Sorcerer Hat to be removed at Disney's Hollywood Studios as Walt Disney World prepares park transformation - Inside the Magic

Comments for Sorcerer Hat to be removed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios as Walt Disney World prepares park transformation

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  1. Anderson

    Well this is peculiar, Backlot is closed so The Earful Tower is unseeable, and this is going too. What new developments will arise?

    I liked Backlot… but I wonder where the new pin store will be.

  2. cher

    I love the hat!! I find my way around with it…i do think they need to add more with cars!! I can think of more movies too.

  3. James

    Thank goodness! Disney Studios lacks a weanie and the hat always felt crammed in there.

  4. Tif

    Thank god they’re getting rid of the Jack Sparrow show. It was horrible and I love the movie! The hat I don’t care much about u wasn’t impressed with it.

  5. Lisa

    BOOOOO!!! I happen to LOVE that hat, it’s iconic!!

  6. Frostysnowman

    I am so happy they are FINALLY getting rid of that hat. It was never supposed to be up for such a long time. Now the park’s icon can go back to being the Earful Tower.

    But I do think the hat is cool and hope Disney will use it somewhere else, maybe at Downtown Disney or elsewhere. Just not in front of Cinderella Castle! 😉

  7. Apocalypse Pooh

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  8. EricJ

    I remember on Usenet, when it was first built (under its 100 Years alibi, so they could have a place to sell those bulky light-up 100 Years of Magic pins that were like wearing iPhones on your lapel), we all referred to it as the BAH: The Big @$$ Hat.
    (Also because we joked that whoever BUILT it was likely a…) 😉

  9. Marc Morini

    It was never wanted or meant to stay as long as it did. Glad it is gone, good too see things are happening in the Florida parks again.

  10. Tom A

    Do they go back to the earful tower as the park icon? The only way you could really see the tower is if you went on the backlot tour which is now gone. Curious as to what logo starts showing up on the tshirts and brochures. Maybe the fantasmic mountain? I always loved the facade of the chinese theatre. I am glad it will be present again. Although I never hated the hat it just belonged somewhere else in the park. Perhaps they could throw it somewhere in the backlot/motor action area that will soon be reinvented into something new. It could act as a transition piece into the new area like how they incorporated the castle walls into the new fantasyland entrance.

  11. anthony

    I don’t agree with a lot of things WDW has been doing, removing Pirates, Maelstrom, Backlot Tour, and the hat. I read that the Maelstrom in Norway Epcot will be replaced by a Frozen ride, and that’s just…. no.

  12. Alex

    Bye bye hat I will not miss you.

  13. Nathaniel Dominguez

    The hat may be removed, but Disney has a knack for keeping everything they’ve ever used in a warehouse…the hat may possibly be used for other celebrations…like the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland, in California

  14. Stephen L

    The hat should be moved somewhere else, but removing it completely will make the park feel like something is missing for a lot of people. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what they have planned.

  15. Louie G

    They should have never put the hat up in the first place, but I get Disney’s point of license agreements, same reason why MGM was gone. Glad to know my homepark is getting a renovation, I miss working there. And hopefully they’ll get a better name, keeping Studios of course. Never liked the change to “Hollywood Studios”, too plain. In my opinion, they need to turn it into a real working studios facility, and bring all that ABCTV has to offer, even change it to Disney/ABC Studios.

  16. Mike

    So with the hat going away, what do you think the new icon will be in its place?

  17. Melody

    MGM or Hollywood Studios…it doesn’t matter the name of this particular park, it is part of Walt Disney World which is all about The Mouse (remember what Walt himself said, “it all started with a mouse”)… So, Mickey’s Sorcerer Hat should stay!! The hat is more of an icon for Disney than the Chinese Movie Theater or Great Movie Ride (I have nothing against these things…I enjoy the Great Movie Ride as it is), but again, this is DISNEY world!!

  18. barbara

    I love that hat….One of my favorite mickey adventures…..
    Very symbolic to Hollywood studios. It will be missed.
    I am glad we got to see it one more time the summer of 2014 before it came down….Can’t wait to see what is in store for the future of Disney….

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