New Tomorrowland @ Disneyland? Is this the year it finally gets announced? No, and that’s OK

[NobodyElse]

Welp.... it's the Spring of 2026 now. When does the rehab start? Where's the electric Autopia?

Sammy clarified "by 2026", so I guess last December at the latest.

 

[TP2000]

Sammy clarified "by 2026", so I guess last December at the latest.

I've had a totally lazy day today around the house and was online a lot, so I've seen some truly horrendous examples of the English language and its modern American version; stuff like "for intense and purposes" and other various crimes against communication.

So I'm willing to bet that Mr. Roth, who passed for a "journalist" in 2024, may have thought he was communicating via the once great Los Angeles Times that the change to an electric Autopia would take place sometime during calendar year 2026. Of which there are 8 months left to do something.

I'll just give him the benefit of the doubt on that. He meant by the end of calendar year 2026, not by the start of it. Of course, you and I and quite a few others here are a cut above the average "journalist" or daily reader of the once great Los Angeles Times, so we know what his language in 2024 actually meant.

He was laid off from the LA Times since then (they've practically collapsed), but according to his X profile he still has a Disneyland AP. I bet the smell of Honda 4-stroke engines in the back of Tomorrowland in '26 must sting a bit for him.

 

[TP2000]

This can't be helping the cause to get an electric Autopia... Honda suffers first loss since World War II and takes a $15 Billion loss on their EV program, cancelling 3 EV models they were planning for America.

Was Honda going to stick around as sponsor for this switch to EV's for Autopia? Or was WDI just going to go sponsorless and build their own fleet of EV cars?

God help this forum if Tesla were to sponsor an all-electric Autopia! Some folks would never recover.

 

[AJFireman]

Scott Gustin had a little fun with the walled off area

 

[coffeefan]

This can't be helping the cause to get an electric Autopia... Honda suffers first loss since World War II and takes a $15 Billion loss on their EV program, cancelling 3 EV models they were planning for America.

Was Honda going to stick around as sponsor for this switch to EV's for Autopia? Or was WDI just going to go sponsorless and build their own fleet of EV cars?

God help this forum if Tesla were to sponsor an all-electric Autopia! Some folks would never recover.

From Yahoo Finance

Legendary Japanese carmaker Honda has fallen on some EV-driven hard times: The company reported its first annual loss since it went public in the 1950s, according to the FT.

Honda said it expects to take a nearly $16 billion loss over two years as it pivots away from its electric vehicle strategy. The stock fell nearly 6% on Thursday, and is down over 13% and counting this year.

The reasons are multifaceted. Cheaper Chineses EVs have eaten into Honda's global margins, and it's struggling to compete. President Trump's tariffs, though mired in court battles, have raised input costs and stifled U.S. consumer demand. Plus, the rollback of EV incentives in the U.S. has, in no uncertain terms, nearly destroyed the market that Honda and other international automakers spent heavily to capture.

Honda's official statement blamed "an inability to respond flexibly to changes in the business environment" — which is corporate-speak for getting caught between rising costs and softening consumer demand.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/honda-breaks-70-streak-first-182319960.html

Get BYD to sponsor Autopia then. Are ya'll tired of winning yet?

 

[TP2000]

From Yahoo Finance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/honda-breaks-70-streak-first-182319960.html

Get BYD to sponser Autopia then. Are ya'll tired of winning yet?

Yeah, once you stopped giving upper-middle class white folks in Villa Park and Laguna Niguel a $7,500 tax credit to buy an expensive luxury car, the EV market crashed fast in '25.

But there's still a market for EV's, it's just that the government will no longer subsidize relatively wealthy people to buy them. The #1 selling car in California currently is the Tesla Model Y, so there's still a healthy market for EV's, even without government subsidies.

I just wonder if Honda was supposed to renew their Autopia sponsorship and tout their new EV cars in '26? Because they are cancelling the EV's they had planned to sell this year, and just lost a ton of money on EV's in America so they aren't going to be in the best mood to sign up for another expensive Disneyland sponsorship.

What's the plan for Autopia if they don't have Honda, and don't have electric cars? Back to Chevron?