Overhaul-a-park

[Streetway]

A new version of Muppetvision could be added where the Mickey theater and Frozen sing along.

Frozen sing along is popular, and I don’t think Mickey shorts theatre could fit muppetvisions infrastructure, though they could try, it’d probably be a shell of its former self though. . Anyway what do you think of the muppet stuff I put out there? Tried to make it realistic, but still fun!

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

Frozen sing along is popular, and I don’t think Mickey shorts theatre could fit muppetvisions infrastructure, though they could try. Anyway what do you think of the muppet stuff I put out there? Tried to make it realistic, but still fun!

Overall, I liked it. It’s a bit more safe with the choices then I would normally do but it is realistic.

 

[Streetway]

Overall, I liked it. It’s a bit more safe with the choices then I would normally do but it is realistic.

thanks. I tried to make a realistic muppet ride as a challenge, and I also really liked the idea. I really wanted to do a “mystic manor” but in muppet labs/muppet Studios, but it’d be trackless overkill at DHS.

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

I am curious, how would you fix the remaining Disney World parks. Throughout my entire career on this forum I have revitalized every single Disney World park and even took a crack at a 5th park. If you ever need help on a project or you wanna collaborate on a project, just let me know.

 

[Streetway]

I am curious, how would you fix the remaining Disney World parks?

I have ideas in mind for all four. This wasn’t even my main one, just some ideas I wanted to get out there. I’m planning on doing an “unchained by the Bounds of realism” build out for all four parks (count your days star tours), so even DHS will prob look different. here are my general ideas on what they should do imo, and what you should expect.
Magic Kingdom:
new lands and attractions to spread out capacity, as well as filling abandoned spaces like alien encounter, revitilizing spaces that need work, and using spaces Tomorrowland speedway better.
E.P.C.O.T.
Fix future worlds troublesome triplets (WOL, FIGMENT, SSE) and add more attractions in the world showcase, preferably family ones (Epcot needs a few more)
DHS:
A new land in animation courtyard to take pressure off of existing e tickets, and more d&c tickets for families, as well as high capacity ones.
DAK:
expand ride and general attraction capacity (that is respectful for DAKS intent) like there is no tomorrow
Thanks for the offer of help
And yeah I would totally be down to collab!

 

[MarissaBullock]

I think it's for the best. As for me, Disneyland has a lot of problems now

 

[Brer Panther]

Here's how I would improve Magic Kingdom.

Main Street USA
- Open a new version of The Walt Disney Story somewhere (maybe in the Main Street Exhibition Hall).
- The Walt Disney World Railroad gets some more themed elements around the track and a diorama or two - preferably one with dinosaurs.
- The park gets a new nighttime parade, sort of a cross between Main Street Electrical Parade and SpectroMagic.

Adventureland
- Refresh the Jungle Cruise. More gags, more animatronics, more special effects, less "durr hurr monkeys are funny".
- Use the remaining land in Adventureland between the Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean for an Indiana Jones ride similar but not identical to Disneyland's.
- Refurbish Pirates of the Caribbean. Keep the movie elements, but switch the dialogue back to how it was before, so instead of the pirates looking for Jack Sparrow, they're looking for the town's treasure and don't know that Jack is sneaking around trying to find it first. Bring back the barker parrot, too.

Frontierland
- Disney would never actually do this, but... Splash Mountain returns. Redecorate the queue to include information about how the characters got their start in African-American folklore. Hire storytellers to tell Brer Rabbit stories outside the attraction. As for the attraction itself, simply fix up any animatronics that need it and bring in a few animatronics from Disneyland's version (assuming any of them still exist) in certain spots.
- The Country Bear Musical Jamboree gets seasonal overlays.
- Use the "Beyond Big Thunder" expansion pad for a new land based on New Orleans, headlined by a Princess and the Frog dark ride that doesn't focus on food co-ops and salt mines and a Tiana's Place restaurant.

