MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[dmc493]

There will be lots of craft workers onsite, gotta give them somewhere to park in addition to material laydown areas. Plus typically providing trailers for some key subcontractor partners for their teams to operate out of since their scopes are more complex and need larger teams to manage it (mechanical & electrical partners, etc)

 

[HMF]

I have given up trying to apply logic to anything Disney does.

You too?

 

[HMF]

One thing a WDW fan must have is hope.....

Especially if they intend on remaining a WDW fan for the next 20 years.

 

[HMF]

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til its gone....
They Paved ROA and Put up a parking lot....La la la....

Joni must be so proud her song is still so relevant.

 

[Adventureland Veranda]

Add some Cars stickers to the new parking lot to make it an immersive experience!

 

[Advisable Joseph]

Moving to the proper thread:

I'm kind of behind, I know, but I'm just absorbing the "news" that Imagineering's guiding principles for the new Frontierland are "the setting isn’t the story" and rather it will be about "chasing your dreams and writing your own folk tale."

The characters are "chasing [their] dreams and writing [their] own folk tale," which would inspire you.
"The setting isn’t the story" references Pandora in Animal Kingdom, which features the setting of Avatar but not the story.
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Sorry to build suspense like that, but I wanted to send a warning before things came out. But the breaking news- Disney had a special zoom call with a group of media personnel (including my boss) where they gave them an exclusive presentation on the future of the Cars expansion in Frontierland. It included information that not even new hires at WDI have been told at this point, apparently.

So, a summary of what Disney told the media that was just announced publicly as of 11:00am this morning (we also have a video talking about all of this):

• Frontierland's new theme is "chasing your dream in the American wilderness and writing your own folktale." Yes, it's that whole sentence, and yes, it's way more complicated than it needs to be, but this is modern Disney.
  • Some examples from Disney:
    • The Country Bears are "trying to make it big in the human world and trying to become big stars."
    • Big Thunder Mountain Railroad- "people travelled west in search of gold and creating their own legends"
    • Tiana's Bayou Adventure - she went into "the American wilderness achieve her dreams and to create her own folktale"
    • Cars- characters are "off the beaten path trying to achieve glory and the fastest lap in the west"
      • "The fastest lap in the west" is a phrase that will be used heavily in the new attraction

"The storytelling is not the setting" Disney says, comparing Cars in Frontierland to Avatar in Animal Kingdom, implying that they're going to make it work in the same way​

• The ride takes place in Piston Peak National Park, but there will be no direct references to the Planes films

a. As a middle school ELA teacher, we teach our students that the setting is one of the five non-negotiables for crafting a story.
1. Setting
2. Characters
3. Plot
4. Conflict
5. Theme

If you don't have ALL five of those, you DO NOT HAVE A STORY!

Who said "stories don't have settings"?

A setting can host many plots, and (roughly ) the same plot can be in many settings. Or, just because a theme park uses a setting from a movie doesn't mean it has to use the movie's plot.

Again, this will not use the plot of Cars or Planes, the same way Pandora in Animal Kingdom doesn't use the plot of Avatar.

 

[Bocabear]

Moving to the proper thread:

The characters are "chasing [their] dreams and writing [their] own folk tale," which would inspire you.
"The setting isn’t the story" references Pandora in Animal Kingdom, which features the setting of Avatar but not the story.
See







Who said "stories don't have settings"?

A setting can host many plots, and (roughly ) the same plot can be in many settings. Or, just because a theme park uses a setting from a movie doesn't mean it has to use the movie's plot.

Again, this will not use the plot of Cars or Planes, the same way Pandora in Animal Kingdom doesn't use the plot of Avatar.

Ohhhh ok, I think I understand now... So since both films involved talking anthropomorphic modes of transportation, then their locations are interchangeable? So then a Lady and The tramp attraction would fit in perfectly in a Zootopia setting....because both have talking animals?

 

[HMF]

Moving to the proper thread:

The characters are "chasing [their] dreams and writing [their] own folk tale," which would inspire you.
"The setting isn’t the story" references Pandora in Animal Kingdom, which features the setting of Avatar but not the story.
See







Who said "stories don't have settings"?

A setting can host many plots, and (roughly ) the same plot can be in many settings. Or, just because a theme park uses a setting from a movie doesn't mean it has to use the movie's plot.

Again, this will not use the plot of Cars or Planes, the same way Pandora in Animal Kingdom doesn't use the plot of Avatar.

If you are looking for actual meaning in what is basically a PR fluff piece. You are looking much further into it than Disney is actually intending.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

Ohhhh ok, I think I understand now... So since both films involved talking anthropomorphic modes of transportation, then their locations are interchangeable?

Are you talking about interchanging Cars and Planes? That's the same universe. Cars even had wild spaces like Piston Peak.

