Star Wars themed land announced for Disneyland

Californian Elitist

Californian Elitist

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Screw this dumb @ss plan.

Disney has failed me yet again. More Frozen in the parks and now some of Rivers of America will go for Star Wars, of all things. I want to flip over a table.

I'm sure there will be backlash from the fans, and I will be joining them. I will express my disappointment (it's beyond disappointment) to Disney.
 
Smiddimizer

Smiddimizer

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A Star Wars themed LAND in DL was buls***** from the get go anyhow, I'm starting to not give a damn where they put it. They've got worse interior decorating skills than the Govt. of Hong Kong
 
Smiddimizer

Smiddimizer

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I'm going to pull an Occam's razor and assume that for some reason, something something crowd management something, this is the only logical way to pull this off. Either that or they literally decided to go with the most convoluted plan because of what they ate for breakfast.
 
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Mouse Trap

Mouse Trap

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Can anyone with the skill/expertise make one of those land maps that show The 14 acres SWL will take up now that we have a totally new location?
 
Mouse Trap

Mouse Trap

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TP2000 said:
This may be sacrilege, but...

I don't think it would be so bad if they cut a few minutes off the trip time of the Mark Twain and Columbia by shortening the route north of the Hungry Bear Restaurant. It's easily a 25 minute process from the time you enter the dock waiting area until the time you leave the boat, and the trip itself takes about 16 minutes.

If they cut that trip down to 12 minutes instead, it would seem more appropriate for today's audiences and wouldn't make those boats seem so slow and boring to many people. It's like the difference between the slightly-too-long 15 minute MuppetVision show and the far tidier and faster-moving 10 minute Tough To Be A Bug show. Shaving three or four minutes off the trip time of the Mark Twain could do wonders for that 1955 classic.

I should also remind folks that the stretch of the river north of the Hungry Bear has offered it's own visual problems for the past 15 years, with the Mickey & Friends structure visible through the trees from the Mark Twain no matter how many new trees they plant and how much Miracle-Gro they pour on them.

Using the incredible visuals of Cars Land and Avatar Land as a guide for 21st century Imagineering on a big budget, fixing the visuals across Disneyland Drive and tightening up the trip time could be a nice improvement for the original 1955 boat route. Why am I in such a sacrilegious mood today?!? :eek:

If this rumor is true, I'll be fascinated to see how this whole plan fits together over and around Disneyland's northwest quadrant.
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I agree with this 1000 percent. I don't think what is being "displaced" is as bad as it seems. Most attractions seem to be getting shifted around or shortened. I feel some big potential in these plans and I have faith the landscape of the park won't become a flaming heap. Have a little faith.
 
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I fell in love with DL because it was continually changing and growing. The park has felt a bit stale since the early 90s, so I'm optimistic that the coming changes will yield refreshed areas that will bring those sections of the park into the 21st Century. There's too much riding on this to mess it up completely, so I'm feeling pretty confident about the outcome, whatever it is.
 
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Disney Analyst

Disney Analyst

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This is super crude... but what I see happening with the river. Unsure what the railroad plan is.. expand into the river and reroute? Keep on same path and build into a showbuilding for star wars land??
 

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Figments Friend

Figments Friend

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
@Lee posted in the DHS Star Wars thread confirming what I've heard about Star Wars Land's new placement, so I figured I'd bring the conversation here where it will be more on topic. While the plan was originally to take over Toontown and backstage areas, those plans have now shifted.

Fantasmic and the Rivers of America attractions will go down for 18 months (possibly longer for the attractions) starting as soon as January. The Disneyland Railroad's track will be rerouted to cut Tom Sawyer Island in half by going across the river from Critter Country. This would put the train tracks on a trajectory to run through where Big Thunder Ranch is now, eventually rejoining the original track somewhere in Fantasyland. That's not great news for Mickey and his magical map either.

This means that Star Wars Land will displace most of the Rivers of America and half of Tom Sawyer Island, as well as Big Thunder Ranch, the Fantasyland Theater and some backstage areas. Tragic.

I find the plan appalling. Toontown is much more expendable than the Rivers of America, and I can't imagine Disneyland fans will feel much different. I'm a big fan of Star Wars Land - it looks amazing and sounds phenomenal - but the placement is all kinds of wrong. I hope there is still time for Disney to change their minds on this.
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Holy **%#{*%#^*!!!!

They can't be serious!

A friend just sent me the related article from the OCRegister 20 minutes ago, and I didn't like what little was said in it.
I came here to get the facts, and I'm stunned.
Just stunned at what I am reading.
This is crazy....what are they freakin' thinking...?

I have said it before, and I will say it again-
'Star Wars Land' does not belong in Disneyland Park.
DHS, yes.
DCA, maybe.
'Walt's Park..'...?
Hell NO!

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doctornick

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Virtual Insanity said:
Besides the obvious w.t.h, I am extremely confused as to why they would go to so much trouble to save ToonTown. My only possible thought is it is slated to be part of a future Fantasyland expansion. I can't see anyone willing to go to bat for saving Toontown this much. It's insane.
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I'm curious as well, but I don't think it is about saving Toontown as the primary motivation. My guess is this plan is in effect for some combo of the following reasons:

1. Replacing Toontown would have required significant indoor buildings in that area to keep SW open during fireworks and the plans wouldn't allow for that. They didn't want SW to be closed during fireworks.
2. Going with plan would allow SW land to connect the dead end at Critter Country with Frontierland at BTMRR via Star Wars. This may have been considered a good option for crowd control/guest flow.
3. The original plans involved the RR going right through the middle of SW land. While they could have done some portion of the track hidden within structures, it may have been felt to be either unreasonable or theme breaking to continue the RR path there and so they wanted to redirect it to avoid Star Wars
4. It was felt that the plot of land where the RoA is underutilized and filling in some of the water to repurpose would benefit DLR given the increasing lack of new areas to build upon.
 

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