I was in WDW during the D23 in 2017 when they announced TRON coming, and the cast members in Merchant of Venus told me that the Speedway was going to close. That ended up not happening, but I definitely think it could still happen.
Original rumors pointed to next Spring, but it seems as though Disney is hustling to (allegedly) get it done by the end of the year.
Lots of people just assumed TRON was replacing the Speedway when it wasn’t.
I generally agree, but had it been replaced by the TRON racers as I think was originally planned, they could have just continued the look of TRON down onto the track itself with some mini-lighted canopies and whatnot.
This is another reason the placement of Tron is so aggressively stupid. It makes it much more difficult, if not impossible, to develop a huge chunk of land that seems like it was probably the most available expansion plot in MK. I would imagine that the space now occupied by Autopia, Toontown, and Tron could have been used for a land-sized expansion. But with Tron now stuck at an awkward angle in the middle of it, it really limits how that space can be used.
Don't worry. They can still find a way to replace three attractions [Dumbo, Goofy, Speedway] with one attraction and one quick service, calling it a "land."
There’s plenty of land that could be used to make additions to MK if there’s a will. I don’t think that really limits anything. The railroad/berm also cuts across the area you describe which could limit making a cohesive land - it’s one think to put a ride/showbuilding outside the berm like Tron (or Space) but another to have park of the “walking around” area of a land there.
they reclaimed all they could for that area, drainage pond would still have to be there no matter what to maintain the 10% storm capacity. there are pockets of land but they are not here.
Yep. Let’s actually put something in the Stitch building first then we can worry about mythical entirely new lands.
