Tweaking the Disney/Universal Parks

[The Rocketeer]

USF:

- Teardown Rip Ride Rocket and in its place build a mini B&M Mega/Hyper coaster
- Bulldoze the Simpsons area and build a back to the Future themed launch coaster with DeLorean cars.
- Replace F&F Supercharged with something Jaws themed.
- Add gargoyles back to the entrance arch.

IOA:

- Build an X-Men dark ride in MSI
- Retheme Skull Island to be a The Lost World themed ride based on Isla Sonar.
- Toon Lagoon becomes Hunger Games themed or some other dystopian young adult themed series
- The Lost Continent becomes The Lord of the Rings.
- Cat in the Hat is replaced with Grinch Ride. Suess Landing is now always themed to Christmas time

 

[Bryan_the_Imagineer]

USF:

1. Fix Villain-Con Minion Blast
2. Demolish Rip Ride Rocket and use the empty soundstages for a new production Central area.
3. Replace Jimmy Fallon with SLOP: Off the Leash
4. Add a new Ghostbusters dark ride in the soundstage next to the new York facade.
5. Demolish F&F Supercharged and replace it with a indoor and outdoor F&F drift coaster.
6. Add a Broomstick Simulator or Show in the Fear Factor plot.
7. Demolish Alien Attack & Simpsons Land and add a new classics land featuring attractions from Back To The Future, Jaws and King Kong '76.
8. Add a new entrance and the original to E.T connecting it to Hollywood.
9. Add New York Facades to Transformers.

IOA:

1. Do a restoration for Cat in the Hat, bringing it back up to date and adding new vehicles that Spin.
2. Replace the Lost Continent with a LOZ land replacing Poseidon's Fury with a boat ride.
3. Replace the Sinbad area with a extension of Harry Potter featuring the Great Hall? Restaurant and a new show on the Sinbad Stage.
4. Refurbish JP River Adventure.
5. Retheme Skull Kong to a JP Jeep Ride outside.
6. Retheme Toon Lagoon to be based on WB characters with Ripsaw Falls being retheme to a ride through Bedrock and Toon Theater being gutted and replaced by a Scooby-Doo dark ride similar to the one at Abu Dhabi.
5. Replace Dr Doom Freefall with a Iron Man attraction.

 

[Evilgidgit]

Universal Studios Orlando:
--Cut down on the screen-based simulator rides!
--Jimmy Fallon is replaced by a Ghostbusters ride that is a mix of shooter and drop tower, re-theming the show building to resemble 550 Central Park West.
--Replace Transformers with the Secret Life of Pets dark ride from USH, as the film is set in New York. That way, it ties into the Illumination cafe next door.
--Soundstage 33, which is next door to Revenge of the Mummy, can become the show building for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles dark ride, where guests race through the sewers to help the turtles fend of the Foot Clan.
--The Simpsons and Animal Actors, as well as E.T. and Men in Black all are incorporated into one big sci-fi land. That would mean the Spongebob shop would have to be re-themed unfortunately.
--Springfield and Animal Actors become the new Transformers land, with the Simpsons Ride show building becoming the "Energon Fuel Depot" restaurant, whilst the AA building becomes a brand new Transformers dark ride that transports guests to Cybertron to battle alongside the Autobots against the Decepticons, complete with semi-scaled animatronics. Kang & Kodos becomes a Bumblebee spinner.
--The new DreamWorks can have multiple IP rides, or be a singular land based around either Shrek or Kung Fu Panda.
--Throw out F&F Supercharged because, frankly, anything would be better. Perhaps bring back Jaws and turn San Francisco into an Amity land.
--Add to The Wizarding World with a Ministry of Magic expansion where Fear Factor Live was.
--There is huge space behind DreamWorks and Springfield, which would be perfect for Super Nintendo World; using new IPs since Mario/Donkey Kong are at Epic Universe (Pokemon, Kirby, Zelda, etc.)

Islands of Adventure
--Not sure on Marvel, but adding in some more high quality rides would be a good move.
--Toon Lagoon either becomes Bikini Bottom or a Pokemon land.
--Re-add the Triceratops Encounter to Jurassic Park.
--Add a Great Hall table service experience to Hogwarts.
--Lost Continent becomes Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda, split between Castle Town, and the Great Deku Tree's forest. The main attraction is a Zelda puzzle dungeon, a dark ride/puzzle room hybrid.
--Add a Grinch mountain family coaster next door to Cat in the Hat.