Fantasyland
- Peter Pan's Flight also gets a refresh.
- Princess Fairytale Hall is replaced by a new dark ride. Possible themes include Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- The garden where Merida does meet and greets becomes a designated meet and greet location for the princesses.
- Mickey's Philharmagic gets the same "randomized" technology that Star Tours uses. New segments include "Pink Elephants on Parade", "Shiny", and "I See the Light".
- Enchanted Tales With Belle is replaced by that animatronic Beauty and the Beast show pitched for Disneyland Paris.
- Little Mermaid desperately needs an overhaul.
- Add Disney characters to "it's a small world" - but make it subtle.
- Pete's Silly Sideshow in Storybook Circus becomes a dark ride. Pete is the ringmaster of a circus featuring by obscure Disney characters like Humphrey the bear, Horace Horsecollar, the Three Little Pigs, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, and Salty the Seal.
- Tomorrowland Speedway is bulldozed. One half of the land is used for an Alice in Wonderland dark ride...

Tomorrowland
- The other half of the Tomorrowland Speedway is used for a whimsical new dark ride for Tomorrowland called Mars Rover Racers, in which guests race Mars rovers around a planet filled with goofy aliens.
- Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor is moved to Disney's Hollywood Studios . Maybe they could bring Timekeeper back?
- Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin is refurbished, with more emphasis put on your actually being on an adventure with the "real" Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on (as in, more Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Buzz, not Lightyear Buzz) as opposed to the size of a toy (to quell the "it doesn't fit in Tomorrowland" complaints).
- Put something in the now-empty Stitch's Great Escape building.

 

[Streetway]

less "durr hurr monkeys are funny".

But they really are!

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

Ok I don’t have a park but I have a land for you all, presenting
FIXING MAGIC KINGDOM’S TOMORROWLAND

Ok so we all know about the Tomorrowland Problem. Some have suggested make it in the far future, a spaceport, or a steampunk land but I have another idea that has never been discussed before. Introducing Tomorrowland 1955

• The entire land gets a refresh with architecture that people in the 1950s thought was futuristic with sleek modern designs with spires rising in the air which will light up at night, the land is colored in whites and red’s. Several murals of rocket ships and flying cars are around the land.
• Monsters Inc laugh floor is moved to Hollywood Studios and is replaced with an exhibit based around the futuristic city that we are walking through with exhibits based on how nuclear energy was used instead of oil, gas, and solar.
• Buzz Lightyear is rethemed to an old Buzz Lightyear cartoon where Emperor Zurg invades 1950s Earth. Guests walk through the forward operating base of Star Command and are sent to help Buzz defend Earth. Guests board their vehicles and attack Zurg’s forces as they attack futuristic cities such as Paris and New York. The sets are filled with kinetic elements with moving ships and projected fire effects. The ride ends with Buzz shooting down Zurg’s ship as he is taken away by Star Command.
• Stitch is replaced with a show based around Humans finally finding aliens. Guests enter a scientific research facility where there are many rooms that are filled with research equipment and news articles. The show starts with a introduction to what is going on and the rest of the show is a celebration of alien cultures with songs and holidays from alien cultures.
• The roof of the people mover track is torn down and is replaced with a glass dome that covers the track. The vehicles are modernized with white and red colors, the vehicles have air conditioning and new light features. The sides of the Peoplemover track now have guest walkways that can be walked on and leads to the Peoplemover loading station.
• The Astro Oribiter terrible elevators are replaced with a sweeping walkway that goes around the Peoplemover loading station. The planets now move a lot more and at night the planets light up with vibrant colors.
• The Carousel of Progress gets a new exterior facade with a large gold statue of Walt Disney and spires reaching into the sky. A new intro scene is added with a Walt Disney animatronic explaining the history of this show. New animatronics are added with projection effects and much grander scenes. A new second story is added with a giant walk around model of the original EPCOT and many exhibits explaining the history of EPCOT.
• The parking lot behind COP and Buzz is replaced with a new version of Horizons. Guests will walk through a grand museum with many exhibits based on the history of man-kind and the new inventions that have been made thanks to nuclear power. This ride will show how every decade up to that point thought the future would be.
• Since the Starlight Cafe has been replaced with an Alice Wonderland restaurant, it has been moved beside Horizons with its signature animatronic icing with it but this time he has an entire animatronic band playing with him.
• A new version of the Flying Saucers has been added beside COP with a revamped ride system. The roof of the ride is retractable which means when it rains the roof closes becoming a planetarium with several moving planets and stars.
• Space Mountain gets a refresh with a revamped queue, reimagined ride vehicles, and a whole new ride track. Guests now enter a space station on Earth where guests will be apart of an annual space launch, the ride that once had 2 loading stations has been doubled to 4. The ride vehicles are now themed to futuristic spaceships that are colored red and white with lighting features. The track is redone with new lighting effects, projections, and new animatronics added to the lift hill.
• The Tomorrowland Speedway is completely demolished and is replaced with a new version of Autopia but drastically smaller but that is from the naked eye. Guests will enter a racing academy with many exhibits about the history and future of racing. Guests will slowly traverse through the local environment of the area with many different environments but the ride gets faster as we go under Tomorrowland where guests will race against other guests as they go through the intense environments of many alien environments.
• Tron is given a slight retheme to the 1950s. We are now entering a very early racing video game with us entering the world. We enter the grid building as we are sent into the video game world where screens will show 8 bit NPC’s where they explain that there goal is to beat the other team and get to the end. The ride track has been increased to where we now go through Tomorrowland such as going across the rooftops of the building.
• The monorail now goes through Tomorrowland.

