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.
Discovery Bay is an unbuilt land for Disneyland designed by Tony Baxter in the late 1970s. Set in a technologically advanced late 1800s San Francisco, attractions based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Island at the Top of the World were prominent features. While working on Big Thunder...
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- 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.
