MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

Chef idea Mickey`=

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Hope not becasue doing things like removing an integral quadrant of the park and replacing it with a Cars ride is damaging and just something that can’t be reversed.
Seeing Journey of Water at night, I thought to myself maybe Disney can will able to pull off this Cars retransformation. However after another day at Magic Kingdom and standing and seeing River's of America and how not so large it actually is in person yet alone how close it is from other attractions Haunted Mansion, Tiana Bayou Adventure, I just don't see it victory!
 

Chef idea Mickey`=

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My biggest grievance is why Disney has to close an attraction or spot and replace it with something new. Couldn't we live in a world where the Great Movie Ride and Mickey's Runaway Railway both exist in Hollywood Studios? My thinking is that the Rivers of America would look great next to the Cars attraction. I don't understand why they couldn't do both and expand Adventure land.
Tiana's Bayou Adventure fits perfectly with River's of America and the Liberty Bell and it doesn't matter to them? Cars would of fit better with Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Beyond as a Desert Land than now you have swamp with northwest 🦧 headache
 

Jrb1979

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How would one theme park be just one theme? Original Epcot I suppose is the "only" one that could do that, but yet World Showcase and Future World are two separate experiences. Celestial Park is one theme and the park is called Universe with different Universes so not all different planets or universes are the same!

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Theu did have a general theme to each park. Epcot was built around a World Expo theme. Hollywood Studios was a movie studios and you have Animal Kingdom. The main thing is they are one time all have a unique feel each park. They have slowly gone away from that to the point where the new attractions coming don't fit the theme at all.
 

Chef idea Mickey`=

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Theu did have a general theme to each park. Epcot was built around a World Expo theme. Hollywood Studios was a movie studios and you have Animal Kingdom. The main thing is they are one time all have a unique feel each park. They have slowly gone away from that to the point where the new attractions coming don't fit the theme at all.
Oh right how could I forget Animal Kingdom as one theme and MGM Studios as Hollywood!
 

AidenRodriguez731

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Theu did have a general theme to each park. Epcot was built around a World Expo theme. Hollywood Studios was a movie studios and you have Animal Kingdom. The main thing is they are one time all have a unique feel each park. They have slowly gone away from that to the point where the new attractions coming don't fit the theme at all.
Theme of animal kingdom: Humans interactions with animals, real and mythical. All attractions including the new ones still fit.

Hollywood studios I’ll give you that the theme has changed but it’s simply a “riding the movies” theme now.

Epcot is still overall about the connection of people and our world. All of the new stuff can fit into that minus cosmic but that’s a fictional idea of how we could have connected with aliens if that happened.
 

lazyboy97o

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I believe that was partially true…. The hat didn’t come down until the Chinese Theater had a new owner.
It wasn’t. At a minimum it would have meant that Disney built the center of a park based on a licensing agreement with a 12 year term. More importantly though, the Chinese Theater predated the relevant legislation and copyright protections by decades. If the problem was real it would have impacted most of Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd not to mention a sizable chunk of Universal Studios Florida.
 

Animaniac93-98

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Couldn't we live in a world where the Great Movie Ride and Mickey's Runaway Railway both exist in Hollywood Studios?

Before someone says no, Disneyland moved backstage buildings to accommodate the construction of their version, which resulted in a net gain of rides to the park.

Disney chose not to do this in Florida to save on construction costs in the short term and the ongoing costs associated with running the two attractions at the same time (despite GMR having a sponsor).

And now they're spending money to build another ride in DHS anyway...
 

Incomudro

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Disney isn't removing the Rivers of America because it's easier than building a path around it.

They're removing because they view it as a waste of space (as so many Disney fans are quick to agree without question).

Disney has gone from removing stores that didn't have a high enough profit margin to retheming lands and reshaping parts of their parks because they don't hit an arbitrary quota.

They're willing to spend billions to remove more of the "park" out of Magic Kingdom Park® because they don't understand their own product, how to manage the land they own or the value of their assets.
100 percent.
 

Chef idea Mickey`=

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In terms of Cars, I find it funny how it's ok for Disney to move away from each park having its own theme to a Mish Mash of IP but yet Universal gets hated on for it.
I find it funny in terms of clones people complain for Disneyland and Disney World however Universal makes sure each resort each coast has a form of the same land and nobody is complaining with them!
 

danlb_2000

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I believe that was partially true…. The hat didn’t come down until the Chinese Theater had a new owner.

That never made any sense. I can't imagine the owners of the theater saying "you can use the image of the theater in your merchandise, and you can have it in the park, you just can't let people see it when looking down the main street."
 

TrainsOfDisney

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That never made any sense. I can't imagine the owners of the theater saying "you can use the image of the theater in your merchandise, and you can have it in the park, you just can't let people see it when looking down the main street."
When I was researching it after making that post - apparently the ears for the hat were supposed to be Ferris wheels and the interior of the hat was going to house one man’s dream - it was going to sit at the site cleared for the Copperfield magic restaurant.

That could have been cool!
 

Brer Panther

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Disney isn't removing the Rivers of America because it's easier than building a path around it.

They're removing because they view it as a waste of space (as so many Disney fans are quick to agree without question).

Disney has gone from removing stores that didn't have a high enough profit margin to retheming lands and reshaping parts of their parks because they don't hit an arbitrary quota.

They're willing to spend billions to remove more of the "park" out of Magic Kingdom Park® because they don't understand their own product, how to manage the land they own or the value of their assets.
Isn't this the same mindset that nearly got the Tiki Room and Swiss Family Treehouse shut down (the latter only being saved when somebody thought of the Tarzan retheme idea) in Disneyland back in the 1990s?
 

JoeCamel

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When I was researching it after making that post - apparently the ears for the hat were supposed to be Ferris wheels and the interior of the hat was going to house one man’s dream - it was going to sit at the site cleared for the Copperfield magic restaurant.

That could have been cool!
I was hoping for expansion to take over animation courtyard, a sea of hats if you will
 

James Alucobond

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There isn’t a difference. Dining and retail in particular are part of the guest space. They give people somewhere to go besides walkways.
There is absolutely a difference when you're just talking about general flow of the space, which many are. More guest spaces can mitigate people clogging up the Big Thunder dead end, but they can't eliminate it.
 

Gusey

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This is still wild to wrap your head around. I also cannot believe how ripped up our Castle park will be for years and years.
Small mercy is that it is on the edge of the park. Yes, you have to see the construction walls during construction, but at least the construction won't be in the dead centre of the park like it was at Epcot. Tropical Americas and Monstropolis will at least be in closed off areas too so again, it's just passing by the walls rather than having to go around them. I remember when New Fantasyland construction began in 2010. The walls were noticed but they didn't ruin my trip. I think it was only when New Fantasyland opened without Seven Dwarfs that the construxtion began to make a real impact and that shouldn't be the case with Cars & Villains unless the 2nd Cars ride opens after the main Cars
 

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