What's the reason that Hollywood Studios is changing name for 2nd time?

BlackMagicWoman · Mar 28, 2015

All joking aside, I can't see any reason or indication that they would keep the studios portion of the name.

dinolounger · Mar 29, 2015

rteetz said:
there will be a massive overhaul of the park coming also confirmed by Iger today.

Adding additional capacity to a single existing ride and removing the Sorcerer Hat = massive overhaul?

I see a future for someone who wants a career in political spin!

rteetz · Mar 29, 2015

dinolounger said:
Adding additional capacity to a single existing ride and removing the Sorcerer Hat = massive overhaul?

I see a future for someone who wants a career in political spin!

The quote from Iger said significant work would be coming to this park

Flyerjab · Mar 29, 2015

rteetz said:
The quote from Iger said significant work would be coming to this park

I notice that Spirit from the wdwmagic forums gets mentioned here quite often concerning rumors. Well, I would also place Lee on that list as well. He absolutely has a proven track record for reporting rumors that happen. He has hinted several times that big things are coming to DHS and that big money is going to be spent on reinventing this park. Spirit indicated (and both Lee and Martin) have stated that the money is around the same amount used to redo DCA. The clarification that was made that when all things are taken into what the total redo of DCA cost, the amount was $1.7 billion. Several prominent insiders on wdwmagic have stated this amount. It wouldn't surprise me if this were true. Time will tell though.

George4 · Mar 29, 2015

$1.7 billion could bring a nice overhaul of DHS/DHA, but it would sadly be just a start. If the average ride is running around $300 millions for Disney right now (ballpark form Avatar and new fantasyland), that would be 3-5 rides plus restaurants and other amenities. That is a start, but barely equals what just closed. Unless they plan on spending less per attraction (which would be nice), you could do a lot with that money. I'd be curious (new thread perhaps?) what people would like to see at that price, or what they think they could get at least.

jeanylaser · Mar 29, 2015

I like Walt Disney Studios Florida is awesome name! I hope Disney will select that name!

dinolounger · Jun 9, 2015

rteetz said:
The quote from Iger said significant work would be coming to this park

Frankly, Iger often reminds me of certain people I want to high school with, and not in a positive way.

They like him developed reputations for continually making all sorts of assured, grand pronouncements about future this and future that. And most of what they said never happened, happened much later than they said it would, or evolved very differently than described.

Yes, Iger is just like them, just in a bigger and more visible way. He regularly talks about grand plans. And two days later in a boardroom in Anaheim he looks at financials and changes his mind. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of what mentions either never happens, happens much, much later than originally planned or ends up being a highly diluted version of what he originally described.

Which means the smart money learned long ago (for me, sometime in my sophomore year of high school) to take anything from people like him with a big, big BIG grain of salt. :rolleyes:

lockedoutlogic · Jun 9, 2015

dinolounger said:
Frankly, Iger often reminds me of certain people I want to high school with, and not in a positive way.

They like him developed reputations for continually making all sorts of assured, grand pronouncements about future this and future that. And most of what they said never happened, happened much later than they said it would, or evolved very differently than described.

Yes, Iger is just like them, just in a bigger and more visible way. He regularly talks about grand plans. And two days later in a boardroom in Anaheim he looks at financials and changes his mind. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of what mentions either never happens, happens much, much later than originally planned or ends up being a highly diluted version of what he originally described.

Which means the smart money learned long ago (for me, sometime in my sophomore year of high school) to take anything from people like him with a big, big BIG grain of salt.

When it comes ago Iger...I've learned to throw an entire salt block at him...

All talk...unless you have a copyright or trademark for a comic book character - in which case he'll throw the mint at you.

rteetz · Jun 9, 2015

dinolounger said:
Frankly, Iger often reminds me of certain people I want to high school with, and not in a positive way.

They like him developed reputations for continually making all sorts of assured, grand pronouncements about future this and future that. And most of what they said never happened, happened much later than they said it would, or evolved very differently than described.

Yes, Iger is just like them, just in a bigger and more visible way. He regularly talks about grand plans. And two days later in a boardroom in Anaheim he looks at financials and changes his mind. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of what mentions either never happens, happens much, much later than originally planned or ends up being a highly diluted version of what he originally described.

