Hub Resort Concept

[Jusjuice]

.......considering at WDW at least, the resort has grown so big most of the general themes are covered, sometimes more than once. AK and Adventureland have similar themes, EPCOT and Tomorrowland, etc. Also, the resort has become so spread out that it takes forever to get anywhere else in the resort.

My idea is to build a new resort where each new park would be wedge shaped, with huge a central plaza in the middle. , connected to the parking lots and resorts by a monorail or peoplemover type system. The hub, and small passage to the parking lot between two of the parks would be themed to main street, with small shops and resturaunts. One park would be built at a time, starting with Fantasyland, Frontierland(or historyland), Tomorrowland, and Adventureland, with a large plaza in the middle of all of them. A huge fireworks spectacular would be based in the hub. That would keep with Walt's original design, but leave LOTS of room to expand the themes they have. There would be a train, running around the whole circle, eventually with stops in each park. Resort(s) would be built at the very back of each park when fully expanded with an accompanying theme that would have their own entrance to the park.

For example, Tomorrowland could start out with a sort of sci-fi future, maybe called Discoveryland, then expand to the epcot-like future world section, then (possibly) the world showcase in the very back. It would also Include Stormrider and Aquatopia from TDS. There would be a peoplemover system, a monorail, and a themed skyway whizzing around this park.

Fantasyland could be sort of a European fairy tale park, but have whole lands based on different animated movies. At the front of this park (visible from the plaza) would be a castle. The central area could include smaller attractions based on BATB, cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, Pinocchio and Sword in the Stone. Smaller lands would spread out from the center, like Wonderland, Mermaid lagoon, Neverland, 100 Acre wood, and even Beastly Kingdom. Also, there would be a land themed to Roman and Greek mythology, with rides and attractions based on Hercules and Fantasia.

Historyland/Frontierland (just working titles) would be like a combination of Frontierland, Disney's America, Liberty Square, New Orleans Square, New York Harbor, similar to TDS, and some aspects of Discovery bay. It would explore the myth, legend and fact of America's past. It would also be the least popular because it would be educational.

Last, we would have Adventureland, which would include, upon entering, a safari outpost type village, similar to Discovery Island at AK, where the Jungle cruise would dock. Directly across the water would be Bali Hai, a polynesian village on the front side of the volcano which would be the centerpiece of the park. With lands like Bali Hai, Mysterious Island, Arabian Coast, Lost River Delta, Harambe, and Anandupur, (all nonexistent places) it would be like a fantasy of exotic places like the original Adventureland. It might also eventually include a Dinosaur-themed land and Japanese or Chinese land.

Other possible future parks could be A hollywood fantasy themed park (not a fake movie studio), with a hollwood and sunset blvd. similar to MGM based on hollwood's golden age; a toon studios leading to toontown, based heavily on Roger Rabbit Characters; and a backlot with stunt show/tram tour sort of like WDS paris.

What do you think?? Would it work?

 

[ImagineerFan04]

It sounds preaty intresting.

 

[ArsonWinter]

Sounds good (and huge).

Personally, I always thought Mysterious Island was perfectly suited for a segue from Fantsyland to Tomorrowland, since it handles the concepts of both lands so well... I don't know how well it would fit in with Adventureland's design....

 

[FigmentDream]

The only problem you would run into is possibly over stretching the themes, also while a wedge shaped area works fairly well, I think that wedge shaped parks would be a transportation nightmare, the hub design was used for easy flow, if you expanded that out of the park berms and left the parks with out it, you would be defeating the purpose.

What would probably work is if you kept a similar design but each park itself had a hub and spoke design while the whole complex area had the same deign

 

[The Rick]

That idea is almost the exact same idea that Walt disney had for a new town called E.P.C.O.T. (Environmental Prototype Community Of Tommorrow) Anyway that idea fell by the wayside and the park took on that name. The pavilions were to take on an aspect of the future, like new ways of growing food and maintaining the land (The Land), preserving our oceans and waterways (The Living Seas), Transportation (what now is Test Track), and so on. But Walt's Idea was to have a bunch of circles that where little twons these towns were large and were to be connected by the monorails that connect EPCOT to MK. These monorails lead to the center of these large circle towns. Here Residents would get of the monorails and could hope onto TTA people movers to each section of the pinwheel. IN the center would be the comercial section of the town and the outer section the residential. Almost all pictures of Walt at his IMAGINEERING workshop have pictures and drawings of these towns. If you look around you can see them. I dont have the patients to look them up but they should be easy to find

 

[Jusjuice]

Originally posted by ArsonWinter
Sounds good (and huge).

Personally, I always thought Mysterious Island was perfectly suited for a segue from Fantsyland to Tomorrowland, since it handles the concepts of both lands so well... I don't know how well it would fit in with Adventureland's design....

I guess I'm thinking of the sort of lush tropical remote island Vulcania, sort of like what the 20K lagoon is supposed to look like, blended with the whole Art-Nemo look. Plus, it would be on the side of the volcano, so I would Imagine that would fit a little better with remote and exotic places than New York Harbor and Mediterranean harbor do at TDS. I was going to have the 20,000 leagues dry-for wet ride from TDS, JTTCOE from TDS, the nautilus walk-through, and some type of ride where Nemo takes you back to the time of the dinosaurs (or discovers a hidden land of dinosaurs)

Originally posted by FigmentDream
The only problem you would run into is possibly over stretching the themes, also while a wedge shaped area works fairly well, I think that wedge shaped parks would be a transportation nightmare, the hub design was used for easy flow, if you expanded that out of the park berms and left the parks with out it, you would be defeating the purpose.

What would probably work is if you kept a similar design but each park itself had a hub and spoke design while the whole complex area had the same deign

Yea, I was thinking that the overall design would be wedge-shaped, but the parks would be adjusted to how they needed. For example, Adventureland would take up more room on the hub, so that it would be more round-shaped, wheras the Hollywood park would be smaller at the front, with hollywood blvd.

The parks would be in a hub-type design....
Adventurland would sort of spread out around the volcanic island, just like TDS;
Fantasyland would have a large central section, similar to the Fairy-tale style we see at DL's fantasyland, with some of the more generic themes (snow white, cinderella, BATB, sleeping beauty,), but that would spread out to lands like Mermaid Lagoon (or atlantica), London Square (Mary Poppins, Mr. Toad), the Hundred Acre wood, Wonderland, Beastly Kingdom and Mt. Olympus/Fantasia Gardens;
Tomorrowland would be composed of 2 smaller hubs, with one in the Sci Fi section of the park, like tomorrowland at the MK, and another at the Epcot-like section of the park with themes similar to Energy, Land, Sea, Air, Transportation, Weather, Computers, Imagination, Horizons, etc.;
Historyland would spread out from Liberty square, and moving clockwise the lands would be Civil War Era, Frontierland, San Francisco Gold Rush/Discovery Bay, New york Harbor, WWII Airfield, and New Orleans Square.
Hollywoodland would have Hollywood Blvd., with the Chinese theater at the end, where it would spread into 4 areas: west sunset blvd., with D-ck tracy's crimestoppers, and RNRC; The backlot section, which would be like a movie studio, but it wouldn't be the focus of the park; Maroon Cartoon Studios, which would lead to Toontown; and east sunset blvd, directly across from west which would have the TOT, and a recreation of Walt Disney's Hyperion Studio, with the Animation tour. there would be a trolley running up and down sunset blvd.;