Tokyo Disneyland Resort Expansion

SweetDuffy101

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Magic Feather

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From what ive been seeing the soundtrack for this ride is out of this world, Probable the best iteration of all versions.
and No filming allowed within the area and strictly guarded by cast members. Only cast previews are happening at the moment.
Glad that the soundtrack is supposedly good. This has me worried for being the “bland-est” version of them all based on colors and what appears to be a lack of lighting in the ceiling.
 

SweetDuffy101

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Invitations Have started to rolling out on the new area, The first wave of guests entering are the ones who have won the preview pass will have access to the area, starting end Of October thru November, expires on December 31, 2020.

Regarding The new area, From what I gathered
Its going to be a stricted area like Galaxies Edge Boarding style pass, or The Wizarding World type of entry where the first few months or busy days an entry ticket would be required. tokyo Disney Resort App has been updated to accommodate the new lottery ticket system for the new area, And to avoid Morning dash or first come first serve mindset.

Regarding Entertainment at the parks Theater shows,might return within the next few weeks.
It's also noted that they're reinstating the cast members who got layed off during park closures.
 
With Mickey's Railroad coming to Disneyland's Toon Town, it seems likely the idea has been considered for TDL as well. I hopped on to satellite imagery to see how feasible it was...

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Some numbers:
The show building for the WDW version is 60,000 sq ft, with the dimensions 300'x200'.
The show building for the Disneyland version is larger at 75,000 sq ft, with the dimensions 500'x150'.
My number for the Disneyland version is an estimate since satellite imagery is old, but I'm familiar enough with the site to estimate it. The extra square footage is likely accounted for either queue space or office space.

The limiting dimension is the width, so I made a rectangle with the shorter width, 150', and the same dimensions as the smaller WDW version, 60,000 sq ft. The length of this show building would be 400'. This rectangle is represented by the shorter rectangle within the blue space. The extra blue on either side is the extra length of the Disneyland version.

Obviously, the difficulty is squeezing in the show building between the boundary of the new expansion to TDS. I used the site plan at the beginning of this page to determine where the expansion's boundaries are. My reference was the building with the square "hole" in its bottom right-ish corner--the one cut off from my screenshot in the bottom right corner of the page. I extended the red line from said building to represent the Fantasy Springs limit. I gave enough distance between the two sites to allow for a backstage road, erring on the safe side. It's feasible to push the show building closer, however. The perimeter road around Disneyland, CA that parallels Harbor Blvd narrows down to one lane. It's a small inconvenience, but there's a precedent.

It seems like it is barely possible, assuming no optimizing of the floorplan to allow for a smaller building. With its placement, I sort of avoided any structure in Toon Town. Minnie's House is most in the way, but she does have a new studio as part of the Fantasyland expansion. So maybe it can be sacrificed. The easiest way to make room for the queue would be to utilize the Mickey meet and greet. But with some creativity it could be spared.

So, how realistic do we think MMRR is? ;)
It's easier to just put it in the American waterfront by Toy Story Mania. Add a 1920s New York theater facade to the building, put some vertical parking infrastructure behind it and there you go.
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BayouShack

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It's easier to just put it in the American waterfront by Toy Story Mania. Add a 1920s New York theater facade to the building, put some vertical parking infrastructure behind it and there you go.
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That’s actually a great idea. It never crossed my mind!

And since the area is already pretty “cartoony,” a Mickey ride would fit well. Paradise Pier already demonstrates that Mickey cartoons work well in a boardwalk setting (Goofy’s Sky School, Mickey’s Fun Wheel, Silly Symphony Swings).
 

Robbiem

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It's easier to just put it in the American waterfront by Toy Story Mania. Add a 1920s New York theater facade to the building, put some vertical parking infrastructure behind it and there you go.
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great idea especially if they design it based on Original steamboat willie era mickey you could even add oswald as well. You could also move the storytellers statue from the entrance plaza

alternatively add duffy and friends and you’d have a real blockbuster!
 
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That’s actually a great idea. It never crossed my mind!

And since the area is already pretty “cartoony,” a Mickey ride would fit well. Paradise Pier already demonstrates that Mickey cartoons work well in a boardwalk setting (Goofy’s Sky School, Mickey’s Fun Wheel, Silly Symphony Swings).
Definitely, I'm not sure if a boardwalk exactly would make sense, but it would be nice to see some aesthetic references to the 20s and 30s cartoons, even if it's only for the facade.

Also, since it's Tokyo, they could really go all-out on the movie palace lobby aesthetic.

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BayouShack

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^ Since the area around it has a Luna Pier aesthetic, the facade—at the very least—should follow suit. That’s why I mentioned a boardwalk.

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Also, the actual ride has a story that doesn’t depend on any of the movie palace business. I think they could simply contextualize the ride to fit in a Victorian boardwalk. The land is already pretty cartoony.





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^ Since the area around it has a Luna Pier aesthetic, the facade—at the very least—should follow suit. That’s why I mentioned a boardwalk.

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Also, the actual ride has a story that doesn’t depend on any of the movie palace business. I think they could simply contextualize the ride to fit in a Victorian boardwalk. The land is already pretty cartoony.





^Footage of Baymax

I'm a bit over the boardwalk theming (probably because I've visited DCA so much), but if they do something aesthetically unique with the boardwalk that could work.

These types of buildings seem pretty unique and zany:

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EDIT: Maybe they could put up some walls around the entry area and pipe in ocean sounds to make it seem like the pathway is going over the ocean, and perhaps we're visiting an arcade where some crazy inventors are showing this new 'moving pictures' concept. Not sure how well that would work, depending on whether American Waterfront chronologically lies closer to the 1920s or the 1890s. I'm sure the theming can be fungible in that regard.

EDIT 2: It would also give Disney license to craft or display some antique-style penny arcade machines.
 
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ThemeParkTraveller

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The ride vehicles take up so much space that I feel like the ballroom scene loses some of its grandeur. The ceiling is also too low compared to the ballroom from the film.
 

BayouShack

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I’ve been concerned about the enormous ride vehicles... but they are edited in. The scale is just a guess. Also in reality the cars will be more spread out, which won’t make the room feel so claustrophobic.
 

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