News 'Beyond Big Thunder Mountain' Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

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Beyond Big Thunder Mountain Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

Beyond Big Thunder Mountain Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

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[M:SpilotISTC12]

Oof.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

This is the weirdest . . . "announcement"(??) ever

 

[ToTBellHop]

I’m so excited to never see this land! Especially the villain land they’ll continue to not build!

 

[Mouse3268]

Say goodby to the Rivers of America!

 

[SaucyBoy]

I'm not opposed to either of these IPs coming to the MK. It's all about the execution though and Disney's track record (at WDW at least) with new lands based around a sole IP isn't great; in my opinion of course.

 

[Disnutz311]

Excited for Villians until they mess it up and value engineer it to heck and back. Again, does Coco and Encanto deserve an entire land or is this like Hong Kong mini lands? Not all of this will even make the light of day. So much for Coco in Mexico Pavilion.

 

[Thelazer]

Well it's needed, that's for sure. Could perhaps somehow tie in better with the splash overlay.. and remake the whole area a bit.
Eh, I'll take it though.

 

[TarzanRocked99-]

If they are gonna do this, they might as well go ahead and re-theme the area around Splash to our own version in New Orleans Square

 

[celluloid]

"Let's leave them with a really early tease of that thing we hope to do...we need to have something to counter act the hype around Universal's expansion of Epic Universe but without actually committing to it or opening near the same time"

And there it is.

 

[DCLcruiser]

@wdwmagic I think we need a new sub-forum "Beyond Big Thunder Mountain."

First impressions:

1) Coco belongs in EPCOT
2) Encanto, eh, catchy song but I dunno. Maybe it will be an omnimover ride? Or are we actually opening doors in a walkthrough.
3) Villians, that should be an entire new park.

 

[Disnutz311]

Exactly. “Show them something so they smile and we can scrap it or VE it later.”

"Let's leave them with a really early tease of that thing we hope to do...we need to have something to counter act the hype around Universal's expansion of Epic Universe but without actually committing to it or opening near the same time"

And there it is.

 

[JohnD]

Once again hopes dashed that they would bring back Imagination 1.0.

 

[networkpro]

Well there is a lot of space back there...

 

[GhostHost1000]

Because it makes complete sense having Tiana in Frontierland and then walking into hispanicland with villains world in the distance.

 

[ChapekOut]

Hope those dudes in the audience like cannolis and posters, ‘cos there’s nothing else to get excited about here!

 

[fgmnt]

While none of this will ever get built, I think if it did, this would be an entirely new land or a sub-land of a new expansion of Fantasyland, not an expansion of Frontierland.

Also feel like it's important to remember that outside of BTMRR, the attractions in Frontierland have historically been more aligned to a Mississippi delta than the American Southwest anyway.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Because it makes complete sense having Tiana in Frontierland and then walking into hispanicland with villains world in the distance.

Yea that’s my only gripe with this concept, none of it matches

 

[Model3 McQueen]

Not a creative bone left at theme park imagineering

 

[ppete1975]

@wdwmagic I think we need a new sub-forum "Beyond Big Thunder Mountain."

First impressions:

1) Coco belongs in EPCOT
2) Encanto, eh, catchy song but I dunno. Maybe it will be an omnimover ride? Or are we actually opening doors in a walkthrough.
3) Villians, that should be an entire new park.

Coco doesnt belong in epcot. If you are talking about replacing gran fiesta. Theres no room. Unless you make the queue go behind the building and build onto epcot behind the pyramid. The current area and queue structure wouldnt handle it. Gran fiesta is perfect for what little space there is.