MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Just thought of another thing potentially lost due to Cars: this view.
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Assuming the concept art is roughly the track layout, Piston Peak is gonna block Cinderella Castle and Space Mountain.

That view alone now that it isn't Splash Mountain screams Princess and The Frog even more. The sight of the Riverboat, the river, the castle in the distance as a gleam of hope being Tiana. Disneyland doesn't have a view with the castle like this neither does Tokyo's Splash! Standing there over the bridge with Happily Ever starting with Tiana singing, it's a starry ️ evening it's the closest Princess and the Frog true Disney you would get and Cars will DCA style this real quick!

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

You mean that from a Frontierland ride, all you'll be able to see is Frontierland attractions?

If you care about that sorta thing, sure. But everywhere else in the park you can see the castle and sometimes even Space Mountain, and the castle itself was meant to be seen everywhere as a waypoint for navigating a park with a bizarre layout.

Does it make more thematic sense for all of a land to be self contained and no other land visible from outside it? Sure. It’s way more immersive. Does the Magic Kingdom (or any castle park) actually follow that philosophy? No, so let’s not give them credit for that. Especially not when you’d be seeing a mountain shaped like a cartoon car piston with sentient, eyeball-having cartoon cars driving around it, not something that actually makes visual sense for 1920s Louisiana. Let’s not say one unfitting view is better than the other because of an arbitrary land category (both Tiana’s and Cars push the “frontier” definition to its limits as it is).

Now if Piston Peak didn’t look like a cartoon mountain and actually looked realistic/fitting the view of Tiana’s, that’d be a different story. But it does and likely will and they absolutely did not plan on making the view from Tiana’s purely Frontierland.

 

[Charlie The Chatbox Ghost]

That view alone now that it isn't Splash Mountain screams Princess and The Frog even more. The sight of the Riverboat, the river, the castle in the distance as a gleam of hope being Tiana. Disneyland doesn't have a view with the castle like this neither does Tokyo's Splash! Standing there over the bridge with Happily Ever starting with Tiana singing, it's a starry ️ evening it's the closest Princess and the Frog true Disney you would get and Cars will DCA style this real quick!

Very good point! Though Space Mountain kinda throws the idea out lol. The view wasn’t intended to fit the ride 100%, it’s just a happy accident that it works so well. Didn’t even think of the river boat being visible from the top.

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Very good point! Though Space Mountain kinda throws the idea out lol. The view wasn’t intended to fit the ride 100%, it’s just a happy accident that it works so well. Didn’t even think of the river boat being visible from the top.

Yeah but let's say Splash Mountain opened with Magic Kingdom in 1971, maybe they'd build Space Mountain more to the side and worked imagineering ways to hide it best they can although then wouldn't the castle count as nothing to do with Splash. Also didn't Space Mountain also not open with the park in 1971?

 

[Ayla]

Yeah but let's say Splash Mountain opened with Magic Kingdom in 1971, maybe they'd build Space Mountain more to the side and worked imagineering ways to hide it best they can although then wouldn't the castle count as nothing to do with Splash. Also didn't Space Mountain also not open with the park in 1971?

No, it opened in 1977.

 

[Haymarket2008]

No, it opened in 1977.

*1975

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Very good point! Though Space Mountain kinda throws the idea out lol. The view wasn’t intended to fit the ride 100%, it’s just a happy accident that it works so well. Didn’t even think of the river boat being visible from the top.

For the Fact that this iconic view with the Riverboat Backdrop Folklore and Splash Mountain was never built or anything to do with Tiana, inspiration, Louisiana, Princess and The Frog is a Gift in itself and now that it fits more than ever they want to remove elements for another IP environment! That is mind boggling to me.

 

[Ayla]

*1975

Thanks for the correction.

 

[Brer Panther]

Standing there over the bridge with Happily Ever starting with Tiana singing, it's a starry ️ evening it's the closest Princess and the Frog true Disney you would get

Especially since Tiana's Bayou Adventure otherwise has basically nothing to do with The Princess and the Frog.

 

[Squishy]

Haven't read this thread in a long 500 pages time, this project is still not canceled? Not even a rumor of it being canceled? Sad.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Haven't read this thread in a long 500 pages time, this project is still not canceled? Not even a rumor of it being canceled? Sad.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

 

[Squishy]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

I'll take a large 10pc nugget meal with coke, keep the race cars.

 

[Delta-7]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Actually this is a Wendy Darling's. You have to believe.

 

[Ragerunner]

The sooner they begin work on the Cars attractions the better. At least closure for some can begin.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Actually this is a Wendy Darling's. You have to believe.

 

[Brer Panther]

Anyone want a Frosty?

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Actually this is a Wendy Darling's. You have to believe.

There's only a second star to the right from the castle, not an artificial cheapskate Planes Peak!