Quietmouse
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Can you share the tweet?
I highly doubt they would change their mind. My best guess if the economy turns south the project will be canceled along with villains lane …which would suck tbh.
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Can you share the tweet?
I highly doubt they would change their mind. My best guess if the economy turns south the project will be canceled along with villains lane …which would suck tbh.
MickMinn22
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Understand what you are getting at now. Agreed, I do love slinky but a theme of overgrown backyard is lacking. Shoot cedar point could do that
I just think this will be a step up from that yet not Rise level of immersion. I’m hoping for natural beauty in this ride which I think they can knock that put of the park. I’m thinking avatar level beauty but national parks. Who knows maybe I’ll be disappointed but they know they need to keep the beauty when replacing TSI and ROA.
KDM31091
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The backlash has been extreme. Hopefully they will at least amend the plans to include a small section of river with a docked boat. Or maybe the whole thing just gets cancelled, who knows.
SpaceMountain77
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Of course! Please find it below:
Again, some Disney TikTok vloggers are sharing it and stating it tracks with their understanding.
TrainsOfDisney
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Bob Iger was in the room - the cars announcement got no reaction. Even if I’m 100% sure of a product if 12,000 people don’t react at all to a major announcement I’m at least going to have a meeting and question the project.
Especially when all other announcements except the Walt AA got very good reactions.
Especially when all other announcements except the Walt AA got very good reactions.
JSouth25
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I hope this is the case. I live on the west coast and have only been to Disneyland, but this news still really bothered me that they’d rip out such a quintessential area of a Disney castle park. Hopefully, they go back to the drawing board and either scrap it or think of a way to salvage the river and also accommodate the new lands, kinda like how they rerouted the RoA to make room for Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland.
ednamodedarling
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sigh ... I would be very upset if they just cancel the whole thing. Something tells me they know it would be even worse to go back on their promise of upcoming projects. If anything they will save part of the river. If not they will move forward with the current plan. Truly don't understand why they can't find a solution similar to Disneyland's with Galaxy's Edge.
Quietmouse
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Good. Keep a sliver of the River, keep the boat and dock it, turn it into a restaurant/live music venue and use the rest of the land for cars.
I think that would be a good trade off, if one had to be made.
James Alucobond
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Color me dubious to begin with, but if they do something else, it’s not going to be a slight trade off. It’s going to be something significantly less ambitious.
TrainsOfDisney
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Or maybe a more ambitious Villians land with a budget that is not split up with cars?
Who knows!
MickMinn22
Member
In my mind, it’s all or nothing with this project which also could mean villains impact. The company would not have such strong wording in the announcement and then release further very specific details 2 days later to then be scared by posts on a forum. If they did then they shouldn’t be running the company (which many of you think should be the case anyway). But what is the alternative? Leadership so afraid of online posts that they never do anything to grow or evolve the parks? And then what we come on here and complain they never do anything to grow and all these other parks are catch up to them?
It got plenty of reaction. Positive initial reaction then the realization of where it was going set in and the crowd turned. It was a weird low point for sure. Between the "Nooooo!" scream and then the hushing of the crowd as Josh struggled to hype it up (wondering now if even he is against it) it was clearly a struggle for all. That said, I'd be shocked if they walk this back.
They'll either press forward or scale the attraction down but I don't anticipate a reversal. I don't doubt they're being bombarded with feedback.
TrainsOfDisney
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Take the cars money and spend it on more Villians. Win win! Haha
Gringrinngghost
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Gringrinngghost
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you are confusing Tron with Cars....
DisneyHead123
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I still say there are decent odds that part of this area becomes New Orleans Square or similar. That would have quite a few "pros" in its favor:
- While not as thematically perfect as Rivers, would retain theming much more than cartoon cars (While still allowing them to fill in rivers, which I think people have said are expensive or in need of repairs? And would free up more land for use.)
- Bonus opportunity to put in more food and retail under the guise of - "Fans talked - we listened. MERCH!!!"
- I think New Orleans Square is a pretty big hit at Disneyland, yes? Would be a way to sell the Tiana ride a bit better. It might be better received as part of a beloved land.
- Mardi Gras celebrations (and associated $$), which Universal has at a much larger scale than Disney.
- They can copy a fair bit of the design from Disneyland, which I assume saves cash.
My gut instinct says this is probably the direction they'll go. The biggest "con" would be that they missed an opportunity to add an area that is more boy-centric. But given the backlash, I don't think that will be a make or break factor.
- While not as thematically perfect as Rivers, would retain theming much more than cartoon cars (While still allowing them to fill in rivers, which I think people have said are expensive or in need of repairs? And would free up more land for use.)
- Bonus opportunity to put in more food and retail under the guise of - "Fans talked - we listened. MERCH!!!"
- I think New Orleans Square is a pretty big hit at Disneyland, yes? Would be a way to sell the Tiana ride a bit better. It might be better received as part of a beloved land.
- Mardi Gras celebrations (and associated $$), which Universal has at a much larger scale than Disney.
- They can copy a fair bit of the design from Disneyland, which I assume saves cash.
My gut instinct says this is probably the direction they'll go. The biggest "con" would be that they missed an opportunity to add an area that is more boy-centric. But given the backlash, I don't think that will be a make or break factor.
mickEblu
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Positive? It sounded like crickets with a bit of an Awkward silence on the livestream. They won’t do a 180 but if they keep the river loop from Mansion to Thunder this thing would go from being one of the worst decisions in Disney parks history to an acceptable trade off.
Gringrinngghost
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This is how I personally see the area:
BTM is the outlier of the area. With Mansion aside, let’s look at them thematically.
Blue is the Mississippi River & East.
Green is late 1700s colonial
Red* is the stereotypical old west
*You can argue the Native encampment being in the Great Plains & not the stereotypical west. The stereotypical west being New Mexico and Arizona during the times of Billy the Kid. BTM is more akin to Monument Valley in Arizona for example.
I can see them converting Pecos Bill to Tiana's and that area can be the defacto New Orleans's Square and they could technically expand on it up to Pirates as well as adding another restaurant if they were to move the parade step off area.
SamusAranX
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The Cars concept looks fun and cool.
I just don’t think it really belongs where they want to put it.
Whatever happened to the “blessing of size” Walt talked about?
I just don’t think it really belongs where they want to put it.
Whatever happened to the “blessing of size” Walt talked about?
MickMinn22
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Not opposed to that but I’m still down to remove ROA. So the whole argument people are making about this new land not fitting the theme definitely would not work when malificent’s castle is next to country bears.
I do like keeping the riverfront a bit, maybe park the riverboat permanently and then new land after that. That Disney Glimpses account had an interesting idea here. There is just no way I think they go back on this.