 

[Bryan_the_Imagineer]

Ok folks, now time to the happiest place on earth: Disneyland

1. Refurbish Indiana Jones Adventure (again...) to add more effect and bring it back to it's former glory.

2. Retheme what's left of Critter Country into Hundred Acres Wood with the Many Adventures of Pooh , a new playground, Pooh Corner, and The Hungry Bear Restaurant, now rethemed into Rabbit's Garden Grill Eatery featuring more healthier options on the menu.

3. Bring back the Mike Fink Keel Boats.

4. Bring back the Diamond Horseshoe show.

5. Demolish Fantasyland Theater and add either a Tangled or Beauty of the Beast dark ride in it

6. Remove the BS Jessica Rabbit Subplot from Cartoon Spin.

7. Group It's a Small World & Matterhorn Bobsled into a new land called International Street (where the promenade is).

8. Demolish Tomorrowland (except Space Mountain) and add a new, futuristic, optimistic version of Tomorrowland (details will be shared once I complete the thread for it)

9. Built a less promamatic dragon for Fantasmic!

As usual, post your suggestions down

 

[Disney Warrior]

My turn now (because @Bryan_the_Imagineer is doing it)

Disneyland (the og)

• Replace Pooh with a PATF/non-ip bayou ride with original characters
• Add a family friendly ride to SWGE
• Replace fantasyland theater with a darkride (any ip not represented)
• Replace autopia/subs with a new land incorporating matterhorn (villains?)
• Put something in the old launch bay space
• retheme star tours (non ip most likely since marvel is in DCA)
• retheme buzz
• oh, and build liberty street

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Got a lot of catching up to do...

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Share your ideas for Epcot in the comments section

S.W. Wilson’s latest EPCOT buildout was, again, a major influence here:

Future World​

- Spaceship Earth retains its Jeremy Irons descent video
- Journey Into Imagination is completely redone from top to bottom; in addition to drawing a lot from the original version of the ride, the ride system is changed from an Omnimover to trackless LPS
- The Living Seas sheds its Finding Nemo trimmings
- An upgraded World of Motion takes over the existing Test Track, with the latter’s famous high-speed finale contextualized as an enclosed race around a futuristic city (something along the lines of this was announced at Destination D23, but with very little details given out)
- The Land regains an Audio-Animatronics show in the same spirit as the musical nutrition shows that called the pavilion home, and Soarin’ is rethemed as a biogeographic research base
- A new version of Horizons returns in the spot where the Wonders of Life pavilion was. Nearby, Mission: SPACE is redone with a KUKA arm system and a giant projection dome (@DisneyManOne pitched this for the last round of What If... a few months back; the nearby Space 220 Restaurant remains intact, though)

World Showcase​

Heavy emphasis is on giving each pavilion an attraction - all without a shoehorned IP:
- Mexico sees the Gran Fiesta Tour replaced with a revamp of El Rio del Tiempo (a new Three Caballeros attraction is built elsewhere in the resort to offset this)
- In Norway, Frozen Ever After is booted out in favor of the troll-heavy reskin that was once drawn up for Maelstrom (in this scenario, a North Mountain coaster, perhaps using the same powered track design as Paris’s Casey Jr. [allowing for little to no height requirement], is built in the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland, ensuring that Frozen still has a place in Walt Disney World)
- Brazil gets a double-decker riverboat ride through its rainforests
- The Rhine River Cruise finally comes to Germany
- Italy gets a special effects walkthrough set inside the ruins of ancient Rome
- Japan gets an Omnimover exploring its history
- Morocco gets a cat-heavy Fantasyland-style dark ride
- France could get a spooky boat ride through the catacombs of Paris
- The United Kingdom gets both an Omnimover and a Charles Dickens carousel theater
- Canada gets a Klondike-themed mountain coaster

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As always post your suggestions [for Hollywood Studios] here

Brian Krosnick’s Hollywood Studios buildout, and a few other concepts, were instrumental to helping me figure out what to do here:

Hollywood Boulevard​

- Simple; bring back The Great Movie Ride. Replacing it with Runaway Railway instead of tastefully updating it wasn’t and still isn’t a smart decision
- Silver Screen Museum (exhibit)
- Hollywood Line Streetcars (trolley transporting guests from Hollywood Boulevard to Sunset Boulevard, or vice versa)

Sunset Boulevard​

- The replica of the Carthay Circle Theater now houses Snow White’s Enchanted Wish, a traditional Fantasyland-style dark ride (and a reintroduction of the Magic Kingdom’s long-missed Snow White’s Scary Adventures)
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is rethemed and redone as Invasion! A Transmission from The Twilight Zone, tying into Tower of Terror nearby
- The Theater of Stars is enclosed and repurposed as a Broadway-style theater, and now hosts a Rocketeer musical show. A South Seas Club restaurant - counter service by day, table service by night - shares the same building

