I think legco probably got that amazing concept art we got buzz words like new system first of its kind. Also in 2016 avengers was huge it makes sense from the governments point of view. What doesn’t make sense is what was Disney thinking first I just don’t see how that concept art is possible in the space. Secondly the current theming for the area already makes no sense. To have your so called park headliner to be in essentially a cul de sac style corner again makes no sense.
The location of the headliner goes back to the parks unbalanced problem caused by the original expansion being entirely on the south side of the park so they need something to draw guests to the north side of the park (as far as I was aware Tomorrowland is also the least loved of the original lands anyway)
I mean besides Main Street and Adventureland the other two lands were both poorly themed it’s just that fantasy lands set up still makes a bit of sense as it’s like a carnival in the castle grounds. Tomorrowland is also the one they’ve totally messed around with the whole marvel thing seems so tacked on.
I mean you aren’t wrong but it is still a factor
That’s totally fair it was originally designed in the pre IP era and you can feel that based on the fact it’s so different and not just castle park version of DHS
God those plans just make me think of how much I hate the shape of Shanghai
I think a good chunk of that was self imposed, China wanted the Disney resort, considering that Disney basically built HK because they went around to a bunch of competing cities and offered them deals they would be stupid to accept to make Shanghai jealous and HK accepted and Shanghai still didn’t tell Disney to off tells me that both parties wanted to the resort
Ah. That 800mil.
It was announced a year or two before opening that Disney and Shendhi would be spending an extra $800 million to increase the number of attractions at opening day. It was technically true in that a number of attractions were behind schedule and would not be ready for the already vaguely announced opening. It’s a lie in that before they fell behind to be post-opening attractions they were supposed to be opening day attractions. It got them back to where they were supposed to be but Iger spun it as a pre-opening expansion.
So basically if the park didn’t spend the 800 million the park would have opened with less than it has now, but what it has now (ignoring TSL) was what was originally planned so they used the 800 million to reach the original plan but sold it as if they were building more than the original plan
Mickey avenue is more an excuse to remove Americana from the park (as is subbing Frontierland for adventure island and treasure cove), I don’t feel like Shanghai is terribly more IP driven than the others considering all the other space mountains are usually Star Wars themed
They really look they went the whole 9 yards with it
