Suggestion for 'new' park...

[Matt25]

I know the majority of you feel that a new park in Florida will never materialise (or at least not in the near future) but at the same time I wonder if the following would work....

There are lots of people that mourn the loss of various attractions so what if Disney were to design a park around 'Disney of old' to provide a place for all these closed attractions and disappeared parades.

I can imagine that most visitors to WDW would visit a park if they thought they could relive their old memories of Disneyworld trips.

For a start atractions like COP, Mr Toad's Wild Ride, the sky ride, Horizons and the submarines could be featured along with other favorites that have long since disappeared.

It wouldn;t have to be limited to old Florida attractions either and could recreate (or reclaim) some of the old parades (like the Main Street Electrical Parade).

Along with these there could be new exhibits about the history of Disney or a permanent home for attractions such as 'One man's dream'....

Just a thought - it will probably never even be considered but I reckon it would be relatively cheap to do and popular...

What do you think?

Matt

 

[FutureCEO]

If the rides weren't popular to shut them down then why would disney build a whole park on it

 

[RPMdfw]

First of all, welcome to the boards! I'm sure you'll like it here. Most everyone is very friendly and helpful.

Speaking of being helpful, I thought I'd let you know this exact topic has been discussed at length a couple of times before. If you do a search, you'll be able to read what people's thoughts are on the subject.

 

[dliddi]

This is my idea of a new park, Atlantis, I know the movie didn’t do well, but some of the things in the move I think could make a great park, They can make part of it like a sea world, to compete with them, but they could also have great themed rides and areas, they could make the whole park look like its sitting on an island, with water falls all over the palace, It could have some cool water rides, a roller costar, I just think if they did it right it could be very good. But it’s just my day dreaming at work

 

[wild01ride]

I know that it's been discussed before, but rather than a park, how about an attraction?!

The attraction could use some sort of semi-sophisticated ride system that would allow it to maybe "act" like several different attractions of past. In the attraction, the guests could enjoy sights, sounds and even experiences from these extinct attractions. The attraction could pose the theme as a history of WDW or Disney theme parks as a whole, maybe looking into the history of the World's Fair attractions, on to Disneyland, the development of Florida and on to give a message on the ever-changing entity of the dream that was Walt Disney's.

Throughout the experience, guests could feel and hear the clunking ride mechanism of Horizons while passing memorabilia of the ride, they could take a quick turn to regale Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, could plummet below to enjoy 20k Leagues, etc.

I think that it's possible to create something that would be sentimental to those who have visited throughout the years as well as those who know nothing about the history of Walt Disney's Theme Parks!

 

[wiskband]

I would love to see a park on just the movies..... a park with land or pavilion based on more current movies like beauty and the beast, nemo, little mermaid etc. I know that there are rides themed after some of these movies but a park based on them would be nice. MK is more of the classic movies aomething up to date would be real nice for the younger kids. Just my two cents.:sohappy:

 

[WiCKMaN]

Originally posted by wild01ride
I know that it's been discussed before, but rather than a park, how about an attraction?!

The attraction could use some sort of semi-sophisticated ride system that would allow it to maybe "act" like several different attractions of past. In the attraction, the guests could enjoy sights, sounds and even experiences from these extinct attractions.

That's actually a pretty good idea. So it would act more like a museum? If they do it pretty well, they can really add some sentimental feeling to it...

 

[bamboo7]

i like this idea, and i certainly would love to see all of the attractions that are gone now, but unfortuently there just aren't nearly enough people like me who would really get a bang out of a park like this. It would just lose money too much. but like i said, i'd buy a ticket.

 

[Michael72688]

I personally would really dislike it and not spend $50 to do it

 

[Walter]

I've been thinking about that for a while now. I would positively LOVE a park like that! Some of the attractions that are now gone are among the best! They could also have extinct parades, restaurants, and shops! I'd pay up to $200.00 to go! Anything with Horizons can't be bad!

 

[Michael72688]

Originally posted by Walter
I've been thinking about that for a while now. I would positively LOVE a park like that! Some of the attractions that are now gone are among the best! They could also have extinct parades, restaurants, and shops! I'd pay up to $200.00 to go! Anything with Horizons can't be bad!

Well I guess if you had extict parades cough Tapesty of Dreams cough, I would definently go, but just for that

 

[AndyP]

I think a park of complete new experiences would be more satisfying. A attraction of old attractions would just be complained about eg. 'I wish they'd included more of this ride, they should have never closed that ride.' Its better to just have the happy memories, and new attractions.

 

[General Grizz]

Most of my favorite attractions are extinct...and I'd do so much to ride them again.

However, I'm not sure a park would be the best way to do it. It would be too "museum." I would rather they be reimplemented into the park in the future - after improved upon. (i.e. a motion pavilion with a new WOM-style attraction - could you imagine?! - along with Test Track and perhaps even Dreamflight!)

Haha...maybe put the original Tiki Room in the Animal Kingdom! :lol:

Oh, and CoP ain't gone! :sohappy:





UNTIL ANY OF THIS MAY HAPPEN....PUT THEM ON DVD! Gosh, I would probably spend more money than I ever have from Disney on stuff like this...and that's a lot.

 

[strobe]

Originally posted by Matt25
I know the majority of you feel that a new park in Florida will never materialise (or at least not in the near future) but at the same time I wonder if the following would work....

There are lots of people that mourn the loss of various attractions so what if Disney were to design a park around 'Disney of old' to provide a place for all these closed attractions and disappeared parades.

Matt

I actually asked this EXACT same question once in another thread. I'll see if I can find it and post a link!

 

[flyersmv]

i think its an okay idea to do a ride with past attractions but i think it would be a better idea to do 1 of the current rides. just think the greatness of all the best rides in disney......from the drop in ToT the splash in SP the dino in dinosaur the lift of in MS the take off in RnRC the flying in peter pan the ghosts in the haunted manison the space feeling from space mountin and the close in counter with an alien.... i would go on it FOR SURE

 

[KentB3]

My Disney Park Proposal

I posted a proposal for a 6th Disney theme park, giving my ideas for a 6th park if/when Disney shoule ever build another park; so far there are 4 Disney theme parks (WDW, DL Anaheim, DL Paris, and Tokyo DL, with a 5th to open in Hong Kong). This proposal included some former WDW attractions, such as the original Journey Into Imagination ride, Main Street Cinema, and Residential Street, just to name a few. Unfortunately, I have only gotten feedback from one person.

If you haven't seen my proposal(s) yet, visit the Imagineers board and feel free to post your reply if you wish!

 

[Walter]

I'm just curious, but would it be possible to rebuild old attractions? I don't think that they would, but, just if they ever decided to, would they be able to? It wouldn't have to be from the original sets or anything, but would they be able to recreate it the way it was before?

 

[NemoRocks78]

If they've hopefully saved diagrams and pictures and scripts and placed them in the proper filing cabinet,i'm definitely sure they could.:lol:

Anyways,I love this idea. Riding Horizons,Mr. Toad's Wild Ride,and Dreamflight again would be a dream come true. But you also need to put this in mind-some 'extinct' attractions from WDW are still up and running at other parks,like Disneyland which still has Mr. Toad's Wild Ride,the original Tiki Room,and Main Street Cinema. But I still love the idea. And a full $50 charge doesnt have to be in place,it could be of the DisneyQuest type and charge maybe $35.