Not Many Attractions (Rides) at HS

[Frozen2014]

I'm mapping out all the rides at Hollywood Studios. Is it just me, or is there not really that many rides?

You have

• Slinky Dog Dash
• Toy Story Mania
• Alien Swirling Saucers
• Millennium Falcon Run
• Rise of the Resistance (which you can only ride 1 time at most)
• Star Tours
• Mickey and Minnie Runaway Railway (coming March)
• Twilight of Terror
• Rock n Roller Coaster

For our family, our kids won't ride the last two (ToT and Rock n Roller Coaster).
Rise of the Resistance requires a boarding pass so at most, you can go once.
And I'm sure SDD and Millennium Falcon are hard to ride more than once without long waits.

The rest seem to be shows....Frozen sing along, Beauty and Beast, Little Mermaid, Disney Junior (all out for a 15 year old boy), Muppet Vision, Indiana Jones, Lightning McQueen...and then night time Fireworks and Fantasmic.

Still excited as some cool stuff, but is it still a full day park?
Then again, looking at Epcot, it's probably similar with a few really cool headliners and then you have the smaller things like Gran Fiesta, Figment, Living with Land, etc.

 

[GADisneyDad14]

Opinions will vary. For us, it’s a half day or partial day park. For many, it’s not (especially with the recent/pending additions). The shows and nighttime spectaculars don’t interest us all that much, so for us it’s an easy park to spend less time in than the others. YMMV

 

[jbehr12]

I'm mapping out all the rides at Hollywood Studios. Is it just me, or is there not really that many rides?

You have

• Slinky Dog Dash
• Toy Story Mania
• Alien Swirling Saucers
• Millennium Falcon Run
• Rise of the Resistance (which you can only ride 1 time at most)
• Star Tours
• Mickey and Minnie Runaway Railway (coming March)
• Twilight of Terror
• Rock n Roller Coaster

For our family, our kids won't ride the last two (ToT and Rock n Roller Coaster).
Rise of the Resistance requires a boarding pass so at most, you can go once.
And I'm sure SDD and Millennium Falcon are hard to ride more than once without long waits.

The rest seem to be shows....Frozen sing along, Beauty and Beast, Little Mermaid, Disney Junior (all out for a 15 year old boy), Muppet Vision, Indiana Jones, Lightning McQueen...and then night time Fireworks and Fantasmic.

Still excited as some cool stuff, but is it still a full day park?
Then again, looking at Epcot, it's probably similar with a few really cool headliners and then you have the smaller things like Gran Fiesta, Figment, Living with Land, etc.

If you look at all the parks as a whole in WDW that’s pretty average. If you’re looking for an abundance of kid friendly rides stick to MK.

 

[ucf_knight]

I'm mapping out all the rides at Hollywood Studios. Is it just me, or is there not really that many rides?

You have

• Slinky Dog Dash
• Toy Story Mania
• Alien Swirling Saucers
• Millennium Falcon Run
• Rise of the Resistance (which you can only ride 1 time at most)
• Star Tours
• Mickey and Minnie Runaway Railway (coming March)
• Twilight of Terror
• Rock n Roller Coaster

For our family, our kids won't ride the last two (ToT and Rock n Roller Coaster).
Rise of the Resistance requires a boarding pass so at most, you can go once.
And I'm sure SDD and Millennium Falcon are hard to ride more than once without long waits.

The rest seem to be shows....Frozen sing along, Beauty and Beast, Little Mermaid, Disney Junior (all out for a 15 year old boy), Muppet Vision, Indiana Jones, Lightning McQueen...and then night time Fireworks and Fantasmic.

Still excited as some cool stuff, but is it still a full day park?
Then again, looking at Epcot, it's probably similar with a few really cool headliners and then you have the smaller things like Gran Fiesta, Figment, Living with Land, etc.

For us with kids (6, 4) it’s a half day park. I’m hoping though that the changes in the fast pass tiers coming up might change this.

 

[SaintsManiac]

The only park with many rides is the MK.

 

[Frozen2014]

If you look at all the parks as a whole in WDW that’s pretty average. If you’re looking for an abundance of kid friendly rides stick to MK.

Our kids will be 15 and 11 when we travel, with the 15 year old being a star wars fan. So I guess that stuff will keep him busy.
We don't have park hoppers and plan on staying but just wondering if we will be kept busy. Having said that, we do like riding our favorites again if we can get on without a long wait.