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Since I already did what New Fantasyland should've been like, seems natural to go ahead with the rest of the...

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Magic Kingdom​

Since listing everything in all of the other existing lands would be overkill, only the new stuff and changes are listed this time around. Rather than simply starting off in the present day, I’m gonna set it in the same timeline as my version of NFL and start from around the same point, if not slightly earlier...

Main Street, U.S.A.​

• The Town Square Theater is instead the Town Square Exposition Hall, home to a relocated One Man’s Dream and maybe the Backstage Magic with Mickey M&G that exists in our IRL TST
• Every store, sans maybe the Emporium, returns to selling distinct and unique merchandise, and the Cinema returns to being an actual movie theater like how Disneyland’s has always been

Adventureland​

• Fire Mountain - E-ticket coaster built on the expansion plot southwest of Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jungle Cruise
• Steam Skimmers (C-ticket LPS water flat ride), Lava Launch (B-ticket launch tower), and Thermal Springs - accompanying flat rides and splash pad
• Trader Sam’s Tiki Twirl - B-ticket interactive flat ride, replacing The Magic Carpets of Aladdin

Frontierland​

For now, let’s just say that Splash Mountain remains intact (with the stuff @Brer Panther described instated to add context behind the Brers’ origins) and Big Thunder Mountain gets retracked much like Disneyland’s version. As for what lies beyond Big Thunder Mountain...well, that’s another story.

Fantasyland​

Not going to reiterate how the 2010s expansion would’ve gone, but the style set by the Village Haus and the other village-y façades is applied to pretty much the rest of old Fantasyland

Tomorrowland​

• The Speedway is obviously no more, having been replaced by a bigger and better Mr. Toad. A pair of waterfall spires, similar to the spires that marked the entrance to Tomorrowland from the Hub in its early years, acts as a more clearer transition from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland (as it does in S.W. Wilson’s revamp of the general area)
• Planet Zirconium is explored in a new E-ticket in the pad between Carousel of Progress and Buzz
• The Timekeeper remains intact (if one chooses to bump back the start of this overhaul by a few years, Alien Encounter either is left alone too or gets replaced by a tamer comedy club show)
• Space Mountain is also retracked, again like how Disneyland’s was in the mid-2000s
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin sees the same narrative change described by the Panther above and more mobile blasters like in every other version of the ride
• Sonny Eclipse is moved to a new restaurant on the remaining former Speedway land not taken up by Motor Mania

