MK Piston Peak and Villains Land Construction Thread

[Unbanshee]

Is there an actual link to a document, or just one twitter user?

 

[ToTBellHop]

if these are literally the sizes of the buildings, it would be a lot less than I think we are hoping for..but this is most likely not based on the actual building footprints...but areas for wastewater... perhaps... Maybe it is retention ponds or water feature areas...

The biggest building is bigger than HM, and no one thinks that’s a tiny ride. They just built particularly enormous buildings in recent history.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Also, don’t read too much into the position of the railroad tracks in this drawing. Since this plan is solely for the wastewater system and its connection into new structures, no other changes are depicted - it’s simply overlayed onto an “existing conditions” MK plan from before construction started.

It’s notable as there is new work in the water management drawings that respect the railroad alignment.

 

[Coaster Lover]

Haunted Mansion restaurant, bar, and new shop? New train station?

 

[JustInTime]

I think expecting a parlour at Magic Kingdom is unlikely, but a proper sitdown could be in the cards.

I really don't think they want people running back and forth from lounge to lounge at MK.

Agree - it would be a full sit down.

 

[scott_walker]

From my understanding, the facilities in this drawing are all structures that will have a connection to the new wastewater system (green line) shown throughout the plan. There are also 21 new manhole covers that are part of this system.

I did some rough measuring of the main three facilities:

Large Villains “building”: ~70,000sqft
Second Villains “building”: ~48,000sqft
Cars Land “building”: ~40,000sqft


Also, don’t read too much into the position of the railroad tracks in this drawing. Since this plan is solely for the wastewater system and its connection into new structures, no other changes are depicted - it’s simply overlayed onto an “existing conditions” MK plan from before construction started.

I brought it into Google Earth and measured it from there. They're a little bigger.

 

[DCBaker]

Is there an actual link to a document, or just one twitter user?

@wdwmagic has the original exhibit from a filing with FDEP.

 

[flynnibus]

Are they really putting a surface lot all along that space between Floridian Way and the canal? That's a pretty dang big lot.

 

[JohnD]

I brought it into Google Earth and measured it from there. They're a little bigger.

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I think this one makes the most sense as a new train station. The larger footprint to our left is too close to the existing Frontierland train station and is likely an attraction with a tunnel or comparable (ala Tron) for the train to go through. This one is more to the rear of the park and would make for a new back entrance to the the land and to MK.

 

[luv house of the mouse]

The building to the extreme north that appears to go slightly over the railroad tracks, is its size close to the size of the train stations on the route now? Could this be a stop for the railroad?

 

[Unbanshee]

@wdwmagic has the original exhibit from a filing with FDEP.

Excellent! I must have missed the link when I read the article. I'll check it out again

 

[Starship824]

Pretty Exciting stuff! I'm hoping the building to the north of the big show building is a Villains Land train station, it sure looks like it. Does anyone know if it's size is comparable to the other train stations in MK?

 

[scott_walker]

Pretty Exciting stuff! I'm hoping the building to the north of the big show building is a Villains Land train station, it sure looks like it. Does anyone know if it's size is comparable to the other train stations in MK?

It's about 50% bigger than the station building at the entrance.

 

[JohnD]

Pretty Exciting stuff! I'm hoping the building to the north of the big show building is a Villains Land train station, it sure looks like it. Does anyone know if it's size is comparable to the other train stations in MK?

The Frontierland train station is to the left in this photo so not very big.

 

[JohnD]

It's about 50% bigger than the station building at the entrance.

@MisterPenguin has a good theory.

I'm suspecting those aren't the actual buildings. They don't look right for Piston, crossing over the RR, and leaving a huge plaza in villains. Maybe place markings for utilities?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Are they really putting a surface lot all along that space between Floridian Way and the canal? That's a pretty dang big lot.

Yeah I noticed that too!

 

[James Alucobond]

My immediate thought for the three northern plots is train station for the smallest, dark ride for the largest, and combination train tunnel and coaster queue/indoor areas for the other, to connect to outside portions of track not pictured.

 

[SomeInternetGuy]

Yeah I noticed that too!

Yea - that’s for the trailer compound to support these two projects.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Could the "Facility" on the bottom be the indoor portions of the Cars ride?

 

[James Alucobond]

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Could the "Facility" on the bottom be the indoor portions of the Cars ride?

The southeast large block is where Piston Peak itself is supposed to be. A cave system is suggested beneath it by the artwork. The southwest angled section looks like it's about where the indoor queue entrance is, so probably load/unload is in there. You seem to exit to the outside from the southern horizontal portion. The western vertical space could potentially be a re-entry area, but it doesn't quite look like that from the art. I'm wondering if maybe it's backstage support for the water/geyser systems and whatnot.