LM at DCA won't have nearly the infrastructure FLE will have.The LM at DCA is basically a stand alone building. FLE will need bathrooms, new shops, eateries, all the water features, landscaping etc. Truly apples and oranges. I think there is a lot about the FLE that has not been announced yet.
Very valid point jt.
The two Mermaid facilities couldn't be more different between the coasts. In fact, I can't think of a duplicate theme park attraction that looks and acts differently in each park. Mansion, Pirates, Small World, Space Mountain, etc. all look different, but the overall facility in both parks is fairly similar. The DCA and MK versions of Mermaid will be very, very different when it comes to facades and attached facilities and placement within their surroundings.
The DCA version is truly a standalone building unattached to anything. The restrooms were moved across the street in the San Francisco Row House buildings in a 2009 project that was entirely separate from the Mermaid project (although clearly done in advance of the complete bulldozing of the Mermaid site that the DCA project required.)
San Francisco Row Houses 2009 - New Bathrooms Adjacent to Little Mermaid Construction
The gift shop is nearby, to be rethemed to the new Pier theme and selling lots of Mermaid merchandise, but totally separate and undergoing its own reimagineering as part of the broader remake of that entire corner of DCA that includes Goofy's Sky School, Paradise Garden Grill, etc.
Souvenir 66 behind Little Mermaid construction walls 2010
In short, the two Mermaid attraction facilities couldn't be more different.
Nevermind the difference in construction techniques between building on swampy soil and Utilidors in Orlando and digging down into the sandy Anaheim soil on top of solid bedrock. You could dig to China through the dry Anaheim bedrock, but you could only dig 10 feet in Orlando before you hit soupy water. That alone makes the two Mermaid construction projects like night and day.
, Yeah I should check more often.