Echo Lake​

- The Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular is replaced with a new take on the Indiana Jones Adventure - a water EMV
- The Hyperion Theater is replaced with a new version of The Magic of Disney Animation

Muppet Studios​

- The Great Gonzo’s Daredevil Academy (D-ticket suspended dark ride with dual-track component; pitched by @Brer Panther for the Mama Melrose’s space [and then some])
- Another possible addition, space permitting, would be a Muppet Labs play area
- A minor change, this - the Stage One Company Store is renamed Walter’s Muppet Memorabilia

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge​

- Two all-ages rides are added: First Order: Holocron Heist (D+-ticket interactive dark ride) and a Junkyard Spinner
- Nearby the Junkyard Spinner is a menagerie walkthrough filled with all sorts of Audio-Animatronics creatures from the Star Wars universe; a revival of one of the concepts infamously cut from the land
- Smugglers Run is refreshed to have more than one randomized mission and Chewbacca as the host, rather than Hondo
- The Kalikori Club table service restaurant that was cut out sees the light of day

Walt Disney Studios​

- The Walt Disney Story (C-ticket dark ride)
- Walt Disney Presents... (enhanced, two-story version of One Man’s Dream walkthrough)
- Studio Commissary (counter service restaurant)

Mouseton​

Replacement for Toy Story Land; themed to the classic Mickey Mouse cartoons and comics
- Curse of the Phantom Blot (E-ticket dark ride on a grander scale than Runaway Railway and with much more physical sets)
- Mickey’s Midway Mania (retheme of Toy Story Mania!)
- Pete’s Construction Coaster (family suspended coaster)
- Pete’s Junkyard Jamboree (retheme of Alien Swirling Saucers)
- Minnie’s Melody-Go-Round (double-decker carousel)
- Silly Symphony Swings (clone of the California Adventure swing ride)

Pixar Place​

Replacement for Animation Courtyard, with two mini-lands for The Incredibles and Monsters, Inc.
- Mission: Incredible! (E-ticket motion base dark ride, using the same system as Peter Pan’s Never Land Adventure at Tokyo DisneySea and the Avengers Campus Multiverse attraction at California Adventure)
- Frozone Rush Hour Rescue (LPS flat ride)
- Monsters, Inc. Factory Tours (D-ticket Omnimover dark ride)
- Harryhausen’s (table service restaurant)

Hidden Hills​

New land on one of the pathways leading to the Fantasmic! amphitheater
- Villa Fortuna (E-ticket LPS dark ride)
- Garden of Wonders (hedge maze)
- Directors’ Club (counter service restaurant/buffeteria)

 

[Brer Panther]

Whoo boy, how did I miss out on this thread? I'll start with Hollywood Studios...

First things first, I'd rename the park "Disney's Hollywoodland" and give it more of a focus: the front half if focused on movie making and the Hollywood of yesteryear, the back half is about taking you into the movies.

Hollywood Boulevard
- Gut Runaway Railway for a new version of The Great Movie Ride.

Echo Lake
- The Hyperion Theater and its Frozen Sing-Along is replaced by a new version of The Magic of Disney Animation, with a new film starring Jodi Benson and Mickey Mouse and similar post-show experiences.
- The Mickey Shorts Theater/Path of the Jedi thing, Stunt Spectacular, Star Tours, and everything in between are turned into an Indiana Jones-themed land, with a version of Indiana Jones Adventure and some other attraction.

Grand Avenue
- The entire land is now Muppet Studios. PizzeRizzo is turned into my dark ride pitch The Great Gonzo's Daredevil Academy. Mama Melrose's is turned into a Swedish Chef restaurant. Stage One Company Store is renamed "Walter's Muppet Memorabilia" (the name always struck me as a bit odd and generic). If there's room for a flat ride (a Muppet carousel, maybe?) and an ImageWorks-esque Muppet Labs playground, add them.

Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
- Since nobody cares about the sequel trilogy, retheme Galaxy's Edge to the original trilogy that everybody loves. I feel like most of it could remain as is more or less... Rise of the Resistance could just swap out the sequel trilogy characters for original trilogy characters. Maybe move Star Tours here, too?

Toy Story Land
- Add a few more flat rides, assuming there's room. It'd add capacity and give the park more for kids to do.