 

[cdunlap]

EPCOT OVERHAUL THAT I MADE IN 9TH GRADE (I'M IN 11TH NOW):

FUTURE WORLD:

Minor updates happen to Spaceship Earth and The Land

Wonders Of Chemistry (Replacing the old Wonders Of Life Pavilion, Wonders Of Chemistry takes guests to a square with a mosaic of the Periodic Table Of Elements on the ground. Guests here can learn more about the Elements on Elemental Voyage, a dark ride taking guests through the Periodic Table Of Elements. This is totally not me projecting how much I enjoyed a Chemistry class I took in 9th Grade even if it was just for one d)

The Living Seas (A removal of the Nemo theming featuring a ride portion that explores the history of seafaring and underwater exploration)

WORLD SHOWCASE:

Canada gets a small museum showcasing the art of Norval Morisseau, an Indigenous artist whose artwork is renowned throughout Canada and a small rapids ride themed to Niagara Falls.

The UK gets a dark ride taking guests through London and a walkthrough based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

France gets a walkthrough based on the famous Catacombs of Paris and a dark ride based on the Montmarte District of Paris in the early 1900s when famous artists like Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso resided there.

Morocco gets a dark ride taking guests through a medieval Berber tomb in the Atlas Mountains and a new restaurant since Restaurant Marrakesh closed.

Peru Pavilion takes guests into an Inca city where they can ride Huayna Picchu, a coaster taking guests into the mountain of Machu Picchu in search of the tomb of Inca Emperor Pachacuti.

Japan gets Kamikakushi, a dark ride/coaster in which guests are spirited away by the Kami (Japanese deities) and brought on a whirlwind tour of Japanese culture held within a replica of Mount Fuji.

The American Adventure is replaced by The Ancient World, an area holding 7 WONDERS, a dark ride taking guests through the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Italy gets a Roman area featuring a Pompeii walkthrough and Tales Of Rome, a walkthrough taking guests through the stories of Julius Caesar and his closest friend (and best figure in Roman history IMHO), Marc Antony.

Germany gets Rhine River Cruise, a ride taking guests through scenes of the Rhine River, and Die Märchenwald Von Grimm, a forest path taking guests through the tales of the Brothers Grimm.

The Nations Of Africa showcases the vibrant song and dance of West Africa, the verdant rainforests of the Central African Republic, the bustling markets of East Africa, and the technicolor houses of the Ndebele people of Southern Africa.

China gets a Great Wall Of China replica holding a dark ride based on Journey To The West, a classic of Chinese literature. (Again, I'm totally not projecting about how much I loved this book in 9th Grade!)

Norway gets a new and improved Maelstrom with a greater emphasis on the folkloric/mythical and historical aspects.

Mexico gets a boat ride themed to the Maya and Aztec civilizations.

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

Okay I have my new version of fixing DCA.

Buena Vista Street:

• A new Omnimiver dark ride is added going through the life of Walt Disney. Starting with his early life, going through his movie career, and then through the creation of Disneyland and beyond.
• Streetmosphere is added back with the citizens of Hollywood coming back and more kinetic effects are added with new lighting

Hollywood Land

• The land gets a whole redesign with it basically being a west coast version of Hollywood Boulevard.
• An animation walkthrough is added, showcasing how animated movies are made and encourages audience interaction with guests being able to draw on screens and on paper.
• The Chinese Theater is added, replacing the Hyperion but it is not the Great Movie Ride but a show that goes through many famous movies. Guests will sit down in a carousel theater and will go through the history of movies starting at black and white and to the modern day.
• A new version of Muppetvision is added that goes through the muppets creating a new muppet movie but they just cause chaos and eventually destroy all the sets.
• A new dark ride is added to the land that is based on the many children’s films throughout the ages. The dark ride starts with some of the earliest children’s films and cartoons and will eventually get to the most modern children movies.

