Do you know where the DHS expansion would fall in terms of timing, in relation to the other plans?
No there's an expansion pad roughly where IJA is in Disneyland, just beyond Jungle Cruise.
Monoa wouldn't be the evicting force, but those facilities will almost certainly be impacted by a full build-out of their current BBTM vision. We'll see.
So is it a Coco E-Ticket or C/D? I'm sorry but Soarin' 2.0 does not excite me.
Having not seen the actual mockups, I'm expecting a ride experience closer to Flight of Passage but with the more accessible load/unload procedures of Soarin'. From those who *have* seen the mockups, reports are encouraging.
Just might give the villains something else to be salty about. Unfortunately.
Then we still have “Bed” and “Bath” to look forward to
I was thinking this over today, and I can’t see how the river survives unscathed if they do indeed want to loop this around to next to the haunted mansion; there’s nowhere currently to locate the queue to. That cut through from fantasyland near the gift shop is right there, and you can’t go further right into the pet cemetery because the show buildings for mansion and small world are right there. Only feasible thing is to expand out to the left and fill in the river
Right and to get to that location, how would they address the return parade route back to the warehouses? That route has 2 lines, one that goes under the railroad and the other goes over which is for the floats. My question is how will that be addressed to get back to that location.
The expansion plot is here, assuming that's the furthest north they intend to go with it. Prior expansion plans for this land back in the late 90s and early 2000s included a new walkway that went between POTC and Jungle Cruise-
WDI definitely did design a flying-theater Coco attraction (which would presumably be classified as an E-ticket). Though I’m personally skeptical that it will ultimately be included in BBTM phase 1, given that they appear to have moved and adapted some of the Coco area to the plans for DAK (along with Encanto), which wouldn’t make sense IMO if they were still planning that ride for MK. I would assume any talk of a C-ticket Coco attraction would refer to the carousel pictured in the TA concept art (as well as the obsolete BBTM artwork)
if Caribbean Way is closed, they could bring the floats back up through the parade route after the park closes as a temporary measure. Or even run the parade a second time in the opposite direction during park hours.
Unless they're intending to expand into the space where those buildings are located, there's no reason to move the floats behind Fantasyland. There also aren't any roads back there that connect to any other parts of the park, they would have to either build a new road or use the original Floridian Way to get there. Which I don't see happening unless they finally close off that road to guests completely and force everyone to use the Floridian PL bypass they built a few years back.
That might work. Depending on how much space they have back behind Main Street to keep floats back there for extended periods of time.
). In this case though, you can see how far they have to reach to find IPs that can somehow be related to a desert setting. This is a classic situation where original park ideas would help tremendously. If the Imagineers would be allowed to spread their wings and freely create original attractions and placemaking ideas, there would be no issues forcing BTM along side Cars and Woody.