Animation Courtyard
- The entire land becomes Monstropolis. Walt Disney Presents (now renamed "The Walt Disney Story") is moved to the Magic Kingdom. Voyage of the Little Mermaid becomes the new home of the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor. Launch Bay is gutted and turned into a dark ride a la Tokyo's Ride and Go Seek. Disney Junior Dance Party becomes Harryhausen's.

Sunset Boulevard
- Put a new show in the Beauty and the Beast theater.
- I don't know what to do with Rock 'n' Roller Coaster... maybe get Weird Al involved? Everybody likes Weird Al.

 

[WaltWiz1901]

Here's what I'd do on one coast...

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As usual, post your suggestions [for Disneyland] down

Bayou Country​

Refresh of Critter Country
- Tiana’s Bayou Adventure goes as planned
- Kermit’s Swamp (C-ticket Fantasyland-style dark ride, possibly reusing the current Pooh ride’s layout)

Fantasyland​

- The Motor Boat Cruise space could probably host a new Fantasyland Theater
- The Fantasyland Theatre space now hosts another cluster of dark rides (a redone The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Merida’s Brave Journey) and maybe another flat ride
- The Autopia/Submarine Voyage area is more than likely repurposed as expansion space, and those Tomorrowland attractions are thus taken out

Tomorrowland​

The land gets a full-on overhaul as pitched by @Evilgidgit, adding these attractions and a second walkway level:
- Big Hero 6 interactive dark ride (repurposed Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters)
- Baymax’s Happy Ride (whip flat ride)
- Jet Packs (redone Astro Orbitor)
- CommuniCore (E-ticket Omnimover dark ride)
- WALL-E’s Biome (D-ticket LPS dark ride)
- Interstellar: A Cosmic Voyage (repurposed Star Tours)
- The PeopleMover is brought back and revitalized
- The Tomorrowland Transportation Hub is built on the site of Autopia’s starting track, unifying the Disneyland Railroad, the PeopleMover, and the Disneyland Monorail together
- Terra Terrace (counter service restaurant)
- Moonliner 55 (table service restaurant)

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...and here's what I'd do on the other:

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As always, post your suggestions [for Animal Kingdom] down below

Discovery Island​

- In the Tree of Life, It’s Tough to Be a Bug! is replaced - but not with a Zootopia show as all signs are apparently pointing to
- The Discovery Island Riverboats also return

DinoLand U.S.A.​

- Dino-Rama! is razed, and two new rides are bought in: The Excavator (D/E-ticket wooden coaster) and Mammoth Falls (E-ticket flume)

The pad north of Kali River Rapids is finally used for two new lands (the veterinary hospital is moved and the backstage road is rerouted to accommodate even more space - this could even support a third land [in which case my pick would be Australia/Oceania]):

Beastlie Kingdomme​

Key attractions here are:
- Dare the Dragon (E-ticket inverted coaster)
- Quest for the Unicorn (interactive SFX walkthrough/maze)
- Fantasia Gardens (C-ticket boat ride)
- Griffin Riders (aerial carousel)

South America​

Key attractions here are:
- Amazon River Expedition (E-ticket river rapids)
- Aracuan Railways (D-ticket dark ride)
- Amazonia (three-story animal exhibit)
To give credit where credit’s due, @Dark PerGron came up with the River Expedition and @tcool123 came up with Amazonia

 

[Disney Warrior]

don’t forget that you are allowed to do any park that has already been posted, DCA is coming on the 27th

 

[Brer Panther]

I'll do Animal Kingdom next.

Discovery Island
- Get rid of It's Tough to Be a Bug. I don't care if you replace it with Zootopia or something else entirely, just get rid of it.

Africa
- If there's any room for a dark ride based on The Lion King, add one.

Dinoland U.S.A.
- No Indiana Jones. No Encanto. No Coco.

- Dinosaur gets a nice refurbishment to fix up the effects and animatronics.

- The land is cut in half. Dinosaur and the Boneyard make up a "Dino Institute campus" mini-land, Dino-Rama is raised to become an underground "lost world" full of dinosaurs. Added are a family-friendly dark ride, The Excavator coaster, and maybe something Ice Age-related.

Asia
- Kali River Rapids can go, allowing access to that expansion pad. Some more Asian animals are added, as is a dark ride based on The Jungle Book (both it and the Lion King dark ride would have realistic exteriors [with a few hints as to what's inside] so as to not stick out like a sore thumb, then as you go further into the queue you find yourself immersed in the environment of the movie).

- Fix the yeti and add a bit more theming elements to currently unthemed areas of Expedition Everest.

South America
- Basically what @WaltWiz1901 suggested. Since Disney owns 20th Century Fox now, maybe something Rio-themed could be included.

