Word from inside the Anaheim Tower is that Imagineering has been visible on-site lately conducting "tests." Existing costumes are also said to have been relocated and replaced with a row of covered costumes. I haven't witnessed any of this, so take it FWIW.
One possibility could be Disney throwing its weight around to get an express train every other departure. It would be free to WDW visitors (and only WDW visitors), giving them an incentive to avoid the departures stopping at other locations.
The downside is Disney would have to basically...
Close the entire park and turn all the rides into DVC timeshares. Each ride vehicle counts as a unit. How exciting would it be to spend your kids' college fund on the right to wake up in your very own Haunted Mansion Doom Buggy?
I wouldn't worry about it. Some internet journalist used the phrase "Stars War Land" as a generic reference to a planned expansion, without even saying there were plans to use the name. The writer just threw it in offhandedly. Concluding anything about Disney's plans from that is really a bit...
No. The Tomorrowland name dates back to opening day (even if the land itself wasn't quite ready). Fans would go nuts. Disney is willing to ignore its heritage in some ways, but not to that extent...I think.
Pittsburgh bothers me. It's in a Northeastern state, and across the state from a major Eastern city. But I can't shake the feeling that it's basically in the Midwest. it defies my OCD compulsion to cleanly categorize things.
WHY DO YOU DEFY ME, PITTSBURGH????
Anyway...since you brought it up...
There is a memorial in central Missouri, just north of the Arkansas state line, commemorating the fallen in the 3-way civil war that tenuously divided the nation into South, North, and...other North. Families were divided, and much fizzy drink was spilled, with no consensus on what to call it...
And (essentially) everyone in the food courts has paid for a park ticket. As mentioned, Disney has plenty of opportunities to recoup their nickel-per-head cleanly.
They run these things for ages; you'll have no trouble meeting him in June.
The blog post mentions that the Thor greet and Iron Man exhibit will still be up when this rolls out. Are they also putting Cap in Innoventions? I can't be the first person to think "um, hey, why not add a FULL AVENGERS...