DHS to get 25th celebration plus hat removal!!

[Cricket2]

That's ONE of the words we use for it.

Don't you mean:

1) That's ONE of the words we use for it.

 

[ThurlFan]

PP for Pixar Place would work better -- I don't think that acronym is commonly used for anything else at WDW. (At least, nothing comes to mind.)

Beg to differ

 

[Faldred]

@^

Hey, it's still better than the obvious acronym for Monsters Inc Laugh Floor.

 

[Virtucomp]

Currently a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato is more exciting than the Back Lot Tour

The good thing about the backlot tour is that there is never any line and you get to sit for most of the attraction.
(not a lot of positives there)

If it does go I will miss the first part where you can be a part of the show. My DD was dying to go after she was old enough to do it.

 

[umichigan10]

The good thing about the backlot tour is that there is never any line and you get to sit for most of the attraction.
(not a lot of positives there)

If it does go I will miss the first part where you can be a part of the show. My DD was dying to go after she was old enough to do it.

yet all those positives are also wrapped up in the benefits a BLT sandwich lol.

 

[dreweyj]

I couldn't figure out the Priority Seating and Bay Lake Towers thing either...

Anyway, while I understand why the hat may have been a good idea out of the gate, I can more so understand why so many folks have issues with it. It reminds me of the Griswold family Christmas Tree in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. That tree didn't fit in their house and this hat doesn't fit in its current location in this park.

While the design concept may have made sense in some aspect, it's feels out of place where it's at. It's just not aesthetically pleasing at all and it's purposeless...

In fact, on my very first visit ever to WDW in November 2009, I can still remember walking into HS for the first time. Upon entering HS and seeing the hat, I couldn't wait to get close to it to see what it had inside. I was less than enthralled with what I found. I remember thinking it was "waste." I actually made a comment to the person I was with about how it was a let down. I could walk through the Castle at MK, I could actually go inside the Tree of Life at AK, I could ride an attraction in the "big golf ball" which I now know is Spaceship Earth thanks to my fellow DISers but I couldn't do a gosh darn thing at this giant hat except make a purchase ?!?!?!?

I would have no hard feelings seeing it gone... or at the very least, moved.

 

[pwdebbie]

I didn't first see DHS until 2007 so I have no nostalgic memories to fall back on. I don't like the hat because it is a big, obtrusive, unattractive, awkward, ugly, outlandish, garish, out-of-place obstruction. (Give me a thesaurus and I could probably squeeze a few more adjectives in there!) When you walk into a park and say, "What is THAT?" then there is something wrong. I think it might look nice at the entrance to the parking lots. But not in the park itself.

 

[mike the canuck]

I think it might look nice at the entrance to the parking lots. But not in the park itself.

I completely agree.

 

[nytimez]

I actually had an awesome bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich tonight. Although I consider myself a purist when it comes to the BLT, this one had basil in it.

 

[ASteelersMidget]

I actually had an awesome bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich tonight. Although I consider myself a purist when it comes to the BLT, this one had basil in it.

lol, I can't believe we got so far off topic. It's probably my fault for bring the sandwich into the thread......................

Oh Well

 

[mitros]

You haven't missed anything. The only people who complain about the hat are the nostalgic twelve or thirteen who remember DHS before it was erected. Anyone who fusses over looking down Hollywood Blvd and seeing a big blue hat and claiming it's out of place has to re-evaluate looking down a 1905 Main Street and finding a 16th century German castle at the end.

I'll admit it's a crappy hat in general, but the fact remains it has become the weenie, the icon, the focal point of the park, not only in physical form but in all literature. So even if it gets removed from its current spot, there's a possibility of them reinstalling it elsewhere, maybe outside the gates. Either way, it will remain the icon of DHS.

As for the other items, they've been rumored for years. I see neither announcement nor construction on anything before the FLE completion in 2013. There's no way WDW could finish a Monster's Inc coaster between now and 2013-2014 for the release of a Monster's prequel when they are purposely staving off the Seven Dwarfs coaster to be opened in 2013.

