think Sunset boulevard doesnt need a 3rd ride. Perfectly fine. I on the other hand would kill, not literally, to see another great and thrilling story telling ride like TOT. But i guess one just makes it special. However the masterpiece of nightmare before christmas coming to life would be great here!
As for the rest of what Andrew has said, well it pretty much covers most of what id be hoping for DHS. A sound show to replace the existing one, another musical, something to replace narnia since Disney can't possibly call it their own now. I was so hoping for A narnia ride though. Oh well guess we all have dreams. I'd love to see Mary Poppins in her own ride or musical, along with roger rabbitt, Indiana jones adventure ride, as well as a magical illusion show. Animagique would make a great replacement for little mermaid in animation courtyard.
Now for pixar place, i think the best idea will be the coaster based of a monsters inc. As for the rest of it add in Cars and the Incredibles. It adds to the sort of playfulness and whimsy around the land. At the moment i can't see "advanced" masterpieces as UP, ratatatouille, or wall-e in the land.
As for what has been said concerning backlot tour, it could provide tons of advancement for DHS. Its what i would call a bust ride, one that was great at the time and for a few rides of it but lost its charm and magic along the way. Def not Disney material. It lost its momentum back when they began to take out more and more of the tour.
I was just watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and I think that instead of updating the Indiana Jones Show, replacing it with a duck boat plunge that leads you to Acator, just like when they drive off the cliff in the movie into the Amazon, and fall down the three waterfalls in the duck boat to get to Acator. It could be a mack water coaster. If done right, it could be amazing!
You got to understand with the ideas of updating the Great Movie Ride are great but think realisticly with the size of the idea. For example the Water Coaster would have to be big while the area that GMR is in realitively small and in the middle of the park. While putting in a Dinosaur themed, dark ride or updating the current attraction with movies that came out the last couple of years would be better.
Im not saying to put the water coaster in where the great movie ride is, Im saying demolish the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and put it where the theater is. If needed you could even expand the area out.
From Tim W
Posted September 5, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Yea thats what i would think too. A water coaster would be a cool idea as well as the coaster fro Paris. And GMR has to stay. Its DHS's Spaceship Earth. It can never change no matter how many ideas they come up with to make it better. It wouldnt be the same to put a ooaster or themed ride. The multitude of theming is perfect for signifying what DHS is about, smething that Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom lack and possibly never will have. Now if its a bugs life was the planned mother nature show, it would have its base attraction. But unfortunately for Animal Kingdom its opening attraction is about bugs. Oh well, again there is no perfect world. Thanks Eisner, for that.
But going back to Indiana jones, love the water coaster idea and would bring freshness into DHS.
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