Just a quick update for y'all on the status of the final draft.
Everything is looking good so far. I will be making some serious changes to certain aspects that appeared to be firmly set-in-stone in regards to the format and entirety of the park as seen in the rough draft. Some very difficult decisions have had to have been made, unfortunately, the first being the relocation of
The Magic of Dreams to an amphitheatre in Fantasyland. I've decided to nix Fantasy Lagoon for the sake of less clutter and more traffic flow in the Hub, kind of like Tokyo's Hub. Also, my park had one too many bodies of water.
See how big and wide-open it is? I want that, and having a lagoon for a
Fantasmic-scale show would be too much. Unless I wanted to format my park like DisneySea (which I don't), I'd have to really break the Hub and Spoke mold. But, I do want a moat surrounding the Hub (like Florida and Disneyland), so the water will be retained, just not to the extent that it once was.
An original firework spectacular will take up the former home of
The Magic of Dreams. On the bright side, Snow White Castle will gain a stage a la MK, TDL, and SHDL! So look forward to some new live entertainment.
Also, since the park is so massive, I've had to do away with the Disneyland Australia Railroad surrounding the ENTIRE park. That's way too much track to lay down, and, as heavy of a loss as this is thematically and traditionally, I'll be taking yet another queue from TDL and having a railroad attraction run through Adventureland and Frontierland, even going so far as to provide transport between the two equally-massive lands, all the while encountering wildlife in the jungle and drama on the frontier along the way, so that's exciting. Like TDL, I'm planning on having a station located above the Jungle Cruise dock:
The station in Frontierland will most likely resemble the Disneyland Railroad station in DLP's Frontierland, as seen here:
The PeopleMover will stay in Tomorrowland as stated in the rough draft, acting as transportation between four lands: Discovery Bay, Tomorrowland, Marvel City, and Mos Eisley Spaceport. This will also fill in the space left by the lack of trains. A controversial choice, yes, but it is a necessary evil when designing a park that is hundreds of acres in size. You don't see a train surrounding Epcot or Animal Kingdom, haha.
Here are two sneak peek updates for the time being, starting with Adventureland's most popular dark ride, Peter Pan's Flight to Neverland. As stated in the rough draft, guests will enter the timeless flight-ride from the shipwrecked-hull of the
Jolly Roger, Captain Hook's infamous vessel. However, upon entry, guests are transported not into the wreck of the ship, but instead into a bizarre thematic mixture of wooden ship pieces and a miniature diorama of London, complete with a mural displaying the events of
Peter Pan. Boarding a small galleon suspended from an overhead track, guests embark on a ride similar to Peter Pan's Flight found in the soon-to-be-open SHDL.
While much of the ride remains exactly the same as Shanghai (soundtrack included), new features will be added to the English-language version of the attraction, including:
- Tiger Lily appears tied-up in the waters inside Skull Rock (near the "splashdown" scene). A squawking raven is also perched inside one of the eye sockets, just like MK and TDL.
- An extended flight over Neverland; rather than crashing down following the flight over mini-Skull Rock, the ships appear to touchdown closer to the island, passing through a narrow canyon past tiny, simply-animated figures of the Lost Boys, Indians, mermaids, and new to DLA, some wild animals seen in "Following the Leader," including a bear, some chimps, and a hippo. This "new" sequence is similar to the Tokyo and Florida dark rides.
Return to Neverland's giant octopus makes a not-so-giant cameo in the waters following the initial flight over Neverland, not too far from the miniature pirate ship.
- At least three more pirates are on deck when guests initially fly above the ship, the Lost Boys also join the prisoners (Michael and John) tied to the mast.
- All of the animated figures become full-on audio animatronics with functioning mouths, blinking eyes, etc. This is an Adventureland dark ride, not a Fantasyland dark ride.
- Hook's clothes are tattered and torn as he stands on the opened-jaws of the crocodile.
- After passing through the Big Ben crash-doors, guests fly back inside the Darling Nursery, right past Michael and John asleep in their beds. Mr. Darling, Mrs. Darling, Nana and Wendy all look out the opened-window, Mr. Darling (also voiced by Corey Burton) recalling seeing the ship when he was a boy. Then the ships return to the load area.
The other dark ride update I'd like to cover, or more so announce is the addition of Mickey's Madcap Circus, a dark ride designed ages ago by myself,
@Basketbuddy101, and one other whose name is slipping my mind. I won't go into too many details just yet, but this new Fantasyland dark ride will be quite spectacular.
More updates to come!
