The area NEEDS the river at the very least. I can live without TSI. But that water adds so much to the park you can’t make up for with a thrill ride. I hope they also make the geography more realistic- seeing a piston shaped mountain while standing in the Wild West street would be bizarre.
We need capicomusocialanarchoism where we take the best ideas and leave the rest! but in all seriousness they have come up with some good ideas recently like the avatar and coco things even hinting the avatar ride will finally have what new rides are missing ....a plot! God forbid! But I knew they just had to ruin something in the wake it's like yes yes!!!! Àaaaand nooooo
Well hopefully they can still find a number of places to put AAs. If the budget’s runs low at least they have one at DHS to start with lol
They won’t even need to advertise it. The crowds will just come.
I think you're including the flat ride in your layout (top right where you have the blue loop going through)
And this is one of the things that terrifies me. If attendance drops because of EU, revenue likely drops too. That’ll lead to budget cuts and this project that “they put a lot of thought into” according to a tweet from Bill Zanetti earlier will be slashed. Then we lose the river for nothing.
Any potentially damaging attendance drop is likely going to be in the long-term. EU will not take off with skyhigh attendance numbers (no park does) and I imagine detrimental effects wouldn’t kick in until 2027.
But if Cars doesn’t open until 2029 as speculated above (which feels insanely long to me), if effects started to be felt in 2027, couldn’t that still impact the budget for Cars? Sure the general land will be there along with the attractions but the smaller, finishing touches, like all the water features people keep assuring others exist, fall by the wayside? I’m just imagining a scenario like what happened at Epcot but significantly worse given what it’s replacing.
Let the frontier have rivers, is the issue because TSI is too small for what they want to do with the two cars attractions and area?
Definitely — we’ll have to cross our fingers. That being said, if budgets do get cut, I don’t see Universal being the reason. It kinda seems that the reason would be more external and unpredictable, like the economy, as Universal and Disney’s quarterly earnings seem to rise and fall on the same tides.
For people it's down to all about what kind of memories they have and down the line the joy and love of sharing that same family experience or inner circle continue it down along with their kids and then their grandkids etc. Epic Universe is just new, Disneyland and Magic Kingdom and Epcot are the three oldest that any age can share the same. They did say that with Nintendo, Nintendo is a property that mom and dad and even grandpa loved so maybe that land alone is going to be unique just because the IP is already beloved by generations from it was a game to now an experience.
You see though, that’s actually well thought out, which is against current MO! Why have fitting attractions with less profitable IP when you can shoe in one that prints money?
V Land seems reasonable for a long time but not this Cars Frontier Land. Unless the scope of deconstruction and demolition leaves walls all around like it did at Epcot. Isn't the smart move build in phases for this. V Land doesn't need phases unless it wants to because it's being constructed behind on new land.
A bit melodramatic.
If that's the new criteria for Frontierland — believing in yourself and carving your own path — we could have rides themed around modern Disney classics like Wish and Strange World as the heroes in those movies all strive to carve their own path. They would be new, relevant IPs. Could maybe get rid of outdated rides like Big Thunder Mountain to make room for them.
