I have long wanted to do a build-out in the style of S.W. Wilson, Imagineerland, ParkLore etc. When Parklore posted theirs I decided to create my own using his park as a template of sorts with a simplified digital drawing style in comparison to Wilson's pretty detailed parks, an expanded railroad, lands north of Rivers of America, and ride relocations, though with my ideas throughout. Please excuse the crudity of this whole map, I didn't have time to put it to scale or to paint it... It was my first attempt at this sort of thing and it took me about a month.
Without further ado...
Main Street U.S.A.
As you enter the turnstiles of the park and go under the Roy E. Disney Railroad Main Street Station, we see a familiar Main Street, virtually unchanged aesthetically, with the exception of large trees in the main planters to obscure the view of the Castle from bottom of the train station.
Replacing the Mickey Mouse meet and greet and Town Square Theatre is Main Street Museum, home of Walt Disney One Man's Dream. Just next door is Town Square Eatery, a replacement to the somewhat maligned Tony's Town Square. Here they serve east coast comfort food including Walt's favorite-chili. In a new offshoot from Town Square is home to the new Marceline Opera House which houses Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, an exact recreation of the show from Disneyland. Visit Osh Popham's Emporium for your shopping needs and to satiate your sweet tooth stop in the Confectionary. To the north end of the street is Coke Corner, home of the corn dog nuggets, Lillian's Restaurant, a buffet style restaurant, and of course the old favorites-Plaza Inn and the Ice Cream Parlor.
The hub remains virtually the same as it is (IRL) today.
Tomorrowland
In a return to form for my favorite land in the Magic Kingdom, my ideal Tomorrowland is a continuation of the 1994 retheme. As you enter the Avenue of Planets to the left is the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter featuring a completely reshot film with Neil Patrick Harris as the nefarious... or incompetent... chairman L.C. Clench, Paul Rudd as Spinlok, and Amy Pohler as Dr. Femus. Simulated Intelligence Robotics, a.k.a. SIR, would continue to be voiced by Tim Curry with original archived VO due to Curry's health. It is basically the same show, but built with today's technology and minor updates to fit today's culture and with relevant references.
Across the avenue is Andromeda the Beautiful, a tribute to the old America the Beautiful circle vision show, this too would be a circle vision show with animatronic guide-ORAC 71-voiced by Randall Park. This is a simple fly through by probe through Galaxy M-31 when nerdowell space pirates hijack the probe and try to find our whereabouts to take our souvenirs. Luckily ORAC is able to put up defensive shielding around the Metropolis Science Center just in time, persuading the pirates in the process to go about their business.
Sketch of ORAC 71 designed by Yours Truly.
Ahead is Rockettower Plaza, which is home to the Tomorrowland Transit Authorities, the Lunching Pad, and a new addition, the Rocket Pods. Rocket Pods is a spinner style attraction, but more extreme similar to the attraction in Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
Across the way where Space Ranger Spins now sits in Baymax Battle Blasters. A new twist on the shooter ride, tag along with Baymax and Hiro Hamada to blast nanobots and capture Professor Callahan before he destroys all of the land of tomorrow.
Right next door. in between Baymax and the Carousel of Progress is Horizons. The beloved EPCOT attraction is reborn here for the 21st century with an updated finale with 15 different locations including Mesa Verde, Sea Castle, and Brava Centauri Space Colony, also with the option to have virtual fly-throughs of the other Tomorrowlands in the world-Tokyo, Anaheim, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Now more than ever... If we can dream it, we can do it.
In the Future County Museum of Ancient Invention and Antiquity we find Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, a recreation of the World's Fair Progressland with a second floor with the entire model of Progress City. With a new script and new voice acting, a new finale to end the show with reverts back to a 60's style scene set in E.P.C.O.T.
