flavious27
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The mockups are mine, the art is some stuff I found online and also one picture picture is from an euro park.
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Tom Sawyer's Island replacement / Expansion
- Thread starter UltimateLaxBro
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The mockups are mine, the art is some stuff I found online and also one picture picture is from an euro park.
Gregoryp73
Active Member
I love this idea...Disney has been really good at theming their early hotels. The one thing that WDW is missing is a fantasyland hotel mirror. They have all the other lands covered, but nothing for fantasyland (i don't count the cinderella suites).
After going to Germany last year, if they did a hotel based off of somewhere like Rottenburg...they would make a killing!! Stone pathways, 15th century themed hotels...bakeries like they have in europe, Horse drawn buggies. Build it by or where the boneyard is now, and construct a walkway right into fantasyland as a private gate (kinda like beach club and epcot)...
I'd so be there.
misterID
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Where is this from?
devoy1701
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Works ok in Disneyland. Many of the Pirate elements are hidden from from NOS or Frontierland as to not clash...more on the back of the Island.
Gregoryp73
Active Member
Yeah, it goes back to that whole "cowboy in tomorrowland" thing that irked Walt. So I 100% agree with this.
If anything, if everyone has such a itch for a pirate island...they do have that one little "discovery island" in bay lake that would make a great "Isle de Muerta" (however you spell it). Be neat if the only way you could get there is by pirate ship...stops at all hotels on the lake, as well as TTC and MK.
I would rather see this than TSI turned into something so out of place.
The Duck
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Exactly. This point has been discussed ad nauseum earlier in this very thread. DLR (sorta) gets away with it because their TSI is right across from New Orleans Square, where POTC is located. Pirates of Frontierland or Pirates of Liberty Square would be too much of a stretch.
DznyRktekt
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They need to address two areas that are total wastes of space before even thinking of TSI. Country Bear Jamboree and the Golden Horseshoe.
flavious27
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Well Golden Horseshoe is easy, steakhouse; like le cellier in MK, but with a western feel. Maybe like say smitty's in texas.
As fro cbj, update the AAs.
flavious27
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Efteling in the Netherlands. The ride is The Flying Dutchman.
DznyRktekt
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Of course there are many things they can do. But will they, or will those places just sit and rot away. Why turn a riverboat into a restaurant if there are currently two restaurants in the Magic Kingdom that operate at reduced hours?
RunnerEd
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They should have done this years ago. Great idea.
No Avatar, please?
I really hope that it will not be an Avatar themed attraction. In a few years....think about it - Avatar will be forgotten. Old. I guess it doesn't matter what I think since they've obviously already started the plans for it and will be announced soon, but if they wanted to do something REALLY FREAKING COOL- CHANGE THE RIVERBOAT into the BLACK PEARL and make Tom Sawyer Island into the Caribbean with a treasure hunt, narration, guided tour, etc, etc. That's what i'm talking about. THAT WOULD NEVER GET old....and they should ALSO add a Pirates of the Caribbean Character Dinner show. HOW cool would THAT be? TOO MUCH princess-y crap. Disney needs MORE cool stuff for BOYS. WHO IS WITH ME?
I really hope that it will not be an Avatar themed attraction. In a few years....think about it - Avatar will be forgotten. Old. I guess it doesn't matter what I think since they've obviously already started the plans for it and will be announced soon, but if they wanted to do something REALLY FREAKING COOL- CHANGE THE RIVERBOAT into the BLACK PEARL and make Tom Sawyer Island into the Caribbean with a treasure hunt, narration, guided tour, etc, etc. That's what i'm talking about. THAT WOULD NEVER GET old....and they should ALSO add a Pirates of the Caribbean Character Dinner show. HOW cool would THAT be? TOO MUCH princess-y crap. Disney needs MORE cool stuff for BOYS. WHO IS WITH ME?
njDizFan
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yes, they do have a pretty cool Pirate cruise, my daughter loved it when she went a few years ago.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/recreation/kids-activities/
Disney's Pirate Adventure
Aspiring buccaneers between the ages of 4 and 12 board a pirate-themed boat and scour the waterways around Walt Disney World Resort in search of pirate treasure during a swashbuckling high-seas adventure.
On this guided expedition, each participant enjoys a light snack and beverage, learns how to talk like a pirate, visits legendary ports-of-call, and—if he or she is lucky—returns with a bag of pirate booty! Disney's Pirate Adventure is a 2-hour sailing voyage that takes place each day at select Walt Disney World Resort hotels from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
imagineer boy
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Agreed completely. Unfortunately all I see them doing is replacing it with somthing completely out of place (like Pirates at DL) and marketable.
NoChesterHester
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Or just leave it alone and focus instead on Epcot's Future World and the entirety of Hollywood Studios...
MarkTwain
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Some priorities management would be nice.
steve2wdw
WDW Fan Since 1973
Every time I visit TSI, the rafts are always full. Leave it alone, BUT, reopen Aunt Polly's and the snack location at Ft Langhorn and maybe they can make some of those $'s that TDO is always grabbing for. A PB&J from Aunt Polly's and an ice cream bar from Ft Langhorn were always a highlight of any trip to the MK when I was a teenager in the 70's......and there were always lines at both locations.
And since Walt Disney Pictures has been remaking (or reinventing) so many of their older titles, why not a Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn movie? Maybe the younger generations could once again get hooked on an American Classic, and start using their imaginations once again on the beautiful plot of land in the middle of the Rivers of America.
And on a side note, since DL has the Columbia Sailing Ship that traverses their Rivers of America, how about a USS Constitution (Old Ironside) sailing out of Liberty Square? Would be a perfect fit for LS.
And since Walt Disney Pictures has been remaking (or reinventing) so many of their older titles, why not a Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn movie? Maybe the younger generations could once again get hooked on an American Classic, and start using their imaginations once again on the beautiful plot of land in the middle of the Rivers of America.
And on a side note, since DL has the Columbia Sailing Ship that traverses their Rivers of America, how about a USS Constitution (Old Ironside) sailing out of Liberty Square? Would be a perfect fit for LS.