New Land: Marine Center.

• This land is above Hollywood Land and it takes up the bus depot. It is based on the plentiful and diverse sea life of California. It is separated into a outdoor wildlife exhibit and a indoor marine center.
• The outside of the land has many wildlife exhibits such as dolphins and different kinds of tropical fish. This also holds several shops and a small theater that holds shows that teach guests about marine life.
• The indoor part of the land holds many of the shops and the main dining location which is the main cafeteria of the center. Their are also more exhibits inside of the center.
• A new version of 20,000 leagues under the sea is added but we follow Nemo as we explore the many different kinds of environments and species of the world. The Finding Nemo characters are used in an educational way and are also used to draw guests to the ride.

Avengers Campus

• The land gets an entire overhaul with more kinetic effects added such as lighting features and moving parts on the buildings.
• Web Slingers gets more practical effects and the main sets are actually fully practical as we must use our web shooters to attack animatronic spider robots. The pre show also adds an animatronic Peter Parker and not just another screen.
• The Doctor Strange area gets more kinetic effects added such as moving stones and living plants that will sometimes touch cast members and guests that stand to close. The paths will also have symbols that will light up when stepped on. The show is also brought back where guests will help Doctor Strange fight off villains from the multiverse.
• The expansion space behind the Avengers Headquarters will hold 2 attractions.
• The main attraction of this area is the already planned Avengers E Ticket where we will help the Avengers battle King Thanos. This land will be part suspended dark ride, trackless, and drop tower. The attraction is mainly physical sets and animatronics.
• The final attraction is an Iron Man simulator which used the ride system that was originally planned for the Avengers E Ticket. Guests must help Iron Man as he attempts to save Avengers Campus as it is being attacked by Hydra. The ride will have guests enter Iron Man suits and will also guests use repulsors to defeat the Hydra agents.
• Another restaurant is added that is themed to Iron Man which takes place inside of an abandoned meat packing plant that has several Iron Man suits laying around. These will occasionally move and light up.

Cars Land

• Replacing Mator’s Junkyard Jamboree is a new fantasyland style dark ride that will take us through the life of Mator. From his life as a young tow truck to him setting up shop at Radiator Springs to him meeting Lighting McQueen.
• A new table service location is added behind Luigi’s Roadsters is a new Drive In theater that sells many different kinds of Western food and will play the Cars movies on a big screen. The cars will occasionally talk to each other about the movie they’re watching.

San Fransoyko Wharf

• Replacing Journey of the Little Mermaid is a new simulator that takes place in a new Baymax suit. Guests will help Baymax and his team fight off against a giant living sea creature that is attacking the city. This will use the Star Tours ride system and will have a Hiro animatronic inside of the cockpit with us.
• A new Baymax meet and greet is added to the land that takes place inside of a college campus from the movie.

Cartoon Pier

• Many of the existing flat rides of the pier will be rethemed to really old Disney characters, the building will also be colored in black and white.
• A new sit down restaurant is added themed to the Ink and Paint club. This will sell many cartoon related foods and will feature live performances from animatronic cartoons.
• The Incredicoaster is themed to goofy where he must complete a stunt for his upcoming cartoon. Guests will first enter into the stunt studio where we see many other stunts done by goofy. We will shoot out of a cannon as we are sent flying across the pier and we will eventually get back to the studio.
• A new dark ride behind the goofy coaster is added themed to Oswald and his cartoon adventures. Guests will follow Oswald as he goes through his adventures through the cartoons he has appeared in. At the very end he must escape a giant blob of thinner but he thankfully gets away and pull us out before the ink gets us.
• A life size version of the steamboat from Steamboat Willie is added that can be explored and you will also be able to find clues about Mickey’s past.
• Toy Story Midway Mania is themed to the really old Mickey Mouse cartoons such as Steamboat Willie and his many other iconic cartoons. Guest appearances will also be made by Donald, Goofy, Minnie, and Pluto. Well except one cartoon.
• A new fantasyland style dark ride is added based on the Mickey in the graveyard cartoon. Guests will go through the graveyard narrowly avoiding the sight of the skeletons but will eventually be found which is when we must escape the skeletons before they bring us down with them. This ride will take up the space where that Inside Our spinner is.

