News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

[TrainsOfDisney]

Some big brain takes in here from people who have never built a theme park.

Have you?

I'm just saying people seem to think this will help MKs capacity issues. And I don't see it helping as much as some people seem to think.

Short term it’s going to be terrible for MK - we thought Epcot construction walls were bad!!

MK, DHS and DAK are going to be pretty bad show for the next few years.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Not even close.

They butchered her…

 

[PK2]

The biggest loss of this entire thing is that TSI and the riverboat were my two main escapes from the hordes on NYE.

 

[doctornick]

Out of all the times I've been to the park I went on the boat once and didn't find anything special about it. Rarely ever saw many people using Tom Sawyer Island too. They need more rides that take up a decent amount of people and the cars ride helps there. I love the cars franchise though.

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?

 

[tissandtully]

and yet he couldn't say replacing Tom Sawyer Island and River's of America

no duh cause he would have been boo'd off the stage

 

[J4546]

No one ever said Cars was expansion, Josh specifically said "reimagined Frontierland". Villains will be a very big expansion in area north of BTM.

Will villains land be north or west of btm, cause they are clearing alot of land out west

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

Log flume in Paris (where it gets mighty cold in the winter) seems odd, too…

It gets cold in Tokyo the same way and that hasn't prevented a Splash Mountain. The ONLY jewel lucky of one still existing!

 

[tissandtully]

Is there anyone working for the Walt Disney Company right now that has ever built a theme park?

This guy

 

[Stripes]

Yeah, regular guests are going to eat this up!

 

[tissandtully]

Will villains land be north or west of btm, cause they are clearing alot of land out west

Sorry, I was looking at the map wrong orientation.

 

[Satans Hockey]

Well if you’re Disney’s intended audience, count me out…

Oh no, someone has a different opinion than yours! Grow up.

 

[the_rich]

For posterity's sake does anyone know what the other options they considered were?

 

[tissandtully]

Yeah, regular guests are going to eat this up!

View attachment 808860

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.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

They butchered her…

They're about to tear out the RoA, TSI and Riverboat for a smaller, much uglier and less impressive and overall worse adaptation of Radiator Springs Racers. I'll take MK's butchered (and I do most certainly agree that it is inferior to DL's) POTC any day over this garbage.

 

[Disstevefan1]

This guy

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

Hey! Just like Iger is doing to WDW!

 

[billy023]

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.

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.

 

[James Alucobond]

Will villains land be north or west of btm, cause they are clearing alot of land out west

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.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

For posterity's sake does anyone know what the other options they considered were?

I'm sure right now there's someone advocating for Deadpool Land built on one of Main Street USA's side streets.

 

[KDM31091]

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?

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.

 

[tissandtully]

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

Hey! Just like Iger is doing to WDW!

cringe