Still, I'd like to hear WDI announce something new at D23 this year, though I'm thinking any news will lean more towards SDL, DLP or a new DVC somewhere.

12 or 13 you say? I sincerely doubt those numbers......... Maybe we should start a poll?

 

[umichigan10]

I'll say what will be said time and again about the hat, and everything else at Disney.

You can't please everyone. Some people like the hat, some don't. Some will be happy when/if it comes down, others won't. Personally, I kind of like the hat. I think it's a good symbol for MGM and much more noticeable than the Earful Tower. Does it fit in with the theming well? Not really, but does RnR really fit in well where it's located? Not really.

Overall, I'm not as concerned about something as trivial as a giant blue hat in DHS, as I am with the lack of rides and the wasted space there.

Just my .02.

 

[Padrepride]

The hat, IMO, is actually a great symbol for the DHS, far superior than the theater. I love the point Condorman made about the castle's proximity to Main Street. Also, at DLR, a Swiss Mountain can be seen from Main Street and I think that has worked out pretty well. Since Disney Parks seems tends to be all about the dinero, I would think that the hat will stick around. I think that all of us would rather have more money go towards new attractions over removing the hat.

 

[ASteelersMidget]

The hat, IMO, is actually a great symbol for the DHS, far superior than the theater. I love the point Condorman made about the castle's proximity to Main Street. Also, at DLR, a Swiss Mountain can be seen from Main Street and I think that has worked out pretty well. Since Disney Parks seems tends to be all about the dinero, I would think that the hat will stick around. I think that all of us would rather have more money go towards new attractions over removing the hat.

I think the hat is a fine symbol, It's just in a horrible location. I'm under 20 and I remember MGM with no hat. I don't dislike the hat as a symbol, I just HATE its location blocking the view of the GMR!

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

The hat is a cartoony, über-sized decoration. It's not a building. It doesn't belong where it is. It detracts from the carefully designed streetscape of "the Hollywood that never was but always will be." Rather than contributing to the illusion of stepping back in time into Hollywood of an earlier era, it shatters the illusion and screams, "This place is fake."

Sure, there's no European castle at head of a real circa-1900 American Main Street, but Main Streets in America can and do lead to courthouses, churches, city halls, railroad stations, and other focal point buildings with towers, turrets, and fanciful architecture. The castle is a building; it's just a bit more fanciful. And the distance from the end of Main Street is such that the scale works.

 

[DizFan101]

i kind of love the hat. i hope they don't decide to get rid of it.
if they do the park won't have an icon like the rest of the parks.
if they need to do anything to any parks they should bring back the epcot sign and hand back to the top of spaceship earth.

 

[nytimez]

I don't know what's more frightening. This:

i kind of love the hat.

Or this:

they should bring back the epcot sign and hand back to the top of spaceship earth.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

As this thread reinforces, there are people who like the hat and people who don't.

There are even people who love the hat. Perhaps they associate the jumbo blue cone/hat with a wonderful family experience at Walt Disney World a decade ago. There are legitimate emotional reasons for some individuals to love the hat.

It's much harder to make a rational argument that the hat enhances the immersive environment of the Studios park and makes the park reflect a bygone era of Hollywood. It's essentially a big Value Resort prop -- except that most Value Resort props are more tastefully designed.

As far as defending the hat because it now serves as the icon for the park, it's really kind of sad that the Studios park has to be associated with such a fourth-rate "icon." A park's icon should be a visual reminder that sums up the quality and experience that a park provides.

 

[ASteelersMidget]

As far as defending the hat because it now serves as the icon for the park, it's really kind of sad that the Studios park has to be associated with such a fourth-rate "icon." A park's icon should be a visual reminder that sums up the quality and experience that a park provides.

Like the Chinese Theater replica that houses the Great Movie Ride?





In other news check out the poll I just posted to use as an "add on" to this thread that asks about peoples opinion on the hat!

 

[umichigan10]

Like the Chinese Theater replica that houses the Great Movie Ride?





In other news check out the poll I just posted to use as an "add on" to this thread that asks about peoples opinion on the hat!

Won't ever be the icon because it is a replica of a landmark Disney doesn't own.