Originally Posted By dshyates Try this: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/b4dz9t" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/b4dz9t</a>
Originally Posted By ni_teach I might as well toss in my $0.10 There are only two choices either the east or west side of Soarin. East side is closer to the plaza but it also has to deal with the longer walk into the park behind the restaurant. The west side already has the walkway in place and it is a straight shot. What I would suggest if I was working on this problem is this: Use the west side and take over part of the world of Disney building. The Entrance, ticket area and other needed things are inside the building and then people exit out the side onto the walkway. The walkway is then a full exit. I know that Disney would never go for this because they could not stand to loose one dollar from store space.
Originally Posted By disneysnout Are they going to take out Ticket Booths to make room for the New Entrance? Anyone know; I am curious.
Originally Posted By disneysnout One last thing...based on that map can someone tell me or show me how far will Bunena Vists street extend into...I cant wait for that part of the park to be done. If done right its going to look nice.
Originally Posted By dshyates They are going to build a Pan Pacific Styled entrance where the CALIFORNIA latters are. Resulting in a small plaza area with the red car turn-around and a center flagpole.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt From the way I understand it DCA's new entrance will extend to right where the CALIFORNIA letters are now. <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GsJ0PZjfZPw/SPjHj9cn7DI/AAAAAAAAA88/9gqXx3vAeoA/s400/DisneyCaliforniaAdventureReno4.jpg" target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GsJ0...eno4.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By bean that would put the entrance of the attraction way o close to the gates. It would also cut acces to the backstage area which is needed. If anything the best for an attraction entrance would be where the burbank icecream is with a curve queue wrapped behind taste pilot grill. That also would cut the backstage area access.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Not if they ran a tunnel under the passage to Soarin'. But, again, this is all just fun talk. AS IF, this was on the co.'s minds.
Originally Posted By Britain so... ahem... why are we discussing this again? I mean, I think it's fun armchair imagineering, but is the notion that Soarin' won't really fit into an expanded Grizzly Peak theme?
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL I don't see why it wouldn't fit in Grizzly Peak. Most hang gliding starts off in the wilderness by running down a very steep slope or off a cliff, and I haven't seen any of those on an desert airstrip. I also think someone covered this point earlier but I guess it was over looked.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I don't see any upside to relocating the entrance to the new BV street - what's the point? It places one of the park's signature attractions at the front gate, and removes it as the ONLY attraction in it's entire area. What is now 'condor flats' would become just a restaurant, gift shop and restrooms - and nothing else. It just doesn't make any sense.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I thought of the same thing ... plus the attraction starts off gliding over a river that looks like it could be in the high Sierras ... so, that's how the "Hang-gliding through the Sierra's" theme will work.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster The biggest problem with Condor Flats is that the Monorail runs through it. That really kills any kind of immersive theme for the area.
Originally Posted By Britain Well, if you did reroute the entrance, you could cover up the whole Monorail with a mountain.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros They could do that even without rerouting the entrance. Make the entrance look like it's some mine shaft or underground bunker (if they wante to keep the aviation test theme going) in the side of the mountian, and have the Monorail pass through it higher up. That would allow for something neat for the Monorail passengers to see (I'm picturing something along the lines of the Splash Mountian finale or Grand Canyon diorama on the DLRR) that's different than what most people get to see. It will probably never happen because it would be fairly expensive to build a mountain over the building (especially when they can just paint it green or slap some wood-esque siding on it), but it would be a neat little addition. It might look kind of funny from outside the park, where you would be able to see the building inside the mountain (since I don't think there's enough room back there to completely cover the building), but that didn't stop them from showing everyone how Mickey's House in Toontown is buried under the hill from the parking structure...
Originally Posted By disneysnout I cant wait to see how this plays out...This entrance we talk about should be in the works soon right?
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "The biggest problem with Condor Flats is that the Monorail runs through it. That really kills any kind of immersive theme for the area." Funny, I have always thought the same thing about the steam trains running through Tomorrowland.
Originally Posted By jmuboy The steam trains and train station bother me much more than the monorail in Condor Flats. Neither is a huge issue in my opinion. The monorail beam blends in well enough with the Soarin's show building.
