News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[Brian]

I've had a harebrained idea that they need to at least discuss the possibility of a north entrance/exit through the villains expansion. Bus plaza + some kind of super-preferred parking.

I'd pay extra for parking there. It sucks having to plan your entire visit around leaving the park because of the monorail and boats.

 

[ToTBellHop]

While this is upsetting to the purist in me, we almost never go to TSI or ride the riverboat. In a mobbed park that needs to use its space more efficiently, it makes sense and it also leaves room for further expansion in 50 years when we are all gone.

 

[doctornick]

In recent years, my family has talked about selling our DVC. My parents are getting older and not able to tour the parks the way they once did. My children enjoy Disney but aren't as obsessed as I am. I was excited for new things being announced as that usually makes the whole family really inspiring to revisit.

This news pushes me to be in the "want to sell" category. I'm not really sure I am all that enthused to keep going back to WDW when they remove the stuff that makes it unique and beautiful.

I mean, I'm usually pretty neutral to even favorable with most of the changes that occur. I think adding IP is fine. I like what they've done with Epcot. But this to me is inexcusible - it is so mind bogglingly bad.

I'd have been totally fine if they left the waterfront, docked the boat and paved over the back half of the river. But this just seems to have no rhyme or reason in regards to the existing Frontierland.

 

[ftblgenius]

This will increase capacity

Replacing TSI? Yes. Replacing ROA? Not at all.

 

[Brian]

Unless someone answered this...Which this taking for over TSI...What is the fate of the Mark Twain Riverboat?

You mean the Liberty Belle? It can be repurposed into transport on the Seven Seas Lagoon. Seems like an asset they'd want to show off rather than just leave in dry dock somewhere or sell.

 

[JustInTime]

Im more concerned they are gutting Liberty Square at this point. I think Frontierland having a national park feel could work really well. But not sure I can get over losing almost all of Liberty Square. It’s already half a land as it is and the fact that it looks like half the buildings are replaced with trees in the concept art isn’t promising. I hope that is just artistic liberty?

 

[IMDREW]

Because it’s close to impossible get a huge volume of people back to the villains land. They’d have to take out a huge portion of ROA and TSI anyway.

Sounds like a plan

 

[ctrlaltdel]

Not that it's going to make people feel any better, but this was one of the costlier options pitched, and makes a broad attempt to fit the area better than most others.

Now that word is out and the dust is settling, a little more information is slipping through.

Once their original BBTM plans were scrapped, Coco's massive showbuilding precluded it from being relocated. Cars won, the ROA's fate was sealed.

Villains - despite being a disparate collection of ideas even to this date - was by far the favorite to win over the singular BBTM expansion plot. The art as shown is suggestive of theme and style but not related to a practical model. Yet.

Where is the single BBTM plot? Does it only have one point of access by Big Thunder?

 

[GhostHost1000]

they should have docked the riverboat and turned it into a Tiana character restaurant and left Splash alone

 

[JD80]

This will be the breaking point for exactly zero people.

Actually, it'll bring more people in. So it's negative people.

 

[larryz]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but kids today don't know who Tom Sawyer is, nor do they care about a steam-powered riverboat. Besides, maintaining an island with a steam-powered riverboat circling it every 20 minutes or so gets expensive in the long run, and the infrastructure they had to maintain to keep this obsolete (by today's standards) bit of fantasy going just isn't justified by today's MBA standards.

And the kids of today are the ticket buyers of tomorrow. Better to put something in that THEY can relate to. Boomer G'paw gonna be gone soon anyway...

Think upon this... now that there's another Car ride coming into MK, expect pressure to mount on repurposing the land eaten up by Tomorrowland Speedway...

Meanwhile, who's the robot being memorialized in that mountain peak?

 

[Snapper Bean]

I think the Area between A and B on the art with the snow capped peaks, pine trees and river rapids will be more picturesque than the existing island. Its not as big of course but its more profound to me.

My only complaint is that I would appreciate 3 attractions in the space than 2.

 

[KDM31091]

Couldn’t they pave over the tangled bathrooms and build a path there? I’m quite sure the bathrooms could be relocated and then at least we aren’t losing an actual attraction.

 

[zann285]

I’m referring to the screw up job they did redesigning Future World

I know, just extrapolating current trends to a somewhat joking potential future. At least I hope...

 

[ctrlaltdel]

With this concept art it makes the area seem seem very vast and expansive, but just being here in person looking at it, the cars area, with 2 attractions, seems kind of small.

Yeah if you look at a map, it will be smaller than just RSR alone, however, every time I look at the concept art, the main attraction really does go through almost the entirety of the expansion. I think this will have more wrapping around and elevation changes to compensate.

 

[invader]

Ha! Not my intent. But what's left in Liberty Square after Cars and Haunted Mansion becoming the entrance to Villains? Just HOP.

Give me Liberty (Tree) or give me death!

 

[KDM31091]

This might be an unpopular opinion, but kids today don't know who Tom Sawyer is, nor do they care about a steam-powered riverboat. Besides, maintaining an island with a steam-powered riverboat circling it every 20 minutes or so gets expensive in the long run, and the infrastructure they had to maintain to keep this obsolete (by today's standards) bit of fantasy going just isn't justified by today's MBA standards.

And the kids of today are the ticket buyers of tomorrow. Better to put something in that THEY can relate to. Boomer G'paw gonna be gone soon anyway...

Think upon this... now that there's another Car ride coming into MK, expect pressure to mount on repurposing the land eaten up by Tomorrowland Speedway...

The problem I think is that old school Disney didn’t care and wouldn’t spend the money anyway to operate the boat. Now it’s deemed expendable.

 

[ToTBellHop]

You mean the Liberty Belle? It can be repurposed into transport on the Seven Seas Lagoon. Seems like an asset they'd want to show off rather than just leave in dry dock somewhere or sell.

This seems most likely to me. Put the HEA cruises on the Belle.

 

[zann285]

Couldn’t they pave over the tangled bathrooms and build a path there? I’m quite sure the bathrooms could be relocated and then at least we aren’t losing an actual attraction.

From past threads where people have mentioned similar, restrooms are actually anchor points in the fabric of the universe, moving the plumbing involved requires a literal act of God.

 

[the_rich]

The problem I think is that old school Disney didn’t care and wouldn’t spend the money anyway to operate the boat. Now it’s deemed expendable.

I think old school Disney(aka Walt) would've redone almost all of the park by now.