Rumor Disney Looking To Trade The Theme Park Rights of Alien with Universal in exchange for Black Panther to Build a Wakanda Pavillion at Epcot

[Kamikaze]

A little birdie told us…

A little birdie told us there are some rumors flying around about our beloved Tiki birds at Walt Disney World Resort. We’re sorry that our fans are being fed incorrect information by unscrupulous sources. While “toucan” play at that

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Interesting. This is the first time they've ever directly addressed such a rumor, right?

 

[danlb_2000]

Interesting. This is the first time they've ever directly addressed such a rumor, right?

They also directly addressed the rumor about the demo of the Land and the Seas.

 

[MisterPenguin]

It was a CM who was at the Tower of Terror at Disney Hollywood Studios and he was telling me all of what Disney was planning including a Toy Story Woody’s Roundup show to replace Country Bears Jamboree, and that the Enchanted Tiki Room will be rethemed to Moana

CMs rarely have inside information except for those areas in which they work. A CM working ToT, for example, would know if there was going to be a closing because they and the other CMs there would be told they're all being reassigned in two weeks. But they wouldn't know about plans to close it to retheme it until it actually happens.

Most CMs (and bus drivers) get their inside scoop from web sites like this one. The rumors of Tikis and CBJ are perfect examples since they've been a hot topic on the Internet the past week. In other words, the CM knows about the rumors of Tiki and CBJ because of the Internet, and not because they're a CM.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Interesting. This is the first time they've ever directly addressed such a rumor, right?

They also directly addressed the rumor about the demo of the Land and the Seas.

Wasn't it a PR employee mocking the Land and Sea rumor on their personal account?

Also, they went out of their way to kill the rumor of a name change for DHS... which Iger started... and was real until they conducted a poll with really bad alternatives and the Internet blew up.

 

[larryz]

Uuuuhhh....between Germany and China? That's the support area for the 2021 show...
Besides that...I really don't know what else to say.
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Hey, now... looks like China is building more islands out there in the Lagoon... perhaps they're planning on annexing Germany and Norway/Arendelle...

 

[wm49rs]

Keep forgetting it’s summertime....

 

[LAKid53]

It was a CM who was at the Tower of Terror at Disney Hollywood Studios and he was telling me all of what Disney was planning including a Toy Story Woody’s Roundup show to replace Country Bears Jamboree, and that the Enchanted Tiki Room will be rethemed to Moana

A front line CM? Why, they're as reliable as a bus driver....

 

[LAKid53]

Keep forgetting it’s summertime....

And the kids are out of school.

 

[WDWbuff2001]

Dear WDI. Just let Walt take the wheel.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Dear WDI. Just let Walt take the wheel.

Oh, you didn’t hear?

 

[danlb_2000]

Oh, you didn’t hear?

Even in his current condition he could probably make better decisions then the current park management.

 

[WDWbuff2001]

Even in his current condition he could probably make better decisions then the current park management.

I'm pretty sure his bones are rattling.

 

[aladdin2007]

It has been one wild week around here lol....although I never dreamed I would see the day when Norway was downgraded to be barely about Norway and the facade ruined (in my opinion)....so this new crazy rumor while I dont believe it, I would not put it past current management either. It seems beyond far fetched though.

 

[RobbinsDad]

So instead of choosing a real African country to represent the world’s most historically-underrepresented continent, they’re going to create a Wakanda pavilion. Yeah, not gonna put too much stock in this one, sorry. But keep them coming, it’s always fun to pretend!

 

[carolina_yankee]

Maybe World Showcase is borrowing its new theme from AK - countries real, extinct, and mythical! Maybe USSR instead of Russia to round it out?

 

[Bob Harlem]

umm

 

[ToTBellHop]

So instead of choosing a real African country to represent the world’s most historically-underrepresented continent, they’re going to create a Wakanda pavilion. Yeah, not gonna put too much stock in this one, sorry.

Wakanda has been discussed, but not for World Showcase. And in any case, it won’t happen as the company is largely okay with MARVEL mostly going to its other resorts.

 

[RobbinsDad]

I’m sure they’d love Wakanda at WDW, but imagine the poop storm that would follow if they made a whole WS pavilion based on a fictional African country, when there are 54 (yes I googled it) perfectly real ones to choose from. And it would be 100% deserved.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

 

[ToTBellHop]

I’m sure they’d love Wakanda at WDW, but imagine the poop storm that would follow if they made a whole WS pavilion based on a fictional African country, when there are 54 (yes I googled it) perfectly real ones to choose from. And it would be 100% deserved.

No plans to expand the African presence.