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The Disney-MGM Studios is going away

The Disney MGM Studios will close its gates for the final time on December 31st, 2007. That night, the park will be demolished, and a near-exact replica will be built in its place. This new park will open the next day, January 1st, 2008, and will be known as Disney's Hollywood Studios.

Read about it here

Ummm... Near exact replica? Cool, and all but... uh.... OK.

As long as they can find all those cool antiques for the HTH lobby again !!! ;)

I hope they can recycle and use some of the old stuff. ;)

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Originally Posted by blueerica (Post 156460)

Ummm... Near exact replica? Cool, and all but... uh.... OK.

Babe, if you're serious, you're going to kick yourself....read it again....:)

DCA is next, right?

When we went house-hunting last weekend, we visited Disney's Hyperion Studios, which was renamed "Gelson's". Like Disney-MGM, it no longer has a working animation team on site.

I wonder if Disney would rip down the Grauman's facade and put up an El Cap replica...

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 156470)

Babe, if you're serious, you're going to kick yourself....read it again....:)

Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say I would kick myself... but it's certain that I can't read straight after ~15 hours of working and writing another big-ass research paper. I am, however, laughing pretty good.

Thank god for semi-decent nights of sleep, when the interruptions don't even seem to bother me.

It's interesting that they can change the name of a whole park like that. Can you imagine the printing bill? All the letter head, envelopes, business cards, invoices, theme park merchandise, napkins and cups, signs, and marketing & advertisements they will need to do? Yikes!

Well, if they can change the name of a whole park, perhaps they can do that with DCA. Perhaps Disney's Hollywood Adventure. or Disney's Hollywoodland. It has gone more form California to Pixar movies anyway. Each land could be a theme in catigory of movies, with the exception of the Hollywood backlot.

I hear Ty Pennington is in charge - they're making a show called "Extreme Theme Park Makeover" with hundreds of thousands of volunteers helping his design team.

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Originally Posted by RStar (Post 156516)

Well, if they can change the name of a whole park, perhaps they can do that with DCA.

There are rumors floating around:

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The Imagineers aren't really looking to change the name of Disney's California Adventure. In fact, the way I hear it, what WDI is actually thinking of adding a new word to the title of this particular theme park.

Ah, but what a difference that one word would make. What am I talking about? Well, how would you feel if they changed DCA's name to "Walt Disney's California Adventure" ?

The idea here is that all of DCA's "districts" (Remember? Back when this theme park originally opened up back in February of 2001, the Imagineers were quite specific about this matter. Disneyland had "lands." Whereas Disney's California Adventure -- because it was infinitely more adult & sophisticated than its boring, older sibling across the plaza -- had "districts") would eventually come to thematically represent various aspects of Walt's journey from being this poor boy in Marceline, Missouri to becoming a genuine Hollywood legend.

Here's the part of the rumor that I find interesting:

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Mind you, one of the more interesting ideas that the Imagineers are reportedly toying with is completely ripping out the Golden Vine Winery restaurant. And in its place building an approximation of the Disney family's Holmby Hills estate. Inside the house itself would be "Walt's Place," a brand-new restaurant that would celebrate the man as well as his love of American comfort food. Meanwhile, out in the "backyard" of this estate would be a brand-new version of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad. Which guests could then board and -- via an elaborate system of tressels -- take a quick scenic trip around the Grizzly Peak Recreation Area. Where they could then view rafters splashing along Grizzly River Run and hikers exploring the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail before heading back to the Holmby Hills estate