Rumor D23 2024 WDW Rumors, Predictions & Discussion

[The Leader of the Club]

Removing Tom Sawyer Island, the Riverboat and the Rivers of America to build a Cars attraction is not adhering to Walt’s plan for WDW.

Walt's plan for WDW didn’t include Tom Sawyer or a Riverboat either. We can say “early imagineers,” we could even say “Roy Disney” if we wanted, but Walt wouldn’t care one bit if a theme park he never reallly wanted to build changed.

 

[Brer Panther]

Let's be fair to him, he has done some great things for the company like uh... he brought back Oswald over 15 years ago that was a good one. He lucked buying into Marvel at a good time too?

Plus buying PIXAR. That and Oswald and maybe Marvel were the only good things Iger has done for the company.

OMG! Disney bought Hannah Barbera!!!

They couldn't possibly treat Hanna-Barbera any worse than Warner Bros. does?

Where are Waldorf and Statler when you need them?

The Muppets were banned from entering the building. You know how much Iger hates them.

It's about animals! Why would it be other than that?

If the ride is actually going to show us the other rooms too, I wouldn't be surprised if Antonio's room is just the finale and the only part of the ride that has to do with animals.

Actually, if the ride is a midquel or prequel or whatever, that gives them a great excuse to have all the characters sing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" again.

They really don't need another coaster at DHS, even if it's a family coaster (if it's not, then it's even worse). A high capacity dark ride would be a much better option, so hopefully it isn't the Door Coaster (or isn't solely that, at least).

I agree, but if nothing else, maybe it'll at least result in slightly shorter lines for Slinky Dog Dash and Rise of the Resistance.

Then again, neither attraction helped with the long lines Toy Story Mania gets...

Is Monsters Inc. going into what used to be Animation Courtyard?

I hope so.

 

[KDM31091]

What I don't get is that way back in 1998 they had the option to make Dinosaur Indy instead, and they chose to do Dinosaur. So this feels silly that now 25+ years later, they're turning it into Indy. Is there no other idea that could have been explored, or better yet, just upgrade and improve Dinosaur?

A ridiculously easy and logical thing would be to relocate Triceratops Spin to DHS since it needs all the crowd soaking up attractions it can get, even if it's a very minor attraction and doesn't draw many people. It would be super easy to retheme it to Trixie / Toy Story.

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

What I don't get is that way back in 1998 they had the option to make Dinosaur Indy instead, and they chose to do Dinosaur. So this feels silly that now 25+ years later, they're turning it into Indy. Is there no other idea that could have been explored, or better yet, just upgrade and improve Dinosaur?

Also strikes me as a strange choice since the last Indy movie bombed and showed that the franchise has little to no staying power with Gen Z. And that was before this got greenlit.

 

[davis_unoxx]

This was not perfect. The panel was paced badly and the stuff about the cruises and Fortnight was all kinda tough to get through.

But damnit I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t super into almost all of the land/ride announcements. This is a LOT and so much of it looks so promising.

So glad that Magic Kingdom is getting spruced up. The worst castle park in the world finally getting some stuff to make it stand out. Cars’ placement is odd but the rides I’m sure can and will be great and VILLAINS LAND!!

Will it be bes castle park after villains land?

 

[Teddybearre]

 

[CaptainAmerica]

We have Test track and the Speedway...why do need a cars land?

Because in real life, people love Radiator Springs Racers, just like they love Cosmic Rewind, and complaining about it is a terminally online micro-niche touch-grass fanboy thing to do.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I think Coco and Avatar will both be DisneylandForward projects - bridges from Pixar Pier over Disneyland Drive to land behind the Pixar Place hotel.

Good luck trying to hide the hotel from the new lands, of course.

Just paint trees on the side of the hotel. I hear if you do that, you're eligible to be called the best ride in Orlando!

 

[MisterPenguin]

This is where I’ve always said they should put a “Tunnel of Love” themed ride.

Here we go!

Already got a Tunnel of Love in the Tangled ride.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

You don’t know. I know for a fact that there have been at least three balloon tests done since 1999, with one being done within the last three years. And who cares how many times it’s been discussed on this board? What does that accomplish? Disney will do what Disney decides to do, without consulting this board. The theme park playing field is always adapting and reacting in Central Florida. Who knows what the future holds for Disney. Certainly not any of us.

Only one person makes decisions on these things…the one with the checkbook.

I hate to let you in on the reality…but they have given WDI busy work just to keep them sidetracked since at least the 90s. Ask around…if they realize it and they often dont.

Parks people are on a need to know basis and they dont need to know anything. No power. Their job is to keep the registers rolling. Now more than ever. Almost all their useful cash comes from parks and ships.

 

[MisterPenguin]

corless is convinced this presentation has locked in Josh as ceo.

He's also convinced he's never been wrong.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I think Coco and Avatar will both be DisneylandForward projects - bridges from Pixar Pier over Disneyland Drive to land behind the Pixar Place hotel.

Good luck trying to hide the hotel from the new lands, of course.

They need to demolish that hotel..which is totally a smart move

 

[JMcMahonEsq]

The yeti references gave me hope that Joe Rohde managed to negotiate a fix as a condition of returning on a consulting basis.

But nope, turns out to be just a tasteless joke at the audience's expense. Trashy.

If after announcing so much new and exciting content your main concern is about a joke in connection with one single animatronic that is cost prohibitive to fix, you are 100% the target of this joke, and it is still making me laugh this morning even with the lack of sleep

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

corless is convinced this presentation has locked in Josh as ceo.

lol. No way. That’s contrary to all history. Parks heads never get over the line…by design.

A lot of that…as predicted before hand…is to protect Iger because he is on fire alert.

Seriously. That’s the real game.

So be shocked if Josh is back to taking Instagram selfies in Anaheim and Bob is on cnbc by Tuesday.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

The yeti references gave me hope that Joe Rohde managed to negotiate a fix as a condition of returning on a consulting basis.

But nope, turns out to be just a tasteless joke at the audience's expense. Trashy.

Rohde is not a functioning creative with power anymore

He’s there because the company is in bad shape and they need some positive internal juju for damage control

Just like when they brought Baxter back…who to his credit told them to go pee upwind.

And Vaughn too…though he was never anything special.

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

The issue with Josh as CEO is that he has zero Hollywood experience. Have to keep in mind that Disney is still a leading Hollywood studio and half of their business is film & TV. That was part of why Iger was chosen in the first place since he had a long career in television.

Chapek had little Hollywood experience too (aside from home entertainment) and things obviously didn't go over well.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

The issue with Josh as CEO is that he has zero Hollywood experience. Have to keep in mind that Disney is still a leading Hollywood studio and half of their business is film & TV. That was part of why Iger was chosen in the first place since he had a long career in television.

Chapek had little Hollywood experience too and things obviously didn't go over well.

The park guy is installed to take the blame/fall if needed.

30 years…every single one

 

[Drdcm]

Do we know why they called it horizons yet?

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

The park guy is installed to take the blame/fall if needed.

30 years…every single one

The circumstances around Iger's abrupt departure are still incredibly weird. Feels like something happened there that never surfaced publicly.

Some have speculated that Iger saw the early writing on the wall that things were about to hit the fan with COVID and he wanted to cash in his retirement while he still could.

There's some journalist, I forget who, who's writing a book on the Chapek vs. Iger period. Maybe we'll know more then.

 

[Tha Realest]

Do we know why they called it horizons yet?

Because most everything they announced will be tearing down something that already exists, rather than conventional expansion.