J. D.
Well-Known Member
"Down the Hatch" indeed.What about a LOST themed bar in Disney Springs?
"Down the Hatch" indeed.What about a LOST themed bar in Disney Springs?
I’m putting my bets on Yzma from Emperor’s New Groove as the star for the second attraction. Totally wrong, i am sure but I am sticking to my guns! Could make sense as she is more comically evil, as I recall. A more lighthearted counterpoint to the Maleficent ride and perhaps less scary for kids which always seems to be a big concern for Disney.
I seriously can’t see them completing filling in the river, site prep, construction, etc in just 3 years when Tron took 5 years on previously unoccupied land.
But hopefully I’m wrong. Even the 20k leagues demotion and fill in took a year and a half IIRC. And the ROA is much larger.
According to the site that shall not be named, media was told everything announced should open within the next 5 years (by 2030). Anyone else heard anything like that?
I hope they can find a way to make villains land approachable for young families. My kids love the villains, but I would hate for them to skip out on this whole land because they are too frightened.
It’ll be built alongside Cars and will commence while Iger is still CEO. Hard to cancel.since Villains will not enter the picture until after Carsland destroys Frontierland and the core of the park, it will be years away...and will probably be cancelled by then...
Since there are only "two major rides" (coaster and the chateau) I believe this is the same as the thorny Maleficent coaster. Hopefully the coaster takes you through different Villian lairs. So this under water area could be about Ursula, and it could go deeper for Hades.Not going back to re-read all these, so maybe this underwater portion to the coaster was already pointed out:
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Since there are only "two major rides" (coaster and the chateau) I believe this is the same as the thorny Maleficent coaster. Hopefully the coaster takes you through different Villian lairs. So this under water area could be about Ursula, and it could go deeper for Hades.
I would assume a spooky stop will be included.Since we have had a large discussion about space in the Cars thread, is the implication that this will entirely be within the RR berm? Seems like that is unnecessarily constraining. If nothing else, if they have a large scale dark ride, it would seem to me to make a lot of sense to have the show building for such a ride outside the berm even if the entrance is within it (think POTC for example).
Also, any chance that the RR gets a new stop in this area? It's far enough between the Frontierland and Fantasyland stations that it could make sense. and they could do some neat theming to such a station.
I guess I don't see the problem with them using good ideas even though it didn't just hit them moments before the announcement. The company is meant to play the long game without end in sight; that means they can save things in reserve for better times to break them out. Seems like a good use of resourcesI agree the tech should be used where not in use currently which is why Lion King works because there is no Splash Mountain in Paris. Just feels like the new interns can't create like the old pros that were forced out. That is all I'm saying.
This being a 10 year, $60 billion investment...I wonder what we will get in the next 5 years.I wouldn’t base anything on pandemic projects that were purposefully slow rolled. Pandora broke ground in Jan 2024 and opened Spring 2027.
3 ish years is quite serviceable for new builds and 18-24 months for overlays (mostly Dinosaur). They can and have gone faster than this, but this seems to be their ideal modern day build rates.
Yup! It was actually said to the general public after the villains segment closing out the panel. I think some of the streams people were watching must have cut off or didn’t hear him.
He basically ended with we are doing this committed to doing this all and it’s all opening within 5 years. Coco (DCA) and Villainsland I think being the latest of the lot.
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