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

[GhostHost1000]

I guess that’s why they overpay for everything

 

[Ayla]

The magic didn't call you?

It costs too much to call the UK.

 

[Ayla]

At quick glance, that photo of JD looks photoshopped.

 

[Bocabear]

But it IS proof of concept.

What a stupid response.... Yes you can design a restaurant to look like a boat...obviously... but docking the existing boat and turning it into...why am I even bothering to explain.

 

[Andrew C]

 

[Tha Realest]

They’re in a worse financial position now than they were in the lead up to D23 (Sept ‘22) where they were completely noncommittal and vague as to any new projects.

 

[180º]

What a stupid response.... Yes you can design a restaurant to look like a boat...obviously... but docking the existing boat and turning it into...why am I even bothering to explain.

I wasn’t going to say anything because I agree that turning the Liberty Belle into a restaurant is laughably impractical. But if we’re getting really technical, isn’t Paddlefish—in all fairness and despite decades of mangling—what remains of the Empress Lilly?

 

[UNCgolf]

I wasn’t going to say anything because I agree that turning the Liberty Belle into a restaurant is laughably impractical. But if we’re getting really technical, isn’t Paddlefish—in all fairness and despite decades of mangling—what remains of the Empress Lilly?

Wasn't the Empress Lilly always like that, though? I don't think it was ever a functioning boat; I'm pretty sure it was built/designed from the start as stationary restaurant space.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I wasn’t going to say anything because I agree that turning the Liberty Belle into a restaurant is laughably impractical. But if we’re getting really technical, isn’t Paddlefish—in all fairness and despite decades of mangling—what remains of the Empress Lilly?

Empress Lily was always a building. And it’s not that a boat can’t be a restaurant, the issue is with the amount of space available. You can convert a retail space into a restaurant, it happens all of the time, but turning the Main Street Cinema into a restaurant wouldn’t be very practical because it’s a small space.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Wasn't the Empress Lilly always like that, though? I don't think it was ever a functioning boat; I'm pretty sure it was built/designed from the start as stationary restaurant space.

I'm guessing Empress Lilly is bigger than Liberty Belle too.

 

[Fox&Hound]

I suggested parking the ferry and making it a tiana restaurant near splash mountain and then redoing TSI into different attraction space and connecting as you mentioned.

Regardless, to me the MK is the last park of the 4 that needs expansion and more guests attracted to it

Or add a rare character meet and greet to TSI and advertise it on the app. Or a rare food or drink offering at Aunt Polly’s that you can only get there. But give guests a new reason to go explore the island and that would add capacity.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Or add a rare character meet and greet to TSI and advertise it on the app. Or a rare food or drink offering at Aunt Polly’s that you can only get there. But give guests a new reason to go explore the island and that would add capacity.

Or…just open Aunt Polly’s…

 

[larryz]

What a stupid response.... Yes you can design a restaurant to look like a boat...obviously... but docking the existing boat and turning it into...why am I even bothering to explain.

Tsk, tsk -- you seemingly lack the imagination to see it, or you've no incentive to monetize the MK experience... or both.

The concept is not a "boat-shaped restaurant." The concept is that tourists will pay -- handsomely! -- to dine on theme park food in a unique, historic setting (in this case, Rivers of America on board the Liberty Belle) in the middle of the Magic Kingdom. They won't care how big it is, or how packed it is, or that the food doesn't actually get cooked aboard the boat.

If they can serve a meal in the Haunted Mansion*, it'd be a piece of cake to convert the paddlewheeler into an exclusive dining venue.

* Which can, does, and has happened

 

[celluloid]

If they can serve a meal in the Haunted Mansion*, it'd be a piece of cake to convert the paddlewheeler into an exclusive dining venue.

* Which can, does, and has happened

Tables in Wonderland failed though. They realized they don't have to put much effort into dining anymore. They can just regurgitate the left overs that kind of make it look like the attraction*

*Roundup Rodeo bbq

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Tsk, tsk -- you seemingly lack the imagination to see it, or you've no incentive to monetize the MK experience... or both.

The concept is not a "boat-shaped restaurant." The concept is that tourists will pay -- handsomely! -- to dine on theme park food in a unique, historic setting (in this case, Rivers of America on board the Liberty Belle) in the middle of the Magic Kingdom. They won't care how big it is, or how packed it is, or that the food doesn't actually get cooked aboard the boat.

If they can serve a meal in the Haunted Mansion*, it'd be a piece of cake to convert the paddlewheeler into an exclusive dining venue.

* Which can, does, and has happened

You're definitely the one whose perspective is lacking here.

Obviously they *could* turn the Liberty Belle into a restaurant. But there are far bigger concerns than just whether or not they can.

That meals have been served on rare occassion inside The Haunted Mansion is so practically irrelevant that seeing you bring it up here is telling.

 

[180º]

Wasn't the Empress Lilly always like that, though? I don't think it was ever a functioning boat; I'm pretty sure it was built/designed from the start as stationary restaurant space.

Empress Lily was always a building. And it’s not that a boat can’t be a restaurant, the issue is with the amount of space available. You can convert a retail space into a restaurant, it happens all of the time, but turning the Main Street Cinema into a restaurant wouldn’t be very practical because it’s a small space.

This is me learning the Empress Lilly was never a functioning boat. Here I was, thinking it had chugged up and down the Sassagoula River once upon a time. D’oh!

 

[GhostHost1000]

Or…just open Aunt Polly’s…

Uncle Remus won’t let her.

Probably just bitter about closing his attraction I think

 

[Brer Panther]

I remember reading in one of the unofficial guides that there was a pitch to turn the riverboat into a restaurant named after Madame Medusa from The Rescuers.

 

[Tha Realest]

Or…just open Aunt Polly’s…

Tom Sawyer is problematic to some, so, I’m gonna go with no.

 

[larryz]

You're definitely the one whose perspective is lacking here.

Obviously they *could* turn the Liberty Belle into a restaurant. But there are far bigger concerns than just whether or not they can.

That meals have been served on rare occassion inside The Haunted Mansion is so practically irrelevant that seeing you bring it up here is telling.

Did you know that as part of those HM meals, they used the Liberty Belle as a pre-dinner hors d'oeuvres serving area? See the link?

They can turn practically any venue in any park into a dining location... how can it be "irrelevant" if they've done it?

All it takes is imagination and the gumption to try it. Of course, with The Eiger Counter back in charge, I must admit it's highly unlikely.

Where have all the people of imagination disappeared to... Universal Studios?