Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I can't wait for the opening of the new Little Mermaid attraction. I've always been a fan of the little mermaid. I tend to love anything with a ocean theme. I still think it would be a great theme to have through a whole land. Anyway, I've read that it's possible it may be a two story attraction, anyone heard any confirmation on that? Also, is it suppose to be totally different than the attraction at WDW?
Originally Posted By mousermerf No, pretty much identical at WDW but WDW will have an Ariel/Eric themed fantasy facade on a waterfront created just for the attraction. I don't think it'll be two stories in the traditional sense. It could have very large show rooms, but I doubt any areas of the track will criss-cross. There may be minor changes in elevation, but not like Alice or Horizons or Test Track.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance When you say WDW "will" have an Ariel/Eric themed facade, I thought the WDW attraction was already in existance?
Originally Posted By mousermerf Nope - there's a "Voyage of the Little Mermaid" show at Disney's Hollywood Studios (formally MGM) which is a pretty nifty blacklight puppet show mixed with a girl with fins singing on a rock with some nifty laser effects in the theater. But the actual mermaid ride is being built, as we speak, as part of the new Fantasyland Forest expansion. Concept art of the facade: <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/3912870232_99853d44a5.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm3.static.flickr.com...44a5.jpg</a> And overview of Fantasyland Forest, you can see the mermaid facade on it's own waterfront: <a href="http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/438/fantasyland1400.jpg" target="_blank">http://img43.imageshack.us/img...1400.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Oh man, I hate when places other than DL get better things than we do. That picture of Fantasyland looks like it's going to be huge. I wish we'd get a Fantasyland expansion!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I still think it would be a great theme to have through a whole land.>> Mermaid Lagoon @ Tokyo DisneySea: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ylck3fd" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ylck3fd</a>
Originally Posted By mousermerf And people already ride around in clamshells daily... Publicity photo: <a href="http://z.about.com/d/themeparks/1/0/f/f/WDWYMD9.jpg" target="_blank">http://z.about.com/d/themepark...YMD9.jpg</a> Not-so-Publicity photo: <a href="http://ladympire.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/dsc03025.JPG" target="_blank">http://ladympire.com/wordpress...3025.JPG</a>
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I'm jealous. I don't know why they'd ever choose to do something crappier at one park over another.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well, most things in WDW's MAgic Kingdom are sub par to Disneyland, especially their current Fantasyland. So I don't begruge them their expansion, it is terribly needed, especially since it is being built where their sub ride used to be. I am glad you are happy about LM. In Europe, the fans are quite annoyed because originally a LM ride was planned to open in DLP not long after the park opened. It is yet to arrive. Personally, I am not a fan. I wish Disney would do more non charater stuff, like the old days. 90% of the time, their non character stuff is much higher quality. The jury is open until we see more, but I have yet to ride an animation focused attraction that holds my interest (Monsters Inc is the closest, but still not a must do).
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I wish we'd get a Fantasyland expansion!" I'm willing to bet some money that something like the WDW Fantasyland expansion will come to DL eventually. The Princess franchise is just too valuable for Disney to not exploit them in the same manner at their parks worldwide.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Theoretically, they could use the area that includes the old Skyway station (so the entrance would be FaL) and expand into what is now FrL - the Festival area. They could even include the FaL theatre area that is now the princess meet and greet if they really wanted to go whole hog. It wouldn't be as large an area as the WDW expansion, but then again they wouldn't need the LM ride space. I hope they don't. Except for the LM ride, the WDW expansion looks to me like a glorified series of meet and greets. Well designed, pretty meet and greets, but still. Not something most adults without small girls would be into, or most little boys, or teenagers... It's an awful lot of space to devote to something like that, and would take away the potential FrL E ticket we keep hoping for. WDW needed SOMETHING to freshen up a very stale and thin FaL, and they had the old sub space to spare. DL doesn't. If they really, really, really feel they need a princess meet and greet, let them keep the current space - IMO it's a waste of a fine theatre space already, but of course I'm not the target audience.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Note - it's not just old sub space. It's also absorbing all of Toon Town Fair. Along those lines, what is actually going where Mickey currently lives is still up in the air. While parts of Toon Town Fair will become Mermaid and the new Dumbo, a fairly large chunk toward the rear is unaccounted for - said to be Fairies and a ride but Disney wont commit to that. So, in theory, Disneyland could build over their Toon Town as well - all MK is keeping is the kiddie coaster (rethemed) and the train station (rethemed).
Originally Posted By mousermerf Yes.. i dont understand your question..? I was simply saying that Disneyland has the option of razing their Toon Town jut like MK is going to do.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I hope DL doesn't devote anywhere near the space that WDW is to dressed up meet and greets. TT at least has a good RR dark ride.
Originally Posted By dshyates DLs Toon Town is already MUCH higher quality than WDW Mickey's Toon Town Fair. I am not sad to see WDWs go, but would be sad if DLs was razed for Princess M$Gs. As far as the LM Dark Ride goes, I am interested. Mostly because both Disney and Universal are opening state of the art Dark Ride attractions and From what I understand both are pulling out all the stops. It will be interesting to see who comes up with the better attraction. But either way Orlando is getting 2 over the top dark rides. YEAH Otown. Oh, and goo for DCA too.
