Rumor D23 2024 WDW Rumors, Predictions & Discussion

[Stitchon]

Who?

I don’t see how monstropolous goes into animation courtyard but maybe if the coaster is pretty small? History wise it would be a shame to lose the animation building and I thought they were using that for a mix of uses.

In theory, all of the highlighted land is in play. That's not an insignificant amount of space - 6.5 acres / about 280,000 square feet.

 

[hopemax]

When does @marni1971 wake up? We need help sorting through all of this.

 

[vikescaper]

Overall, I think I am happy with what was announced. The only real disappointments for me were Cars, the SSE bar and the fact they didn’t say where some of the new rides are going. Liked this presentation much better than the 2022 announcements.

 

[BrianLo]

I must say, that whole idea seems very creepy to me. It's a little bit hard to put my finger on why it seems creepier than rendering other historical figures in AA form, but reanimating Walt to speak to us at the parks just hits me that way.

I don’t know why that’s the case. Why is ok for Walt to create animatronics of someone dead for <100 years, when they wouldn’t have even imagined it was possible, but not one for him? He’s been dead for like 55 years or whatever it is now. I think I figured he’s distinctly mid pack in terms of when AA figures for American Adventure were made.

I actually think it’s an important historical part of Disneyland inevitably, once the weirdness wears off. Almost none of us were actually alive when Walt was. It’s maybe the Disney companies fault for brandishing him about so often that he seems more recent than he really is or this seems corporate and crass. But he deserves to be immortalized every bit as Lincoln.

 

[dmc493]

I’m so desperate to know land layouts for literally every single announcement tonight. It could totally change the way I feel about any of these developments

 

[disney fan 13]

Looking at it on the map there seems to be room for both expansions at MK without having to rip up ROA, in my opinion.

 

[dmc493]

Also my seat was next to the production booth tonight and I can proudly say I knew about every announcement approximately 5-10 seconds before the general public by reading their teleprompter screens. Was also funny watching D’Amaro and others stumble their way thru some sections

 

[marni1971]

When does @marni1971 wake up? We need help sorting through all of this.

Now. In a hotel in London.

Guess I missed some news ?

 

[Stitchon]

Also my seat was next to the production booth tonight and I can proudly say I knew about every announcement approximately 5-10 seconds before the general public by reading their teleprompter screens. Was also funny watching D’Amaro and others stumble their way thru some sections

Was the response to the Light Magic music as muted as it sounded on the streams? I'm still beside myself about that.

 

[wdwmagic]

Now. In a hotel in London.

Guess I missed some news ?

Here's a one page catchy up

The Future of Disney Parks: Everything You Need to Know from D23 2024

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

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In theory, all of the highlighted land is in play. That's not an insignificant amount of space - 6.5 acres / about 280,000 square feet.

I don’t how much of that is needed / used infrastructure so it’s hard to say. I also don’t know how big this door coaster is gonna be! Haha.

I do agree that muppets / star tours makes no sense for several reasons both popularity and infrastructure wise. That leaves us with 2 locations pretty much.

 

[dmc493]

Was the response to the Light Magic music as muted as it sounded on the streams? I'm still beside myself about that.

Maybe a little subdued but my own struggle with a lot of the entertainment was that there was so much going on and chaotic it got hard to follow. Not sure it registered with people in the moment to elicit the right amount of applause

 

[Stitchon]

I don’t how much of that is needed / used infrastructure so it’s hard to say. I also don’t know how big this door coaster is gonna be! Haha.

I do agree that muppets / star tours makes no sense for several reasons both popularity and infrastructure wise. That leaves us with 2 locations pretty much.

I'd imagine the office buildings and parking can be shuffled around to wherever they need. A large chunk of it is the former Animation building and associated infrastructure.

 

[hopemax]

Now. In a hotel in London.

Guess I missed some news ?

We need to know which of these we need to visit while we can: Star Tours, Muppets, Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Belle before all of the molecules in our bodies, begin to separate.

Bonus points for Coco attraction placement in DCA. Although that is simply curiosity and not intense fear.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I don’t know why that’s the case. Why is ok for Walt to create animatronics of someone dead for <100 years, when they wouldn’t have even imagined it was possible, but not one for him? He’s been dead for like 55 years or whatever it is now. I think I figured he’s distinctly mid pack in terms of when AA figures for American Adventure were made.

I actually think it’s an important historical part of Disneyland inevitably, once the weirdness wears off. Almost none of us were actually alive when Walt was. It’s maybe the Disney companies fault for brandishing him about so often that he seems more recent than he really is or this seems corporate and crass. But he deserves to be immortalized every bit as Lincoln.

I definitely see your point and perhaps my reaction is not logical. It does kind of feel to me like going to Cher's house and finding she has an unnervingly realistic audio animatronic Sonny Bono sitting in the living room.

Maybe it's something to do with it being Disney reanimating their founder that seems a little perverse.

 

[WDWhopper]

This is why there needs to be a fifth park at Walt Disney World. Simply replacing old lands at existing parks with new lands does not add enough new capacity. There is enough room at WDW for three or four more parks. At some point, it only makes sense to clear a big section and build a new park. It’s the only way to really raise capacity.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

Well needless to say this was a big night for me personally

 

[SplashJacket]

Bonus points for Coco attraction placement in DCA. Although that is simply curiosity and not intense fear.

Next to Toy Story Mania, behind IncrediCoaster

 

[BrianLo]

I definitely see your point and perhaps my reaction is not logical. It does kind of feel to me like going to Cher's house and finding she has an unnervingly realistic audio animatronic Sonny Bono sitting in the living room greeting you and talking about his life.

Maybe it's something to do with it being Disney reanimating their founder that seems a little perverse.

I will not deny there is clearly something ‘subjectively’ off putting because that’s the shared reaction I witnessed. But I think there’s a logical ‘it’s time’ to the whole matter.

Media makes people seem more recent than they really are. Really an AA Walt talking about his vision for parks seems more historically important today than Lincoln. Not even in a perverse corporate self-seving way. The man is important and not just because the company wills him so. There is clearly a statute of limitations on the whole matter and I think the company has roughly defined it as 40 years dead In past. ‘Logically’. Not the reaction everyone is going to have.

I assume this will be incredibly tasteful and they are going to tread so cautiously as a result.

Weird anecdote when I was previously figuring this all out. Walt’s dad was the same age when Lincoln died as my dad was when Walt died.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Next to Toy Story Mania, behind IncrediCoaster

there’s not room there - I’m guessing it replaces sky school.