Is a sports-themed park a possibility?

[lunchbox1175]

What's wrong with Meg Crofton?

Said absolutely no one ever!

 

[Skippy's Pal]

If they built this, maybe instead of a Magic Band, they'd have a Magic Jockstrap!

 

[ddrongowski]

If they include the shooting sports, then I am for it. Other then that, not anything in it for me and mine. What is interesting about this thread is I have never really enjoyed watching others play professional games with balls. While growing up the way television presented it and still presents it today, is that EVERYONE loves watching professional games with balls. Now that I am older I have discovered that is not the truth and the majority of people really don't care about professional games with balls. If you like it great, but not everyone does, and that is fine.

 

[ddrongowski]

Not as their own park (I'm a big football fan but even so, IDK if it's a good theme for an entire park), but maybe a section in downton disney for a giant sports arena with batting cages, perhaps a half basketball court (full may be too big), practice drill type things for football, etc.

Kind of like how Disney Quest but for sports rather than video games.

Okay so in 4 years the footballs will be flat, the floor will be worn thin, the baseballs will be uncovered and twined out, while the ball throwers will be as active as the YETI, the jerseys will be shredded and the whole place will smell of B.O.. But it will be the GREATEST MOST MAGICAL SPORTS EXPERIENCE YOU WILL EVER HAVE.

 

[ddrongowski]

If they built this, maybe instead of a Magic Band, they'd have a Magic Jockstrap!

What do you mean I'm under arrest. I was just trying to swipe my pass for entry.... Did I just type that

 

[ddrongowski]

There is a lot of science in sports so I could see something in Epcot that explains how to throw a curve ball or how changing you grip on golf club changes the flight of the ball. There is a show on TV all about sport science and they make it fun to learn. Kids would love hands on. Just have to make it safe to keep the lawyers happy.

The problem isn't the lawyers, well at least not originally, but the sue happy people. Then the lawyers get involved. But if you really think about it, an involved lawyer is a happy lawyer. That's how they get paid.

 

[KCheatle]

I feel like they've already covered the sports-theme with the Wild World of Sports, so I don't see an entire theme park emerging from this concept. In fact, I'm not certain they will build another theme park? I just don't see a "void" needing to be filled with an entirely new theme park. I see "voids" within the current theme parks that need to be filled. The only theme I could ever see them branching into a entire new theme park with would be a "water-based" theme like they did in Tokyo with DisneySea. Otherwise, I just don't see a 5th park happening.

 

[Megalodumb]

If they include the shooting sports, then I am for it.

I'd steer clear of the Dick Cheney Hunting Experience if I were you.

 

[WondersOfLife]

If we're getting any new theme park.. It'll probably be a park based on a variety of movies and tv shows and characters disney doesn't even own. Because that's obviously how they make more money these days..

 

[Fairybuzz]

Sounds like it'd be such a guy thing. Female sports fans are always ignored. so beer buffalo wings hot waitresses etc..... wait that doesnt sound so bad
lol I'm being silly of course but

The problem with a sports themed theme park is its very limited. Where as a park like DHS could just stuff any disney movie outside of fantasy reams into it (so pixar and stuff) I can't see what would go Into a sports park. Other than like just making it the ESPN zone.

Maybe some high school musical big game thing some thrill ride that supposedly emulates "the bumps and bangs" of a real football game (?? whats the point just play it! I say this because thats what the "Superbowl ride" at Blackpool Pleasure Beach was billed as and it was just a bumper cars where you ride ew in ewww!! football players carved out backs WHAT??)

Anyway, I can't even see there being a land for this, perhaps one ride. Or maybe a featured thing in DHS for sports tv. But I can see this actually being quite boring as a non sports fan. (well other than softball and cheerleading but I haven't done that since High School).

A nascar race maybe would fit somewhere but theres a ride like that in florida already (at least when I was young) and It was a very very very small amusement park I think it was old town.

Anyway The park at most would be like the size of a resort hotel or be stuffed with six flags rides.

 

[JIMINYCR]

My father was a Sportsaholic... any sport, didnt matter what kind... he was interested in watching. If Disney put a sports park in he would buy one park pass and stay in that one park his entire trip... forget the rest of Disney. My wife has no interest in sports except when it comes to the Olympics. She might watch the gymnastics and a few of the other events. She wouldn't enter a Disney sports park. DS & I would go to see a few of the sections that interested us. So a Disney sports park wouldnt be a big enough draw for most families to make Disney shell out the money & manpower to develop it.

 

[Tom Morrow]

I don't really see how you could theme rides and attractions to sports.

Next summer... YOU. ARE. THE. BASEBALL.

Only at Disney's Sports Kingdom.

 

[Skippy's Pal]

If they built this, maybe instead of a Magic Band, they'd have a Magic Jockstrap!

 

[Megalodumb]

If we're getting any new theme park.. It'll probably be a park based on a variety of movies and tv shows and characters disney doesn't even own.

You mean Disney's Hollywood Studios?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Wide World of Sports is Disney's answer to a sports theme park. Obviously not a theme park, but a massive sports presence.

Exactly what I was thinking. What would Wide World of Sports be if not a Sports Themed Park complete with ESPN and everything!

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Disney once owned a sports park. The Celebrity Sports Center in....Denver, Colorado.

http://buckfifty.org/2009/02/04/celebrity/

Pity Disney never build their ski resort. Disney could've really entered the market of sports complexes / ski resorts / bowling alleys / swimming pools, or any combination thereof.


That Googie design is always great. Isn't that sign just lovely? Wish WDW would use this style some more! (But coming soon to UNI, at their Cabana resort)
With a sixties overlay, some sense of fun and placemaking, Disney's WWoS could be turned into some sort of fun family destination.

 

[Uncle Remus]

I think it is a one and done thing and possibly not have the repeat customer base that WDW does. There was once a theme park called Boardwalk and Baseball here is FL that did not last very long. It housed the spring training facility for the Kansas City Royals I beleive and was themed around an old Coney Island boardwalk and baseball.

I would have to have more to it than attractions you find during any fan fest these days.

Loved Boardwalk and Baseball. Remember the trivia show Chris Berman hosted from there in the early days of ESPN?

 

[Vader2112]

Loved Boardwalk and Baseball. Remember the trivia show Chris Berman hosted from there in the early days of ESPN?

The Superbowl of Sports Trivia!!
It was uinique! now Legoland

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Loved Boardwalk and Baseball. Remember the trivia show Chris Berman hosted from there in the early days of ESPN?

I loved B&B too! Especially that wooden coaster.

I don't know the first thing about American sports, so the baseball aspect didn't interest me.
Which in fact brings me to a negative about any sports-themed area: sport is often very limited in geographical scope. America's pastimes of baseball and American Rugby, even basketball and ice hockey fall flat on most international visitors.

 

[danpam1024]

We used to have a sports themed park near Disney in Haines City many moons ago- Boardwalk and Baseball. Coasters, midway type rides and a large ball field. It was opened for exactly 3 whole years- it is now a Best Buy/Target mall