What if…Magic Kingdom was built today?

MickeyMouse10

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Those sequels could be awful though. So they’re not okay. And they also have at least two originals left to go.

They've already got a built in audience though. It's films like Elios that are going to do horrible. Because it's about characters we don't care about. The uncreatives can't come up with their own new characters or stories, they can only reuse ones that exist already.
 
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Disgruntled Walt

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In the Parks
No
@Disney Warrior If Magic Kingdom were built today, it would likely not be themed to Adventure, Frontier, Fantasy, and Tomorrow at all. It seems like the directive from TWDC for their theme parks today is the Universal style of lands themed to specific properties. The irony is that Magic Kingdom as originally constructed presents so much opportunity for multiple IPs in each land, but if they built it new, they probably wouldn't go this route. I could see Frozen, Lion King, Moana, Toy Story, and Cars being the IPs they select for their different lands. It would stink, too.

In my opinion, a good theme park needs attractions that can stand on their own; otherwise, you either have rides with expiration dates (which need to be updated or rethemed) or rides that represent IPs that have become evergreen. At a certain point, though, a park that is themed only to the five franchises I mentioned above would become stale, and you'd have to add a whole new land or retheme an existing one in order to move the park forward. It's a cycle that Magic Kingdom as originally constructed could avoid because of its lands themed to general ideas rather than particular properties.

I feel like when looking at most of the Universal parks, there's going to be a time when most of the rides there will need to be updated or replaced because they are almost exclusively tied to IPs.
 

WaltWiz1901

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If Magic Kingdom were built today, it would likely not be themed to Adventure, Frontier, Fantasy, and Tomorrow at all. It seems like the directive from TWDC for their theme parks today is the Universal style of lands themed to specific properties. The irony is that Magic Kingdom as originally constructed presents so much opportunity for multiple IPs in each land, but if they built it new, they probably wouldn't go this route. I could see Frozen, Lion King, Moana, Toy Story, and Cars being the IPs they select for their different lands. It would stink, too.

In my opinion, a good theme park needs attractions that can stand on their own; otherwise, you either have rides with expiration dates (which need to be updated or rethemed) or rides that represent IPs that have become evergreen. At a certain point, though, a park that is themed only to the five franchises I mentioned above would become stale, and you'd have to add a whole new land or retheme an existing one in order to move the park forward. It's a cycle that Magic Kingdom as originally constructed could avoid because of its lands themed to general ideas rather than particular properties.

I feel like when looking at most of the Universal parks, there's going to be a time when most of the rides there will need to be updated or replaced because they are almost exclusively tied to IPs.
You win the thread...even more than the Warrior did (other than a few differences here and there, his take on a modern MK isn't too dissimilar from the real MK today)

In hindsight, it's somewhat telling - and a bit miraculous - that Shanghai Disneyland's initial attraction lineup was set in stone by 2010, since had development begun even only a few years later, there's a non-zero chance that it would more likely resemble what you hypothesized.

Doubly more of a problem when Imagineering phones the IP du jour in instead of using it to an advantage or going above and beyond with it (plenty of examples of either scenario, if not both, exist across nearly every resort). All the more reason why trying to chase the Wizarding World (and failing most of the time) is a fruitless endeavor that they should just give up on
 

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