They can't do Plectu because it doesn't promote a Disney IP. Iger has said they will no longer create original attractions.
This is actually not a bad idea, although more attractions would be good too. If they would have put 220 in Tomorrowland then they could have bulldozed Mission Space and brought back Horizons. All hail Horizons!!
It is ridiculous that the Speedway has not been modernized...They built an all new one for Hong Kong Disneyland...electric cars and even some modest sets...They tore it out when they put in Small World....You know, when they realized that their idea the the Chinese people just wanted restaurants and shops and did not especially care for attractions turned out to be completely wrong and they had to start building in earnest....But what Happened to all the cars and set pieces? If it has been done and worked, perhaps they could revisit the speedway, extend the track to make it actually fun and more of a ride, and theme it properly to Tomorrowland ....for the first time since the park opened in 1971...
Not to mention EPCOT has the strongest dinning (Both QS and TS) of all of the 4 parks, while MK TS is probably only behind DHS.
The people mover should not be touched. At all. Don’t touch the people mover!
Yea, I think they should demolish it and let it be annexed by Fantasyland (since they can’t even come up with a Tomorrowland attraction idea to put in the empty building they already have).
I've said it before but the Tomorrowland to Fantasyland transition is ghastly. I wish they would demo the Speedway and find a way to make the transition less jarring.
Did Iger actually say that?
Not in so many words, but it's implied from all his public statements aimed at investors that Disney will be more cautious in spending by spending on things already popular (both in the parks and movies).
There was an interview years ago where he did just straight up say they were no longer going to make park investments not connected to a franchise. Oddly enough, the movie he used as an example of a good movie that wasn’t a franchise and therefore wouldn’t get an attraction was Ratatouille.
He did. It was during an interview on site rather than at a podium or anything like that. He said that they were no longer going to be making attractions not tied to their current film library. That Disney had done quite a lot to build up its library and that other theme parks would kill for access to these beloved stories and characters so it would be foolish to not capitalize on that.
He has a point
I can see the point of saying we won't pay to license other IPs for our parks anymore, but to say that Disney no longer wishes to create a modern Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Big Thunder, Space Mountain is pretty short-sighted.
I'll let Bob know we still don't have sufficiently good and popular sci-fi future films to headline at all the Tomorrowlands.
There are IP attractions that have been around since the parks opened.
Sort of … There are better parts and worse parts.
