MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[Animaniac93-98]

Carsland is, without the slightest doubt, the best single IP land Disney ever built.

People forget examples like Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea because they predate the trend set by Wizarding World, but my vote goes to Mysterious Island from the same park. "Immersive" by any definition with two excellent rides instead of one great ride and then one or two side dishes.

Unless it doesn't count because it's not a super accurate recreation of any specific Verne novel and goes off script in adapting the 1954 Disney movie and mixing its sources.

Arabian Coast is also wonderful, and all the better for not just being "Aladdin Land" and drawing from a broader set of influences.

 

[Tha Realest]

Back on Cars, though. It simply won't be the answer because this area won't be a fully-fledged land, but an area that houses a big outdoor attraction. I think Disney is banking on Villains being the answer, but that has been giving off serious Galaxy's Edge vibes too.

I think Disney has a “villain” problem. They’ve eschewed using conventional villains in many of their WDAS and Pixar films in recent years, and the Villains show feels very off tonally. I don’t know that they have the stomach to lean into the evil/badness of the characters, and as a result their recent attempts come off as toothless camp.

 

[TheRealSkull]

Cars shouldn't take itself too seriously either, which I don't think it will. The name Piston Peak is already enough to convince me they won't.

 

[Smooth]

I think all the concept renderings I’ve seen have shown an outdoor attraction…?
Also, I thought I saw way back in the thread that the new ride tech for this is already quite far along…?
And another thought I just had is, if this was to become an indoor attraction, where would they need to put it to hide the huge ride building…?
Just a few thoughts.

Just paint the building blue

 

[Cooldip]

Liberty Square Riverboat has extended hours to 10am-8pm; Tom Sawyer Island is extended to 11am-7:30pm.

 

[SamusAranX]

After my first visit today to DL and being in awe of their maximization of limited space, their actually competent LL system, as well as adequate capacity and flow (which enables the multi-LL system to exist. Can’t be feasible with the Orlando parks pithy capacity. I’m sure the execs are weeping over this self created, anti guest problem they can monetize )

The decision to remove RoA for yet *another* replacement rather than pure expansion, is virtually indefensible. It boggles my mind that there are some tripping over themselves to rationalize WDW give away their biggest advantage over Cali and abject failure to significantly improve capacity

 

[Raineman]

Carsland in person is jaw dropping... The scale, the layers of design and story telling... One of the best theme park lands they have ever built...

So, I guess, once again, WDW gets a smaller but somewhat different (and possibly less impactful) version of something great that DL has?

 

[Raineman]

Liberty Square Riverboat has extended hours to 10am-8pm; Tom Sawyer Island is extended to 11am-7:30pm.

Maybe, just maybe, if all of these people that haven't ever been, or haven't been in a long time, are flooding over to TSI/ROA "for one last time", had been making regular visits there for years, we wouldn't have to see it being removed.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

So, I guess, once again, WDW gets a smaller but somewhat different (and possibly less impactful) version of something great that DL has?

Will have to see the final product - I think potential for Piston Peak to be beautiful and the flowing water, etc can be really nice ... BUT will definitely be different and won't be a "world" we know so won't have that same impact of stepping into something you saw (and potentially loved) on screen

The moment the lights come on each night in Cars Land at DCA is amazing, but part of the "feel" it gives you is you have known about and seen Flo's for years ... So that aspect won't happen in WDW - but could also provide some serene elements, will have to see

 

[Purduevian]

So, I guess, once again, WDW gets a smaller but somewhat different (and possibly less impactful) version of something great that DL has?

Based purely on scale... WDW's car's ride/area will be smaller on the sqft scale... but you can almost fit RSR into the current park:

 

[Bocabear]

So, I guess, once again, WDW gets a smaller but somewhat different (and possibly less impactful) version of something great that DL has?

So it seems... If they had chosen an appropriate location for the attraction to be set in....something from the film... It is the same thing they did with SWL...a location that matches northing from the films.... I would rather have a clone of the complete Disneyland version than any other off-model variation....
and of course, all the water features etc on the cartoon map will most likely be scaled back or disappear before it gets through budgeting... lol

 

[Tha Realest]

Based purely on scale... WDW's car's ride/area will be smaller on the sqft scale... but you can almost fit RSR into the current park:

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That’s the trick here (and why I think this is somewhat of a less than optimal use of space). It’s difficult to give it the full RSR treatment (especially when a large portion of the ride is supposed to accentuate natural beauty, which inherently takes up space), while at the same time not eating in too much to the space set aside for VL.

 

[Purduevian]

That’s the trick here (and why I think this is somewhat of a less than optimal use of space). It’s difficult to give it the full RSR treatment (especially when a large portion of the ride is supposed to accentuate natural beauty, which inherently takes up space), while at the same time not eating in too much to the space set aside for VL.

I do wonder though if they will try to pull the DL Subs/Autopia trick to maximize this space. Basically have the indoor show scenes at the ground level and have the outdoor section build on top of it.

 

[Ayla]

Can people please stop calling this Cars Land? WDW is not getting Cars Land.

 

[Purduevian]

Can people please stop calling this Cars Land? WDW is not getting Cars Land.

Disney might not be calling it cars land... its going to have 1 E ticket and 1 C ticket and take up ~3.7 acers.
Compare that to some of the "lands" at DHS and people are just going to refer it to cars land...

We use non-official terms for lands, rides, attractions, and areas all the time on these forms.

 

[JD80]

Cars World it is.

 

[Ayla]

Cars World it is.

Gee, aren't you cute?

 

[SamusAranX]

Cars World it is.

I prefer Cars Planetoid. A homage to Pluto the dog and planet (justice for Pluto)

 

[Gusey]

Disney might not be calling it cars land... its going to have 1 E ticket and 1 C ticket and take up ~3.7 acers.
Compare that to some of the "lands" at DHS and people are just going to refer it to cars land...

We use non-official terms for lands, rides, attractions, and areas all the time on these forms.

But by saying Cars Land, you are automatically comparing it the actual Cars Land at DCA.

 

[easyrowrdw]

But by saying Cars Land, you are automatically comparing it the actual Cars Land at DCA.

Disney does that by populating this area with multiple Cars attractions. Honestly, probably even a single attraction would do that because Disney has set their own standard for Cars attractions with the land in DCA.