Beastly Kingdomme
- Basically what @WaltWiz1901 suggested.

Australia
- Attractions include some sort of "outback safari" attraction and walkthrough trail a la Maharajah Jungle Trek with kangaroos, koalas, dingos, platypi, etc.

- Finding Nemo: The Musical is moved here, now part of a "Great Barrier Reef" subland with an East Australian Current roller coaster, a playground for younger kids, and some flat rides.

I'd like to do SOMETHING with Rafiki's Planet Watch, but I'm not sure if we CAN do anything with it without affecting the veterinary stuff.

 

[Bryan_the_Imagineer]

Disney California Adventure:

1. Bring back the California theme, expect this time, it will be a romanticized interpretation of California from the Golden Age. (Just like OG DHS and Buena Vista Street)

2. Refurbish Hollywoodland to fit the new theme, this time resembling closely to Hollywood Boulevard from DHS. The Hyperion Theater would be demolished and replaced by a updated version of GMR. Muppet-Vision will return and feature a mini-Muppet-land behind paying tribute to Studios in Hollywood. The Animation Building will remain, but with a new facade.

3. Mission: Breakout gets re-themed back to Tower of Terror.

4. Avengers Campus is demolished in favor of a Discovery Bay type land with 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and a Journey to the Center of the Earth ride.

5. Cars Land receives a new restaurant based on the theater scene at the end of the first Cars movie.

6. San Fransokyo reverts back to Pacific Wharf.

7. Pixar Pier reverts back to Paradise Pier along with all of the attractions. (Expect Emotional Whirlwind which gets axed)

8. Remove Jumpin' Jellyfish & Golden Zepher from Paradise Pier.

9. Bring back the OG World of Color.

10. Add some show scenes to GRR.

11. Bring back Soarin' Over California.

12. Bring a modern version of Country bear Jamboree to Grizzly Peak.

As always, post your suggestions down below.

 

[Disney Warrior]

For DCA

• Replace Mike/Sulley with a muppets ride
• Add a new ride (as planned) to avengers campus
• revert san Fransokyo to pacific wharf
• revert pixar pier to paradise pier

 

[WaltWiz1901]

As always, post your suggestions [for California Adventure] down below.

Gonna be borrowing a few pages from Brian Krosnick’s DCA buildout here...

Buena Vista Street​

- Nothing too major here, but the Carthay Circle would now be host to a small C-ticket dark ride: Walt Disney’s California Adventure

Hollywoodland​

- Borrowing from Krosnick once more, a One Man’s Dream exhibit would be at the exit of the above-mentioned dark ride, in the space where Disney Junior Dance Party! presently is
- The Hyperion Theater is taken out, and a replica of the Chinese Theater housing an E-ticket dark ride, like the one at Hollywood Studios, takes its place - but the dark ride in question wouldn’t be a Great Movie Ride clone/version, nor would it be a Runaway Railway clone like Krosnick had in his buildout (I think it fits Toontown just fine and helps give it a much-needed boost)
- Next to the Theater would be a Chinese Garden, adding a much-needed hidden gem to the park
- PhilharMagic is out and Muppet*Vision is (back) in
- Stage 17 finally finds a permanent use: as part of the show building for Muppets Movie Magic, a revival of the long-lost Great Muppet Movie Ride (Mike and Sulley to the Rescue! also goes to make room for it)

Cars LandRadiator Springs​

Apart from a name change, there’s only one more thing I’d add to the land...
- ...the Radiator Springs Drive-In Theatre (table service restaurant)

Grizzly Peak​

- Soarin’ Over California returns permanently...
- ...as do the Country Bears; not as a theater show, but as a Country Bears Runaway Road Trip family coaster that weaves its way through the land
- Grizzly River Run becomes Ramblin’ River Run, containing vignettes with Humphrey the Bear and Ranger Woodlore

Pacific Wharf​

With Big Hero 6 now in Tomorrowland, San Fransokyo Square is reverted back to the way it was as Pacific Wharf

Paradise Pier​

Pixar Pier sheds most of its unnecessary character infusions, and it and Paradise Gardens Park are joined back together to form a revived Paradise Pier:
- Roll-o-Coaster Rescue (retheme of Incredicoaster)
- Oswald’s Funhouse Frenzy! (D+/E-ticket dark ride/coaster, in the former parade warehouse building next to the Midway Mania show building)
- C/D-ticket Coco suspended dark ride (replacing Goofy’s Sky School [Funhouse Frenzy now fills in its role as the Pier’s wild mouse coaster])
- How to Fly a Balloon (retheme of Emotional Whirlwind)
- Donald’s Beach Picnic Spin (teacups themed after the Donald Duck cartoon Beach Picnic)
- Minnie’s Melody-Go-Round (retheme of Jessie’s Critter Carousel)
- Perhaps Ariel’s Undersea Adventure could see the same refurbishment I suggested for the Magic Kingdom...or it could be replaced with another dark ride of the same scale
Giving credit where it’s due, Funhouse Frenzy was what @DashHaber submitted for a prompt in the 20th anniversary special of the One Sentence Competition

