Somebody’s trying to copy the Americana at Brand. Funny how that was designed by ex imagineers.
The thing is that under their deal with the city they could build that today, without any need to go get permission. They need permission to build more park there.
They want to be exempt from development review so they can do whatever they want pretty much wherever they want. That area is most the Hotel District, so retail is accessory. They’re including the theme parks because that is the sex appeal that gets the reaction they want of “we should let them do this”.
No they do not. The area is the Hotel District and even the new DVC tower required development approval.
The DVC tower required approval because it needed a variance for exceeding the limit on timeshares set forth in the DRSP. While obviously the the city reviews permitting and other issues to ensure compliance with code and the DRSP, generally speaking a Disney hotel project in the Hotel district would not require the level of review that the DVC tower got.
Let us know when you have drinks with the “neighbor lady” again.A few other Deep Thoughts as I finish my nightcap during the last rain of the winter...
- Notice how Downtown Disney's footprint shrinks permanently in this new plan? They apparently aren't worrying about redeveloping the "west end" of Downtown Disney any longer. The AMC Theaters, ESPN Zone, Rainforest Cafe, Starbucks #82584, etc. is all being left to sit empty until it's time to turn it into Wakandaland or Frozenland or whatever. The death of the American Mall is truly upon us.
- The folks at Anaheim's PR firm are obviously reading the memos. The park expansion is labeled "Immersive Theme Park". That's actually not a bad name for a park. It cuts out the middle man and saves on printing costs when new stuff opens. Just brand every Disney theme park "Immersive Theme Park" and be done with it!
- Suddenly the Eastern Gateway has become "Possible New Parking". Emphasis on the "Possible". I imagine Burbank and TDA are still trying to figure out just how much the world really has changed in the last 12 months. Is the future really a world without many AP's? Where locals Uber? Where hotels flourish and expand? Where more parking is not needed like it was in 2015?
They needed approval because the current plans have some very specific approvals but also some very specific limitations. That is the larger framework they want relaxed. They want carte blanche to do what they want where they want.
Fresh BAkeD! Spent an hour listening to his super-money-grab-super-chat.... that was my take away from his Disney Forward update.Well, gang, it's already that part of the thread where I have to ask...
I assume there are YouTube videos going up where breathless bloggers in their home command centers are releasing videos scrutinizing every little detail of this artwork? And then blabbering excitedly about what it could all mean, and how the waterfall on this fake volcano looks just like that one waterfall from Moana and so Moana E Ticket Water Thrill Ride is CONFIRMED! for Anaheim?
I can't look. And it's too early for a cocktail to bolster my nerves. Someone else go do it. Go to the YouTube and find the bloggers already obsessing over this artwork and expansion concept and report back here, please.
“Tiana's Bayou Bash N' Splash”Who knows really? It's all very vague, because it's not an actual development plan, but just a marketing image.
As far as the existing Disneyland, there's really only two options to get this walkway out to a bridge structure over Disneyland Drive;
1. South of the Haunted Mansion and north of Pirates, along the current backside of New Orleans Square.
2. The backside of Critter Country, between the ride warehouses for Winnie The Pooh and Tiana's Bayou Bash N' Splash.
Either way, big changes are coming to New Orleans Square or Critter Country. You could even see them being able to expand New Orleans Square a bit beyond the existing berm to get to a bridge. If they do this right, and avoid cheap budgets and off-center windows, this could be a chance to expand and plus up New Orleans Square on the scale of a "Who Woulda Thunk It?!". This could be a great thing!
Or, by the time they get around to doing this a decade from now, the executives will have all changed and they'll go DCA 2001 cheap on this and it will totally suck and be a giant disaster.
Who knows? Anything is possible at Disneyland!
Yes. If this actually happens as it's shown, Disneyland will be the most massively developed and intricately stitched together Disney park in the world by a long shot. I can't think of a more fitting way for Disneyland to celebrate it's 75th birthday than that.
