News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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Stripes said:
Maybe it wasn’t so well thought out then?

Seriously though, I doubt they go through all of this when they don’t have to.
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There’s nothing wrong with the current system and I think it’s well thought out - but other options exist if they want to close the canal.
Captain Barbossa said:
That’s because there are dry docks built within those rivers. (Can’t find Paris’ but I’m assuming it’s there)
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Right… so they build a dry dock if they want to close off the canal.
 
Stripes

Stripes

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TrainsOfDisney said:
There’s nothing wrong with the current system and I think it’s well thought out - but other options exist if they want to close the canal.
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Of course, options exist. But let‘s face it if you were a business executive looking at this situation and the pros and cons list of all the options, you’d be fired for going with any option other than the one Disney is going with. I mean, it’s not even a close call. It’d be a huge, blatant waste of shareholder money in order to appease a small minority of fans who would prefer ROA over a thrilling new Cars attraction.

And the only reason this is the case is due to flawed planning back in the sixties.
 
Captain Barbossa

Captain Barbossa

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If they were to keep a portion of the RoA and the Liberty Belle (none of which are happening), there are 2 options. I’m using the suspension bridge as a rough dividing line. Please excuse my crude drawing skills.

Options #1: Northern Portion

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The northern portion of the river would be kept with the southern half being filled in for cars. This would allow the Liberty Belle continued access to the mini maintenance dock in the canal and ultimately the main dry dock located in the northeast corner of Bay Lake. However, a new passenger loading dock would have to be built.

Option #2: Southern Portion
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The southern portion of the river would be kept with the northern half being filled in for cars. This would allow the continued use of the current passenger loading dock. However, a new dry dock/maintenance area would have to be built within the river.

Of the 2 options, option 1, imo, would be the best due to the construction of a new passenger loading dock being cheaper and easier than a dry dock. Not to mention this option would more than likely provide the longer ride time.
 
TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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Captain Barbossa said:
If they were to keep a portion of the RoA and the Liberty Belle (none of which are happening), there are 2 options. I’m using the suspension bridge as a rough dividing line. Please excuse my crude drawing skills.

Options #1: Northern Portion

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The northern portion of the river would be kept with the southern half being filled in for cars. This would allow the Liberty Belle continued access to the mini maintenance dock in the canal and ultimately the main dry dock located in the northeast corner of Bay Lake. However, a new passenger loading dock would have to be built.

Option #2: Southern Portion
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The southern portion of the river would be kept with the northern half being filled in for cars. This would allow the continued use of the current passenger loading dock. However, a new dry dock/maintenance area would have to be built within the river.

Of the 2 options, option 1, imo, would be the best due to the construction of a new passenger loading dock being cheaper and easier than a dry dock. Not to mention this option would more than likely provide the longer ride time.
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There is also option 2.5 - the #2 option with a connection to the maintenance canal.
 
EricsBiscuit

EricsBiscuit

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Starship824 said:
This, I hate all the comments about that, especially in DHS with monsters possibly replacing muppets. People having been saying "No they should leave animation courtyard for Future expansion AFTER this" they say the same about the ROA. News flash THIS IS THE FUTURE EXPANSION RIGHT NOW.
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Exactly!
Stripes said:
Building on the Rivers of America gives them easy land to build on as it doesn’t need much to make building suitable. It’ll be cheaper and, importantly, much faster than any of the alternatives.

Meanwhile, they are bulldozing the trees and creating a gravel laydown yard in the red and green areas below. They will be using this land to store equipment and materials for building the Cars attractions and the Villains land.
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The land in red is considered marginally unsuitable and I doubt they will ever build on this land. However, the land in green is considered marginally suitable and after Cars and Villains start wrapping up I can see them making that land suitable and connecting it to the rumored Adventureland expansion in blue.

Getting rid of the Rivers of America and the Liberty Belle also enables them to build over the canal. Martin shared that the areas in green and blue are considered expansion plots by the company and I believe getting rid of the ROA is truly long-term thinking that will correct some flawed land planning that took place when MK was being designed back in the 1960s
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The land planning decisions are only “flawed” if you are as cheap and unimaginative as modern Disney. I don’t think WDP in the 60’s could have fathomed how terrible their future leadership would be.
peter11435 said:
Massive investment to keep a high cost attraction that nobody rides.
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High cost? It takes 4 CMs to operate! A little bit of water, biofuel and some oil. Not “high maintenance“ at all. Saying nobody rides it is also obviously wrong and a lazy attempt at hyperbole.
 
EricsBiscuit

EricsBiscuit

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peter11435 said:
You know exactly what I meant. Obviously it isn’t 0 riders per hour. But when an attraction usually operates at about 15% of its designed capacity think it’s fair to say nobody is riding.
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You have no data to back this claim up. None. Not to mention the LB affects every single guest who sees it. It’s what they call “atmosphere.” One of the things that elevates Disney above the competition. Where else can you see a daily operating riverboat? Maybe NOL or St Louis?
 
peter11435

peter11435

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EricsBiscuit said:
High cost? It takes 4 CMs to operate! A little bit of water, biofuel and some oil. Not “high maintenance“ at all. Saying nobody rides it is also obviously wrong and a lazy attempt at hyperbole.
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Saying the riverboat is “not high maintenance at all” is absurdly incorrect.

Obviously some people are riding the boat. But it’s a tiny fraction of that the boat was designed to accommodate. It’s much closer to 0 than it is to what it should be.
 

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