News Wakanda joins Coco, Zootopia, and Encanto on Disney Parks' future blue sky expansion list, reveals Josh D'Amaro

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Wakanda joins Coco, Zootopia, and Encanto on Disney Parks' future blue sky expansion list, reveals Josh D'Amaro

Wakanda joins Coco, Zootopia, and Encanto on Disney Parks' future blue sky expansion list, reveals Josh D'Amaro

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[bmr1591]

Sounds like Hollywood Studios next expansion.

 

[Indy_UK]

The growth trajectory is very compelling if we do nothing beyond what we have already committed.

What is Iger smoking? They’ve announced nothing for WDW and Paris’ expansion is constantly getting scaled back.

 

[WaltsTreasureChest]

I wonder if they know they own older films too

 

[GimpYancIent]

Wakanda joins Coco, Zootopia, and Encanto on Disney Parks' future blue sky expansion list, reveals Josh D'Amaro

Wakanda joins Coco, Zootopia, and Encanto on Disney Parks' future blue sky expansion list, reveals Josh D'Amaro

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Yay, more construction walls and, based on the record to date, more underwhelming results.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Sounds like Hollywood Studios next expansion.

You mean replacement for RnRC and Launch Bay with a modest expansion inbetween? That’s the next major area of development there. But it’s a ways off and the IP could change 8 times.

 

[WorldExplorer]

I wonder if they know they own older films too

This is the same company that announced an attraction based on Mary Poppins Returns, have announced architecture in that new community thing will be based on Incredibles 2, and continue to advertise Disney Plus with stuff like She-Hulk and live action Pinocchio.

They really do seem to have this bizarre idea that they don't have anything worthwhile older than a decade.

(Not that all listed things ARE worthwhile.)

 

[Dranth]

Wonder if they are digging this back out for the WoL pavilion?

 

[Splash4eva]

So is this going to be Disney’s new strategy going forward. “Announcing” things they are potentially working on but not even officially planned.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

" And we have learned that incorporating Disney I.P. increases the return on investment significantly." - D'Amaro

Well, guess we shouldn't hold our breath for a nice new, IP-less attraction

 

[Doberge]

Leaked video of Disney executives and imagineering trying to figure out what IP to put into parks and how to do it:

 

[tanc]

I don't get some of these decisions, by no means do I think Encanto, Coco, and Wakanda will ever have the staying power of something like Frozen or Beauty and the Beast. It's like adding Jack Sparrow into POTC, which to me was cool at the time but I think his time should be up now. It's sad I will never be able to experience the ride in its original presentation ever again.

I'm all for moving forward, but why does everything have to be an IP nowadays? What happened to the company that made DisneySea just 20 years ago? Are the newer generation of imagineers just not capable of crafting an original area anymore? I just don't get it.

 

[wdwmagic]

Are the newer generation of imagineers just not capable of crafting an original area anymore?

Regardless of the WDI talent at the moment, the use of I.P. is coming from above. At the top level it is I.P. or nothing, and all about Return on Investment.

 

[Incomudro]

I don't get some of these decisions, by no means do I think Encanto, Coco, and Wakanda will ever have the staying power of something like Frozen or Beauty and the Beast. It's like adding Jack Sparrow into POTC, which to me was cool at the time but I think his time should be up now. It's sad I will never be able to experience the ride in its original presentation ever again.

I'm all for moving forward, but why does everything have to be an IP nowadays? What happened to the company that made DisneySea just 20 years ago? Are the newer generation of imagineers just not capable of crafting an original area anymore? I just don't get it.

They're desperate to put DEI in their parks.
That's the only drive.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Regardless of the WDI talent at the moment, the use of I.P. is coming from above. At the top level it is I.P. or nothing, and all about Return on Investment.

Thus, I think Indy is a more solid lock than some feel. Dinosaur is unpopular, it needs fixing, Indy is a popular IP with staying power, it would be relatively cheap and popular. So, it passes the IP requirement and has strong ROI for the risk-averse.

Beyond Big Thunder is far more risky and, I imagine, will need to bake for awhile before getting like $3 billion. Or it’ll be like WDSP expansion—huge space for 1 bigger ride and a C ticket.

 

[MagicStingRay]

Wakanda would be awesome in HS as a land. Those films are amongst the most popular both critically and commercially of the MCU, and the culture/world that Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman, Hannah Beachler, Ludwig, Ruth Carter, etc carved out deserves to be immortalized in physical form for guests to visit.

 

[WaltsTreasureChest]

Wakanda would be awesome in HS as a land. Those films are amongst the most popular both critically and commercially of the MCU, and the culture/world that Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman, Hannah Beachler, Ludwig, Ruth Carter, etc carved out deserves to be immortalized in physical form for guests to visit.

Rip Chadwick :/

 

[Disney Analyst]

Wakanda would be awesome in HS as a land. Those films are amongst the most popular both critically and commercially of the MCU, and the culture/world that Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman, Hannah Beachler, Ludwig, Ruth Carter, etc carved out deserves to be immortalized in physical form for guests to visit.

I agree. Build that world now.

 

[wdwmagic]

Wakanda --> EPCOT ?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Sure looks like more empty smoke on old gimmicks….

I’m gonna petition Oxford English to officially relabel doubling down as “an Iger”