Regarding Avengers Campus, one thing to do would be to (realistically) just let it ebb and flow and let the Multiverse E-ticket surface, but the revived Discovery Bay in Krosnick’s buildout is even more tempting, and I would’ve went along with it...except I’d still want that glorious DisneySky, with its Jules Verne-reliant Discovery Glacier, to be built, so that’s out too. Turning the clock back by a couple of years, here’s what I would put in the bug’s land space...

San Fransokyo​

- Kaiju Clash! (E-ticket dark ride)
- Honey Lemon’s Chem Collider (teacups)
- Hiro’s Nanofuge (some sort of spinner)
- Gogo’s XLR8R (Disk-o flat ride)
- Technoventions (interactive walkthrough)

 

[Frankenstein79]

Interesting ideas fellas, Disney is definitely in need of a theming intervention. Their shoehorning has gotten out of control (Tiana, Moana and the Tropical America section).

 

[cdunlap]

how would you tweak Magic Kingdom?

ADVENTURELAND:
Change the Jungle Cruise up a little bit adding a fishing tribe on the Congo where the boats are. The fishermen will be portrayed in authentic folk clothing that Natives on the Congo wear. They will be trying to catch the Goliath Tigerfish that lives in the Congo. The Khmer ruins will also get its Hanuman statue back.

Add a Mayan themed roller coaster in the “Fire Mountain” plot called Temple of Camazotz.
Temple Of Camazotz is an outdoor/indoor mine cart ride located in WDW's Adventureland taking guests through a lost Mayan temple complex in a costal rainforest on the Yucatán Peninsula near a volcano. The ride is set in 1937. A team of archaeologists lead by famous explorer and SEA member Jonathan Montague is called to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico to explore some Mayan Ruins near the volcano Q'aq'awitz, which means Fire Mountain in the Highland Mayan language. Guests enter the queue under an arch made with wooden poles with a sign made from a crate panel hanging down from two ropes that says the name of the ride. The queue starts by taking guests down a winding path through the jungle lit by lanterns, passing by ancient artifacts in crates. Soon, guests come upon the load area, a simple covered building at ground level lit by kerosene lamps and filled with more artifacts in crates. Guests watch a pre-show safety video featuring a Jacinto, Jonathan's local guide. Guests then load their mine carts, similar in style to those found on 7 Dwarves Mine Train but with a more 1930s appearance. The mine carts start with a slow voyage through the Yucatán rainforest passing Jonathan's plane and getting a good view of the volcano, which has smoke arising from the top, before a Jaguar suddenly pops out and begins tracking the vehicles when a plant suddenly catches fire and scares the Jaguar away. The mine carts come upon an ancient Mayan stone wall with rows of stylized carvings depicting human skulls. It blocks the path. Suddenly, the volcano explodes, the ground gives way, and mine carts fall down an ancient shaft into a shrine filled with bats, shrieking and flapping. They close in on the mine carts as they approach a statue depicting Camazotz, the Bat God Of Death. The statue's eyes begin to glow and it rumbles as if there were an earthquake happening. Suddenly, a glimmer of light appears and the mine carts ascend out of the chamber in the light's direction. They come upon a gold fanged stone statue of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl with no eyes and a Chichen Itza style pyramid in the background. The mine carts then enter a small garden with an Olmec-style head. This leads mine carts into a plaza inspired by Tulum. Mine carts ascend the Tulum influenced pyramid in the center, only to have darts shot at guests from the carved skulls that line the walls. After that, mine carts enter a shrine to the Life-Death God with a stone statue depicting a skull headed man of flesh in a Mayan headdress and clothing typical of the Mayan noble class. Suddenly, the volcano erupts and the statue falls, cloning itself as it does, before finally revealing a mask of Quetzalcoatl. The mine carts exit the temple, leave the plaza, and come upon a stone gate with a Quetzalcoatl mask. The gate opens, revealing a ruined Mayan palace on the coast. The mine carts rush past the palace and into the Volcano's magma caves as it explodes. As the volcano explodes, the mine carts quickly drop down to the coast, where they splash into the sea before returning to the loading station. Guests exit down a jungle path lined with artifacts in crates and lanterns.


