News Avatar Experience coming to Disneyland Resort

[Disney Irish]

Bickering aside…

Does this suggest the Avatar “experience” will be less of an E-ticket than we previously thought? Or is there more available land in/behind the Backlot than I’m comprehending?

I don't think it'll be "less" because it's been describing it as a "Shanghai Pirates" experience. So that still leads to more of a E-ticket type of experience with a lengthy boat ride.

As far as land goes the assumption has been the current transportation hub would be included in the Avatar expansion when the EGW project is completed. But maybe more of the transportation hub will be taken up by the new bridge and new security area of the EGW than we originally thought.

 

[CoastalElite64]

I can’t believe that I of all people am OK with this, but I’m seeing people online who are fighting tooth and nail about a dark ride they never spoke of until yesterday.

This is Bugs Land 2.0 on reddit and twitter

 

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

This is Bugs Land 2.0 on reddit and twitter

and the Instagram comments

seriously, the main argument going around is that it’s a classic lol as if superstar limo wasn’t the original

 

[DLR92]

To be fair, their not enough family attractions inside DCA. And most for the children are off the shelf. The park needs a balance of thrilling and family style attractions like dark rides.
I for once didn’t stay at DCA for long. I just went to visit for Raider Spring Racers and The Little Mermaid. Went back to Disneyland promptly soon after that. And never went back to DCA.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Perhaps DCA doesn't need as much for children, when Disneyland is next door? The park stands to differentiate itself, especially when the majority visiting likely are AP's, our out of towners with a park hopper. Most of us treat it like one giant park anyway.

 

[wityblack]

To be fair, their not enough family attractions inside DCA. And most for the children are off the shelf. The park needs a balance of thrilling and family style attractions like dark rides.
I for once didn’t say at DCA for long. I just went to visit for Raider Spring Racers and The Little Mermaid. Went back to Disneyland promptly soon after that. And never went back to DCA.

If only they were building a new family dark ride based on a beloved Pixar property.

 

[mickEblu]

It's possible that during the first year of construction, Monsters is the only thing being torn down (and probably the two adjacent buildings) but they'll leave the whole backlot courtyard area open. Then maybe about the last year of construction, they shut down the entire backlot area.

So it could be that 'portion' comment is alluding to that phased construction, not the end result.

That’s not how I read the below but I guess it’s possible.

“Additionally, we’re looking forward to transforming a portion of the current Hollywood Backlot area into our Avatar destination in Disney California Adventure.”

 

[DLR92]

If only they were building a new family dark ride based on a beloved Pixar property.

Coco is not enough. Disney might as well think about removing Goofy Sky School for another dark ride. I would prefer to balance out with a Disney classic cartoon though. To balance with the Little Mermaid.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Bickering aside…

Does this suggest the Avatar “experience” will be less of an E-ticket than we previously thought? Or is there more available land in/behind the Backlot than I’m comprehending?

Assuming they'll push into the old bus loop, as most of us suspect, I think it's about 5.6 acres of space?

 

[Disney Irish]

Coco is not enough. Disney might as well think about removing Goofy Sky School for another dark ride. I would prefer to balance out with a Disney classic cartoon though. To balance with the Little Mermaid.

Maybe we can finally get a Mystic Manor type of attraction for DCA where Goofy's is now.

 

[Disney Irish]

Assuming they'll push into the old bus loop, as most of us suspect, I think it's about 5.6 acres of space?


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I'm beginning to wonder if we've overestimated how much of the hub will actually be used for expansion space versus it being used for the bridge/security entrance.

 

[mickEblu]

Bickering aside…

Does this suggest the Avatar “experience” will be less of an E-ticket than we previously thought? Or is there more available land in/behind the Backlot than I’m comprehending?

I’m thinking the ride will still be E ticket but hoping the Shanghai tech didn’t go bye bye. I think the only thing that changed was the decision to not reroute the monorail which affects the land/ land layout but not really the attraction.

I’m intrigued by the boat going outside. I don’t see it loading outside and I can’t imagine you would go through an immersive experience just to go outside and break the immersion. It has to be near the very beginning of the ride or at the end. Are there two show buildings?

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

This is Bugs Land 2.0 on reddit and twitter

this is why, while I think a lot of people on forums who are more open to conversation expressed genuine feelings, people on social media, like Twitter and Reddit have just become conditioned to be mad about quite literally everything that Disney does in the parks, whether they really deep in their soul care about it or not.

For a lot of these folks, if you really interrogate their feelings, you discover that they don’t really have a particular affinity for whatever is closing. They just have been trained to be mad that something is closing. And then some of them haven’t even been trying to be mad, they just pretend to be mad for attention bait on Twitter. It’s why I don’t listen to what any blue checks have to say.

 

[Disney Irish]

I’m thinking the ride will still be E ticket but hoping the Shanghai tech didn’t go bye bye. I think the only thing that changed was the decision to not reroute the monorail which affects the land/ land layout but not really the attraction.

I really don't see them axing the Shanghai Pirates tech, that would be such a downgrade.

I’m intrigued by the boat going outside. I don’t see it loading outside and I can’t imagine you would go through an immersive experience just to go outside and break the immersion. It has to be near the very beginning of the ride or at the end. Are there two show buildings?

Honestly I could see them loading/unloading outside a la Small World, it would make it unique and feel like its part of the land/world.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I'm beginning to wonder if we've overestimated how much of the hub will actually be used for expansion space versus it being used for the bridge/security entrance.

I don't think we are, the concept art clearly shows us now walking very close to this backstage building, with a new decorative front. Marked in red circle on both maps. Red line shows where I estimate the guest perimeter is.

It's a much narrow space now, as it is all happening before the monorail even curves into DCA.

 

[DLR92]

I'm beginning to wonder if we've overestimated how much of the hub will actually be used for expansion space versus it being used for the bridge/security entrance.

We have to let Disney unfold more with potential renderings and the after completion.

 

[Disney Irish]

I don't think we are, the concept art clearly shows us now walking very close to this backstage building, with a new decorative front. Marked in red circle on both maps. Red line shows where I estimate the guest perimeter is.

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It's a much narrow space now, as it is all happening before the monorail even curves into DCA.

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I don't take it to be 100% accurate, so I wouldn't read too much into it. The actual could be a lot wider than what is depicted.

 

[Disney Irish]

We have to let Disney unfold more with potential renderings and the after completion.

Oh I agree, I'm just saying that maybe a lot of this could be too much assumptions on our part while trying to dissect all of this.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I don't think we are, the concept art clearly shows us now walking very close to this backstage building, with a new decorative front. Marked in red circle on both maps. Red line shows where I estimate the guest perimeter is.

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It's a much narrow space now, as it is all happening before the monorail even curves into DCA.

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Adjusting exposure, this looks like back of show building, and service /egress road:

 

[mickEblu]

I really don't see them axing the Shanghai Pirates tech, that would be such a downgrade.


Honestly I could see them loading/unloading outside a la Small World, it would make it unique and feel like its part of the land/world.

Hope not. I have no reason to believe so at the moment other than being a little worried about them saying they are early in the creative process.

I meant “don’t see” literally in terms of load/ unload. That makes sense and would be cool. Love the idea of the kinetic energy of having the boats go outside. Just wondering the impact on the ride experience and where that would occur.