Tokyo Disneyland Resort Expansion

Long time lurker and Tokyo local posting some thoughts.

Tokyo Disney Adventureland Expansion
- I can see this expansion being either focused on Pixar only, or a mixture of different, "recent" IPs very much like FS.

-Secondly, I see this expansion being divided into 5 distinct neighborhoods, again, like FS.

1. New Orleans Square
-The New Orleans Square part of Adventureland is safe, yay for Pirates.

2. Area between Royal Street Veranda, and China Voyager will be a Tropical Americas-esque area that is either a Coco area (Santa Cecilia), or Encanto.

-I don't think Encanto isn't as popular in Japan, so I'm leaning towards the former. Again, this makes sense if the "whatever IP shows up in parades or nighttime shows will get a ride" theory is true.
- New Orleans Theater will be gutted, becoming a pathway to an indoor theater or ride housed where the current OLC wardrobe building is standing. This building is quite big (I used to work at TDL), I can see it becoming an E-Ticket boat ride themed after Coco, or Encanto.

- Swiss Family Treehouse is demo-ed to become a Flik's Flyers like spinner themed after...something??

3. Jungle Cruise land re-themed to UP w/ Paradise Falls
- Pretty much a no-brainer since the IP showed up in recent parades and nighttime shows. I'm guesssing a FoP-like simulator, or *wild guess* a FULLY INDOOR JUNGLE CRUISE, themed to UP. Imagine the skippers as camp scouts trying to earn their merit badge by taking guests on an adventure through the uncharted jungle.. I can already imagine boats leaving the dock as skippers say "TO ADVENTURE!!"

- We also see playgrounds themed to a fossil excavation site?? Hence the out of place Pteradactyls in the concept art. I think it fits nicely with the camp scouts theming of UP. Maybe Russell and his friends set up camp to dig some fossils? Maybe we can reuse remnants of Dinoland USA to save on budget.

4. Western River Railroad backstage, and Dino tunnel re-themed to the Incredibles.
- Perhaps the smallest of the neighborhood, this area is definitely themed after the Incredibles, heck the mountain looks similar to the island in the first Incredibles movie.

- There is an Omnidroid-themed spinner, looks cool!

- I also see a roller coaster (looks similar to Rocket Rods???), I can see this themed after Elastigirl's bike from the second movie. Since space is pretty much limited here, I think this will be a shorter coaster with minimum show scenes.

5. Tropical Terrace - Tiki Room area rethemed after Moana.

- I wish Moana got a full land at DisneySea, but しょうがない,
- The tropical terrace area becomes a walkthrough, or remains a restaurant.

- Tiki Room area features a boat ride?? Since Tiki Room shares backstage with the Country Bears, I can see them demoing both Tiki and Bears to make a Rapunzel's Lantern Festival-ish short boat ride with Moana.

I also think there is more to be revealed at a later date, what wil happen to Western River Railroad? Will they get expand further and get rid of RoA?


Tokyo DisneySea Expansion
- I literally have no idea what I'm seeing here, but its obvious Aquatopia is going away, and the waterway near Cape Cod will be filled in with dirt to have more land. This means the Transit Steamer Line will have to turn around at where SeaRider is, making a round-trip cruise impossible.

- This land either looks like Discovery Bay , or *wild guess* Naboo. Yes. Naboo, the home of Jar Jar.

- If its Discovery Bay, the new building also reminds me of a manor, I think this will be a huge dark ride themed after SEA, maybe the manor is owned by this guy? https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Prof._R._Blauerhimmel

- If Naboo, yea I have no idea.

Overall, I'm excited for what the future holds, but I'm devastated they are closing down both Jungle Cruise and WRR.
 

Loose Pebble

Active Member
Will wait for the deep dive analysis in the morning but that Adventureland looks like an absolute hodgepodge of ideas and not in a particularly good way. I do think that area of the park needs some new life breathed into it but I don't even know what I'm looking at.
Is the deep dive analysis coming from Disney or is it more what the speculations from the community will be?
 

ThemeParkTraveller

Well-Known Member
Getting rid of their jungle cruise is extremely sad, it's probably the best one I've ever been on. It has a gorgeous night time overlay that is not present in any other park.

Jungle Cruise is the quintessential Adventureland attraction. I am just as shocked at its removal along with the railroad, and this all but guarantees Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island will be next on the chopping block.
 

Aramar

Well-Known Member
Very unexpected news, but I think these concepts might be just general ideas and the final result can be very different (as it happened with Arendelle).

Could the small boats in adventureland be a relocated version of Aquatopia? or a Splash battle ride? Maybe Aquatopia is being replaced by a Duffy and Friends dark ride? I can't think of other franchise fitting that area or the style of the buildings.
 

ThemeParkTraveller

Well-Known Member
Also from the press release, it was revealed that the re-theme of Buzz to Wreck-It Ralph would cost over $200 million.
 

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Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

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Wow, so nothing anywhere is safe. Surprised Jungle Cruise is going away.
I’m surprised, it’s an opening day attraction and I imagine many generations of locals have nostalgia for it. TDL always seemed like the nostalgia park, given how many rides are near identical to how they were opening day, but then again they did change their Tiki Room twice and add Jack Sparrow to Pirates… do Tokyo guests not care about Adventureland as much as the other lands?
 

Charlie The Chatbox Ghost

Well-Known Member
Getting rid of their jungle cruise is extremely sad, it's probably the best one I've ever been on. It has a gorgeous night time overlay that is not present in any other park.
I am regretting never going to Tokyo. I know it’s years away from this project starting but I have a baby on the way so I won’t be traveling for awhile, especially overseas. By the time the baby is big enough to be able to tolerate a flight to Japan from the East Coast US, it’ll be too late.

Man I really thought Tokyo was like, the “pure” castle park. I guess nothing is truly sacred to them. I guarantee after Adventureland, Frontierland and Critter Country are on the chopping block- especially Splash. They might have the only one left but they apparently are looking to replace it too.
 

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