News 'Beyond Big Thunder Mountain' Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

Purduevian

Purduevian

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Sectorkeeper71 said:
That and there isn’t really any space to expand the Mexico pavilion. Wedged between the odyssey and Norway
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I mean... if they were willing to move some backstage stuff and re-route the backstage access road there is a lot of room behind the frozen meet and greet. Red is ride/new pavilion space, Blue is re-routed backstage road, green is path to expanded area (assuming they don't want to reconfigure the right side of the pyramid to have an entrance). This seems like a very DLR thing to do though.

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J4546

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Off topic but I wish Soul would get some park love. I dont remember if the movie did well in theaters but I loed it and the music and scenery would be so cool to journey through. Maybe it could fit in a NO Jazzy themed area?
 
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Sectorkeeper71

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Purduevian said:
I mean... if they were willing to move some backstage stuff and re-route the backstage access road there is a lot of room behind the frozen meet and greet. Red is ride/new pavilion space, Blue is re-routed backstage road, green is path to expanded area (assuming they don't want to reconfigure the right side of the pyramid to have an entrance). This seems like a very DLR thing to do though.

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EPCOT-O.G. said:
You can solve that problem by getting rid of Odyssey
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Both of these are fair solutions; I think the former would be more likely since they seem hellbent on keeping the odyssey around as a flex space, and it’d be also kinda weird having Mexico jutting out into world celebration like that
 
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J4546

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Also, as much as id love a coco ride, id rather they put a ride in another pavilion/built another pavilion instead of adding to mexico which already has a cool boat ride. Theres a lack of rides in the se quadrant with china/italy/germany wheres there no rides and that area would def benefit from something big to balance it out with Rat on the SW quadrant.

So either use expansion apd for new pavilion, my vote goes for India or Brazil. Or add a ride to one of the 3 that are there, my vote would be Germany. I know they had a plan for a Rhine River Cruise and Id be cool with revisiting that, or something completely new.
 
DisneyDodo

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I can’t say for certain that Coco was scrapped from BBT, but that does seem like the most likely possibility. As I showed in a previous post, much of the Coco area originally slated for BBT was copied over to DAK. It’s true that Disney sometimes puts multiple attractions for the same IP in different parks, but this one doesn’t pass the smell test – if they were already moving Encanto out of BBT, that would leave more space for Coco there, not less, so why move half of the Coco stuff elsewhere (unless you are removing Coco from BBT altogether)? Especially considering how many other IP choices they had for TA, that decision would not have made much sense if they wanted Coco to have a presence at MK.

Nothing from the original Dinoland-replacement Blue Sky concept art is actually getting built there. We already know Encanto was moved out of BBT. I wouldn’t put too much stock in the BBT artwork coming to fruition.

Doesn’t mean we’ll never see the Flight of Pepita ride get built, but my guess is it’s not on the roadmap for right now.
 
DisneyDodo

DisneyDodo

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J4546 said:
Or add a ride to one of the 3 that are there, my vote would be Germany. I know they had a plan for a Rhine River Cruise and Id be cool with revisiting that, or something completely new.
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They are most certainly never adding the Rhine River Cruise. If they ever build something in that show building it would be tied to either Snow White or, more likely, Tangled.
 
PREMiERdrum

PREMiERdrum

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Trauma said:
So is this expansion just 1 E ticket?
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It's interesting to learn what other insiders are hearing compared to myself... some matching exactly and some 180 degrees different. It's obvious the internal jockeying is in full swing.

In any event, what I hear as the current state of things:

MK-
Moana on AL expansion pad
Offstage facility relocation
Coco and expanded Frontierland in the BBTM area
Early design work for Dark Kingdom as a BBTM phase two. This is where I'm skeptical.

AK-
Tropical Americas makeover of Dinoland just about exactly as we know it.
Lion King boat ride dupe and/or Pandora attraction #3. Plan on one of these, at best.

DHS-
"Beyond Animation Courtyard" project. Several properties being considered AFAIK.
I think this is ultimately where Dark Kingdom could end up, but I very well could be wrong.

EPCOT-
Hopefully the return of the Coastal Eats booth, but nothing else.
Absolutely nothing beyond new TT.
Really, not even for WOL.
 

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