MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

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WDWhopper

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Such a stupid and shortsighted decision to remove possibly one of the most iconic pieces of the original park. Something like this can really never be replaced. The whole purpose of buying all the land in Florida was that there would be room to build new things without ripping out the old ones, which Walt always disliked about the Anaheim Disneyland being landlocked. There’s room to build everything that has been built at Disney World again on the land that they have and still have conservatory land left over. It’s troubling that Disney is making so many irreversible park decisions without having the best Imagineering team currently in place. The recent track record is less than stellar and certainly doesn’t live up to the destruction that they are causing at the parks. You’ve got to have a Joe Rohde or Tony Baxter-type at the helm to pull off these types of major changes. The current team in place should adopt the Hippocratic oath of “do no harm” instead of making these major transformations. They simply haven’t demonstrated that they have the skill or imagination required to make it great.
 
Moth

Moth

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Let's get er done!
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Ka-chigga!
 
Dranth

Dranth

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WDWhopper said:
The whole purpose of buying all the land in Florida was that there would be room to build new things without ripping out the old ones, which Walt always disliked about the Anaheim Disneyland being landlocked.
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This seems like a bit of a mischaracterization of why Walt wanted all that land to me.

He had no trouble removing things or changing them if he didn't think they were working. What he didn't like was all the developments that sprung up around Disneyland and wanted to own enough property to force them from being on his door step. Between that and wanting to build an actual city, he needed a lot more land.
 
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WDWhopper

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Dranth said:
This seems like a bit of a mischaracterization of why Walt wanted all that land to me.

He had no trouble removing things or changing them if he didn't think they were working.
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Walt’s quote "Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland... the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine."

My first visit to Disneyland was 1961 and my mom actually met Walt Disney in front of the Tiki Room one day. The way I remember it (and I feel I have some first hand knowledge about this) is that Walt didn’t want to have to take things out to put new things in, and this was one of the major reasons to buy all the land in Florida. Yes, he also wanted some protection from the outside world, but he was already having to remove things to put other things in at Disneyland and that irked him. I remember this as being one of his talking points about the Florida project. That there was room for everything without anything being taken out. Anyway, my original point was that you don’t take out an iconic attraction like the river boat or the rivers of America. It would be like tearing down the Matterhorn at Disneyland. And you especially don’t do it during a time in your company history when you don’t have the best of the best at the Imagineering helm.
 

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