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[FigmentJedi]

Maybe not... universal love to recycle ideas... I can see a monorail ride (or even cooler a people mover type ride in one of those balls) that could take you to another site a la harry potter (wet and wild site anyone?)

Meant that there isn't much room to put a new Jurassic World attraction in outside Camp Jurassic or the old Triceratops paddocks. The original expansion pads for the area were absorbed by Potter and Kong.

 

[GLaDOS]

@WDW1974 @Lee @marni1971 @GLaDOS @Disneyhead'71 @articos

Is there any truth to the New Frontierland and New Tomorrowland rumors?

It seems out of the blue; especially when Epcot needs a make-over and DHS needs a drastic overhaul. AK will be fine for 2-3 years after Pandora/RoL/nighttime safari, but what about the other two parks?

Would this affect Pixar/Star Wars for DHS? or the Imagination/WoL overhaul in Epcot?

Definitely the wrong person to ask about Disney stuff. I'm in the blind over there.

 

[GLaDOS]

Meant that there isn't much room to put a new Jurassic World attraction in outside Camp Jurassic or the old Triceratops paddocks. The original expansion pads for the area were absorbed by Potter and Kong.

I think there's more room than you'd think. The island is like 50% wasted space.

 

[bhg469]

Meant that there isn't much room to put a new Jurassic World attraction in outside Camp Jurassic or the old Triceratops paddocks. The original expansion pads for the area were absorbed by Potter and Kong.

As long as there are family friendly attractions I could easily see toon lagoon giving way for the dodo. See what I did there?

 

[ItlngrlBella]

Oh dear, I think that's twice in 24 hours...you gotta start workin' up some new material, Felicia!

*SNAP*

@PhotoDave219 ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy, 'cause silicone parts are made for toys.

 

[Cody5294]

@WDW1974 So Tomorrowland is getting a makeover by the 50th anniversary???

 

[NowInc]

Wasn't all of that already debunked in its dedicated thread?

 

[wdisney9000]

They do bring the period music back

Ahhh, The period music... I hear it at my house about 5-7 days every month. It is NOT very melodic though. You could call it...b*tchin'

 

[Mike S]

I think there's more room than you'd think. The island is like 50% wasted space.

Bye bye Camp Jurassic? Never did it myself, won't miss it at all.

 

[GLaDOS]

Bye bye Camp Jurassic? Never did it myself, won't miss it at all.

I hope not. Camp Jurassic is a gem. Enough room to do at least one medium sized attraction without touching that

 

[Mike S]

I hope not. Camp Jurassic is a gem. Enough room to do at least one medium sized attraction without touching that

Where?

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

Meant that there isn't much room to put a new Jurassic World attraction in outside Camp Jurassic or the old Triceratops paddocks. The original expansion pads for the area were absorbed by Potter and Kong.

Where?

There is also the existing visitor center which could be removed to open up another large space.

Honestly, the visitor center would make a more fitting entrance for JP River Adventure, using the updated building from Jurassic World. You walk into the lobby before heading down the "Hammond Creation Lab" corridor past the labs and control room before heading back outside to board the rafts.

By doing this, you open up the old visitor center site as an expansion pad, along with the old Triceratops Encounter area. And if you really get short for space, you can use Camp Jurassic (though I think it's better to keep it because it has good themeing and it's a welcomed area for parents to let kids run around and blow off some steam).

But enough armchair "creative-eering." FWIW, saw Jurassic World over the weekend. It definitely gets the job done as a summer blockbuster action flick, but there were so many annoyances on a range of things. Left the theater a bit disappointed. It was better than JP3, but not sure I would say it was better than Lost World.

 

[doctornick]

Again, feel like Universal jumped the gun boxing Jurassic Park in with the new Kong ride.

Yes. As much as I love what I'm hearing about Kong, I don't really understand why they used a JP expansion pad for it when the latter franchise was coming out with a movie. I know they have limited space, but it just feels like it would have been better to have left that available for future JP development.

 

[doctornick]

Wasn't all of that already debunked in its dedicated thread?