Paradise Gardens

• A new suspended dark ride will take guests inside of a crop duster and will showcase the history of agriculture inside of California. It will start with how Native Americans planted food to when the Spanish colonized and how they farmed to the 1900s and how they farmed to the most modern farming techniques known to man.
• More gardens will be placed around the area and cast members will tell guests how they farm these plants and how they are used to make food at Disneyland.

Grizzly Peak

• More show scenes and animatronics are added to Grizzly River Run.
• Soarin Over California is permanently there instead of around the world.
• A new trail is added which goes up the mountain and showcases many different wildlife exhibits most of them are bears.
• A new zip line is added at the top of the mountain which can be rode down all the way to the bottom of the mountain.
• A new coaster weaving though the mountain is added that is a close counterpart to the one is Hong Kong. It will go through the mountain and will also fly around the rest of the land.

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Gonna make this a two-fer...

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EPCOT Center​

Ideally, my overhaul would be more or less identical to S.W. Wilson’s most recent buildout of it (even down to it starting a few years or a decade prior to when they began to overhaul the park [albeit for the worse] in an alternate timeline), but one can alternately imagine it with these possible differences:

• Depending on the scope of the overhaul, Journey Into Imagination could either be a restoration of the original ride reusing the current track layout or a full-on trackless reimagining
• Instead of Frozen Ever After, Maelstrom could’ve been replaced with this actual blue sky concept, The Troll King’s Heart:
  
  
• To quench the higher-ups’ thirst for IPs, only a few IP attractions would remain or be built - most likely Gran Fiesta Tour and something with either WALL•E or Inside Out

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Disney’s Hollywood Studios​

Another buildout - that by Brian Krosnick of Park Lore - was the main influence for how I would’ve overhauled this park, but this time round, it’s not simply re-iterating everything he brainstormed (and my alternate timeline comes into play here, too)...

Hollywood Boulevard​

• The Great Movie Ride is kept intact, while Mickey is given a land to call his own (as I’ll touch on further down)
• Hollywood Line Streetcars - A-ticket transportation boarding from Hollywood to Sunset, or vice-versa
• Silver Screen Museum - exhibition in the building on the left-hand side of the street before the hub

Sunset Boulevard/Hidden Hills​

• INVASION! A Transmission from The Twilight Zone - retheme of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
• Villa Fortuna - E-ticket LPS dark ride
• Snow White’s Enchanted Wish - C-ticket Fantasyland-style dark ride
• Rocketeer: The Musical - replaces Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage

Echo Lake​

• The Magic of Disney Animation - new version replaces Frozen: A Sing-Along Spectacular and the Hyperion Theater in general
• A Passage to the Stars - C+/D-ticket Omnimover dark ride

Muppet Studios​

• The Great Muppet Movie Ride - E-ticket dark ride built on part of the current CM parking lot
• Muppet Labs - post-ride interactive play zone
• The Great Gonzo’s Balloon Race - B-ticket round ride situated in front of the Muppet Movie Ride
• The Swedish Chef’s Kooky Kitchen - combination of the two unbuilt Muppet restaurants, replacing Mama Melrose’s

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge​

Not much is changed here with the exception of the addition of these attractions:

• Batuu Creature Scouters - D-ticket Omnimover dark ride and post-ride animatronic zoo
• Junkyard Flyer - B-ticket spinner
• The Jedi Temple: Secrets of the Past - multimedia stunt show
• The Kalikori Club, from the canceled phase II, also sees the light of day

