News Disney Files Plans for New Typhoon Lagoon Backstage Parking Lot

[Smoky]

I love the water parks and they are criminally neglected. I really hope they're planning on some sort of expansion even though that seems really unlikely. Typhoon Lagoon was my favorite park growing up and I think it still holds up really well today even though it's been virtually unchanged for what, 2 decades now at least?

 

[Brisco]

I love the water parks and they are criminally neglected. I really hope they're planning on some sort of expansion even though that seems really unlikely. Typhoon Lagoon was my favorite park growing up and I think it still holds up really well today even though it's been virtually unchanged for what, 2 decades now at least?

Yeah I know there are definitely non-water park folks and they are going to react to this as no big deal. But honestly there are a lot of families who treat them as another park. I know we always did before I was a local and now as a local I probably frequent the water parks for a few hours just as much as the other parks. So I'll admit that it wouldn't be like the headliner announcement for D23 but I could see it being announced there as a small throw in. On a personal note id rather see a Moana addition to Typhoon lagoon where the theming is literally Pacific Island rather than her shoehorned into the middle of Epcot (even though I do frequent the Journey of Water on a hot day)

In the end if I had to bet this may really all just be about a new parking lot.

 

[Jon81uk]

Typhoon Lagoon was my favorite park growing up and I think it still holds up really well today even though it's been virtually unchanged for what, 2 decades now at least?

New slide Miss Adventure Falls was added 2017, so almost one decade ago. Before that it was Crush’nGusher in 2005 so that was two decades.

Blizzard Beach however has had even less investment, only real change is adding a conveyor so you don’t have to carry the tubes.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

I’d love to visit these one day but I need to get way more comfortable in this body of mine first

 

[Biff215]

The location of the current cast member parking lot does not seem to lend itself to park expansion or guest parking lot expansion. Isn't that location close to one of the spots for a Brightline station? Could this project have something to with that? Clearing space for a Brightline station in the future.

I think the thought process here is that if you free up the current CM parking for more guest parking, perhaps they are planning to add more capacity to the park (hence needing more guest parking).

It’s wishful thinking at this point. Anything is possible but Disney hasn’t made meaningful investments in the water parks for years, and I’d argue it’s finally Blizzard’s turn if they were!

 

[disney fan 13]

If anything would've motivated changing something at the water parks, it would have been Volcano Bay, but that was almost a decade ago at this point.

 

[Jon81uk]

If anything would've motivated changing something at the water parks, it would have been Volcano Bay, but that was almost a decade ago at this point.

and they added one new attraction at Typhoon Lagoon at the time Volcano Bay opened.