Rumors out of DLR have been few and far between in the last decade, Disney has done a pretty good job and sealing most leaks. I also don't fault Disney for not wanting to reveal too much about a future attraction, leave some air of mystery about the future attraction.
Haha. What I took "blame Disney" to mean is "Disney's announcement has left us confused, because they haven't give us additional information". To me that is not a critic on Disney at all, more of an observation. Disney is under no obligation to share information just to satisfy us. And withholding information in order to generate buzz/ discussion, avoid disappointment, etc makes total sense.
Has Disney ever released information about a future attractions show building and anything other than basic area for location? I know we uber-fans like to know everything but really Disney isn't releasing information just to us they are releasing it to the masses, and to them less is more in that context.
But even in the modern era Disney hasn't released much more than we've gotten about any project at any Disney Park. So it would be unprecedented for them to do it here.
To me I think any bridge to Simba would be more likely to be placed closer to or take out the Pizza place.
Only reason we got locations and such for WDW for Cars, Tropical, and Monsters was because they were replacing existing areas and attractions. This isn’t that different, we got a location, ie the backstage area behind Incredicoaster, but we just haven’t gotten exact placement which Disney never really gives out for any project. Even with the others mentioned they haven’t given exact land layouts either. So I don’t really see much difference in any of the information given out for any of these projects. If you want to criticize Disney for not giving out the exact backstage layout of where Coco will go with full color concept art of the attraction layout, be my guest. But know that is expecting way more than any project they’ve ever done in the history of the Parks. The only project for DCA that you have a valid point on is Avatar, and that is because Iger announced it before they were fully ready. But for Coco they’ve given the same information as they’ve given about the others, basic location and vague concept art.
Did Disney give information of "where" it'll be going within the former backstage and parking area for Monsters or was that all speculated on later by others on sites like this until construction began? How about Encanto?
As I said you can critique them all you want, all I'm saying is that I think you are expecting too much for this project.
I don't think I've ever see any information that was released at D23 about future attractions that were kept exclusives. Everything that Disney releases at D23 eventually ends up on a Disney Parks Blog. Can you provide an example of some Disney Parks news that was only made available to D23 attendees that didn't make it out into the public?
Since Brickey took his video, a video by Five Fires now shows trees have been removed in that area behind Boardwalk Pizza discussed above:
I think this shows there is more slicing and dicing that will be happening in coming weeks, we’re far from done with demo and land clearing it looks like.
Meaning that Disney released the same information about the locations of those two attractions as they did Coco, ie they didn't provide any further information on the "where" within any backstage area.
Each D23 they give information about each Disney Resort, but they focus in on one of the Domestic Resorts to showcase, in 2024 that was WDW which is why they had models for those attractions projects. I expect in August that focus will be on DLR which I assume will have models for Avengers/Starks, Coco, and maybe even Avatar.
Other than a model I don't think any information was different though, that is the point. If you can provide me an example besides the model where they gave more information for Monsters and Encanto (especially about specific locations and attraction show building information things you say they should do here) I'll be happy to correct my stance.
Except even then other than maybe trailers for upcoming movies (which still eventually make it to Youtube) there is no attraction related information that is kept exclusive. Everything about the Disney Parks projects are available for the public. Again I can't think of any information in its 17 year history that wasn't made public.
The only thing I can think of not being released properly is some concept art they'd show on the screen then not in the parks blog, most recently the bluesky art of the original plans for Beyond Big Thunder and Moana replacing Dinoland.