Mouseton​

Built instead of Toy Story Land, serving as Walt Disney World’s version of Toontown

• Mickey’s Daring Adventure - E-ticket SCOOP dark ride based on either Epic Mickey or the Floyd Gottfredson comics
• Mickey’s Midway Mania - retheme of Toy Story Mania!
• Just Plane Crazy - C-ticket Vekoma/MACK Rides (launched) family coaster
• Frolicking Fish (spinner), Pete’s Construction Commotion (whip), and Minnie’s Melody-Go-Round (carousel) - supporting A/B-ticket flat rides

Walt Disney Studios​

• The Walt Disney Story - C-ticket dark ride
• Walt Disney Presents - two-floor interactive walkthrough/exhibit
• Studio Commissary - new counter service restaurant

Monstropolis​

Replaces Animation Courtyard

• Mike and Sulley’s Warehouse Rescue - E-ticket inverted family coaster
• Monsters University: Ride & Go Seek! - D+-ticket interactive dark ride
• Laugh Lab Spin - B-ticket enclosed round ride
• Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor - relocated from the Magic Kingdom
• Harryhausen’s - signature dining venue with Audio-Animatronic character

 

[President Loki]

I’d like to give overhauls to EVERY Disney park at some point (or at least ODL & WDW), especially given recent controversy, but there’s also…

ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE

(2.0)

The 2.0 version of Islands of Adventure is made in a partial-joint-effort with Disney to help alleviate the Marvel/Simpsons rights snafu, overcoming the hurdles between the companies so that Universal loses Marvel but gains total access to almost (bar Avatar of course) all Fox/Touchstone/ABC IP, including exclusive rights to some like Die Hard. (Alien/Predator are also at Cedar Fair for their Halloween stuff) Shedding Marvel, despite being the loss of a well-liked land, is part of creating one of Universal’s biggest islands to date. When you start at the Port of Entry, the place hasn’t seemed to change much at first, but you do notice that the directory to the lands has been updated to show off the new roster, as soon as you see the map; an entire two lands have been struck from the record, settled their differences, and became one; Toon Lagoon and Marvel Super Hero Island have been laid to rest, their broken remains becoming Weekly Shonen Jump Island, a sprawling megaland based on the iconic IP of Weekly Shonen Jump from its inception all the way to the present day, in a wide variety of rides & attractions. Seuss Landing still stands in spite of the controversy, but has been expanded to add a little more variety, such as a museum or Dr. Seuss artifacts over the years (even discussing the darker aspects of Seuss’s career on the top floor) & a Mt. Crumpet coaster. Jurassic Park is also still present, having a new area called SITE B, to represent the “middle films”. Hogsmeade is as hearty as ever too, but new to the island chain is Black Box Frontiers, home of the darker Nintendo IPs such as Zelda and Metroid that wouldn’t fit in SNW or have their own lands like Pokemon, forming an interesting lineup of Epic Universe having Mario-universe stuff, Pokemon in Studios (alongside a few others like Kirby, Splatoon, etc), and the darker IP at IOA. A transport system of boats has also been added along the lake, sort of like the Disneyland Railroad, taking riders to stations at Hogsmeade & Jurassic Park.

Weekly Shōnen Jump Island

This new mega-island is based on Weekly Shōnen Jump and its myriad IP, contemporary, classic, & otherwise (though not every IP is included, more obscure Japan-only stuff is left out for example, & even a series as notable as KochiKame gets very little due to its lack of global appeal), replacing two former lands & combining them into one mass. This overhaul has outright replaced some attractions while retheming others. Jump on board Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, a rethemed & slightly retracted Spider-Man.

I'd love to see a one piece ride, either as a boat ride across the Grand Line or maybe even a Sea Train coaster. Just as long as it isn't exactly a Hulk re-theme. Maybe either where the forgotten theater is next to Spider-Man or getting rid of Dr. Fear and using the space behind it.