doctornick
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Sadly I think the answer is as simple as “Gotta have something new to advertise in 2023”
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News D23 Expo 2022
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yensidtlaw1969
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Journey of Water in particular is such a Nothing Burger of an attraction, it's completely shocking to think it could be another year before they open it.
Dan Deesnee
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Anyone upset with this show should realize something.
If they had not shown the concepts for Animal and MK it would mean we weren't likely to get anything big for at least 5 years. These still might take 3-4 years to be completed but it's a good sign. Disney is not going to sit back and let Universal open Epic Universe unanswered.
In the end, the fans win. We'll get some huge new lands and attractions by 2025-2026 and I'm all for that. Dino is a disaster and more MKis a good thing.
If they had not shown the concepts for Animal and MK it would mean we weren't likely to get anything big for at least 5 years. These still might take 3-4 years to be completed but it's a good sign. Disney is not going to sit back and let Universal open Epic Universe unanswered.
In the end, the fans win. We'll get some huge new lands and attractions by 2025-2026 and I'm all for that. Dino is a disaster and more MKis a good thing.
MadderAdder
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By 2025? In two years? Nah.
Ya wanna check your math?
yensidtlaw1969
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You could argue anything new coming down the pike is clearly not starting work within the 2022 calendar year . . .Ya wanna check your math?
You could argue that they'll spend five years in design and it won't come out until 2030 . . .
TwilightZone
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I am glad I took a break from the forums when I did because this is the dullest range of announcements I have seen.
It’s over, that’s all I can say. The Disney that had at least some semblance of a soul is long dead and gone.
See you on the other side of make believe
It’s over, that’s all I can say. The Disney that had at least some semblance of a soul is long dead and gone.
See you on the other side of make believe
UNCgolf
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Yeah, somewhere in one of these threads Martin indicated it was due to marketing.
yensidtlaw1969
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*I* would probably argue they aren't gonna bother with any of it.
It's really silly how they got people in a fret over nothing. Moana/Zootopia seems more likely (which, booooo), but the "Beyond Big Thunder" stuff is just so silly to talk about at the stage they're in.
JoeCamel
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UNCgolf
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By the way, is this official confirmation that the Play! Pavilion, at least as originally planned, is dead?
You'd think they'd at least have mentioned it somewhere if it was still in the works, especially considering how little they had to say about Disney World overall.
You'd think they'd at least have mentioned it somewhere if it was still in the works, especially considering how little they had to say about Disney World overall.
They didn't say anything about the Communicore Concert venue, or the DL Tarzan treehouse retheme, or Fantasmic!, or the MK RR, and we know they're still on the way.
Jrb1979
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Same can said for Mary Poppins. My guess is a lot of those things that were out off due to Covid are dead.
One thing I would like to know is what happened to that rumor of Disney wanting to spend money. Coming out of this you can tell they don't see Epic Universe as a threat.
UNCgolf
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Yeah, but Play! Pavilion has been silent for quite a long time, and weren't there other rumblings from insiders that it may not happen as originally planned? Or am I making that up?
Plus Fantasmic! and the WWRR aren't new, and the Communicore Concert thing is already a relatively recent announcement. Play! Pavilion is a holdover from years ago and nearly everything else from that announcement is either finished or axed. And again, they had almost nothing to talk about for WDW, so some additional details would have been a way to fill up a few minutes of time.
Obviously I'm just speculating, but it's strange that they haven't said anything about it in so long. I feel like it's been well over a year, but maybe not?
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Dan Deesnee
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Not sure how you come to that conclusion.
It's a threat, they see it, if they didn't they would all be out of jobs via votes of no confidence by the board and shareholders. This is business 101.
The fact that they are showing blue sky stuff 3+ years out tells me that Disney thought Epic Universe would get significantly delayed. That didn't happen, and now they are scrambling.
That show ending reeked of desperation.
Jrb1979
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Agreed on the desperation part. The blue sky stuff is just hype as I don't see a lot of that happening any time soon if at all. My thoughts are end of the decade at best.
