My fear is that studios is just going to become a mash of studios with Avengers/ ToT, Epcot with the new lake, food booths and Nemo/Rat/ Frozen and then Animal Kingdom thrown in with a Lion King Land?
Stick with Star Wars but add fun this time and it will be great. The park will need a ride like Rise. Again, Avengers campus needs a 3rd attraction with whatever that Thanos ride is going to be and Move Lion King to behind Adventureland. I personally don't want Pandora in Paris.
With what they've actually added over the last 30 years... don't bother with a 3rd park please.
The future layout of WDS will be:
- entrance + studio 1 + theater district (incl. ToT) = movie studio / classic Hollywood
- Pixar attractions + mini-lands = Worlds of Pixar
- Marvel in the Avengers Campus
- lake district = mini-lands based on Disney Classics (Tangled, Frozen and Lion King)
Far from perfect, but at least it has some kind of structure.
Avatar will only happen if the future movies are successful.
Galaxy's Edge was cancelled in January 2020 for a number of reasons:
- reaction to the ones in the US resorts was underwhelming (except RotR), it wasn't the homerun that Disney needed it to be for such an expensive land
- RotR too expensive to build and to maintain (especially compared to a Lion King Splash Mtn.)
- the Star Wars franchise has lost a lot of popularity since The Last Jedi, and the numbers are getting worse with every release
- the future of Star Wars as a franchise = ????? A lot of movies were anounced, a lot were cancelled. The shows on D+ are doing very bad in viewership and reviews.
- Star Wars has a loud hardcore fanbase that is very devided and thus very niche; while Lion King remains extremely popular with mainstream audiences and has generally a broader apeal as an experience for the entire family
At this point, I wouln't even bet money on the Star Wars expansion in Discoveryland. If Disney can get the franchise back on the rails by 2025-2027, it might happen. If they can't, they'll probably gonna play it save and cheap (!!!) with a Discoveryland themed version of Soarin'. Or they might surprise us with something totally new?