Possible Frontierland expansion

Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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tcool said:
Well there is Pocahontas. You know that movie the stars an official Disney Princess. As well as the fact it wouldn't be the first time Pocahontas has been in Fronteirland as there is Pocahontas's Indian Village over at DLP.
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Wow, never thought of that. That just makes too much sense...
 
robonakabob

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tcool said:
Well there is Pocahontas. You know that movie the stars an official Disney Princess. As well as the fact it wouldn't be the first time Pocahontas has been in Fronteirland as there is Pocahontas's Indian Village over at DLP.
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I agree, but unfortunately they rarely use Pocahontas because the film was considered a sizable flop. Back for its original release Disney created mountains of merchandise for it that nobody wanted. Pocahontas doesn't sell :[
 
Sage of Time

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tl77 said:
The problem with expanding Frontierland is getting people to the new expanded area... but over in Tokyo Disneyland they seem to have come up with a great plan for freeing up space
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By moving Tokyo's "it's a small world" building, they not only add the pretty building facade that all the other parks have (...well? all the other parks except the world famous Magic Kingdom that is) but they can also use their big new show building to block the public's view of Space Mountain from inside their soon to be expanded Fantasyland, while at the same time freeing up space for some new Alice in Wonderland stuff where their "small world" currently sits

Now let's just say... "hypothetically" you applied the same logic to the world famous Magic Kingdom, and relocated the "small world" building to the same location it's going to be in Tokyo. You could then fill in the space between it and the Mad Tea Party with some new Alice in Wonderland stuff, and then all you would need to do is find a cheap way to re-theme Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe to some a little more "Fantasyland-esque" ...hmm, what could they possibly do with that big building... with transparent walls, and hexagonal rooms... hey! maybe something like this might work... "hypothetically"
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So now we would have a great strategy for expanding not only Frontierland, but Fantasyland and Tomorrowland as well
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now I know they only release the budgets in "One Year Increments" but they tend to plan this stuff out in "More Than One Year Increments" ...they painted the Yankee Trader "ghostly blue" almost a whole year before turning into a Haunted Mansion gift shop, they moved Tinker Bell out of The Adventureland over a year before they stared turning it back into a restaurant, and just last year they enclosed the outdoor section of Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe ...maybe they just felt they need more "nice, cold, air conditioned" space inside that already popular restaurant ...well the cold never bothered me anyway
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I want this very unrealistic and expensive and imaginative plan very badly.
 
Kman101

Kman101

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A raft ride sounds underwhelming to me, especially with Kali being a near waste in terms of theme. Let's hope the Frontierland one, if that's even what gets built, is a plussed Grizzly or similar to Shanghai's and includes a show building.
 
yensidtlaw1969

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Anybody have more info they can share about what was proposed for the Raft Ride when it was first discussed?

I have trouble picturing that this sort of attraction is quite what Magic Kingdom needs - this kind of ride system doesn't exactly seem to be known for staggering hourly capacity. If this is what they're looking at, there must be some other box this attraction checks really intensely. Theme? Cost? IP?
 
EPCOTCenterLover

EPCOTCenterLover

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A log flume could be great- and it wouldn't be close to Knott's Berry Farm. The park could use two water rides for those sweltering Florida summer days. Just please, Disney suits, don't cheap out here whatever you build!
 
Captain Neo

Captain Neo

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
Anybody have more info they can share about what was proposed for the Raft Ride when it was first discussed?

I have trouble picturing that this sort of attraction is quite what Magic Kingdom needs - this kind of ride system doesn't exactly seem to be known for staggering hourly capacity. If this is what they're looking at, there must be some other box this attraction checks really intensely. Theme? Cost? IP?
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People complaining there aren't enough water rides in the Florida heat?
 
Rodan75

Rodan75

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It's going to be Soarin' Over The Wild West...;)

Any thoughts on the coincidence of a Northern Entrance to WDW and potential Northern expansion of FrontierLand? Any chance they are looking for at a new Resort on the northern edge of the MK, maybe with a western theme? I know crazy conjecture, but WDW needs more MK adjacent DVC and there isn't a ton of room left on the 7 seas.
 
EPCOTCenterLover

EPCOTCenterLover

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I hope this isn't another Frontierland mountain that stands alone without a sense of continuation of what's already there. It seems ridiculous to me that the area has two different ones already that do not have much connective thread in style at all. It's as if they just plopped Splash Mountain there because it would fit with fairly minimal effort. It's just not a great transition thematically. And side by side, it just looks bad.
 
WDWdream97

WDWdream97

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I guess a raft ride would sort of fill in for the water and kinetic motion if TSI goes. But if it HAS to be a raft ride, I just hope it is longer than Kali River Rapids.
 

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