Tweaking the Disney/Universal Parks

[TheCoasterNerd]

Jumping in for Disneyland - I know I'm late but I only just found this thread

Main Street, USA

• Add ramps to DLRR station, much needed for ADA
• Theme the light poles with the stage lighting (and make them more secure so they don't fall on people)
• Add fireworks to Flag Retreat every day, not just holidays

Adventureland

• Adventureland Treehouse rethemed to Encanto
• Finish that ugly construction, bring back rockwork/fountain and reopen the bathrooms
• Cover the seating for Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room so that A) you don't have to sit in the sun and B) people don't think its a line and thus skip the show
• Indiana Jones Adventure interactive effects in the queue redone and fixed
• Jungle Cruise restored to pre-reimagining version, archway reinstalled

New Orleans Square

• Haunted Mansion queue retheme doesn't happen, no new shop, instead simply add a "servants quarters" covered theme to the currently metal beams unthemed queue, extended queue through Fastpass distribution area
• Plaza not turned into queue, kept as-is minus extended queue
• Haunted Mansion Holiday cancelled forever
• Pirates Of The Caribbean extended queue built somewhere so it doesn't always back up over the walkway
• Fantasmic! brought back without Aladdin, with Murphy but modern tech so it is less issue-prone and of course fireproof

Frontierland

• BTMRR with on-ride audio so it's better timed, safety announcements actually audible, seats in engine
• Tiana's annexed into NOS

Critter Country

• New CBJ from Orlando installed in Pooh Corner building so you can have both CBJ and WtP

Fantasyland

• Fix drawbridge mechanisms, make it raise/lower as part of the fireworks
• Find way to fireproof buildings/carousel so they may be open during fireworks
• iasw queue themed
• Matterhorn retracked to be smoother, more efficient for shorter lines

ToonTown

• Roger Rabbit rethemed (same track layout though) as Oswald ride
• Jolly Trolley brought back

Tomorrowland

• New entrance (finally)
• PEOPLEMOVER!!!
• Move Astro Orbitor to the top of the PM load - same exact thing but on top of the load station like in FL
• Buzz rethemed to Lightyear, the Pixar movie from 2022
• Sub's vehicles completely redone to be less claustrophobic and cramped
• Autopia with electric vehicles, less rough
• Pizza Planet replaced with Mission Space from Epcot
• Monorail station redone to match the look of the new entrance/DTD stage

Galaxy's Edge

• PeopleMover type ride like was originally planned, more water features, more kinetic energy
• More missions added to SR
• RotR broken effects fixed
• As is planned, a secondary fireworks soundtrack such that the show times to both the SW:GE music and the soundtrack in the rest of the park

 

[Evilgidgit]

It's about time I joined in with this venture.

Disneyland
* Unify the theme of Critter Country, as Pooh and Tiana don't mix (though interestingly their films are set in the same year!)
* Bring back the Country Bears, either axing Pooh in a great dose of irony, or create a new animatronic musical dark ride or show that combines various critters together, so the Pooh quota can remain.
* If Murphy gets rebuilt for Fantasmic, make sure he is fireproof!
* Use a concept similar to the one suggested by Theme Park Snark, where a lost Jedi Temple or cave is found in Galaxy's Edge, allowing Star Wars characters to appear there in M&Gs without breaking the narrative of the land every five seconds.
* Expand the Cantina's size to include the original plans for some entertainment.
* Add a third attraction to Galaxy's Edge in the land still available behind the Cantina. Either base it around Mandalorians, or in a pre-Empire rundown droid factory as a shooter dark ride.
* Replace the Fantasyland Theatre with an indoor theatre, or bulldoze it for a new dark ride(s); Tangled, Frozen, B&TB, etc.
* Remove Autopia and re-route the Monorail to make way for either a brand new land or a Fantasyland expansion. One idea is to make a land that anchors the Matterhorn. If Disney were really cheap they could...turn the Matterhorn into a Frozen ride.
* Tomorrowland gets a major overhaul, incorporating a futuristic solar-punk aesthetic with multiple levels to explore, and attractions that fit with the new design, using the likes of Big Hero 6 and WALL-E as IP reps.
* Introduce TMSEP Dreamlights to the park.

