WorldExplorer
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They should take a page from Epcot: Celebration Land.
What does it mean? What's the theme? Why, whatever the heck they currently feel like putting there of course!
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They should take a page from Epcot: Celebration Land.
What does it mean? What's the theme? Why, whatever the heck they currently feel like putting there of course!
TrainsOfDisney
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well not completely - you don’t build a 200’ structure and expect it to blend in… oh wait, at Epcot you do. Haha.
It was always the weenie drawing you into the park.
I believe it is apart of the construction walls in front of the former Frontierland Shootin' Arcade - it was added in the past few weeks.
SirLink
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Or take a page from Tokyo and don't call it Frontierland
Architectural Guinea Pig
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- In the Parks
- No
How dare you! Deadpool has chimichangas, not guns
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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"Westernland" is pretty much the same thing though, and it doesn't sound as nice as "Frontierland".
TrainsOfDisney
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Is there something wrong with the name Frontierland?
SirLink
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Westernland I think of Cowboys and Indians whereas Frontierland I think of more than Cowboys and Indians, but also the like of Lewis & Clark expeditions along with the Spanish, like Zorro. Call it Pioneer County ...
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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No, I think people are just thinking it's going to go because Frontierland isn't entirely about the "Frontier" anymore, as in wild west/pioneers/cowboys. Granted, it really hasn't ever been 100% that, but for whatever reason ever since Tiana's, people have thought the name was going to be changed. Given the continued use of "Frontierland" by Disney, even a joke that the Cars area will be "Front-Tire Land", I'm pretty sure it's sticking around. It's iconic, it's recognizable, and importantly- it can encompass pretty much anything related to the American Wilderness at this point, which I think works in preserving it as a theme.
That's why I think Frontierland is a better name- it's cowboys, it's native Americans, it's the south, it's the midwest, it's the wild west, it's the pacific northwest, etc etc. It can fit anything from an old fashioned saloon, to bears singing country songs, to Georgia, to New Orleans, to a southwest mine train, to a national park with mountains and waterfalls. It's pretty much anywhere in the US that isn't the original 13 colonies.
haveyoumetmark
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Not just Tokyo… but every single park built after the Magic Kingdom excluding DLP.
ETA I love the name Frontierland and hope it stays. It’s certainly broad enough to fit.
I personally don't. But I believe Disney over promises and under delivers plenty to where that is often the case. Lines are often blurred too when it comes to big properties and characters.
Front facing guest set pieces in the parks regardless.
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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Well, it helps that all of the castle parks after that were non-English parks that likely wouldn't know the word "Frontier." Though, I'm pretty sure Paris calls theirs "Frontierland".
SirLink
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Wat? DLP land is called Frontierland, which was built after TDL.
haveyoumetmark
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You got me. Fixed it, thanks!
LittleBuford
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For obvious reasons, Americana is exotic to us non-Americans.
Americans are the opposite of self-loathing. The degree of patriotism I've encountered in the US is like nothing I experienced growing up in the UK. The idea that today's Disney is being run by or for people who hate America is just absurd.
haveyoumetmark
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That must be why there’s no Frontierland in Hong Kong or Shanghai, no Main Street USA in Shanghai or Tokyo…
It becomes more and more apparent to me that people truly can’t think through their own prejudice.
DarkMetroid567
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They’d need to find a better place to put the park, for starters
lazyboy97o
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And the original announcement for Hong Kong Disneyland also included Frontierland. Disney ended up having to pay 100% of the cost for Toy Story Land, Mystic Point and Grizzly Gulch because they didn’t build what was originally promised.
Quietmouse
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I have to imagine frontier land will become reimagined to, “out west land”. Less focus on historical identity and more about the western frontier of America in modern America.
from what I understand, cars land will resemble a national forest like in the current tv show for cars. Big thunder mountain will definitely look like a natural backdrop for the national forest they are trying to resemble.
I don’t know if the facades will be updated on frontier land to reflect this new identity, but my guess they will attempt to make it more 21st century and the idea of the west we have now in America.
In my eyes, as someone who lives in the Midwest, when I think of Americas west, I think of mountains, canyons, national parks, and adventuring (like atv riding).
I think this is very appealing to the younger generation and might be a way to give us a taste of the Rockies, yellow stone national park, etc.
This might be boring for those who live in these areas, but there are millions of Americans who have never gotten to experience what the western part of America has to offer and thus it could be a really cool way , if done correctly, to give guests a palate taste of the west in Florida.
from what I understand, cars land will resemble a national forest like in the current tv show for cars. Big thunder mountain will definitely look like a natural backdrop for the national forest they are trying to resemble.
I don’t know if the facades will be updated on frontier land to reflect this new identity, but my guess they will attempt to make it more 21st century and the idea of the west we have now in America.
In my eyes, as someone who lives in the Midwest, when I think of Americas west, I think of mountains, canyons, national parks, and adventuring (like atv riding).
I think this is very appealing to the younger generation and might be a way to give us a taste of the Rockies, yellow stone national park, etc.
This might be boring for those who live in these areas, but there are millions of Americans who have never gotten to experience what the western part of America has to offer and thus it could be a really cool way , if done correctly, to give guests a palate taste of the west in Florida.
Charlie The Chatbox Ghost
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I think their best bet is to not do “Modern Day” because, like the future, it’ll be dated fast. Something like Grizzly Peaks or Bear Country is a good way to go about it