Originally Posted By spacejockey I hope Harry Potter is a smashing hit! Hopefully, making Disney get off their bums.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy All Harry Potter will do is ensure that there is never again a theme park attraction that doesn't have a film tie-in. We're already 90% towards that end now. We'll never again see anything developed that matches the likes of the Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, the monorail and train systems, or any of the broadly themed worlds of Disney theme parks past. If it can't be marketed to sell DVDs, it won't ever make it to the drawing board. Anyone who celebrates this coming attraction, is celebrating the death of the sort of unique attractions that transcended the need to market licensed characters and had only one objective -- to entertain people.
Originally Posted By MPierce It looks like VBDAD may be celebrating big time if this project is completed in it's entirety. Pooh's Playful Spot is destined to be removed.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn It looks like there's a spur of railroad tracks that "join" the WDW railroad near the new Dumbo spinners. I wonder if this spur will mount a stationary Circus Train?
Originally Posted By Hista98 It looks like there's a spur of railroad tracks that "join" the WDW railroad near the new Dumbo spinners. I wonder if this spur will mount a stationary Circus Train? Umm thats actually the WDW Railroad Toontown Depot. They are going to remove toontown in these palns.
Originally Posted By Hista98 as for not attracting the boys I was thinking that they are trying to do something like that with adventureland with the PoC ride and area, with the Jack Sparrow swashbuckling school etc. or was that only a limited time offering? Actually The PoC ride has been there since 1973. so it wasn;t meant to appeal to one particualr field.
Originally Posted By u k fan I think most of this sounds pretty sucky. Thank the lord DLP is my home park!!!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I still think they should revamp Tom Sawyer's Island to become a Grizzly River Run and Woody's Dude Ranch.
Originally Posted By magic0214 <<<<All Harry Potter will do is ensure that there is never again a theme park attraction that doesn't have a film tie-in. We're already 90% towards that end now. We'll never again see anything developed that matches the likes of the Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, the monorail and train systems, or any of the broadly themed worlds of Disney theme parks past. If it can't be marketed to sell DVDs, it won't ever make it to the drawing board. Anyone who celebrates this coming attraction, is celebrating the death of the sort of unique attractions that transcended the need to market licensed characters and had only one objective -- to entertain people.>>>> Well in the U.S.A. yes but in Asia, not true. Hong Kong Disneyland is getting three new lands with some non-movie themed rides. Mystic Manor and the Grizzly river type thing are just a few. Though they are getting Toy Story Land.
Originally Posted By spacejockey Even Disneyland had a TV show before it opened. All of Universal's attractions are based on movies or TV.
Originally Posted By ieguy from looking at the plans, it almost looks like that a lot of the space near the new Cinderella attraction, Aurora, portions of Pooh, and the Mermaid attraction is going to be water.. it almost reminds me of a scaled down version of Paradise pier, minus the pier and huge lagoon. It's not labeled as water, but do you think that's what it is? or is this just going to be grass?
Originally Posted By ORD84 ^^^By looking at the plans it doesn't nessarilly look like grass, I would think that they would fill in at least part of the lagoon from the subs... I would think that the "pixie forest" would benefit from that installing a stream with a waterfall into the old lagoon...
Originally Posted By Hista98 I would think that the "pixie forest" would benefit from that installing a stream with a waterfall into the old lagoon... The lagoon actually doesn't exist anymore it was leveled and filled in
Originally Posted By irishfan Looking at the plan it seems that a stream from the Mermaid attraction flows down through Pixie Hollow and over toward the Aurora Attraction, which I'm guessing is a recreation of her woodland home, the circle representing the tree?
Originally Posted By irishfan Oh and there also seems to be a stream (or is that a moat??) from the Belle attraction heading over to the Cinderella attraction.
Originally Posted By Hista98 from what i hered they aren't even attractions they are just meet and greet areas which I think is a waste of space. Why not just have it be like one meet area or you go through in a line and see all the diffrent princesses one at a time. The land honestly looks too clutered, like they were allowed to throw in a ton of ideas which got approved and now it is a mess that odens't make sense. and building play areas to me seems below disney. i would rather see an updated alice dark ride a B and B dinner show. a small meet and greet and TLM. I was actually confused by the dinner show. They mentioned it would be like the original tiki room show. which was cancelled as a resturant becuase guests would not be able to eat their meals with the show schedule. would this new show have the same problem...??
Originally Posted By Hista98 I was just looking at the blueprints and I had a few ideas. On the blueprints it completely omits the Small world and old skyway areas. Wht if they moved pixie hallow into the old skyway area. Completley tore down the meet and greet areas (a good reason to do this is that it blocks the little mermaid and B and B area from view. if a guest is standing in the current area of fantasyland where the dark rides are located they would not be able to see the new expansion of the land due to all the meet and greets blocking it. the only way to get back there is a small road next to the bell meet and greet. I think this would cause a mjority of guests to miss the area all toghether) anyway get rid of those and tear out Snow whites Ride. honelsty the new dark rides wil lmake the old ones seem out of date. Replace it with a modern Alice in wonderland Or Pinichhio ride. and then have the barnstormer rethemed to a snow white area. This will help open up the area more and it won't be as cluttered and make it be a little more sight pleasing in my openion
Originally Posted By Hista98 or what if they just moved all the meet and greets to the skyway area, kind of like the trails they have at HKDL. this would make good use of that space and as how the meet n greets are fairly simple you could go rather far back with them.