Neighboring WDCOP is Starview Theatre, a new people eater for the Magic Kingdom. Inside houses a 25 minute broadway style show featuring the characters from Meet the Robinsons with all new songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
The highlight of New Tomorrowland is Space Mountain: Mission 2. Mission 2 is the same Space Mountain we love, but completely re-tracked to provide a smother experience. The iconic entrance and star tunnel music stays the same, but a new score by Ludwig Göransson is added to the ride via on train speakers a la Disneyland's Space Mountain and Rock N' Rollercoaster Starring Aerosmith. The new trains, still in bobsled single seating style, traverse the same layout with the same airtime hills and dizzying helixes, pass the same space station lift hill (with new magic-animatronics), and still provide a more thrilling experience than most other non-looping Disney coasters. The biggest difference is an all new post-show with the triumphant return of the speed ramp (look if I can design this unrealistic ideal build out with no budget, I can also do impractical things like this)... Starport 75 has never been better!
Next up is Star Tours. It is self explanatory.. relocated from Disney's Hollywood Studios, this is the same attraction as The Adventure Continues, but one of the simulators is equipped with a R-3X and it plays a 4k remastered 3-D version of the original film.
Finally we need to eat in the future so enter Tomorrowland Terrace (Featuring Sonny Eclipse) and the Inventor's Club respectively. In Tomorrowland Terrace find Sonny and his space angels having a planetary boogie while you eat off an updated menu with many options including flatbreads, chicken strips. brisket grilled cheese, street corn, and the return of the handwich!
At the Inventor's Club we meet a cyborg animatronic by the name of Dr. Lucy T. Morrow and her trusty friend Zeebie, the "grandaughter" of Weebo, made by famed fellow inventor Philip Brained hundreds of years ago.
Oh, one more thing. A tunnel, an alternate route to and from Fantasyland, which houses the Tomorrowland Times, the newspaper of Tomorrowland, and an advertisement board for the many businesses and attractions in Tomorrowland is housed here.
Discoveryland
I have always loved the idea of Discoveryland in Disneyland Paris so I wanted to add a mini Discoveryland of my own. I did not want to get rid of Tomorrowland as I really love it, but I wanted MK to have another great E-Ticket in place of Tron. Here is my Discoveryland!
As you enter the land, to the right you will find an attraction similar to the scrapped Bullet Train concept from the Japan world showcase pavilion. Since this is an unrealistic pipe dream of a park, this is a world where Disney has the rights to Back to the Future III (since Universal doesn't want to do anything with it anymore). Here you hop along a sidecar to the Time Train and hop on an adventure, intended to go to the past, but the flux capacitor is broken and we end up winding around Discoveryland and all of WDW before crashing into Cinderella Castle. Clara and Doc apologize for the bumpy ride and hope to make it up to you with a real time trip in the future. Doc then fixes the capacitor and says "I have a chess game with Mr. Verne" and says goodbye. I didn't want to make a time traveling attraction for one specific reason, but I wanted to have that tie in to a great movie that references Jules Verne given this is a Verne-esque land.
Next up is Captain Nemo's Quarters, a QS stand that offers seafood.
In the heart of the land is Vulcania Lagoon, here a replica of the Nautilus is docked. Just ashore is the Orbitron, the relocated Astro Orbiter done up in a new steampunk style similar to its sister rides in Paris and Anaheim. Behind Orbitron is Trip to the Moon, a short Omnimover attraction based on the 1902 short film "A Trip to the Moon" and, of course, Verne's iconic novel "From the Earth to the Moon (Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It)." Join the Baltimore gun club and come face-to-face, quite literally, with humanity's constant evening companion Luna.
Across the way is the return of a beloved attraction, The Visionarium (a.k.a. From Time to Time... a.k.a. The Timekeeper). Once again reworked a new polished script with two comedians, perhaps Steve Carrell and Amy Sedaris, but this time without the Boyz II Men song to instantly date it.
