MK Piston Peak and Villains Land Construction Thread

[Disgruntled Walt]

...to have a thread dedicated solely to Construction Updates, so that we could have lively discussion in the other threads (Villains) (Cars) and have a space where we could find pictures, discuss construction-related developments, and keep commentary to a minimum.

And so I made a construction thread.

And now...

 

[maleficentfan]

I seriously just scrolled through eleven pages of dribble for absolutely nothing. I agree with the others... can we get back on topic?! If you want to complain about either Villains or Cars, there are threads for that. Stop clogging up the CONSTRUCTION thread!

 

[Brer Oswald]

Animal Kingdom should’ve never been opened in the state it opened in with Asia still under construction and the cheap, cheap Dinoland embarrassment. The funds should’ve been increased or redirected to the other three parks. Lackluster. TDS was greenlit by OLC. Eisner gets zero credit, same for Pooh’s Honey Hunt. Everest was a quality addition, but one surrounded by mounds of disappointment and failures. Eisner’s cheap rethemes included DCA’s Mike and Sulley, Stitch, Journey into YOUR Imagination, etc.

Iger had two decades to fix unfinished parks like DAK, Epcot, Disney Studios Paris, etc. In all cases, he spent billions to ensure the problems will NEVER be fixed during any of our lifetimes.

OLC may have funded the Tokyo projects, but it was Eisner’s Disney that designed them.

And I’d take any of those rethemes over…do I even need to say it? What a disaster. And they did it twice.

 

[Stripes]

I know people have remarked about this before, but the scale of the land clearing is quite impressive. Even more exciting is the possibility and likelihood that much of the land used for laydown yards will eventually be another expansion.

 

[aladdin2007]

Iger had two decades to fix unfinished parks like DAK, Epcot, Disney Studios Paris, etc. In all cases, he spent billions to ensure the problems will NEVER be fixed during any of our lifetimes.

OLC may have funded the Tokyo projects, but it was Eisner’s Disney that designed them.

And I’d take any of those rethemes over…do I even need to say it? What a disaster. And they did it twice.

could you all get back on topic, this has nothing to do with the thread discussion

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Personally, Radiator Springs Racers is my favorite attraction in any Disney park, as just one example.

And that is the cream of the crop. Diminishing returns ever since.

Better tell WDI Japan.
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Nice try…WDI doesn’t control what’s built in Tokyo and only a rube doesn’t understand that at this point.

There was no contract forcing Disney to build any of those parks. Furthermore, even in the case of Paris where they were strongly incentivized, Eisner shouldn’t have signed the contracts that “forced” the company to build something when they didn’t have the “capital or space resources” to support it. Another failure.

The incentives in Paris from the original agreement made it the path of least resistance. You can cancel euro altogether in your mind…but that’s revisionist as no one in the US thought it was a bad idea until after it opening and got the stigma of rejection. It’s still the best built magic kingdom…I’ll go anytime so you want to meet me there…

Anaheim has been a complex political haggle for 70 years…by reorganizing and trying to do the second gate…it was a calculated risk to try and boost the draw and secure concessions from the devils know as the Anaheim city council….contentious since 7/17/55. It was underfunded…the economy and Disneys Warchest in the late 90’s was not Newley as good as people try to convince themselves it was today.

It would have helped if a Joe Rohde wouldn’t have insisted on a billion dollars to Africa for “research trips”

Hong Kong…remember..was negotiated when they were playing lip service to being “independent”…the central committee predictably lied…so that can probably be a loss on the scoreboard.

But that was about sweatshops anyway…Bob went way deeper on that mistake.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Oh right…this thread is off course…my bad

 

[Timothy_Q]

I know people have remarked about this before, but the scale of the land clearing is quite impressive. Even more exciting is the possibility and likelihood that much of the land used for laydown yards will eventually be another expansion.
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Have been closely following the fate of those 6 trees and excited to see where they end up

 

[DrStarlander]

Have been closely following the fate of those 6 trees and excited to see where they end up

And don't discount the potential significance of the trees they left standing behind it's a small world

 

[JD80]

@lentesta 's super power is to write three lines on a forum and propagate dozens/hundred(s) of blog posts and YouTube videos.

Super hero? Or Super villain?

 

[Brer Oswald]

could you all get back on topic, this has nothing to do with the thread discussion

How much discussion can one have about an unchanged pile of dirt?

 

[Andrew C]

I seriously just scrolled through eleven pages of dribble for absolutely nothing. I agree with the others... can we get back on topic?! If you want to complain about either Villains or Cars, there are threads for that. Stop clogging up the CONSTRUCTION thread!

Sorry, even the construction thread cannot avoid the news that plans have been scrapped. Particularly when there is no actual construction news worth noting.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Super hero? Or Super villain?

Hero…unless he starts going to festivals “openings” with a selfie stick…or is one of those fools who waited for space mountain today

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I seriously just scrolled through eleven pages of dribble for absolutely nothing. I agree with the others... can we get back on topic?! If you want to complain about either Villains or Cars, there are threads for that. Stop clogging up the CONSTRUCTION thread!

You’re here to waste time talking about a movie studio…not handle Mission Control for the Artemis launch

Perspective

 

[𝐌𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝐖𝖊𝖇]

How much discussion can one have about an unchanged pile of dirt?

 

[The Mom]

I seriously just scrolled through eleven pages of dribble for absolutely nothing. I agree with the others... can we get back on topic?! If you want to complain about either Villains or Cars, there are threads for that. Stop clogging up the CONSTRUCTION thread!

I agree. Any further OT posts will be deleted.

 

[MrPromey]

"Scrapping original plans"

"bigger and bolder"

I know right?

"Hey guys, we're scraping those original plans we never shared with you to make even more awesome plans we're not yet sharing with you!" and people are getting excited.

What if the original plans were on the scale of TSL and what we're getting ends up being like Galaxy's Edge? Lots of spending options and places to walk around with not of a heck going on in all that space?

To be fair, though, we're getting this as semi-inside info from Len and not Disney marketing so I guess there's room for a little optimism. Even if the original concept was something low-budgetish and this is now moving to something just reasonable, that's still an improvement.

 

[JD80]

I know right?

"Hey guys, we're scraping those original plans we never shared with you to make even more awesome plans we're not yet sharing with you!" and people are getting excited.

What if the original plans were on the scale of TSL and what we're getting ends up being like Galaxy's Edge? Lots of spending options and places to walk around with not of a heck going on in all that space?

To be fair, though, we're getting this as semi-inside info from Len and not Disney marketing so I guess there's room for a little optimism. Even if the original concept was something low-budgetish and this is now moving to something just reasonable, that's still an improvement.

Doesn't really matter what the first plans are and the new set are. The point is Disney is going "bigger and bolder" with something. We haven't seen thatin a while.

 

[gorillaball]

Have been closely following the fate of those 6 trees and excited to see where they end up

I believe those 6 trees have been “plussed” w fertilizer. Must have been garbage before.

 

[Tha Realest]

Doesn't really matter what the first plans are and the new set are. The point is Disney is going "bigger and bolder" with something. We haven't seen thatin a while.

Villains Land was already billed as the MK’s biggest expansion yet. The Starcruiser was a big and bold experiment. SWGE took up massive acreage in DHS and DL. D23 ‘19 promised on a massive transformation of EPCOT.

We’ve seen it before, and quite recently, do decidedly mediocre results.