Yep. If they DID replace Mr. Toad or Pinocchio, it'd probably be with a trackless dark ride.
id rather they relocate/rebuild IaSW to circus area and give is a mary blaire aesthetic in that area and redo the fantasyland area to a tangled boat ride with tangeled themed food and much better aesthetic
I’m not sure I trust this current regime to touch IASW that heavily. If anything, since everyone keeps dogpiling MK IASW (which I can understand) why don’t they just enclose the queue space & add some unique, 24/7 projection mapping to the facade? Make use of the fact its indoors & create a permanent lighting package unique to their version, almost how Disneyland uses their facade for all the firework shows. Now imagine that specially made for the theme of the attraction, during all hours of operation. Could be something special. Add back those colorful fountains too!!
Japan, Germany and Italy all had original plans for attractions behind the current pavilion boundaries. As far as I know those expansion pads are still there.
What about Japan?
not during our lifetimes but that can go away for something else if they ever wanted to. So in a sense that whole expansion pad could still be an entire new pavilion someday....but I think the one between Germany and Italy (which would have been Brazil) or one of the two next to Africa outpost would happen first before anything there.
Yeah, I know they can use the empty expansion pads. I was more interested in whether they could (not will) still build those original rides at the back of the existing pavilions.
Realistically…there are a bunch of expansion pads all over the park
Ditto. EPCOT is probably the easiest park to expand with genuinely new attractions.
The UK is a country, though—our passports are British, not English, Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish. Yes, it is a country made up of constituent nations, but (somewhat contrary to @osian’s assertion) I don’t see how the situation differs all that much from what one finds in, say, Italy, which too is made up of different regions with their own cultures, traditions, and even languages.It also doesn't help that the other areas are Country-based and not region-based. Canada and the US aren't combined into the North American Pavilion. Mexico isn't a Central American Pavillion. Its hard to then have a pavilion which embodies three different countries and cultures.
That being said, let's just make a Darby O' Gill ride and call it a day.
Wait, I’m confused. If you’re referring to the Republic of Ireland, I get your point, but many in Northern Ireland do consider themselves British. It’s a bit simplistic to claim that British and Irish are mutually exclusive categories.
And nor did the Republic of Ireland! He was born at a time when the United Kingdom included the whole of Ireland and when the only nationality that officially existed was British. That’s a separate matter from how he himself identified, of course, and it seems from his letters that he regarded himself as Irish, though he was an Anglican born into a Unionist family.
Context is key here. The writers he listed were all from the Republic of Ireland. Allowing for the confusion over CS Lewis.
Stoker is a tricky one, because he did regard himself as British as well as Irish.
