Sage of Time
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Possible Frontierland expansion
- Thread starter doctornick
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If we are lucky.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
It just grows the anticipation. Remember the awesomeness of the BAH thread?!?
Horizons '83
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Haha I literally looked forward to each morning for an updated photo. That was one of the best threads here. Shared some good laughs there!
BD-Anaheim
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I actually believe this rumor more so now than I did prior to D23. The reason is.... Star Wars.
The WDW Galaxy will be located within DHS (which I think is the appropriate location for the IP) whereas the Galaxy in Anaheim will be in Disneyland Park, likely behind Critter Country and Fantasyland (to be determined).
With this major expansion coming to Disneyland Park, this will put MK further and further behind Disneyland Park in sheer ride quantity and offerings. MK will have to answer to this quantity variance, eventually.
The WDW Galaxy will be located within DHS (which I think is the appropriate location for the IP) whereas the Galaxy in Anaheim will be in Disneyland Park, likely behind Critter Country and Fantasyland (to be determined).
With this major expansion coming to Disneyland Park, this will put MK further and further behind Disneyland Park in sheer ride quantity and offerings. MK will have to answer to this quantity variance, eventually.
novawildcat18
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I really don't think MK competes directly with Disneyland Park...
BD-Anaheim
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What would make you think this?
ToTBellHop
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I think now that Disney has let the cat out of the bag on DHS, this conversation will lay dormant for awhile. We aren't hearing anything about this in 2015.
So, not directly related, but most folks have seen the Miceage post about DL's Rivers of America which basically echos what @Lee and others on here have said.
The relevance to WDW is if Disney is okay with significantly modifying the RR and RoA in DL, would they be planning or considering similar changes in MK? Furthermore, I find it interesting that one major aspect of the plans for DL will include Star Wars "connecting" Critter Country and Frontierland, ending the dead end/bottleneck in the former. I would like to think that Disney might consider similar changes at MK to try to connect the BTMRR area with Liberty Square -- a similar river redirection/cutting off the top of TSI might facilitate that.
The relevance to WDW is if Disney is okay with significantly modifying the RR and RoA in DL, would they be planning or considering similar changes in MK? Furthermore, I find it interesting that one major aspect of the plans for DL will include Star Wars "connecting" Critter Country and Frontierland, ending the dead end/bottleneck in the former. I would like to think that Disney might consider similar changes at MK to try to connect the BTMRR area with Liberty Square -- a similar river redirection/cutting off the top of TSI might facilitate that.
ToTBellHop
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Last I heard, the expansion would not have a major impact on RoA. Not sure of whether that is still the case today though (I last heard about it a month or so ago).
Figment2005
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Could the possible expansion still loop Frontierland back around to Liberty Square?
Haymarket2008
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I really hope the expansion doesn't expand into Liberty Square. My main complaint would be with the interference into the queue of Haunted Mansion. It's perfect, leave it as it is. But the setup of ROA is a very different in DL, so I think that whatever expansion were to happen it wouldn't touch Liberty Square/Fantasyland. A Fantasyland connection would be impossible.
Professor_Jason
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I like how WDW'S Mansion is in a dead end (no pun intended), the Mansion at Disneyland has Slash Mountain just yards away and it kind of kills the show a bit and I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Magic Kingdom's Mansion
Not as far as I know.
Sped2424
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If it did they would have already added another land or two lol
Sped2424
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that wouldn't be an expansion that would be like 3 given the amount of space between the area north of big thunder all the way to the haunted mansion.
ToTBellHop
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Indeed. Even at DL where they are getting a whole new land up there, they are demoing half of RoA to do it, not looping around the existing RoA. Our expansion, if built, is one E-ticket.
Lynn Stephens
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Slash Mountain! They are re-theming Splash Mountain to GnR's Slash? Imagineering just took it to a level I didn't even know they had! Cannot wait! I want my Slash hat with Mickey ears!
Right. I don't expect anything that grand in the short term. But I hope that with this Frontierland expansion (were it to happen) that it would be done is such a way to allow for the possibility of future expansion of the north side of the RoA. I feel like Disney often is haphazard with WDW development figuring that there's also more land available, instead of making long terms plans for possible changes and flexibility. With DHS having to be totally rebuilt, hopefully they've learned a lesson about planning for the future and anticipating needs.
orlando678-
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That's exactly what I find sad about Walt Disney World. They should enjoy the amount of space they have, but instead they put attractions on places, so that there's no chance of expansion.