DCA Phase II

[SeaCastle]

Does anyone know what the rumored second phase of DCA's expansion will entail? It seems to include something involving Condor Flats, the Redwood Creek Challenge, Hollywoodland, and the Hyperion Theater. However, I haven't heard any details about this.

Thanks! :wave:

 

[sponono88]

Let's see, off the top of my head.. There's the Condor Flats re-theme that would convert it to an extension of the Grizzly Peak Recreation Area. The new extended land would feature a CA National Park theme. It can be seen in this small piece of concept art - note the new Grizzly Peak entrance as well as the Red Car Trolleys in the foreground:

In Cars Land, there's the Drive-In restaurant that was part of the initial plans but was delayed indefinitely.

Hollywood Pictures Backlot will become HollywoodLand, with a 1930s Hollywood theme. Part of this is already underway with the Red Car Trolley construction, but full conversion of the land is supposed to take place in Phase II. Also planned is a new lobby and facade for the Hyperion Theatre, with a new stage show that will replace Aladdin. Here's what Al Lutz recently wrote about this part of the expansion:

The new Toy Story show was to have formally opened for the Thanksgiving weekend later this fall. But the Hollywood Pictures Backlot section of the park is the leading candidate for a more thorough remake after Cars Land opens in 2012, as WDI rechristens that area Hollywoodland, and the ugly and utilitarian flanks of the Hyperion Theatre are tops on the Imagineering list of past sins that should be atoned for there. The fear was that if TDA spends some of its own budget to spruce up the existing theater a bit and install a popular new show in that theater, that it would be very difficult to shut down the facility for a major year-long rehab just a couple of years later.

So the Aladdin musical will stay for now, with the new Red Car Trolley tracks soon to be laid out front sprucing up the streetscape of the rest of that area and introducing a more lush and more period-specific look. WDI continues to polish up their plans to reskin the front of the Hyperion Theatre after Cars Land is done, and enclose the southern side of the building and give the big theater a proper and very luxurious themed lobby from Hollywood’s golden age.

The other goal with the Hyperion Theatre lobby project is to close off the street view of the bland and sprawling cement waiting area and create a themed streetscape environment on that short path that leads towards Tower of Terror. And when that Hyperion Theatre / Hollywoodland Phase 2 project gets underway, then Disneyland’s Entertainment Department will use that downtime to mount an all new stage show to replace Aladdin.

It’s a good thing that a longer term outlook was used here, and it also bodes well for the fast-tracking and funding of the next phase of DCA’s rebirth after Cars Land.

In Paradise Pier, a new enclosed queue for California Screamin' and new Victorian-styled roof structure for King Triton's Carousel.

that's all I can think of now, I think I might be missing some. There's a few other things as well - new attractions that will eventually replace the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, the Hollywood and Dine building, and the upcoming Goofy's Sky School. I've heard these are spots that WDI has looked at for possible new rides in the future.