I don't think it was debunked as much as that it's too far in advance to suggest what things will or will not occur. @articos seemed to indicate that something will happen a the MK for the 50th, but it's probably still up in the air at this point as to any details.

 

[BrerJon]

Bye bye Camp Jurassic? Never did it myself, won't miss it at all.

I love Camp Jurassic and would hate for it to go. The whole amber mine / excavation site aspect of it is beautifully themed and ties in nicely with the Discovery Center. You have the complete picture... it starts at Camp Jurassic, the Discovery Center hatches the eggs and does all the science stuff, then the River Adventure is the final exhibit.

What's in the chunk of land with the huts above that though? Is that the Triceratops area? That looks plenty big enough to use as an expansion pad for a 'Gyro Cruise' ride.

 

[Mike S]

Yes. As much as I love what I'm hearing about Kong, I don't really understand why they used a JP expansion pad for it when the latter franchise was coming out with a movie. I know they have limited space, but it just feels like it would have been better to have left that available for future JP development.

Maybe they felt JP already had a big ride so they gave the space to Kong. They could always give JPRA a huge makeover. There is space for a new ride and we all know how Uni can take advantage of small space with Transformers being on two levels. If they really do a Gyrosphere ride I could see it not needing so much space cause it could either travel above like a PeopleMover like some have suggested or it would just be a simulator that stands still like a truly next generation version of Star Tours that completely surrounds you. Looking at the Gyrosphere this is the best possible way to make it work.

 

[GLaDOS]

Where?

Triceratops Encounter plot, area by the old skipper tours dock, the visitors center could be repurposed

 

[asianway]

Looks like the social media mommy twitter is going on overdrive today to drown out the bad publicity in the article

 

[wdisney9000]

I wouldn't get that excited for Star Wars opening weekend numbers yet. You forget its coming out in the holiday season which means people are going to push it back to when they go see it because of travel, budgeting for gifts, east coast weather which affected Avatar's opening weekend in december due to a blizzard, etc....however it will have strong sales through the following weeks into January and internationally Star Wars has been weak compared to domestically so the audience particularly in China etc can't be assessed. However should do extremely well in the European market as long as Disney doesn't cause problems with small business owners and no extremely bad weather.

While most of that is true, we are talking about Star Wars here. You can throw ALL the statistical data out the window. ALL of it. People will be camped out. People will be all cosplayed up and gingerly touching the tips of their light sabers as they nerdgasm all over the pavement.

Considering that Universal is not only crushing it at the box office but they are also stealing most of the limelight for theme park announcements too, Disney is gonna have the PR machine in overdrive with the after burners blasting at full throttle. I wouldnt be surprised if we see Jennifer-Fickley-Cupcake-I-use-a-much-younger-photo-of-myself-for-my-avatar-Baker dressed up in a golden-bikini to excite the fanbois and have them tweeting every time they change their underoos

If any of the idiots in upper level management have any shred of a brain cell left and they can stop diddling themselves while staring at stock price increases and tiered ticketing structures, maybe we will see some decent cross promotion in DHS and get more than just Jabba the Hut cupcakes.

 

[wdisney9000]

Not to mention a Jurassic World/Jurassic Park revamp likely got the greenlight after a $200 million+ OW and will be fasttracked big-time. Late 2017/early 2018 is my guess.

And Ted 2/Minions should give Universal another $1.5-1.8 billion at the WW box office. They could feasibly finish up with $7-8 billion for 2015.... I'm thinking some of that will go to the parks, especially since Diagon Alley should keep theme parks sky-high!

Ya, Disney cant play the Frozen card anymore without looking extremely desperate (if they havent hit that point already) and with a lack of any actually exciting theme park news that doesnt involve recycling the words "coolest summer", Star Wars is their Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points which can use the Helm of Disintegration and do 1-D4 damage as their half-elf Mage wields his plus-5 Holy Avenger.....oh wait, Paladins cant use the Helm of Disintegration, never mind. They will probly screw it up and just make an up charge event that will have fans drooling to spend $50 for scrambled eggs and bacon.