New Tomorrowland @ Disneyland? Is this the year it finally gets announced? No, and that’s OK

[TP2000]

A friend shared this new video with the table at brunch today, and it just floored us! Maybe because we were all, ahem, of a certain age and Space Age stuff still thrills us. But it's just so darn cool! I maintain that one of the empty and abandoned buildings needs to be turned over as a temporary SpaceX exhibit, and then a New Tomorrowland has a bigger exhibit or SpaceX sponsored ride included in it.

Because this type of thing is just so darn cool not to be in Tomorrowland!...

 

[TP2000]

I do have a good feeling that we'll get a new Tomorrowland before the 75th. Even if they don't announce a complete New Tomorrowland update until 2028, just the announcement of a new attraction could be the start of New Tomorrowland 3.0 This decade, we've had:

• New Tooontown - Announced 2021, completed by 2023
  • A new attraction (MMRR), new aesthetics and updated Goofy's & Donald's
• New New Orleans/Bayou Country - Announced 2022/3, completed by end of 2024
  • A new attraction (Tiana's), 2 restaurant refthemes, and aesthetic updates

To be fair, Bob Iger announced Tiana's retheme of Splash Mountain over 4 years ago, in June, 2020.

It will have taken them almost four and a half years to retheme Splash Mountain. How long will it take them to retheme Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters?

 

[Epcot81Fan]

To be fair, Bob Iger announced Tiana's retheme of Splash Mountain over 4 years ago, in June, 2020.

It will have taken them almost four and a half years to retheme Splash Mountain. How long will it take them to retheme Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters?

What was going on in June 2020?

Must just have been when the fully baked, well planned and creatively groundbreaking attraction with the throughly developed dramatic storyline was scheduled to be announced.

 

[SuddenStorm]

To be fair, Bob Iger announced Tiana's retheme of Splash Mountain over 4 years ago, in June, 2020.

It will have taken them almost four and a half years to retheme Splash Mountain. How long will it take them to retheme Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters?

To think, all they had to do was just not touch Splash or bring attention to it and all would have been fine. They would have saved a few hundred million in costs, and a fan favorite would still be with us.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

To think, all they had to do was just not touch Splash or bring attention to it and all would have been fine. They would have saved a few hundred million in costs, and a fan favorite would still be with us.

True, but at least we got a significant increase in capacity on both coasts for that investment.

Oh, wait….

 

[GravityFalls]

If the rumor is true that Avatar might be going into the Simba lot instead of the bus area, then maybe that space be could be used for Tomorrowland instead.

Both Tokyo's new Space Mountain and Epcot's Guardians use elaborate show buildings for their queues and the attraction itself is housed in a bigger building backstage. Could Disneyland's Space Mountain be replaced with an attraction using that same ride system. The Space Mountain facade stays the same (or is updated like Tokyo's) and the attraction itself is built in the bus area.

You might even be able to get the monorail to run through the show building, like the people mover does at Magic Kingdom.

 

[Phroobar]

If the rumor is true that Avatar might be going into the Simba lot instead of the bus area, then maybe that space be could be used for Tomorrowland instead.

Both Tokyo's new Space Mountain and Epcot's Guardians use elaborate show buildings for their queues and the attraction itself is housed in a bigger building backstage. Could Disneyland's Space Mountain be replaced with an attraction using that same ride system. The Space Mountain facade stays the same (or is updated like Tokyo's) and the attraction itself is built in the bus area.

You might even be able to get the monorail to run through the show building, like the people mover does at Magic Kingdom.

I thought Tokyo's Space Mountain was just a clone of Disneyland's. What is this elaborate show building?

 

[etc98]

I thought Tokyo's Space Mountain was just a clone of Disneyland's. What is this elaborate show building?

They’re demolishing the existing Space Mountain in Tokyo and building a new bigger one.

News - New Space Mountain Coming to Tokyo Disneyland in 2027

This one probably deserves its own thread. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/04/a-new-space-mountain-coming-to-tokyo-disneyland-in-2027/ Earlier today Tokyo Disney Resort announced that the classic Space Mountain attraction, a guest favorite since Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983...

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[Phroobar]

They’re demolishing the existing Space Mountain in Tokyo and building a new bigger one.

News - New Space Mountain Coming to Tokyo Disneyland in 2027

This one probably deserves its own thread. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/04/a-new-space-mountain-coming-to-tokyo-disneyland-in-2027/ Earlier today Tokyo Disney Resort announced that the classic Space Mountain attraction, a guest favorite since Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983...

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There is no mention of a new separate show building. I guess it is possible.
Current Tokyo SM is exactly the same as Disneyland's except with a different dressed load/unload area.

 

[Disney Irish]

There is no mention of a new separate show building. I guess it is possible.
Current Tokyo SM is exactly the same as Disneyland's except with a different dressed load/unload area.

As I understand it they are completely demoing TDL SM and rebuilding it, ie it'll have a new show building when its all said and done.

 

[britain]

Here it is currently under construction BEHIND the old Space Mountain.

 

[etc98]

There is no mention of a new separate show building. I guess it is possible.
Current Tokyo SM is exactly the same as Disneyland's except with a different dressed load/unload area.

This is the latest aerial image from Google Earth. I'm sure some of the coaster will be in the circular part, but there also is a huge show building off the side of it

 

[McMickeyWorld]

A video to get a rough idea of the dimensions of the new Show building.

 

[PeopleRemover]

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This is the latest aerial image from Google Earth. I'm sure some of the coaster will be in the circular part, but there also is a huge show building off the side of it

I didn't realize the "mountain" part of the attraction was going to be roughly the same diameter. Jury is still out on how tall the new "mountain" will be.

 

[Misted Compass]

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This is the latest aerial image from Google Earth. I'm sure some of the coaster will be in the circular part, but there also is a huge show building off the side of it

Seems more like the part jutting out will be the station with the coaster being in the "mountain" portion like at DLP.

 

[etc98]

Seems more like the part jutting out will be the station with the coaster being in the "mountain" portion like at DLP.

Hmm that is definitely possible too. Hopefully we’ll get another aerial after they install the track but before they put on the roof haha

 

[Phroobar]

That's a very cool project. However, there is no way they could do something like this at Disneyland without bulldozing the entire complex and starting over. There isn't enough room behind Disneyland's to build a second one and the track was just rebuilt in 2005. That Tokyo track must have hit end of life.

 

[Disney Irish]

That's a very cool project. However, there is no way they could do something like this at Disneyland without bulldozing the entire complex and starting over. There isn't enough room behind Disneyland's to build a second one and the track was just rebuilt in 2005. That Tokyo track must have hit end of life.

This is why the thought is that it would be part of a multi-year TL refurb where the entire land is being redone allowing them to demo and rebuild over the existing structure.

 

[CHOX]

That's a very cool project. However, there is no way they could do something like this at Disneyland without bulldozing the entire complex and starting over. There isn't enough room behind Disneyland's to build a second one and the track was just rebuilt in 2005. That Tokyo track must have hit end of life.

The original track was around for 26 years. The new one is at 19 years. Things that make you feel old, right?

 

[Misted Compass]

The original track was around for 26 years. The new one is at 19 years. Things that make you feel old, right?

To be fair the addition of speakers prematurely wore out the old track. Tokyo's reached 40 years old, and I'm sure the newer DL track can last for even longer (though replacement parts might be a problem since Dynamic Attractions is out of business)