But who is going to get excited about a watered-down Cars Land coming to Florida when the real thing is open now and within walking distance of the Centre?
Hmm.... Maybe you're right. The Anaheim Arena of the massive Anaheim Convention Center sits literally in the shadows of the 180 foot tall Cadillac Range directly across Katella Avenue. They could play it off like
"It's been so successful across the street, we want to bring it to other audiences". And yet...
This will be an interesting D23 Expo to attend! I wouldn't be surprised though if this is the last big Expo they do. The D23 thing never quite took off, and the Expo is still shadowed by stuff like ComicCon down in San Diego each year, or the growing WonderCon annually at the Anaheim Convention Center.
If it weren't for the huge WDI Pavilion, AKA "The Carousel of Projects", there wouldn't be much buzz about D23 Expo at all. A few of the archives exhibits or geeky presentations are cool, but the rest of it just never took off. Unless you are just a hardcore
"EVERYTHING DISNEY IS FABULOUS!" kind of superfan. And I'm not.
It still makes me chuckle when East Coasters wonder why they won't move D23 Expo to WDW, as they have absolutely no idea the scale of what they are doing there in the largest convention center on the West Coast, right across the street from Disneyland. I think Disney thought fans from back east would fly in for D23 Expo, but few do. They just can't get them to leave the humidity and fly over the Rockies in August, cause, you know, there are so few flights into LAX.
Has there even been a new D23 magazine lately? I noticed last week the stores in Cars Land and Disneyland's Main Street are still selling the "Fall 2012" issue of D23 Magazine. Did the mag get shut down in advance of winding down the whole concept? Hmm....
