Originally Posted By skinnerbox Yeah, MK is Marcia. And for good reason, given the huge percentage of kids who want to visit with the characters or get autographs from the Princesses. MK has become one gigantic ToonTown. Enough is enough. MK is stale and moldy. It needs a new people-eating E-Ticket desperately. FLE is a good expansion for families with young kids, but that's just about the only group it's aimed for. The rest of us who don't fit that demographic get screwed over. Again.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<Yeah, MK is Marcia. And for good reason, given the huge percentage of kids who want to visit with the characters or get autographs from the Princesses.>> The MK isn't the only WDW park with Princesses or sought after Disney characters for autographs. It all has to do what which park is being "overly" promoted and championed, and the others which are not. I'm not trying to make the MK look bad here or any less. I think think it would be benefiticial for WDW management to also be promoting its other gem quality parks. If it is characters that families want then keep the MK the way it is.... but put more characters in the other parks too. <<MK is stale and moldy.>> Perhaps, but it is the freshest and best maintained of all the WDW parks. <<It needs a new people-eating E-Ticket desperately.>> The MK is lucky that is all it needs. DHS needs to reopen the closed half of its park. DAK never finished one entire section of it's park in Beastly Kingdom. And althought plans are now being made for Avatarland, that is still a dream away. There are still large sections of EPCOT unrealized. The 2nd floor of the Imagination Pavalion still remains permantly closed. I guess my arguement is that althought I argee improvements can be made to the MK, I really don't see how somehow that trumps the needs and requirements of WDW's other parks. As you said, enough is enough!
Originally Posted By tonyanton I've been to Disneyland multiple times...wish the MK was kept to such a standard (which is not to say there are not areas where DL could improve, but overall it is currently heads and tails above the MK).
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<Plus, it is a significant chunk of land that could be repurposed into another 'people eater' which MK desperately needs. >> I'd agree....if the park didn't already have a few significant expansion plots available.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<I'd agree....if the park didn't already have a few significant expansion plots available.>> So you just proved my point. This is coming from Disney Legal. TSI is a liability magnet. And Disney Legal most likely wants to shut it down.
Originally Posted By CDF2 What MK or even DS or DAK could use would be the Mysterious Island complex (or at least some variant of it) from TDS. It's new for US people, it's an attraction that has been in existence for some time now so any operational kinks have been worked out. Can't see why Disney jumped so quickly into cloning the ToT in all their countries of existence but haven't thought about using this attraction from Tokyo elsewhere. For DS in Florida, seems like the Cars Radiator Springs attraction would be a natural for that park.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Can't see why Disney jumped so quickly into cloning the ToT in all their countries of existence but haven't thought about using this attraction from Tokyo elsewhere.<< JTTCOTE uses the same basic ride technology as Test Track, so there is a version of it operating stateside. Given the reputation that system has (given the reliability of TT, JTTCOTE, and DL's former Rocket Rods), I'm still not sure that ALL of the kinks have been worked out yet. The same system is being used for Radiator Springs Racers at DCA, which will open this summer. Knowing the issues they'd likely have with the technology, they started testing the ride long before the track was complete, with a small test section in the outdoor portion of the ride (long before construction had even begun on the indoor portion or building). I think a huge reason that they haven't brought it over is that it is very expensive to maintain, and is down for about 4-8 weeks every year. The operators of the Tokyo parks are known for their high maintenance standards, but I've heard that even they are disappointed with the cost of running this attraction. No doubt that if it was maintained by Disney, they'd have a much more difficult time keeping it running. There's one simple reason that we haven't seen (and likely never will see) a US version of Journey: money.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I've always wanted them to add a Grizzly Peak type raft ride there, and field of geysers against the edge of the river to spray down the crowd on steamy summer afternoons. They could transfer Tom Sawyer's Island to the old Discovery Island off Fort Wilderness. Let the new Island be a camping/rendevous area for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Originally Posted By standor When the magic kingdom opened and for a few years they had air conditioning vents over the outside lines of an attraction. You always had a cool breeze even on hot days.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Could you imagine the sharp pencil boys, huddled in darkened corridors, whispering that to each other, shivering as they do so at the cost with no return?
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Maybe they should move all of Magic Kingdom's Meet & Greets to this island
Originally Posted By iJobs I would hate to see Tom Sawyers Island gone. My kids and I have had many wonderful times there over the years. It seems too expensive. There are other cheaper options.
Originally Posted By Friar Tuck and Roll I find it odd that people keep mentioning lawyers for TSI and yet Universal has kept their Jurassic Park play area open with many more oppertunities to be injured open. Also, why could something along the lines of Grizzly River Run be placed past Thunder Mountain on the west side of the Rivers of America and perhaps even open up further developments outside the current berm.