FRONTIERLAND:
Replace Splash Mountain with Raven Mountain, taking guests through the Raven Tales of the Tlingit, Nootka, Salish, and Haida peoples of the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and parts of Canada), thus solving the problem of why the American South is in Frontierland by instead replacing Splash with an actual region of North America located in the west.

Add a New Orleans Square behind Big Thunder with Tiana's Palace, a Bayou boat ride, and a Voodoo interactive experience

Add an Anasazi Cliff Dwelling play area near Big Thunder Mountain with ladders and slides


LIBERTY SQUARE:
Replace Hall of Presidents with a Sleepy Hollow ride

Bring the Man in the Web, the original Attic, and the La-Da singer back to Haunted Mansion and add the music of Phantom Manor to some of the scenes

Add a ride based on the Wendigo behind Haunted Mansion such as my Legend Of The Wendigo


FANTASYLAND:
Bring back Snow White and Mr Toad


TOMORROWLAND:
Bring back Alien Encounter

 

[WaltWiz1901]

So we're on Tokyo Disneyland now, I see? Let me see what I can fancy...

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Grand Avenue​

(Almost) stem-to-stern reimagining of World Bazaar. The glass roof over the main street is obviously eschewed, and all four quadrants receive a covered arcade to account for Japan’s frigid weather; the buildings now take on the feel of an urban city at the height of the Gilded Age

Adventureland​

- The costuming building is moved to make room for Temple of the Golden Naga, a dark ride/coaster tying into the Jungle Cruise nearby

Fantasyland​

- As was once planned at around the time Hunny Hunt was being developed, Snow White, Peter Pan (or, in another scenario, its replacement), and PhilharMagic are all shorn of their tournament tent facades and given village facades to match those of Pinocchio, Brave Little Tailor, Kingdom Treasures, etc.
- Dumbo is finally given the 16-elephant refresh it has received elsewhere and slightly moved a few feet to ensure enough room for the parade route
- The Haunted Chateau (gothic European retheme of the Haunted Mansion; the Holiday Nightmare overlay of the existing Mansion is also modified to account for this)
- Assuming the Peter Pan area of Fantasy Springs will render it redundant in the long term (which I doubt as Never Land Adventure is apparently a thrill dark ride versus a classic ride without a height restriction), Peter Pan’s Flight is swapped out with a Mary Poppins or AristoCats dark ride

In a tempting scenario I was also thinking about, turning the clock back by almost a decade, the New Fantasyland expansion project goes more or less as originally announced - and then some, annexing not just the Raceway, but Toontown as well (but I do have a few things to make up for that; the things I mentioned above are also part of this project). Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast and its surrounding area are built, as are...
- “it’s a small world” (moved and overhauled two-story version of the classic E-ticket, with choice of boat or hot-air balloon transport and a restaurant on the second floor; built on the site that would ultimately become occupied by the Fantasyland Forest Theatre, so PhilharMagic is converted into a theater for live shows)
- Rapunzel’s Lantern Festival (D-ticket boat dark ride; this is essentially what’s being built in Fantasy Springs at DisneySea IRL)
- Wacky Wonderland Whirl (E-ticket spinning dark ride/coaster)
- A D-ticket Mickey Mouse dark ride (maybe with him as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice or the Brave Little Tailor and coupled with a nearby meet-and-greet)

Tomorrowland​

The Space Mountain overhaul is looking pretty cool, so that goes on as planned, but the rest of Tomorrowland could use an accompanying refresh...and an expansion with a district on part of the parking lot:
- A new version of the EPCOT classic Journey Into Imagination and its accompanying ImageWorks play area
- A saucer or Dreamcatcher-inspired spinner, maybe similar to the Magic Kingdom’s Astro Orbiter or Hong Kong’s Orbitron

Split-off mini-lands​

- New Orleans Square/Royal Street, off of Adventureland
- Pixar Place, off of Tomorrowland; consists of Ride & Go Seek! and an Al’s Toy Barn retheme of Toy Station

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As usual...post whatever suggestions you have below!

 

[Disney Warrior]

Tokyo Disneyland

• New ride in adventureland
• make New Orleans square its own land
• retheme haunted mansion to a European chateau
• refresh fantasyland (but keep Toontown)
• bring back the mystery tour
• refresh Tomorrowland into sci-fi city (and split off monsters inc a la ideal buildout)

And as for DisneySea… just retheme Nemo back to storm rider, add an attraction west of lost river delta (rapids?) and don’t change much else, why fix what ain’t broken?

