Al Lutz says Fantasyland Budget has been "Reduced"

[TP2000]

You seem to have forgotten about global warming.

I assume you are joking.

Regardless, Disney isn't going to waste the third theme park land in the decade of the 2020's on a water park. Similarly, they also won't be building a mini golf course, a go-kart track, or batting cages there either.

 

[jt04]

I assume you are joking.

Regardless, Disney isn't going to waste the third theme park land in the decade of the 2020's on a water park. Similarly, they also won't be building a mini golf course, a go-kart track, or batting cages there either.

Water parks are cash machines. And I could see them building a water park and resort. Something like a Great Wolf Lodge but much bigger.

But more likely Disney will make a deal to turn it into a transportation hub and hotel complex is my guess.

And yes I was joking.

 

[TP2000]

Water parks are cash machines. And I could see them building a water park and resort. Something like a Great Wolf Lodge but much bigger.

But more likely Disney will make a deal to turn it into a transportation hub and hotel complex is my guess.

I think they've got their two big hotels, Disneyland Hotel and Grand Californian, to handle that resort/water slide demographic. They have plenty of room for two, maybe three, large new hotels on current land used by surface parking lots off Katella and/or Disneyland Drive. A few moments looking at Google Earth shows all of the sprawling surface parking lots still existing on Disney property in Anaheim, in addition to repurposing existing Disney owned hotels.

The transportation hub isn't neccesary, as it will be located at the ARTIC site a mile east down Katella. That's where the current Surfliner/Metrolink train station is, and where the southern terminus of California High Speed Rail will be located in a sprawling multi-modal facility handling High Speed Rail, Surfliner, Metrolink, and Anaheim Fixed Guideway trains.

ARTIC is HUGE and arrives about a year after Cars Land opens, with the first High Speed Rail trains arriving a few years later. http://www.octa.net/M2Project.aspx?EntryId=343&TabId=1331

Disneyland Resort's role is just a stop or two on the Fixed Guideway route to and from ARTIC, so there is no need for any major "transportation hub" aside from what already exists or whay may be expanded at existing facilities in the future.

Can we put the water park idea to bed now? It's very sleepy. :lol:

 

[jt04]

I think they've got their two big hotels, Disneyland Hotel and Grand Californian, to handle that resort/water slide demographic. They have plenty of room for two, maybe three, large new hotels on current land used by surface parking lots off Katella and/or Disneyland Drive. A few moments looking at Google Earth shows all of the sprawling surface parking lots still existing on Disney property in Anaheim, in addition to repurposing existing Disney owned hotels.

The transportation hub isn't neccesary, as it will be located at the ARTIC site a mile east down Katella. That's where the current Surfliner/Metrolink train station is, and where the southern terminus of California High Speed Rail will be located in a sprawling multi-modal facility handling High Speed Rail, Surfliner, Metrolink, and Anaheim Fixed Guideway trains.

ARTIC is HUGE and arrives about a year after Cars Land opens, with the first High Speed Rail trains arriving a few years later. http://www.octa.net/M2Project.aspx?EntryId=343&TabId=1331

Disneyland Resort's role is just a stop or two on the Fixed Guideway route to and from ARTIC, so there is no need for any major "transportation hub" aside from what already exists or whay may be expanded at existing facilities in the future.

Can we put the water park idea to bed now? It's very sleepy. :lol:

Well I'm no expert on DL. That area does not seem suitable for much else but who knows, maybe it will get sold to fund a 5th gate at WDW.

 

[TP2000]

Well I'm no expert on DL. That area does not seem suitable for much else but who knows, maybe it will get sold to fund a 5th gate at WDW.

Well, if I do say so myself, I am an amateur expert on Disneyland. I can also make a great Mai-Tai.

Disney spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars piecing together that large piece of land from several different owners, Mr. Fujishege of Strawberry Field fame only the most notorious. Unless the Walt Disney Company hits very hard times, they aren't selling that land to anyone. Not to ANYONE.

I read you are going to D23, so I think you will get a kick out of seeing how it all fits together in Anaheim. It's a mish-mash really of fabulous Disney spaces, with a 20th century SoCal suburb trying to reinvent itself for the rest of the 21st century.