Is it less than $17B?
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DisneyDodo
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Depends if they fill it with singles or hundreds
TrainsOfDisney
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What’s the point of filling in ROA?
BrianLo
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You almost figured out the master plan. Bob just put in an offer for 19.5B + 40B of debt for WB-Discovery. They'll use the change for a Dune kids sand box Beyond Big Thunder. The great Capex decade will thus be finished.
Chef idea Mickey`=
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Exhaustion and dehydration
(youtube influences verdict day 1)
As if the person who posted months ago about The Tropical America's looking hot and Dry! Further more Desert 🏜 Beyond Big looks to be even more hot and dry! It too no shade!
EricsBiscuit
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There isn’t one. They’re not restrained by how much land they have like they were in Anaheim. It wouldn’t save them much money either. They would lose needed capacity for years.
doctornick
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At most I could see doing bidges to TSI and stopping boat traffic. Filling in the water would be a large and pointless expense.
Starship824
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- In the Parks
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The most I see them doing is shortening the ROA and adding in the beautiful canyon area with the water falls that they did for DL, well that's what I hope they would do, also it would give more people a reason to go on the riverboat and RR.
EricsBiscuit
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It won’t matter. Every body of fresh water in FL has snakes and gators. They crawl and get everywhere. I have a lake behind me and a lake across the street. Once had a gator come knocking on my glass door in the middle of the night! Insane. The gator catcher was a 5’6” blond lady who was tough as nails and caught the thing while multiple deputies stood by in amazement. It was truly a sight to behold. Anyways, the water system at WDW is all carefully connected.
ETA: the gator was easily between 5’-6’, not the biggest but still large!
OSUPhantom
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This is why I will never live in Florida.
Squishy
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Well did you invite him in? Maybe he just wanted to warm up a bit
SirLink
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More like they don't want to do the expensive maintenance on the Riverboat.
ROA takes up as much space as all of TSL, including the TSMM buildings. That's 7 Haunted Mansions.
Right now there is one ride and one walk-thru attraction in that space. So, capacity would be *greatly* increased.
Also, it solves the problem of getting to the expansion area North of HM/RoA and NW of BTM.
umm... technically...The water system of World Showcase Lagoon and Crescent Lake are not connected. They are raised above the drainage canal level along with most of the surrounding property. When it rains, water from that elevated system overflows into the lower canals.
Of course, that doesn't preclude a crocodilian from climbing up the embankment to enjoy a fish-stocked lake.
Phicinfan
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You are only thinking of land availability. However, you have to account for the loss of access to maintenance for the Lilly Bell with the expansion north of BTMRR. If they lose that, then you might as well either dock the boat permanently and convert to restaurant(which I believe was one rumor that was floating around), and then potentially convert TSI to some other. So losing the ROA would give full access and more space for whatever they may be adding to do it.
Unfortunately it's not just Florida. We have blondes here as well.
imagineer97
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- In the Parks
- No
I'm not convinced they're willing to spend the money to fill in the ROA. That's a lot of expensive work just to get to a blank slate, from which they'll then build new stuff.
Bocabear
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I would hate to lose the kinetics of water activity and TSL...They used to have canoes and keelboats on the river too... It was a busy harbor... Now we are just down to Tom Sawyer rafts and the riverboat. They could probably work around the dry dock and conceal it backstage... but I really hope we don't lose those placemaking details that add so much charm to the park.
Phicinfan
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I don't fully disagree. However, how you "hide" or allow the out exit for Lilly Bell and build and tie in expansion north could be just as challenging or expensive. Who knows.
I will add, even if they fill in ROA(again not saying I am for this) you can maintain TSI as is, just have easier access to it. Or retheme it for some other type of walk around option, and free up more walkway to get to HM and such