DCA
* Replace the Monsters Inc. area with Muppet Studios, returning MuppetVision to its original show building.
* Grizzly River Run needs a proper storyline and something to look at.
* Extended San Fransokyo over the bridge and replace The Little Mermaid with a Big Hero 6 Kuka ride!

* Avengers Campus...

There's all that room at the back of the park. Expand the existing campus or add in a new land.

 

[Bryan_the_Imagineer]

Okay folks, before heading to Europe, let's go over the Two other Universal Studios parks and tweak them.

USH:

1. Either Remove or Rework Waterworld to fit in with the Hollywood Area.
2. Re-Theme the French Street to some Illumination IP.
3. Demolish Universal Plaza and make a new hub featuring a new entrance to Harry Potter, Illumination Land and a extension of Hollywood (F&F Hollywood Drift will be in the Hollywood land, not in the Production Central land.)
4. Demolish Springfield (once the license ends) and built a new Dreamworks land featuring a How To Train your Dragon simulator, a Trolls playground, and Kung Fu Panda Adventure show. (Studio Tour will be in it's own little area called Production Courtyard)
5. Demolish ROTM and build the Dome from Jurassic World featuring a new playground, a version of Jurassic Flyers from Beijing, and a copy of Jurassic World Adventure (with the gyrosphere ride vehicle and reworked scenes)
6. Built a Transformers miniland featuring a flat land and a table service restaurant.
7. Add a E.T segment to the team tour and remove F&F Supercharged.

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USJ:

1. Retheme Spider-Man to Pokemon dark ride
2. Add a new show on the vacant terminator space. (Perhaps Ghostbusters )
3. Bring back Backdraft, remove the IP.
4. Fix the maintenance issues with JAWS
5. Bring back Motion Picture Magic into the 4-D Theater Space.

Like always, post your suggestions down

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Gonna get things up and kicking again with my tweaks for Disneyland Paris...

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Frontierland​

• The land gains an extra sub-land, which S.W. Wilson put in his 2021 buildout: the Town of Redemption, with an E-ticket shooter dark ride and a stunt show

Adventureland​

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril is taken out and replaced with a fuller Indy sub-land with both an Indiana Jones Adventure and a redone mine cart coaster

Fantasyland​

• Voyage of the Little Mermaid, the double-decker suspended dark ride by Tony Baxter, is placed across the way from Pizzeria Bella Notte as was originally planned
• The pad behind the Disneyland Railroad station is filled in with an attraction - though exactly what would go there is hard to nail down. Possible contenders include a Winnie the Pooh dark ride (the safest bet, as Paris is the only castle park that doesn’t have a Pooh ride...though it isn’t the first Fantasyland dark ride I’d elect to put in every castle park), an Alice in Wonderland dark ride (preferably something other than a clone of the existing Disneyland one; a spinning coaster or trackless dark ride would be perfect), or - my personal choice - the indoor-outdoor coaster version of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride that Tom Morris wanted that spot to occupy
• With Arendelle going to Walt Disney Studios instead of as a sub-land of Fantasyland as it should and the Beauty and the Beast ride that was pitched for Paris going to exclusivity clause-happy Tokyo, the area between “it’s a small world” and Discoveryland could be used for the DLP equivalent of Splash Mountain: a non-IP Heroes’ Quest (to account for the Parisian climate, how wet guests get is controlled depending on the weather [like at Tokyo] and most of the ride is either covered or indoors; another potential theme could be The Black Cauldron)
• “small world”’s original post-show returns, so a Fantasy Gardens or Royal Hall meet-and-greet space is added to make up for the loss of the Princess Pavilion. The nearby Old Mill retains its Ferris wheel

Discoveryland​

• Anything that does not mix with the 19th century retro-futuristic theme (Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast...hint, hint) is nixed and replaced or rethemed appropriately; the former with Le Visionarium revival and the latter as a War of the Worlds shooter
• A major suspended E-ticket - whether it be by balloon or airship - is also added, with its show building beyond the berm
• Les Mystères du Nautilus gets its squid attack back - realistically thinking, the remaining screens are updated, but seeing the Audio-Animatronic squid vignette get reinstalled would be cooler
• Hyperspace Mountain is out, De la Terre á la Lune is (back) in

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...and that's pretty much it, as S.W. Wilson's Walt Disney Studios buildout is pretty much how I'd tweak it, too.