DHS Disney Animation-Inspired Experience Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

[Sir_Cliff]

Sorry if my criticisms are coming across as nitpicking. I'm happy the Animation Courtyard is getting some attention, and I think returning it to an Animation-focused attraction is a very good thing.

I was just genuinely confused about the project. The whole "evocative of" or "nod to" approach seems, I don't know, a bit lazy to me?

We've known what it was going to look like since the first page of this thread. But for some reason, it just didn't sink in for me that they were giving up on the original 1930s theming and essentially just painting the building the same colors as the Burbank building and adding the big hat.

I mean, how difficult would it have been to redo the facade to look more like this (if that's what they wanted)? Even just the rectangular front portion of the building, but with windows (fake or otherwise)?

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Like I said previously, the Streamline Moderne style of the original building had curved ends, horizontal emphasis, a tiered structure that was sort of nautical-looking. Those large, rounded (columns? pilasters? IDK) on the facade are pretty unique, but they also make it look very different than the Burbank building.
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I'm sure it'll be an improvement on the Star Wars Launch Bay and a fine attraction. I'm just interested in the architectural style and imagineering going on, and not trying to be critical.

There's certainly no problem with not liking how this building is turning out as we're all here to discuss these things and reasonable people can disagree.

From my point of view, I wouldn't die on the hill of defending the new animation building, but what I am seeing works for me. My take on this project is that it is a fairly small one to refresh a dead/underused corner of the park rather than a major new addition as such and, given the scale, I appreciate the attention they are paying to make it seem like a studio courtyard with nods to the studios in Burbank. As for the building, the architecture of the original building honestly is a little bland which is why I think they previously had to put the Sorcerer Mickey in between the two column things to draw people's attention to it and signal there was an attraction inside. Given the choice between something like that and the references to the Burbank animation building, the latter actually seem more tasteful and likely effective to me.

 

[UNCgolf]

Sorry if my criticisms are coming across as nitpicking. I'm happy the Animation Courtyard is getting some attention, and I think returning it to an Animation-focused attraction is a very good thing.

I was just genuinely confused about the project. The whole "evocative of" or "nod to" approach seems, I don't know, a bit lazy to me?

We've known what it was going to look like since the first page of this thread. But for some reason, it just didn't sink in for me that they were giving up on the original 1930s theming and essentially just painting the building the same colors as the Burbank building and adding the big hat.

I mean, how difficult would it have been to redo the facade to look more like this (if that's what they wanted)? Even just the rectangular front portion of the building, but with windows (fake or otherwise)?

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Like I said previously, the Streamline Moderne style of the original building had curved ends, horizontal emphasis, a tiered structure that was sort of nautical-looking. Those large, rounded (columns? pilasters? IDK) on the facade are pretty unique, but they also make it look very different than the Burbank building.
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I'm sure it'll be an improvement on the Star Wars Launch Bay and a fine attraction. I'm just interested in the architectural style and imagineering going on, and not trying to be critical.

The Art Deco/Streamline Moderne facades are one of the things I like most about the park. I very much wish they would dive back into that instead of covering it up.