Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I could see a monorail running over to AKL or at least AK. Its just fits so perfectly in with the ECO-Friendly mindset that Disney likes to portray. Oh course you do need a power source for all those monorails. Hummm how about that nuclear power plant Disney got the rights to oh so many years back.
Originally Posted By ChiMike From my understanding, any expansion would include AK, but most people were down on having the monorail near AKL. Now that could be all gossip, but I can understand why they wouldn't want a retro monorail whizzing by an African retreat. Another, more reasonable, answer given is they don't want it anywhere near the animals. But yes, it's not hard to imagine that if they were to extend a beam all the way out to AK, they wouldn't want to also put the lone Deluxe, and now DVC, resort over there online.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I have a blurry memory of seeing blueprints online that had drawings of a canal that would run to AKL and AKL and boats would ferry people to and fro.
Originally Posted By ChiMike That's what I thought was more likely too. Surprised, but then again not surprised, that they didn't do that from the start. Especially considering how many rooms they had. I think if AK was more of a draw for the masses from the get go, maybe they would have done it by now.
