IOA Expansion: The Lagoon Itself?

[Darth Tater]

Do you think this will ever happen? The Island Skipper tours boat ride is no more. The Island blast fireworks show is gone...so really the lagoon is...well, useless. (Beautiful), but still useless.

What if the park were to add some sort of centerpiece themed island at the park's core? The space is large enough to hold several major themed attractions plus more. Perhaps have some kind of large iconic structure to be the focal point. There could be bridges/walkways/tunnels connecting via this new island: a route from Toon Lagoon to Lost Continent, or Marvel to WWOHP.

Turn the giant body of water into smaller canals, and have a centralized island. What does everyone think? Could this happen...and most importantly, what would the theme be? (Personally, I wouldn't mind a Skull Island with a Kong theme.)

 

[GLaDOS]

Do you think this will ever happen? The Island Skipper tours boat ride is no more. The Island blast fireworks show is gone...so really the lagoon is...well, useless. (Beautiful), but still useless.

The Lagoon will not be useless for much longer.

 

[Darth Tater]

The Lagoon will not be useless for much longer.

Hmm...interesting. Any details?

 

[GLaDOS]

Hmm...interesting. Any details?

There's at least a nighttime show in the works.

 

[djlaosc]

OrlandoInformer says:

http://www.orlandoinformer.com/2013/rumor-round-up-for-april-5-universal-orlando-walt-disney-world/

Lagoon show at Islands of Adventure featuring a seventh “island”

Word has been buzzing around for a while now concerning the prospects of a new lagoon show coming to Islands of Adventure. In past columns we’ve talked about reports of fireworks tests after park hours and several times guests have seen “markers” throughout the lagoon that are generally used by Universal Creative when planning where show elements will end up (similar markers were used in Universal Studios Florida before Cinematic Spectacular was built.) This would not be the first time IOA had a lagoon show, but it has been well over a decade since the park had a nighttime extravaganza using its spectacular lagoon setting.

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While nothing is concrete, an idea that has been running around is that a seventh island would rise out of the lagoon (the other islands being Marvel Super Hero Island, Jurassic Park, Toon Lagoon, Seuss Landing, the Lost Continent and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter) and wreck havoc. Word going around is that Universal Creative wants to avoid using the water screens in order to differentiate the show from Cinematic Spectacular. Whether it’s a brand new story, or one that incorporates elements from the current six islands at IOA, a nighttime show is an event that will help draw people back over to the park once USF has opened Transformers: the Ride 3D, The Simpsons expansion, and Harry Potter phase 2.

Apart from the fact that there are already seven islands at Islands of Adventure (isn't Port of Entry counted as an island?), so this would be the eighth...

 

[JT3000]

Any one know if the Lagoon is for show or is used for drainage???? I know where I live we have many lagoons, canals etc. and people tend to think they are for show but really they're there for water control, we have a high water table with lots of swamp. All of Universal may be draining into that lagoon?

Toon Lagoon's rides actually run on lagoon water. When one of them E-stops, that's where it drains to.