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Touchdown

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Professortango1 said:
Sounds pretty niche to me. Nintendo is a huge miss for me as the area feels like a lesser Toontown and the one ride is so disappointing.

To have another land themed to generic cartoon world with another AR-based attraction looking at cartoon characters seems like a very dumb move. Almost as bad as another Fast and Furious-themed attraction. Nobody wants to step into the world of F & F. It's just warehouses and urban decay.

I'd much prefer a version of the Universal Monsters land we are seeing at Epic. Or NYC with Ghostbusters and Ninja Turtle.

They definitely need something besides Harry Potter to draw me in and Pokemon is just doubling down on what we already have with Mario. I don't want more of the same,.
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I think you don’t appreciate how big Pokemon is. It’s literally bigger than Mickey Mouse (this is the only IP where that is true.) Between the mainline games, Pokemon Go, and the card game its reach is enormous. Look at what Mario did for USH, Pokémon will be bigger.
 
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mickEblu

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So you wanna tell me that today’s penny pinching, spreadsheet worshipping regime would get rid of Pooh for a Country Bears return or an Ewok ride? That’s hard to be believe. That would only happen if they moved Pooh somewhere else. I heard one random rumor of Pooh being moved to Pinocchio but that sounds awful in every way.
 
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mickEblu

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Agent H said:
Because a. No one had thought of something like that yet and b. What would that even look like?
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Just pointing out that revenue didn’t rule every decision in the past. If so we would have had a Mickey Mouse land. The focus was on transportive placemaking. But things change. Clearly, a Pokémon land would do well. But I’m not sure there is anything inherently about that world that I need to see in a theme park setting. So many other properties that would lends themselves to a theme park attraction or land much better.
 
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Agent H

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mickEblu said:
Just pointing out that revenue didn’t rule every decision in the past. If so we would have had a Mickey Mouse land. The focus was on transportive placemaking. But things change. Clearly, a Pokémon land would do well. But I’m not sure there is anything inherently about that world that I need to see in a theme park setting. So many other properties that would lends themselves to a theme park attraction or land much better.
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I’d still take Pokémon over Simpsons and I’m not even a Pokémon fan.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Phroobar said:
Star Wars comes in after Winnie the Pooh. Princesses after that. That is why the country bears had to leave for Pooh.
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Right and I can see how moving Pooh (key word moving) for more Star Wars in general might appeal to them but I don’t think Ewoks would necessarily be the needle mover and merch mover that would make the hassle worth it for them. Especially if the plan is to move Pooh to Fantasyland which I hope is not true. That would be a lot of dollars spent on a couple C tickets and a net gain of 0 attractions. Now maybe if you re putting in an a speeder bike coaster that sort of launches into the expansion pad at DL Forward like @britain suggested that might be worth the hassle. Of course all while maintaining the ambiance of Bayou Country or whatever rustic part of GE that would be. Don’t want to see any steel coaster tracks overhead.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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mickEblu said:
Just pointing out that revenue didn’t rule every decision in the past. If so we would have had a Mickey Mouse land. The focus was on transportive placemaking. But things change. Clearly, a Pokémon land would do well. But I’m not sure there is anything inherently about that world that I need to see in a theme park setting. So many other properties that would lends themselves to a theme park attraction or land much better.
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Toontown?
They're building a Pokemon attraction at Universal Studios Japan. I don't think an actual Pokemon land is in the works, just the attraction, but Food Boulevard (the Simpsons food) would need to be replaced if Simpsons leave
 

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