Discoveryland has a stop on the Roy Disney Railroad, the last before the highlight of the entire attraction, the Grand Canyon and Primeval World, which is behind Tomorrowland. It also goes in between Trip to the Moon and the highlight of the entire land and perhaps Magic Kingdom, an attraction we'll talk about next....
Without further ado...
Main Street U.S.A.
As you enter the turnstiles of the park and go under the Roy E. Disney Railroad Main Street Station, we see a familiar Main Street, virtually unchanged aesthetically, with the exception of large trees in the main planters to obscure the view of the Castle from bottom of the train station.
Replacing the Mickey Mouse meet and greet and Town Square Theatre is Main Street Museum, home of Walt Disney One Man's Dream. Just next door is Town Square Eatery, a replacement to the somewhat maligned Tony's Town Square. Here they serve east coast comfort food including Walt's favorite-chili. In a new offshoot from Town Square is home to the new Marceline Opera House which houses Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, an exact recreation of the show from Disneyland. Visit Osh Popham's Emporium for your shopping needs and to satiate your sweet tooth stop in the Confectionary. To the north end of the street is Coke Corner, home of the corn dog nuggets, Lillian's Restaurant, a buffet style restaurant, and of course the old favorites-Plaza Inn and the Ice Cream Parlor.
The hub remains virtually the same as it is (IRL) today.
Tomorrowland
In a return to form for my favorite land in the Magic Kingdom, my ideal Tomorrowland is a continuation of the 1994 retheme. As you enter the Avenue of Planets to the left is the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter featuring a completely reshot film with Neil Patrick Harris as the nefarious... or incompetent... chairman L.C. Clench, Paul Rudd as Spinlok, and Amy Pohler as Dr. Femus. Simulated Intelligence Robotics, a.k.a. SIR, would continue to be voiced by Tim Curry with original archived VO due to Curry's health. It is basically the same show, but built with today's technology and minor updates to fit today's culture and with relevant references.
Across the avenue is Andromeda the Beautiful, a tribute to the old America the Beautiful circle vision show, this too would be a circle vision show with animatronic guide-ORAC 71-voiced by Randall Park. This is a simple fly through by probe through Galaxy M-31 when nerdowell space pirates hijack the probe and try to find our whereabouts to take our souvenirs. Luckily ORAC is able to put up defensive shielding around the Metropolis Science Center just in time, persuading the pirates in the process to go about their business.
Sketch of ORAC 71 designed by Yours Truly.
Ahead is Rockettower Plaza, which is home to the Tomorrowland Transit Authorities, the Lunching Pad, and a new addition, the Rocket Pods. Rocket Pods is a spinner style attraction, but more extreme similar to the attraction in Shanghai Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
Across the way where Space Ranger Spins now sits in Baymax Battle Blasters. A new twist on the shooter ride, tag along with Baymax and Hiro Hamada to blast nanobots and capture Professor Callahan before he destroys all of the land of tomorrow.
Right next door. in between Baymax and the Carousel of Progress is Horizons. The beloved EPCOT attraction is reborn here for the 21st century with an updated finale with 15 different locations including Mesa Verde, Sea Castle, and Brava Centauri Space Colony, also with the option to have virtual fly-throughs of the other Tomorrowlands in the world-Tokyo, Anaheim, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Now more than ever... If we can dream it, we can do it.
In the Future County Museum of Ancient Invention and Antiquity we find Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, a recreation of the World's Fair Progressland with a second floor with the entire model of Progress City. With a new script and new voice acting, a new finale to end the show with reverts back to a 60's style scene set in E.P.C.O.T.
