Okay, I just saw the Travel Channel specials on Imagineering and Tokyo Disney Sea. Being that there has been rumors of a 5th Florida park AND that Disney already has a large plot of land for a 3rd California park, after witnessing Disney Sea and knowing what I know about Disney park history, I got to thinking.
It's now a pretty widely known fact that Disney/MGM Studios ended up being a more full-blown version of a proposed Hollywood/Entertainment pavilion at Epcot (allegedly to be between the Land and Imagination). The fact that Universal was building nearby made this rushed into production 3rd WDW gate happen.
And then there's the Safari Ride at AK and the themed AK Africa area. This is actually an off-shoot of what was once proposed for Epcot World Showcase, which had plans for a scaled-down safari ride and similar-looking archetectured WS pavilion.
So given the chain of logic that Disney takes an idea for a pavilion or land at one park and turns it into a whole big- park elsewhere...after watching Travel Channel and all it's detail, I suddenly had this sick yet hopeful feeling in my gut that Beastlie Kingdomme (or Beastly Kingdom) will not end up at AK after all--that in fact its long delay in being constructed is due to Disney's decisio to use its concept for another park. Instead AK will devote itself to devising rides and attractions based more around real animals and add Australia and South America to the "kingdom," with hopefully interesting and exciting (E-ticket) attractions for both regions.
Therefore, the next Disney park will end up being a "Myths and Legends" park using concepts and ride ideas from BK (like Reign of Fire coaster), as well as incoporating the Sinbad and two Jules Verne rides at Tokyo Disney Sea. They could even add an area for American Legends into the mix to make an interesting new park. If the park ends up in Florida, then that's the place to put the Indiana Jones Adventure. If it ends up in California, they can add Dinoland and its attractions (since most of it is Flinstoney/cartooney anyway). They could even put Timekeeper into the mix for the Jules Verne stuff.
Just my two cents.
But after seeing TDS in all its splendor, I don't see how they can seriously put a Disney Sea into Florida w/o really redoing it from top to bottom--too many areas are too similar in theming and feel Epcot and/or AK. And they just don't have enough room for anything other than a mini-DS in California, which would probably make it crappy.
But since Disney likes to go with proven crowd-pleasing attractions, and there are several over in Tokyo that could come to the states, using the Myths and Legends concept for the next park might work.
Since they have cleared land in California and kind of already stated that they will put a new park there around 2010, they have to make sure to hit a home run this go round since the questionably conceived DCA has thus far tanked. Therefore adding the E-tickets that have yet to come stateside totally makes sense and would truly bring a "second major gate" to Disneyland Resort.
So now tell me how much I'm dreaming. Go on. I can take it...
It's now a pretty widely known fact that Disney/MGM Studios ended up being a more full-blown version of a proposed Hollywood/Entertainment pavilion at Epcot (allegedly to be between the Land and Imagination). The fact that Universal was building nearby made this rushed into production 3rd WDW gate happen.
And then there's the Safari Ride at AK and the themed AK Africa area. This is actually an off-shoot of what was once proposed for Epcot World Showcase, which had plans for a scaled-down safari ride and similar-looking archetectured WS pavilion.
So given the chain of logic that Disney takes an idea for a pavilion or land at one park and turns it into a whole big- park elsewhere...after watching Travel Channel and all it's detail, I suddenly had this sick yet hopeful feeling in my gut that Beastlie Kingdomme (or Beastly Kingdom) will not end up at AK after all--that in fact its long delay in being constructed is due to Disney's decisio to use its concept for another park. Instead AK will devote itself to devising rides and attractions based more around real animals and add Australia and South America to the "kingdom," with hopefully interesting and exciting (E-ticket) attractions for both regions.
Therefore, the next Disney park will end up being a "Myths and Legends" park using concepts and ride ideas from BK (like Reign of Fire coaster), as well as incoporating the Sinbad and two Jules Verne rides at Tokyo Disney Sea. They could even add an area for American Legends into the mix to make an interesting new park. If the park ends up in Florida, then that's the place to put the Indiana Jones Adventure. If it ends up in California, they can add Dinoland and its attractions (since most of it is Flinstoney/cartooney anyway). They could even put Timekeeper into the mix for the Jules Verne stuff.
Just my two cents.
But after seeing TDS in all its splendor, I don't see how they can seriously put a Disney Sea into Florida w/o really redoing it from top to bottom--too many areas are too similar in theming and feel Epcot and/or AK. And they just don't have enough room for anything other than a mini-DS in California, which would probably make it crappy.
But since Disney likes to go with proven crowd-pleasing attractions, and there are several over in Tokyo that could come to the states, using the Myths and Legends concept for the next park might work.
Since they have cleared land in California and kind of already stated that they will put a new park there around 2010, they have to make sure to hit a home run this go round since the questionably conceived DCA has thus far tanked. Therefore adding the E-tickets that have yet to come stateside totally makes sense and would truly bring a "second major gate" to Disneyland Resort.
So now tell me how much I'm dreaming. Go on. I can take it...