Turning the Liberty Belle into a restaurant isn’t some simple undertaking. At a minimum you need a kitchen facility somewhere and a way to quickly move food over and keep it hot and protected. Even then, you’d only be able to have service on decks that can be directly accessed by ramp. If you have dining on the upper level then it needs to be accessible, so you have to add an elevator which is a significant change.
Which is part of the problem. They’re fuzzy because they probably know when budget cuts hit they’ll be the first to go. Just like the fountain in World Celebration (which for what it’s worth, I actually think overall is an improvement over what was there before. Which should tell people something about how willing I am to defend Disney) This just feels like a massive miss. RoA is a feature of every castle park around the world, it is part of what makes the parks special. And they’re just going to pave over it. And for Cars. I’ll admit the area looks nice, if it actually ends up looking like the concept art (which it won’t because it never does). But put it literally *anywhere else.
You're the kind of person who doesn't mind a woods being replaced by a strip mall because "no one" went in the woods.
Because it hurts to see beauty destroyed.
well I guess the only tiny bright spot I can see is it takes them forever to build anything... so we have a few years to enjoy it.
Beauty is a little strong. The trees on TSI and the rest of the river are way overgrown and kind of a mess.
that is patently false. People do care about it. Disney has land... They can build this attraction in any of the other parks that need the capacity WAY more then the Magic Kingdom does...They can also expand the footprint of the park and build this where it does NOT completely change the atmosphere and iconic layout of the flagship Disney Castle Park. THere is no going back once this is done...
Supposed to be done by the end of 2027. That means visible construction and the closing of the areas will most likely happen sometime in the first half of 2025.
I am exicited to see the concept art come to fruition. If they can move it Beyond BTM and keep ROA/TSI as is then fine! But don’t give me a combination of the two.
IMO it comes down to Igers ego. He wants people to remember the parks for him.
They don't listen. Not a concern.I hope this comes across the right way. This is gonna sound contrary to all of the ROA/TSI supporters but the suggestions by some to amend the current plans for the Cars area to leave some of the river and dock area would likely create something that, in the end, doesn’t completely fit either theme they are going for, current (past) or future.
Gosh, I worry that if WDC actually listens to those here who want this area to remain as is, and in an effort to appease them, they bastardize the original concept plans to the point that we get a finished product that doesn’t meet their original vision. And ironically in the end doesn’t meet anyone’s expectations and causes more disdain.
Disney is definitely going to take all of this feedback into account and I hope what we end up with isn’t some mish mash of ideas that leads to a product that is less then what the imagineers envisioned.
As someone already said, Let them Cook!
That’s not how I read it. The Beyond version was too expensive, and then of the remaining alternatives this was not the cheapest.
