Will we ever see a fully indoor land at WDW?

Andrew25

Andrew25

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It's that time of the season in Florida where the weather becomes unbearably hot (and arguably dangerous) to be out in the sun for a long part of the day. Which makes me question why WDW and UOR avoid the construction of indoor lands? They have experience with Mermaid Lagoon at DisneySea, Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness at Universal Beijing... so why can't Florida get something similar?

It's common to see guests, unfortunately, dehydrated throughout the day as well as attractions shut for 2-3 hours a day when the afternoon thunderstorms roll in... so why haven't the parks built a "plan B"?

I don't think that indoor rides are enough since you end up getting dumped outside after you exit, so a completely indoor land that guests can roam as if the park were operating normally will be a huge advantage.

Magic Kingdom does fine with its large number of indoor rides, but could use an indoor land.
Epcot does it best in Orlando with The Land, Seas, Mexico, and several interactive exhibits at Figment, Mission Space, and SSE.

Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and Universal's Parks (especially IOA) would benefit tremendously from more indoor areas.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

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I wonder if a major indoor theme park like IMG or Warner Bros. in the Middle East could hold its own against WDW/Uni if ever it got developed in Fla. Definitely could use the increasingly hotter summers as an advantage.
 
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Lilofan

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Andrew25 said:
It's that time of the season in Florida where the weather becomes unbearably hot (and arguably dangerous) to be out in the sun for a long part of the day. Which makes me question why WDW and UOR avoid the construction of indoor lands? They have experience with Mermaid Lagoon at DisneySea, Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness at Universal Beijing... so why can't Florida get something similar?

It's common to see guests, unfortunately, dehydrated throughout the day as well as attractions shut for 2-3 hours a day when the afternoon thunderstorms roll in... so why haven't the parks built a "plan B"?

I don't think that indoor rides are enough since you end up getting dumped outside after you exit, so a completely indoor land that guests can roam as if the park were operating normally will be a huge advantage.

Magic Kingdom does fine with its large number of indoor rides, but could use an indoor land.
Epcot does it best in Orlando with The Land, Seas, Mexico, and several interactive exhibits at Figment, Mission Space, and SSE.

Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and Universal's Parks (especially IOA) would benefit tremendously from more indoor areas.
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Hundreds of CMs work in the gigantic Feature Animation building behind DHS Toy Story Midway Mania. Relocate the CMs and gut that building and you’ve got yourself a huge indoor land.
 
FutureCEO

FutureCEO

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Baloo124 said:
I wonder if a major indoor theme park like IMG or Warner Bros. in the Middle East could hold its own against WDW/Uni if ever it got developed in Fla. Definitely could use the increasingly hotter summers as an advantage.
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SeaWorld in the Middle East is all indoors. It looks weird though to someone that is used to everything outdoors.
 
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Eric Graham

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I do enjoy going to Sea World occasionally, especially for Discovery Cove. The penguin experience was great fun for us! However, a lot of things in the main park are outdoors and can be a bit overbearing especially in the Florida Summer sun. We love the park, but we wish that a number of areas contained more shaded areas. That's just my opinion, nonetheless. Have a great day!
 
Andrew25

Andrew25

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Other than cost, is there any other valid reason? With July and summer months seemingly becoming a less desirable time of the year to visit... they might have to give in to more indoor experiences?
 
mergatroid

mergatroid

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Goofyernmost said:
In the sense that you are looking for the answer is NO.
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I would agree, they've gone decades without making a completely indoor 'Land' so far so why would they start now? Most would complain if they did it I would imagine for several reasons.

If the ceiling wasn't completely themed people would say "You know you're in a building". This would make it very expensive and in turn probably very small for a land. Also the building would have to be themed to stop complaints seeing as GOTG building gets so much criticism. Again this would drastically reduce the size of the 'Land' so I just don't see the merits of doing this compared to the downside and complaints it would generate.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Andrew25 said:
Other than cost, is there any other valid reason? With July and summer months seemingly becoming a less desirable time of the year to visit... they might have to give in to more indoor experiences?
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Why, for over 50 years now people have been going there in the summer! Hot, for sure! Humid, absolutely! Now all of a sudden they are going to have cover all that acreage with an AC'd building? It doesn't bode will for humanity that we have become so soft that we can't be outside anymore or aren't smart enough to go at a time when the weather is a little more accommodating.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Baloo124 said:
I wonder if a major indoor theme park like IMG or Warner Bros. in the Middle East could hold its own against WDW/Uni if ever it got developed in Fla. Definitely could use the increasingly hotter summers as an advantage.
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Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi was a $1 billion park. SeaWorld Abu Dhabi was an $1.2 billion park. Epic Universe is a $7 billion park. Those parks are nowhere near the same scope and scale as the Disney and Universal parks.
 
Baloo124

Baloo124

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lazyboy97o said:
Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi was a $1 billion park. SeaWorld Abu Dhabi was an $1.2 billion park. Epic Universe is a $7 billion park. Those parks are nowhere near the same scope and scale as the Disney and Universal parks.
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But could one like those stay afloat against Disney, etc in the Orlando area as a "cooler, enclosed, AC at every turn" alternative? Not put the big dogs outta business, but keep up as its own thing now that summers seem to be getting toastier each year?
 
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JMcMahonEsq

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Andrew25 said:
Other than cost, is there any other valid reason? With July and summer months seemingly becoming a less desirable time of the year to visit... they might have to give in to more indoor experiences?
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Does there really need to be another reason other than the massive expense?

If so you can add in that there doesn't seem to be any appreciable ROI on that massive expense. Is the drop off in profits in July and August really so much that it would justify building an indoor land?

That also leaves aside the idea that a completely indoor land is going to be limited in size, height, scale, type of rides, ect.

If they predicate to your question is that they might need to do more indoor experiences, well isn't WDW really already doing that? Looking at the last several large attraction builds, Rat, GotG, Tron, ect., are all primarily an indoor experience. Is your thought that WDW needs to spend billions so that that space in between rides is indoors?
 
tanc

tanc

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They’re never going to do it unless it’s with other funding. They can’t even add shade to HS which by far becomes the most miserable to walk around imo
 

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