News 'Beyond Big Thunder Mountain' Blue Sky concept revealed for Magic Kingdom

[Nottamus]

I felt like I just watched:

“Ok, let’s just TELL them we’re going to build a bunch of things. We don’t have to DO it”

 

[DCLcruiser]

Coco will be FoP pt.2. A big screen as you ride Pepita.

Encanto is a walkthrough, or maybe a ride where it enters each doorway.

 

[Magic Feather]

This shouldn't have been announced. I know they prefaced the presentation explaining how Blue Sky this was but casual fans won't understand that.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

Are we sure the rivers would be removed instead of built around or slightly shortened like what happened at DL? I'm not entirely opposed to this project, I just don't like how it works within a park like MK. A standalone villains expansion to FL would be great though.

 

[Captain Neo]

When I think Frontierland expansion I think Lewis and Clark rafting expedition, Big Thunder Mesa, western river expedition, geyser mountain

Chapek thinks: merchandising opportunities!

 

[DCLcruiser]

This shouldn't have been announced. I know they prefaced the presentation explaining how Blue Sky this was but casual fans won't understand that.

They would never announce and then cancel...

 

[SpaceMountain77]

I do not recall exactly what Josh said, but it was something to the effect of making super fans nervous.

While I would like to believe that beyond Big Thunder Mountain would mean north of it, I think the part that would make super fans nervous is the elimination of the Rivers of America.

 

[tanc]

This shouldn't have been announced. I know they prefaced the presentation explaining how Blue Sky this was but casual fans won't understand that.

Epic Universe needed competition. Disney I guess is trying to bluff and get people excited. I don't even know why Disney would do this when fiscally I'm not even sure they would invest that much into the parks. 5 new expansions for WDW sounds insane.

It probably doesn't need to be said, but park tickets are potentially going to be $150-$200. This won't come cheap.

 

[DCLcruiser]

When I think Frontierland expansion I think Lewis and Clark rafting expedition, Big Thunder Mesa, western river expedition, geyser mountain

Chapek thinks: merchandising opportunities!

Maybe the Frontier (West) is moving farther south...

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Epic Universe needed competition. Disney I guess is trying to bluff and get people excited. I don't even know why Disney would do this when fiscally I'm not even sure they would invest that much into the parks. 5 new expansions for WDW sounds insane.

It was never 5, it's two.

Dinoland would be Moana OR Zootopia.

"Beyond Big Thunder" would be Villains OR Encanto OR Coco.

 

[Captain Neo]

Maybe the Frontier (West) is moving farther south...

It’s moving into becoming part of fantasyland

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I've never gotten the hype for a villains park or area and frankly felt pretty embarrassed to see it mentioned here. It felt like pretty shameless fan service - a way to get hardcore fans hyped and pull attention from Epic Universe without even giving an idea of what this villains area would entail, who it would feature, where it would go.

Epic Universe is getting an area based on Universal Monsters.

A villains land/ride has long been proposed, for decades at this point, but bringing it up now feels like a more pointed imitation now that the competition is following through with something similar.

 

[Captain Neo]

It was never 5, it's two.

Dinoland would be Moana OR Zootopia.

"Beyond Big Thunder" would be Villains OR Encanto OR Coco.

Wait what? That’s even weirder

The concept art showed zootopia replacing countdown to extinction and Moana replacing the carnival but they are sitting side by side

How was Walt Disney able to expand like crazy on a shoestring budget but the biggest company in the world that makes BILLIONS of dollars in revenue can’t build anything worth a damn?

 

[ToTBellHop]

It was never 5, it's two.

Dinoland would be Moana OR Zootopia.

"Beyond Big Thunder" would be Villains OR Encanto OR Coco.

Nope. These are phases. Dinoland would be Moana then Zootopia. Moana replaces Dino-Rama and comes soon. Zootopia later replaces the rest of Dinoland (including Dinosaur, which is retrofitted).

This MK project is EXTREMELY blue sky, on the other hand.

 

[DCLcruiser]

There's so much space past BTMRR.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Nope. These are phases. Dinoland would be Moana then Zootopia. Moana replaces Dino-Rama and comes soon. Zootopia later replaces the rest of Dinoland (including Dinosaur, which is retrofitted).

This MK project is EXTREMELY blue sky, on the other hand.

I hate it even more.

 

[invader]

For a creative company they sure don’t have a lot of creative people working there.

 

[celluloid]

The timelessness of Magic Kingdom and more Disney under the mess Iger has created and left.

Tron, Princess And The Frog, Coco and Encanto.

Americana Mythology!

 

[WonderWab]

I really need to see how these new lands (or mini-lands or one new land or Frontierland expansion? I'm still confused...) will land on the map. That would give me a much better sense of how they will fit into the park.

 

[etc98]

It was never 5, it's two.

Dinoland would be Moana OR Zootopia.

"Beyond Big Thunder" would be Villains OR Encanto OR Coco.

I don't think that's true. I think it's more like the New Fantasyland expansion. One big expansion, with a section of the land for Beauty and the Beast, a section of the land for Little Mermaid, and a section of the land for Snow White. The concept art they showed had all of the concepts next to each other. If they were thinking of them as different options, there would be three different pieces of art, not one piece with all three