 

[Frozen2014]

The only park with many rides is the MK.

Yeah...that's why we have selected MK as the park that we are repeating on our short trip. It's almost silly as we are at Pop so would make logical sense to go to Epcot or HS on our arrival day since to get there (which we will only get 4hrs or so)...but from ride point of view, we selected MK.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

If it weren’t for the fact that my kids love the thrill rides here I’d avoid the park all together. We only spend one day (used to be a half day) here as opposed to 4 days in MK, 3 in Epcot and 2 in AK. We’re not SW fans either so that hasn’t changed the appeal for us.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Yeah...that's why we have selected MK as the park that we are repeating on our short trip. It's almost silly as we are at Pop so would make logical sense to go to Epcot or HS on our arrival day since to get there (which we will only get 4hrs or so)...but from ride point of view, we selected MK.

You can always leave and take a break at Pop and then return to HS later for evening shows. The Skyliner makes that easy. I don't like open to close at any park.

 

[PaladinButters]

Its always been half day at best, even with Toy Story and Star Wars being added in the last three years.

With Epcot people can spend days wandering world showcase and just eating/drinking or they can call it a half-day if they just want attractions. With DHS once you’ve seen the shows .... they just aren’t repeatable and the food (with few exceptions) is not good.

 

[Lovetherodent]

It's been a half day park for us, but with TSL and SWGE, and we won't ride the SWGE rides, we plan on an evening visit of a few hours in addition to our regular half day. It'd be a full day if we did shows.

 

[only hope]

HS has far more rides now than it did before the changes. HS originally wasn’t supposed to be about rides. It was about making movies. Opening day had just one ride: the Great Movie Ride. Star Tours was added in ‘89; ToT in ‘94; RnR in ‘99; TSM in ‘08; then a ten year gap with Slinky and Saucers in ‘18; and of course Falcon and Rise last year. Then theres the long gap between GMR closing in ‘17 and MMRR opening.

If you do everything, including shows and m&g’s, and take your time looking around, it can be a full day park.

 

[Calee]

Our first time it was full day bc we watched all the shows. But in the 2 visits since then we havent spent as long. Or we have had hoppers and went for 2 partial days due to the FP situation. I agree the shows arent super repeatable.

 

[skippytx]

I still think of it as a half day park, but I do make a point to come back at least 1 night to see the Star Wars fireworks. Great show.

 

[Frozen2014]

If it weren’t for the fact that my kids love the thrill rides here I’d avoid the park all together. We only spend one day (used to be a half day) here as opposed to 4 days in MK, 3 in Epcot and 2 in AK. We’re not SW fans either so that hasn’t changed the appeal for us.

That's a good comparison with other parks.

You can always leave and take a break at Pop and then return to HS later for evening shows. The Skyliner makes that easy. I don't like open to close at any park.

Yes good point.

 

[disneygirlsng]

It's always been more than a full day park for me, even before all the new additions. I'm one that has never understood the "half day park" thing there. I wouldn't count out the shows either, they are all awesome!

 

[BrianL]

I don't think of it as a half-day park, but I like the shows. The park was originally very show-heavy, and in fact now has more rides than it used to. Some of the shows are classics and well worth doing. Indiana Jones is always fun and I for some reason really love The Little Mermaid. Beauty and the Beast is a nice production too. Fantasmic! and Star Wars Galactic Spectacular are both great nighttime shows too. That's just it's nature. If they were to take out more shows for rides, it would just be the same as other parks.

 

[Davey Jones II]

With the recent opening of two new lands, and another ride coming soon, DHS is a multi-day park for us. Of course, we always do 9-10 days at WDW.

 

[whiporee]

None of the parks save MK were designed as "ride" parks. Epcot was supposed to be a World's Fair, DHS was designed to be a working movie lot with an emphasis on shows, not rides. Animal Kingdom is a big and really good zoo. Over the years they've shoehorned rides in because people want rides, but that's been tough because of space, infrastructure and other limitations. If they ever build a fifth gate, I'm sure it will be heavy on rides, but the three non-MK parks weren't meant to be amusement parks, so they aren't.

 

[Thecouch]

That list is still more rides then epcot or animal kingdom has.