Which means the smart money learned long ago (for me, sometime in my sophomore year of high school) to take anything from people like him with a big, big BIG grain of salt.

I'm not saying it will happen or won't I was just stating what he said in terms of that quote. I completely agree about Iger. Iger has been saying the same vague things since they bought Star Wars.

Jess_S · Jun 9, 2015

I don't really care what they choose for the rename (though I'm chuckling quietly at my desk at some of the great suggestions here), but I really hope this is true:

mydisneyanytime said:
We were told by a castmember on Monday that the name was changing. He said it would probably be something with ADVENTURE in it as they wanted to move DHS to resemble California Adventure park. Hollywood Adventure was what he thought but he did throw out a few more that he had heard.

rteetz · Jun 9, 2015

Jess_S said:
I don't really care what they choose for the rename (though I'm chuckling quietly at my desk at some of the great suggestions here), but I really hope this is true:

Hollywood adventure has been the most rumored name.

comcastlover33 · Jun 9, 2015

Josh Hendy said:
One of the concept art paintings for Star Wars Land that was released or leaked a year or two ago showed a large coaster around the current location of Indiana Jones stunt show. It looked similar to Rip Ride Rockit in shape and height and I must say, my heart quickened when I saw it.

The great thing about RRR at Universal is it's quite big, fast and scary, but the G forces and general ride characteristics are such that it can be ridden by a lot more people than most other big coasters. Coasters like Hulk, Manta, Dragon Challenge etc. that seem to make give everyone over age 40 either nausea, headaches, a sore neck or all three.

Everest also fits the category, big and exciting but not just for 15 - 40 year olds.

In other words ... just 'cause the SW movies are HEAVILY CG-laden, it doesn't mean you have to fill your theme-park "land" with digital CG effects. There's a lot to be said for real movement, real wind in your hair and real water in your sandals.

Do you know where this leak could be found? Ive never seen it myself.

oam · Jun 9, 2015

skier_pete said:
Disney's Whatever-Blah-Blah-Blah-just-let-me-in-so-I-can-spend-my-d**m-money Kingdom

Money vacuum land

Jess_S · Jun 10, 2015

rteetz said:
Hollywood adventure has been the most rumored name.

I'm hoping the reason for the change is true. I love California Adventure and would be really excited if some of the lands and concepts from that park were carried over.

rteetz · Jun 10, 2015

Jess_S said:
I'm hoping the reason for the change is true. I love California Adventure and would be really excited if some of the lands and concepts from that park were carried over.

They are two different parks having the same stuff on both coasts would prevent people from traveling to both coasts.

brooke789 · Jun 10, 2015

Is there a general timeline for a name change?

Why not Florida Adventure to match California Adventure?

Jess_S · Jun 10, 2015

rteetz said:
They are two different parks having the same stuff on both coasts would prevent people from traveling to both coasts.

I wouldn't expect them to build the same park, but I can easily imagine them taking pieces of CA and putting them in DHS (Cars Land, for example). I can think of lots of instances where a popular attraction in California was added to Florida and vice versa and it doesn't seem to have hurt attendance.

rteetz · Jun 10, 2015

brooke789 said:
Is there a general timeline for a name change?

Why not Florida Adventure to match California Adventure?

Because the park is not about Florida it's about Hollywood. And no one knows exactly when anything is going to start.

rteetz · Jun 10, 2015

Jess_S said:
I wouldn't expect them to build the same park, but I can easily imagine them taking pieces of CA and putting them in DHS (Cars Land, for example). I can think of lots of instances where a popular attraction in California was added to Florida and vice versa and it doesn't seem to have hurt attendance.

I could see a cars ride but I doubt we get the entire cars land in Florida. I think Star Wars will be the main focus when it gets built twenty years from now.

Dean Marino · Jun 10, 2015

Focusing on the thread title....

Anything that WDW can come up with, short of "Looser Studious" will be fine with us

. Seriously - that's a great chunk of land. Please, WDW? Do something with it.

What's the reason that Hollywood Studios is changing name for 2nd time?

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