Someone left a fence panel off and you can see right through to the demolition of Streets of America
Source: https://twitter.com/WDWNT/status/767093448826556416
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Someone left a fence panel off and you can see right through to the demolition of Streets of America
Source: https://twitter.com/WDWNT/status/767093448826556416
A lot more demolition going on today backstage at WDW Hollywood Studios.
That's "Lights, Camera, Action!" coming down.
Source: https://twitter.com/MickeyXtreme/status/760140721332576258
Flyover from 24th June showing the demolition for Star Wars Land
The Premier Theater is gone, most of the Lights, Motors, Action! backdrop is history, and most of the land behind Toy Story Midway Mania is pretty clear. The entrance on World Drive has lost a few lanes already, but no word yet on when they might actually close it.
Source: http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/06/photos-video-aerial-view-as-demolition-rages-on-at-hollywood-studios-for-new-star-wars-toy-story-lands/
Walt Disney World have submitted plans to change the way guests access Hollywood Studios and it could point to further expansion plans for Star Wars in the long term.
Whilst I am sure WDW is looking forward to its influx of visitors to Hollywood Studios when it opens Star Wars Land, the current state of parking facilities and vehicle entrance will likely not support the higher levels of visitors. Plans have been filed which make clear their intention to improve the infrastructure around the HWS park but also gives back current used land back to the park which may be used for future expansion too.
If Disney were to move or reduce the size of Studio Drive, that would allow Disney to expand the footprint of the park in the area where Star Wars Land is under construction.
Source: http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201605/5067/Disney's Hollywood Studios' new access road points toward the east side of the current parking lot, on the far side from the park's entrance. The newly submitted plans do not connect the proposed interchange with the DHS parking lot, leaving the flyover road to dead end in the wooded area to the east of the parking lot. However, written notes in the submitted plans do confirm that there will be a proposed new entrance into Disney's Hollywood Studios, leading one to assume that those plans will be filed at a later date.
New helicopter photos of the demolition taking place for Star Wars Land at DHS.
Source: https://twitter.com/MickeyXtreme/status/727228639536803840?lang=en-gb
A rendering of Star Wars Land:
Source:
http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2016/04/new-star-wars-land-rendering.html
So it's already a little behind as the demolition moves on so quickly but Google Earth has been updated in March to show the Backlot Tour being demolished.
Source: Google Earth. 6th March 2016
Better images taken by WDW News Today.
Catastrophe Canyon being made level.
Premiere Theatre
Source: http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/04/photos-video-take-an-aerial-view-as-demolition-begins-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/
Catastrophe Canyon (Backlot Tour) has gone completely and is now being worked on in this shot.
The Premiere Theatre is more than half down in this shot. Work continues all around that area.
Video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgYCBletFA
We already saw the Premiere Theatre coming down but the backlot tour has been flattened too. That curve used to be Catastrophe Canyon on the Backlot Tour, you can still see the water trough where the deluge flowed away.
Source: http://www.insidethemagic.net/2016/03/photos-demolition-starts-at-walt-disney-world-hollywood-studios-to-clear-land-for-upcoming-star-wars-land/