News Disney plans to accelerate Parks investment to $60 billion over 10 years

Goofnut1980

Goofnut1980

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Gusey said:
From announcement to opening, these attractions worldwide took the longest to complete (of dates we know, as World of Frozen at Disney Adventure World will be over 7 years):
  1. Haunted Mansion at Disneyland (7 years, 7 months, 9 days) - December 31, 1961 - August 9, 1969
  2. World of Frozen at Hong Kong Disneyland (6 years, 11 months 29 days) - November 22, 2016 - November 20, 2023
  3. Fantasy Springs at Tokyo DisneySea (5 years, 11 months, 23 days) - June 14, 2018 - June 6, 2024
  4. Tron Lightcycle/Run at Magic Kingdom (5 years, 8 months, 20 days) - July 15, 2017 - April 4, 2023
  5. Pandora: The World of Avatar at Animal Kingdom (5 years, 8 months, 20 days) - September 20, 2011 - May 27, 2017
The quickest though are:
  1. Monsters Inc Laugh Floor at Magic Kingdom (6 months, 23 days) - September 10, 2006 - April 2, 2007
  2. The Timekeeper at Tokyo Disneyland (7 months, 15 days) - August 31, 1992 - April 15, 1993
  3. Magic Carpets of Aladdin at Magic Kingdom (7 months, 24 days) - September 30, 2000 - May 24, 2001
  4. A Bug's Land at DCA (7 months, 29 days) - February 8, 2002 - October 7, 2002
  5. Monsters Inc, Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! at DCA (8 months, 18 days) - May 5, 2005 - January 23, 2006
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It is incredible to see timelines. How long did it take to build the Magic Kingdom Park? Wasn't it around 11 months of actual construction?
 
Gusey

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Goofnut1980 said:
It is incredible to see timelines. How long did it take to build the Magic Kingdom Park? Wasn't it around 11 months of actual construction?
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Magic Kingdom was announced on October 25, 1965 and opened on October 1, 1971 - 5 years, 11 months, 6 days later.
 
Gusey

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John park hopper said:
actual construction took 18 months think Disney can do that now-------NO
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But that is partly due to the way the construction business has changed in the last 50 years, with a lot more health and safety policies and conservation policies.
The closest we're getting to a whole new theme park opening in the US is Epic Universe, which began construction and was announced on August 1, 2019 and is set to open in Summer 2025 (Roughly 6 years factoring in a year's delay between 2020 and 2021). Things just take longer these days compared to the 1970s
 
Gusey

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If you consider the most recent US Disney Parks:
It took 4 years, 6 months, 21 days from DCA being announced on July 18, 1996 and it opening on February 8, 2001.
It took 2 years, 9 months, 4 days from Animal Kingdom officially being announced on July 18, 1995 and it opening on April 22, 1998, with construction also beginning in 1995. However, a 4th park for WDW was first announced on January 15, 1990 as part of the Disney Decade but the theme has not been greenlit yet
 
bwr827

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The new park will open after only a few weeks of preparation. Mainly enough to get lots of tools and equipment on site.

Then, Disney will invite all the armchair imagineers to come build the amazing rides they lament the company no longer is capable of creating.

The park will not have electricity, so as not to tempt the armchairs into lazily using screens on their rides.
 
John park hopper

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Tried to find how many deaths occurred during the construction of WDW in 1971 could not find any data but there have ben many post construction. Like everything when the government gets involved it gums up the works.
 
lazyboy97o

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Gusey said:
But that is partly due to the way the construction business has changed in the last 50 years, with a lot more health and safety policies and conservation policies.
The closest we're getting to a whole new theme park opening in the US is Epic Universe, which began construction and was announced on August 1, 2019 and is set to open in Summer 2025 (Roughly 6 years factoring in a year's delay between 2020 and 2021). Things just take longer these days compared to the 1970s
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When a project is announced is not when construction starts. Site work had already been under way when Epic Universe was announced. Comparing announcement to opening is a meaningless metric that tell you nothing of value.
 
Nubs70

Nubs70

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Gusey said:
But that is partly due to the way the construction business has changed in the last 50 years, with a lot more health and safety policies and conservation policies.
The closest we're getting to a whole new theme park opening in the US is Epic Universe, which began construction and was announced on August 1, 2019 and is set to open in Summer 2025 (Roughly 6 years factoring in a year's delay between 2020 and 2021). Things just take longer these days compared to the 1970s
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It can be done safely in 19 months given enough people and proper scheduling.
 
Gusey

Gusey

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lazyboy97o said:
When a project is announced is not when construction starts. Site work had already been under way when Epic Universe was announced. Comparing announcement to opening is a meaningless metric that tell you nothing of value.
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I was just trying to give perspective of how long projects can take these days compared to the early days of WDW. Disney these days tend to announce projects a long time before construction actually begins, so it does give value to see how long any projects announced these days may take to build. For example, the Avengers Multiverse attraction at Disneyland was announced at D23 2022 and no construction. Tropical Americas was officially announced September 2023 and yet construction has yet to begin.

I think I worded the Epic Universe one badly as I meant to say construction had begun before the announcement in August 2019.
 
LSLS

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lazyboy97o said:
When a project is announced is not when construction starts. Site work had already been under way when Epic Universe was announced. Comparing announcement to opening is a meaningless metric that tell you nothing of value.
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Yeah, looking at satellite, I'd say it started in December 2018.
 
Nubs70

Nubs70

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Goofnut1980 said:
It is incredible to see timelines. How long did it take to build the Magic Kingdom Park? Wasn't it around 11 months of actual construction?
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There are many timelines on projects.

The most basic are:
Announcement
Ground Breaking
Topping out - completion of structural steel
Enclosure
Construction completion
Commissioning
Acceptance

Large facility construction is typically done from ground breaking to Construction completion in 19 months. After completion, there is a defined period of commissioning until the project is accepted with a warranty period thereafter.
 
DisDude33

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Advisable Joseph said:
Dennis Spiegel has been telling the news what he has been hearing about a fifth gate since earlier this year, before the reveal of the new development document.

He was inducted into the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Hall of Fame in 2022, so he is pretty much an insider.
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Rumors of a fifth park have been popping up since DAK opened and many of them were true at the time they were being told but ultimately they fall apart (usually because of budgetary reasons) all I’ll say is that right now any talks of a fifth park or even more “blue sky” than Villain’s Land and I think most of us have accepted that Villian’s will likely never happen.

My understanding is that the next 10 years at WDW is about expanding what is already there and growing capacity the existing areas. Once those goals have been met and the company as a whole is in a more stable financial position then the idea of a new park will be discussed more seriously.
 

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