News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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tissandtully said:
This guy
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This is the guy that took all the money and burned the place down.

Hey! Just like Iger is doing to WDW!
 
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billy023

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Starship824 said:
Exactly how I feel. This could be great but I don't know if I trust them. Maybe if they have the fantasy springs team on this.
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Unfortunately, the US usually seems to get either piecemeal approaches or "fragmented wholes" because its vision and financing are different than Tokyo. The US seems to be contending with internal politics between numbers people and artists. The US also has different financial structures and (my guess is) a more assertive stock market to answer to. It’s the confluence of those two factors that I believe enable Tokyo to be more Disney than USA. Why the Fantasy Springs team couldn’t translate its strengths into Frontierland.
 
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James Alucobond

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J4546 said:
Will villains land be north or west of btm, cause they are clearing alot of land out west
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They’re clearing for laydown yard and water management. It is presumably adjacent to where the expansion will be and then will later be re-wilded or used for backstage and/or future expansion.
 
KDM31091

KDM31091

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doctornick said:
So? I keep on seeing these kinds of comments, but htey make no sense.

The choice wasn't "put in Cars" vs "keep RoA/TSI". The choice is "Remove RoA/TSI to put in Cars" vs "Put in Cars and keep RoA/TSI". We can debate the finer points of Cars in MK, but they didn't have to put it in that particular location.

Why not retain the RoA and keep that ambiance and have all the benefit of the Cars addition? Who exactly is losing in that situation?
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Exactly. It seems with WDW there is never just a net positive add, Tron being a rare exception. Usually it's a painful closure and replacement, despite having many unused acres of land.
 
RoysCabin

RoysCabin

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KDM31091 said:
This is another big part of the issue. What distinguishes the parks anymore? Any of the new projects could easily be shoved into any of the parks at this point. They are losing their identities.

Yes , I get it, IP is popular, merch sells, the kids like it. But the parks used to be about a higher quality standard. Putting things that made sense in their respective areas. Sorry, but to me Encanto & Indy are still very much a reach for AK, as is Cars for MK.
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Plus, speaking for myself here, I'm just tired of being expected to know all of these properties at this point.

Like, I have some Pixar films I like; over the years they've made some absolutely wonderful stuff, after all! But part of what creates a connection with a themed attraction is universality; I shouldn't have to know what a given movie is to enjoy something, but now there are so many new rides/areas based around films that if I haven't seen them or don't personally enjoy them, I'm not really interested in spending tons of time there. This is made worse by our modern "content is king" era where new sequels and whatnot are being pumped out endlessly; this isn't, say, the early/mid 90s where Disney would release something like Aladdin or Pocahontas, give it a parade at MGM Studios and a shoutout here or there in the park, and then do the same for the next movie, there's now pretty much an endless supply of content and it's filling up every available nook and cranny.

It's not to say every single IP-based attraction requires riders know everything about it, I've seen some that manage to sidestep it, but it's just getting more and more alienating at this point.

And ultimately, yes; why bother with different park names or aesthetics if the end goal is "keep dumping our properties wherever?" I think "Epic Universe" is an incredibly dumb name for a theme park, but part of why Universal's doing it is because EU has no overarching theme - each area is based around a specific property, that's it. The difference is, they're not, again, insulting our intelligence the way Disney keeps insisting on doing, by telling us Cars fits perfectly into Frontierland, or that "this is what Walt would have wanted; see, we built a statue of him prove it!", or some other nonsense.
 
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basas

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RoysCabin said:
You'd have to actually know that history, first, not just a version of it that you've decided is the "right" history. Disney has never been about a proper showcase of history, it's always been sanitized or altered for comedy's or exoticism's sake from the get-go, so I suppose there should've been people up in arms about that from the moment the park opened.
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With all due respect, you have no idea my knowledge (or lack thereof) of American history. I understand you have said you’re a history teacher. That’s fantastic, but it doesn’t give you the final word on the subject.
 
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Chef idea Mickey`=

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RobbinsDad said:
Spare me. There is water all around the hub. There are 2 outdoor water rides. The rendering (again I know, it's just a rendering) has a waterfall. And there is a giant lagoon right in front of the park entrance. Nostalgia for lost attractions is one thing. To complain that MK will not have enough water features now is dumb.
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2 water rides? TBA and what?
 
the_rich

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tissandtully said:
Yep, a trackless RSR, the biggest hit attraction at DLR, so much that people queue up an hour before rope drop at DCA and run straight to it.
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Honestly when I rode it for the first time in 2018 I was amazed. I had a feeling of such wonder when we made the turn and you could see the whole backdrop with the music. Its probably the best thing Disney has done domestically in decades.
 
Ice Gator

Ice Gator

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RobbinsDad said:
Spare me. There is water all around the hub. There are 2 water rides. The rendering (again I know, it's just a rendering) has a waterfall. And there is a giant lagoon right in front of the park entrance. Nostalgia for lost attractions is one thing. To complain that MK will not have enough water features now is dumb.
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Yeah I’m over it. Tiana’s discourse has exhausted me enough.

I legitimately can’t believe that people are whining over losing a man made body of water with a nearly abandoned playground instead of being excited for an enormous new area with attractions. This ain’t no Splash Mountain replacement- yet for some reason people seem more up in arms about this change.
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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JD80 said:
My brain is also asking, there are a lot of trees in that gravel laydown yards. Are they all being cleared? If they are being cleared, are they being cleared because future construction is going there anyway?
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For now they are being cleared to be used for construction staging, there really isn't any place close to the project for that. It's possible in the future that something else will be built there.
 

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