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Should WDW Keep Tomorrowland?

orlando678-

orlando678-

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cheezbat said:
I'll say it again: Discoveryland. You can keep Space Mountain, the Peoplemover and the Astro Orbiter, rip out everything else and add TDS' version of 20K Leagues, something similar to Journey to the Center of the Earth, and how about something a bit slower that deals with time travel? This could seriously make Tomorrowland one of the best lands in any Disney park!

(Oh, and move Carousel of Progress to either Main Street or Epcot.) ;)
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Which pavilion would be home to CoP?
 
Matt_Black

Matt_Black

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Monkee Girl

Monkee Girl

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I never spent too much time in Tomorrow Land...I DO like the retro Jetson-like feel of the place but right now, I would be fine if they completely got rid of it.

I am not a fan of duplicates. I know certain brands are popular but there is no need to similar things in all the parks. So the fact they have a 'Tomorrowland' and a 'future World' bugs me. I would move ALL the rides out of Tomorrowland and use that space to either have a new land or continue the expansion of Fantasyland.

Move Monsters Inc to the Studios
Buzz to Studios
Stitch can go away
Carousel of Progress (I do enjoy this) can go to Future World in Epcot
Space Mountain can move to Starwars...sorry I like the idea of the Hyperspace Mountain. Just a retheme; same ride.
The race track can go
People Mover can be reperposed or closed

What theme could be done? I just think a more expanded Fantasy land would be cool. I would like more Alice and Wonderland (themed QS, the Alice dark ride, a Queen of Hearts maze?

I would like to see a Pinocchio Dark Ride.

Hell, a Frozen Land could have gone here.

Impossible Dreams I know...Just armchair brain storming. Tomorrow Land had a purpose before Epcot was built. And when you are there it can be fun...but only that kind of fun like 'we did everything else, we HAVE to make a walk through just to do it' kind of fun. Now I would rather move rides to Epcot to build that up and use the space in MK to add some new Fantasy brands.
 
rct247

rct247

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Tomorrowland definitely still has a place in the parks. I think it is great to have so many versions of it too.

At Walt Disney World, we have been blessed with size and many of the lands of the Magic Kingdom have been spun off into their own parks. Adventureland is to Animal Kingdom as Tomorrowland is to Epcot.

Disneyland and Magic Kingdom also capture a bit of American history with turn of the century America, Frontierland, New Orleans Square, and Liberty Square.

It's these thoughts that can give Tomorrowland a sense of direction.

Walt Disney World
  • Tomorrowland can capture a period of time when America embraced the future in the 1930s through 1960s. Just as Main Street and Frontierland captures a time period.
  • Star Wars Land is the fantasy view of a future (although any Star Wars will correct you and point out that it happened a ling time ago in a galaxy far far away.)
  • Epcot then becomes the real future that Tomorrowland was always meant to be.
Tomorrowland is also different everywhere. In Tokyo it is more 70s and 80s focused. In Disneyland it is more 50s and 60s. At Magic Kingdom we have a 30s/90s hybrid. And in Paris it is more 19th century.

Tomorrowland definitely has a place, it just needs to find its identity. The 1994 Tomorrowland was the best fit for WDW while Epcot explored the real future.
 
JohnHangen

JohnHangen

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For all the complaining my family does about Tommorow Land being our least favorite in WDW, we sure do manage to spend most of our time there...
 
matt9112

matt9112

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tommorowland should really go steampunk/space race dump all the cheezy decor get darker earth like tones (rust ect) dump those awful metal palm trees and bill it as a tomorrow that never was but could always be. throw buzz out replace with a decent ride as well as SGE. maybe do an AE reboot? return people mover to TTA roots decor ect as if its mass transit system (again earth tones less clean) build a more believable story that its a space port more than a "tommorowland" i could see adding forced prospective third floors above TTA to build emersion. in my mind im thinking pacific rim ally/market look. in conclusion a more realistic unrealistic place that never was.
 
orlando678-

orlando678-

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I think a more realistic sci-fi city land rather than Disney IP sci fi land would be great. It could use something from Tokyo Disneyland's original plan for Tomorrowland and Tomorrowland 2055. Move laugh floor to DHS and the SGE and Buzz( although I have my doubts if we should, even now that there are plans for Toy Story Land) will leave
 
NiarrNDisney

NiarrNDisney

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I keep hearing how "lets keep the coast different" so my vote if I have one would be to keep Tomorrowland but to update some of the attractions and either rethink or get rid of some others.


Edit: BTW I totally agree that Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor is in the wrong place and really should be relocated to DHS Pixar Place.
 
Walt Disney1955

Walt Disney1955

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I'm glad the people who come up with these "brilliant" ideas to scrap Tomorrowland aren't in a position of power to do so................I hope.

This is the biggest difference between WDW and Disneyland. For some reason WDW preserves their classics a lot less than Disneyland. The fans in Disneyland simply wouldn't allow major changes like that to happen. They like their park the way it is. This is why Fantasyland is far superior in Disneyland than in Magic Kingdom. Or why Toontown is still there and was always more fantastic in the first place.
 
orlando678-

orlando678-

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Big Phil said:
I'm glad the people who come up with these "brilliant" ideas to scrap Tomorrowland aren't in a position of power to do so................I hope.

This is the biggest difference between WDW and Disneyland. For some reason WDW preserves their classics a lot less than Disneyland. The fans in Disneyland simply wouldn't allow major changes like that to happen. They like their park the way it is. This is why Fantasyland is far superior in Disneyland than in Magic Kingdom. Or why Toontown is still there and was always more fantastic in the first place.
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I agree, but not with the last part. Disneyland is making Star Wars Land on the location of Toontown, you know that right?
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Big Phil said:
I'm glad the people who come up with these "brilliant" ideas to scrap Tomorrowland aren't in a position of power to do so................I hope.

This is the biggest difference between WDW and Disneyland. For some reason WDW preserves their classics a lot less than Disneyland. The fans in Disneyland simply wouldn't allow major changes like that to happen. They like their park the way it is. This is why Fantasyland is far superior in Disneyland than in Magic Kingdom. Or why Toontown is still there and was always more fantastic in the first place.
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Disneyland has seen many attractions replaced, despite fan wishes. The Country Bears are a perfect example. And Toontown was better because it was purpose built 5 years after Birthdayland at MK, and not just an overlay. Fantasyland's 1983 redo happend many years before any formal online or fan created community groups were created. It was terribly outdated and tacky looking prior to that, and that's why it was updated.

WDW's Tomorrowland is full of rides that are not "classics" by any stretch (like Stitch), and those that are left are in dire need of updating. The question on my part was whether or not everything besides Space Mountain (which I said KEEP in my original post) in concept was worth saving, if something else could be done better.
 
officialtom

officialtom

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Absolutely yes. I'm a fan of the Tomorrowland concept of a vision of tomorrow from the past. So, a 70s vision of what tomorrow would have been, but isn't, in reality. It would be fascinating for future generations to see what past generations thought the future would be, and that's kind of how it is now. Kind of Jetsons-ish?

That said, Tomorrowland definitely needs a lot of work and some reimagineering.
 

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