Absurdly unrealistic and probably logistically impossible, but I’ve always wanted Small World attached to a structure in the center of the lagoon styled like some more classical examples of world’s fair architecture (below). I’d rather this structure become the centerpiece for the nighttime show with projection and launch locations on site. Queue entrance at the plaza near Port of Entry. Then put something Tangled where Small World is now.
2 are there, and then one between Germany and Italy (where Brazil would have gone)....the one between Mexico and Norway with the meetngreet can always be changed one day if they wanted, the meetngreet is not permanent as such, same with world showplace....again "some day" if they wanted, but probably never during any of our lifetimes here.... The one between Morocco and France is gone due to Rat.
There's a sizeable expansion pad in Adventureland though to get to it, you would need a long queue between POTC and Jungle Cruise. Sort of similar to DL's IJA.
I can actually see them doing this
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I'd rather them utilize the VoLM theater. They are holding that space until 2023 (when new the live action movie comes out) but they could put Encanto show there now and just send the Encanto show somewhere else in the future.
Dwayne Johnson also said that upgrades are coming to Jungle Cruise based on the movie...
This is absolutely the type of thing that they should be doing at DHS. I've long been a proponent of Black Box Theaters and/or rides where you can put out productions like this in conjunction with the release of a movie.
I'm sure plans for that were in motion, but they pivoted to update the scenes of the current JC instead. Honestly I think that was for the best, I think the Rock is too much of a persona, it would be distracting.
Far as I understand it, when the movie was a bit of a dissapointment, they went for just redoing exisiting scenes instead. Saves money and doesn't kill an existing attraction beyond recognition like I heard the redo was going to be.
Think there's a balance there - successful enough (in covid times) to get a sequel and potentially a franchise, but not enough (yet) to redo an attraction. Coco's another example - it won't get a sequel because Pixar generally operate a bit differently, but it was theoretically successful enough for one, but not quite enough to justify reworking the Mexico Pavilion ride like they did for Norway/Frozen.
As I understand it, the Coco issue has as much to do with Disney wanting the Mexican Government or some other sponsor to pay partially for a pavilion redo, as much as the fact that the ride itself would definitely need a lot more renovation than Malstorm did.
Things are discussed with every movie Disney puts out there. I'm sure there were discussions about a Nutcracker and the Four Realms attraction at some level as well, but it doesn't mean it had any meaningful chance of happening.
I think this is all of them:
just a reminder the plot between China and Germany is 2 plots next to each other. its hard to tell when in the park but thats the layout.