Neighboring WDCOP is Starview Theatre, a new people eater for the Magic Kingdom. Inside houses a 25 minute broadway style show featuring the characters from Meet the Robinsons with all new songs by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
The highlight of New Tomorrowland is Space Mountain: Mission 2. Mission 2 is the same Space Mountain we love, but completely re-tracked to provide a smother experience. The iconic entrance and star tunnel music stays the same, but a new score by Ludwig Göransson is added to the ride via on train speakers a la Disneyland's Space Mountain and Rock N' Rollercoaster Starring Aerosmith. The new trains, still in bobsled single seating style, traverse the same layout with the same airtime hills and dizzying helixes, pass the same space station lift hill (with new magic-animatronics), and still provide a more thrilling experience than most other non-looping Disney coasters. The biggest difference is an all new post-show with the triumphant return of the speed ramp (look if I can design this unrealistic ideal build out with no budget, I can also do impractical things like this)... Starport 75 has never been better!
Next up is Star Tours. It is self explanatory.. relocated from Disney's Hollywood Studios, this is the same attraction as The Adventure Continues, but one of the simulators is equipped with a R-3X and it plays a 4k remastered 3-D version of the original film.
Finally we need to eat in the future so enter Tomorrowland Terrace (Featuring Sonny Eclipse) and the Inventor's Club respectively. In Tomorrowland Terrace find Sonny and his space angels having a planetary boogie while you eat off an updated menu with many options including flatbreads, chicken strips. brisket grilled cheese, street corn, and the return of the handwich!
At the Inventor's Club we meet a cyborg animatronic by the name of Dr. Lucy T. Morrow and her trusty friend Zeebie, the "grandaughter" of Weebo, made by famed fellow inventor Philip Brained hundreds of years ago.
Oh, one more thing. A tunnel, an alternate route to and from Fantasyland, which houses the Tomorrowland Times, the newspaper of Tomorrowland, and an advertisement board for the many businesses and attractions in Tomorrowland is housed here.
Discoveryland
I have always loved the idea of Discoveryland in Disneyland Paris so I wanted to add a mini Discoveryland of my own. I did not want to get rid of Tomorrowland as I really love it, but I wanted MK to have another great E-Ticket in place of Tron. Here is my Discoveryland!
As you enter the land, to the right you will find an attraction similar to the scrapped Bullet Train concept from the Japan world showcase pavilion. Since this is an unrealistic pipe dream of a park, this is a world where Disney has the rights to Back to the Future III (since Universal doesn't want to do anything with it anymore). Here you hop along a sidecar to the Time Train and hop on an adventure, intended to go to the past, but the flux capacitor is broken and we end up winding around Discoveryland and all of WDW before crashing into Cinderella Castle. Clara and Doc apologize for the bumpy ride and hope to make it up to you with a real time trip in the future. Doc then fixes the capacitor and says "I have a chess game with Mr. Verne" and says goodbye. I didn't want to make a time traveling attraction for one specific reason, but I wanted to have that tie in to a great movie that references Jules Verne given this is a Verne-esque land.
Next up is Captain Nemo's Quarters, a QS stand that offers seafood.
In the heart of the land is Vulcania Lagoon, here a replica of the Nautilus is docked. Just ashore is the Orbitron, the relocated Astro Orbiter done up in a new steampunk style similar to its sister rides in Paris and Anaheim. Behind Orbitron is Trip to the Moon, a short Omnimover attraction based on the 1902 short film "A Trip to the Moon" and, of course, Verne's iconic novel "From the Earth to the Moon (Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It)." Join the Baltimore gun club and come face-to-face, quite literally, with humanity's constant evening companion Luna.
Across the way is the return of a beloved attraction, The Visionarium (a.k.a. From Time to Time... a.k.a. The Timekeeper). Once again reworked a new polished script with two comedians, perhaps Steve Carrell and Amy Sedaris, but this time without the Boyz II Men song to instantly date it.
Discoveryland has a stop on the Roy Disney Railroad, the last before the highlight of the entire attraction, the Grand Canyon and Primeval World, which is behind Tomorrowland. It also goes in between Trip to the Moon and the highlight of the entire land and perhaps Magic Kingdom, an attraction we'll talk about next....
Next we shall look at Liberty Square and Frontierland.