Ornament Valley

Ornament Valley is a location in the Disney/Pixar Cars franchise, one of the main district in Carburetor County and the greater location of Radiator Springs, which billed itself as the "Gateway to Ornament Valley". Ornament Valley is near Radiator Springs on the way to Interstate 40 on Route 66...

pixarcars.fandom.com

So then a Lady and The tramp attraction would fit in perfectly in a Zootopia setting....because both have talking animals?

No, you don't understand. Those are different settings, with different visual logic. Make the dogs anthro canids, and you might have something.

 

[Jedi14]

Ohhhh ok, I think I understand now... So since both films involved talking anthropomorphic modes of transportation, then their locations are interchangeable? So then a Lady and The tramp attraction would fit in perfectly in a Zootopia setting....because both have talking animals?

Planes is set in the world of Cars.

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

Planes is set in the world of Cars.

Technically, above* the world of Cars. Per the movie posters.

 

[FettFan]

Again, this will not use the plot of Cars or Planes, the same way Pandora in Animal Kingdom doesn't use the plot of Avatar.

Yet Pandora does use the plot of Avatar, as just like Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, it’s set in a sequel time period. Satuli Canteen is literally the mess hall from the movie, but some decades in the future. If Avatar didn’t happen, World of Pandora doesn’t narratively exist.


That being said, it really wouldn’t surprise me if they decided that “Piston Peak Rally” was the original race that eventually became the Piston Cup, seeing as how modern NASCAR descended from moonshiners and bootleggers speeding through the mountains of Tennessee and Alabama to evade cops during prohibition.

 

[mickEblu]

Brayden killed it with this video…

 

[Advisable Joseph]

Yet Pandora does use the plot of Avatar, as just like Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, it’s set in a sequel time period. Satuli Canteen is literally the mess hall from the movie, but some decades in the future. If Avatar didn’t happen, World of Pandora doesn’t narratively exist.

That's the setting. If it used the plot it would be like Splash Mountain or Zootopia: Hot Pursuit.

 

[Incomudro]

Brayden killed it with this video…

I viewed this video last night, and actually came here this morning to mention it.
It's the best video Brayden has ever done.
He understands the park better than the executives.

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

Brayden killed it with this video…

The opening to this video made me sad over losing the rivers all over again, lmao. Just when I thought I was done grieving, he pulls me right back in...

I wanted to point this out:


Brayden's sources are saying the Liberty Belle is safe. Take it with a grain of salt, his sources have been wrong in the past, but I think there's hope for the LB.

 

[jah4955]

Brayden killed it with this video…

only halfway through, but, so far, this is a most-impressive "one stop shop" describing things from the very beginning to now. The only potential inaccuracy is saying they're destroying the riverbed...very hopeful they're sparring the riverboat, if they do, I'd also attribute it to the uproar to "Frontireland." Brayden also acknowledges what current management seems to lack: that splurging on details that can't be traced to revenues is exactly why many have spent their money at Disney to make them the leader of the industry.

 

[DrStarlander]

That alternate plan by Perry Becker looks like a great compromise. A fun water ride potentially with indoor dark ride scenes that preserves a river and a substantial presence of water, plus trees and bridges. This was probably done before Splash Mountain became Tiana's Bayou Adventure, so docking the Liberty Belle as a dining spot over by the Tiana turnaround would have been a great plussing of this scheme.

Wonder what that show building up past BTM was for. Kind of a crazy idea, but given how brutal the sun is there, they could have done the town of Radiator Springs as an always-night (neon-lit) indoor area, kind of like Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea, with a RSR that blends indoor dark ride and outdoor sections (though I would rather it be at DHS, given the choice).

 

[J4546]

That alternate plan by Perry Becker looks like a great compromise. A fun water ride potentially with indoor dark ride scenes that preserves a river and a substantial presence of water, plus trees and bridges. This was probably done before Splash Mountain became Tiana's Bayou Adventure, so docking the Liberty Belle as a dining spot over by the Tiana turnaround would have been a great plussing of this scheme.

Wonder what that show building up past BTM was for. Kind of a crazy idea, but given how brutal the sun is there, they could have done the town of Radiator Springs as an always-night (neon-lit) indoor area, kind of like Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea, with a RSR that blends indoor dark ride and outdoor sections (though I would rather it be at DHS, given the choice).
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this is interesting imo. Looks like a massive darkride showbuilding with entrances on both HM and BTM sides, making a loop around a new shorter river. No boat though, but still looks cool. Looks like mabye theres a bunch of water guns or something so maybe there was still a canoe part?

 

[Figments Friend]

Brayden killed it with this video…

Thanks for sharing.
I rather enjoyed this, and the commentary.

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