 

[WaltWiz1901]

What the hey - I'll mention the (few) things I was thinking about for DisneySea, too:

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Lost River Delta​

- In the expansion pad once slated for the site of a Scandinavian port (as will be touched on below) is a Central Americas jungle rapids ride

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...and that's pretty much it, unless we swing the clock by almost a decade again:

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Glacier Fjord​

This proposed Scandinavian port is built on the expansion pad adjacent to Lost River Delta as was originally planned, anchored by Anna and Elsa’s Frozen Journey, the same E-ticket magnetically-guided boat dark ride coming to Fantasy Springs IRL

Tropical Springs​

Alternate approach to Fantasy Springs, featuring mini-lands devoted to Moana, Peter Pan (like IRL), and Saludos Amigos/The Three Caballeros:
- Moana’s Monstrous Voyage (E-ticket rapids dark ride)
- Peter Pan’s Never Land Adventure (E-ticket suspended KUKA/SCOOP dark ride)
- Tinker Bell’s Busy Buggies (C-ticket track ride)
- Donald’s Train to Baia (richly themed family coaster with colorful pop-up book stylings; think Snoopy’s Great Race at Universal Studios Japan or the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train)

 

[Bryan_the_Imagineer]

Tokyo Disneyland:

1. Retheme Fantasyland to a village similar to DL
2. Add a Toontown Simulator ride at Toontown
3. Retheme Tomorrowland to Sci-Fi City with Rocket Bike attraction and a dark ride similar to Inner Space at the Stitch Plot.

Tokyo DisneySea:

4. Retheme Searider back to StormRider.
5. Add a Third Simulator to Soarin' to help capacity.

 

[Brer Panther]

Here's what I'd do for the Magic Kingdom...

Main Street USA
- Open a new version of The Walt Disney Story somewhere (maybe in the Main Street Exhibition Hall).
- The Walt Disney World Railroad gets some more themed elements around the track and a diorama or two.
- New nighttime parade.

Adventureland
- Refresh the Jungle Cruise. More gags, more animatronics, more special effects, less "durr hurr monkeys are funny".
- Use the remaining land in Adventureland between the Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean for an Indiana Jones ride similar but not identical to Disneyland's.
- Refurbish Pirates of the Caribbean. Keep the movie elements, but switch the dialogue back to how it was before (so instead of the pirates looking for Jack Sparrow, they're looking for the town's treasure and don't know that Jack is sneaking around trying to find it first). Bring back the barker parrot, too.

Frontierland
- Splash Mountain returns. Redecorate the queue to include information about how the characters got their start in African-American folklore. Hire storytellers to tell Brer Rabbit stories outside the attraction. As for the attraction itself, simply fix up any animatronics that need it and bring in a few animatronics from Disneyland's version in certain spots.
- The Country Bear Christmas Show returns.
- Use the "Beyond Big Thunder" expansion pad for a new land based on New Orleans, headlined by a Princess and the Frog dark ride that doesn't focus on food co-ops and salt mines and a Tiana's Place restaurant.

Fantasyland
- Peter Pan's Flight also gets a refresh.
- Princess Fairytale Hall is replaced by a new dark ride. Possible themes include Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- The garden where Merida does meet and greets becomes a designated meet and greet location for the princesses.
- Mickey's Philharmagic gets the same "randomized" technology that Star Tours uses. New segments include "Pink Elephants on Parade", "Shiny", and "I See the Light".
- Enchanted Tales With Belle is replaced by that animatronic Beauty and the Beast show pitched for Disneyland Paris.
- Little Mermaid desperately needs an overhaul.
- Add Disney characters to "it's a small world" - but make it subtle.
- Pete's Silly Sideshow in Storybook Circus becomes a dark ride. Pete is the ringmaster of a circus featuring by obscure Disney characters like Humphrey the bear, Horace Horsecollar, the Three Little Pigs, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, and Salty the Seal.
- Tomorrowland Speedway is bulldozed. One half of the land is used for an Alice in Wonderland dark ride...

Tomorrowland
The other half of the Tomorrowland Speedway is used for a whimsical new dark ride for Tomorrowland called Mars Rover Racers, in which guests race Mars rovers around a planet filled with goofy aliens.
- Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor is moved to Disney's Hollywood Studios . Maybe they could bring Timekeeper back?
- Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin is refurbished, with more emphasis put on your actually being on an adventure with the "real" Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on (as in, more Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Buzz, not Lightyear Buzz) as opposed to the size of a toy (to quell the "it doesn't fit in Tomorrowland" complaints).
- Put something in the now-empty Stitch's Great Escape building.