Disney's America

[Shaman]

To me it wouldn't have made sense for Disney to have built a park somewhere in America other than Florida or California...the resorts are strongly established and will make more money than one park in the middle of America...not to mention it takes away from the other parks...cause people can get their Disney fix somewhere other than the already established resort areas...besides a Disney's America would be a failure as seen with DCA is Cali....people are looking to escape sooooo....I don't think it would have worked.....but since we're talking about old park rumors....whatever happened to the Wild West Park...


(I should mention...that my opinion was in no way affected by my proximity to WDW) :lookaroun

 

[martinthesparta]

At one point i heard they were talking about building the park in texas which would be a fantastic idea, but i think it's already outdated news. As for those who say it wouldn't make sense to put the park anywhere but cali or florida, that doesn't make any sense. Florida already has more parks thatn people are willing to spend time at in one trip and putting it in cali would be a repetitive waste. If anything business would be increased because locals would go there and not have to spend alot of money to travel and still be able to go to florida or cali because you are talking about two totally different experiences which would draw people to the new park and keep them going to the old parks. It's all about keeping the attractions fresh and new and not repeating. That's why disney originally wanted to build mostly different rides at the various parks to make more people travel to them, but i guess that get's too expensive. In addition, I think it would be cool to build an epcot style boat ride on american history, boston tea party and the whole works.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Originally posted by netenyahoo
This park was originally planned for I think Virginia, but the people didn't want it and it got some bad press about slavery attractions.

I don't think it'll ever get built as it was planned, but I think elements of it will show up in parks.

LMAO! I live 8 miles from that proposed site at I66 and Rte 15 in Haymarket, VA. Thats Exit 40, 35 miles from Washington DC.

This is immediatly west of the Manassas national battlefield park. Eisner announced some of teh proposed rides and the civil war people went ape. Of course the civil war people are preventing the roads from being widened on US 29 through the battlefield, which makes traffic hell.

Currently at that loccation, south of the interstate is a mobil station, a sheetz gas station, and a recently built mcdonalds and food lion shopping center. Nothing huge, but the papa johns wont deliver to my house.

There was no huge shopping center built instead. I live here, i should know.

On the other side of the interstate, where the park was to be builtt, you have 'luxury townhomes' goign for 250-300K as well as 10 acre home sites going for 500k-750k.

Theyve built a zillion houses on it now and traffic sucks worse than before. The local county commissioner that was voted out was rumored to be getting kickback from the local land developers.

Teh locals banned together, citing traffic as the biggest reason not to build Disney. Unfortunetly that prediction came true and i have no theme park. Morons.

 

[dox]

I wasn't going to post on this thread but this park was a horrible idea from day one. This is the kind of idea that the Simpsons lampoons. It just seems highly inappropriate and even its proposed location makes little sense.
First off doesn't it seem highly inappropriate to place guests in the position of WWII vets, people who died and gave their lives.
Second, from what i've read in the links above, you enter the park into a Civil War Era village? What?? Are we going to have black employees passing as slaves in this proposed village. Will there be daily lynching recreations and whippings? Can we pick cotton and experience what it was like to work for no pay and little food. And these Indian settlements...was disney planning to dramatize the trail of tears (check ur history books if you don't know what i'm referring to) or on the flip side custer's last stand?
Third, the Industrial Revolution roller coaster??? (dox scratches head) - i can't even begin to explain this.
Granted there are some great concepts too - the Ellis island idea sounds great.
It seems to me the writer in the link above regarding how DCA could turn into Disney's America is more on track. When you attempt to dramatize history, the issue becomes who's history and in the end you end up alienating a great majority of people in this country who are also Americans. Folks, we have a pretty amazing country no doubt, made up of people of diverse backgrounds. A country created on ideals we strive to meet on a daily basis. But we also have a brutal history that shouldn't be trivialized and doesn't need to be made "entertaining" via motion simulators, dark rides or 3-D 15 min. movies. History is all around us on the east coast. Living in NYC - all i have to do is step out my door.

 

[celticdog]

Originally posted by PhotoDave219
LMAO! I live 8 miles from that proposed site at I66 and Rte 15 in Haymarket, VA. Thats Exit 40, 35 miles from Washington DC.

This is immediatly west of the Manassas national battlefield park. Eisner announced some of teh proposed rides and the civil war people went ape. Of course the civil war people are preventing the roads from being widened on US 29 through the battlefield, which makes traffic hell.

Currently at that loccation, south of the interstate is a mobil station, a sheetz gas station, and a recently built mcdonalds and food lion shopping center. Nothing huge, but the papa johns wont deliver to my house.

There was no huge shopping center built instead. I live here, i should know.

On the other side of the interstate, where the park was to be builtt, you have 'luxury townhomes' goign for 250-300K as well as 10 acre home sites going for 500k-750k.

Theyve built a zillion houses on it now and traffic sucks worse than before. The local county commissioner that was voted out was rumored to be getting kickback from the local land developers.

Teh locals banned together, citing traffic as the biggest reason not to build Disney. Unfortunetly that prediction came true and i have no theme park. Morons.

Dave, don't forget that the Audoban Society and the "Save the Bay" foundation absolutely freaked out. Both claimed that this type of developement would be harmful to the environment. But as we now know it would have been less harmful than the dozens and dozens of subdivisions and the suburban sprawl that is laying waste the countryside.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I completely forgot about them. Amazing how things got worse then with the proposed park and NOBODY NOTICED until it was too late.

I guess urban sprawl is okay in some people's books.

 

[tazhughes]

Perhaps once comcast finishes taking over Disney they will build this park in the Philadelphia area (where it belongs anyway) and then I won't have to jump on a plane to get my Disney fix.

 

[imagineer99]

Originally posted by tazhughes
Perhaps once comcast finishes taking over Disney

Is it just me, or does reading statements like this make you begin to shiver?

 

[PhotoDave219]

Originally posted by tazhughes
Perhaps once comcast finishes taking over Disney they will build this park in the Philadelphia area (where it belongs anyway) and then I won't have to jump on a plane to get my Disney fix.

Keep dreaming. Its way too cold to put a year round theme park near Philly.

And despite my anti-comcast stance, Go Flyers!