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Toyville Tidal Park

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Leave the skyscrapers of Metroville behind and instead take a break on the boardwalk of Toyville Tidal Park, an enchanting new land modeled after Brooklyn’s Coney Island. Soaring Victorian towers, flashing incandescent lights, and all the romantic setting of a seaside pavilion awaits. Ham’s Pavilion provides delightful dining and retail opportunities for fans of Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story. Under the delicate tower next door, you can meet Woody, Jessie, and even Bullseye in an up-close encounter that’s sure to bring out the cowboy in you. Also don’t miss Bo-Peep and Her Sheep, who perform seaside serenades from their stage in the plaza.

The new queue down what was Pixar Place. Image via Disney and More, click for source.

Bullseye’s Carnival Cavalcade contains vintage midway games for the whole family, complete with one-of-a-kind plush prizes. But there’s even more fun to be had! Step through the open mouth of Woody (modeled after Luna Park) and pass down an enchanting alley of popcorn-light arches and step right into the fun of Toy Story Midway Mania!, a spinning, smashing, popping, dart-throwing adventure that sends you right inside Andy’s newest board game.

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If you’ve been to Disney Hollywoodland Park before, Toy Story Midway Mania sure does look a whole lot different! As part of the park’s transformation, the space formerly used for Mickey Avenue is completely closed. Midway Mania is instead accessed through the new Toyville land, occupying the land that used to be the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Movie Set Adventure and the entrance to the Backlot Tour. And while the land is gorgeous during the day, it's a whole new world at night, bathed in the turn-of-the-century bulbs reflecting off of the waters around Syndrome's Island... 

Timeless River

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Back through Syndrome’s Island in Metroville, a looming mountainous wall stands ahead… Could passing through put us right into the villain’s claws? Of course not! This is the entrance to a most unusual new land… Welcome to Timeless River, based entirely on the early cartoon shorts of Walt Disney. This brand new land brings to life the forgotten characters of the past in stunning detail! And if you’re feeling like something is amiss but can’t put your finger on what, we’ll help: Timeless River is completely in black and white.

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Contained entirely within the sloped hills of a grassy valley caldera, Timeless River is completely cut off from the outside world, with nothing but the gray grass and gray trees around you! (Careful observers will note that the valley is gray on one side, while the grassy hillside facing Hollywood Blvd. gets its color back... and becomes the Hollywoodland Hills!)  Don’t let a lack of color sap your fun, though. There are plenty of adventures to be had here, including three much-needed family flat rides. Silly Symphony Swings, a soaring Chair-o-Plane swing set, is fun for all ages, while the tin-roofed Classic Carousel allows you to go for a ride aboard any number of black-and-white cows, fish, horses, and trees in Disney’s earliest style.

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Meanwhile, on the edge of the gray river itself is Steamboat Springs, where you can step aboard the real Steamboat Willie and its two decks of excitement, while a soft-floored water playground just outside the ship is full of crates and slides to climb. Next door is the dizzying Frolicking Fish, based on the Disney short of the same name. You’ll climb aboard a fish captured in the tentacles of a buck-toothed octopus and soar ‘round and around on a Dumbo-style family ride. Just watch out – mischievous gray seahorses have been known to pop out of the water for a squirt when least expected! Through the gray trees lies the enchanting Timeless Cinema where authentic Disney shorts from the 1920s on play all day and night.

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But the land’s real gem stands behind a black-and-white recreation of Disneyland’s original Main Street Train Station. That’s where you board Mickey & Oswald’s Grand Adventure. Using the “SCOOP” technology behind The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, this incredible 3-D motion simulator dark ride takes riders along with Mickey and Oswald as they attempt to save Minnie and Ortensia from the dastardly Pete and bring color to Timeless River once and for all! Using the most sophisticated of dark ride technology, you’ll race through the valley, endure a comic tornado courtesy of Pete, “fall” for a few cactus gags, and even dive from three hundred feet in a simulated cartoon freefall as the classic duo race to save the day!

Place de Paris

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Ah, the city of lights. A welcome departure from the monochromatic Timeless River, this enchanting and delightful plaza brings a lovely French courtyard to life. As you enter from Timeless River, to your right is the back alley of Emile’s Place, where you can meet Remy and Emile from Disney-Pixar’s Ratatouille alongside oversized banana peels and trash can lids – a perfect photo spot for rat fans.

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Across the plaza is Ratatouille – Remy’s Recipe Hunt, a trackless LPS dark ride adventure through the kitchens of Paris alongside Remy as he hunts for the perfect ingredients… and startles a few patrons along the way. The breathtaking dark ride – based on the attraction at Walt Disney Studios in Paris – is a new classic through-and-through, and a perfect ride for the whole family. Of course, once you’re through cooking with Remy, you might as well share the spoils! You’ll disembark with an exclusive view into the regal Gusteau’s Bistro where fine dining awaits. Gusteau’s shares a kitchen with the park’s other table service eatery, the Brown Derby.

Bringing It All Together

We've created distinct, immersive themed lands on par with Magic Kingdom's and Animal Kingdom's, corrected glaring errors (like Rock 'n' Roller Coaster making no sense along a Hollywood street with an unclear time frame), set everything in an idealized and romanticized time period (no more modern brick walls or showbuildings) and added what the park needed most: rides.

In fact, in terms of numbers, our build-out adds four E-tickets (Villa Fortuna, The Incredible Adventure, Mickey & Oswald's Grand Adventure, and Ratatouille), two D-tickets (Great Muppet Movie Ride and the Omnidroid Coaster) plus sorely-needed four family attractions (Timeless River's three flat rides and Yoda Experience). This Hollywood park isn't short on showmanship either, with four theaters (all with new or improved live shows). Most importantly, everything fits. Existing rides and even restaurants have folded into the story for cohesive settings and time periods within each land. 

We’ve got more ideal build-outs on the way, but what did you think of Disney Hollywoodland Park? Is this a solution to Hollywood Studios’s problems? What could we have cooked up for other theme parks? Keep checking back as we reveal more of our ideal build-outs, and until then check out S.W. Wilson’s magnificent work on his blog at Ideal Buildout.

 
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I feel like I'm looking at Disneyland/California Adventure...nothing REALLY that unique...

The black and white area could be like the "Animator's Palate" restaurant on the Disney Wonder...the restaurant starts out in all black & white decor and gradually transforms into color by the end of the meal.

This area could be black and white by day & color by night.

This would be the best park.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

I love the ideas, this would improve a park that has become too much of a mish-mash of ideas that don't fit together.
I was reading an article elsewhere that wheras Universal is now building immersive environments (Harry Potter, Springfield) to replace their behind the scenes studios parks, Disney are still pushing ahead with the idea and this is why Disney Studios in Paris doesn't work and similarly why the studios park in WDW looks past its best. People go to a park to be immersed in something different, not to see how its done. The exception being Universal Hollywood where as it is a genuine working studio still the behind the scenes tram tour works as it is current fact.

This is so great. Is there anyway to make the maps even larger. I went to the link, but still had problems. For instance, it is very hard to read the words on the island at the Toyville Tidal Park. I'd love to have this be REALLY big. I hate for there to be so much incredible detail that I can't see.
Any chance?
Thanks so much for this article and all that you do.

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