Sirwalterraleigh
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What will Disney announce for Disney World at the 2022 D23 expo?
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EricsBiscuit
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Maybe if we all tag @marni1971 he can spill the beans. That’s assuming that the beans aren’t stuck in a cargo ship off the port of Long Beach, but we can hope!
Sirwalterraleigh
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The most you’re gonna get is shop Disney containers stuck off the ports
Sirwalterraleigh
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…at new “optimum” levels
Of course that assumes @marni1971 still even cares enough to follow the 5 alarm dumpster fire that is WDW and TWDC P&R right now.
It’s so adorable seeing people cling to the hope that an evening parade is ever coming back to WDW.
You have been blessed with Harmonious and Enchancrement and whatever crap they have left over at the Studios. Be grateful peasants!
I mean Harmonious was the work of the all knowing and caring Lord Cheapek, and brought down from the heavens by his earthly apostle The Zach of Ridley.
Sirwalterraleigh
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I love it when it’s a “Thingie angry day”
The best lines are dropped
The best lines are dropped
I’m not angry, I’m from New Jersey.
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Door Coaster
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IMHO, D23 2022 will likely rival only 2013 for lowest amount of park related announcements. Nearly everything that would be going on right now has been put on indefinite hold or outright cancelled, and I doubt there are any major curveballs the Imagineers are cooking up under our noses. I think the only park announcements will be stuff we already know of, with maybe a small, simple ride or two. No new lands or anything. It does indeed look like we're barrelling headlong into another quiet period with little blockbuster additions.
As mentioned a while back, look for 100th stuff. Like food, because margins are good on food consumers like it. And merchandise, because margins are good on merchandise consumers line up for overpriced crap the stuff. And maybe a show, because shows are as cheap as possible because we don’t like to pay for staff and consumers are easily fooled into thinking they’re great because of our crack head marketing staff.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Perhaps because they have mobs pushing in the gates after 2 years of reduced offerings at much higher net prices…therefore requiring zero outlay to gain business?
Also…imagineers can draw whatever they want. They’re just servants and the decisions lie with the accountants…so refer to previous paragraph
BrianLo
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Exactly. After a reasonable decade of capital (it was actually reasonable), so much of it merely got sucked into 'fixing' everything.
Now that most things have been addressed, I really hope they go back and expand the parks instead of again making a stupid decision to ignore them and let them again decline.
Epcot aside, which still needs a lot of fixing.
This is probably unpopular, but Universal is sort of making the same mistake as the Studios still have a lot of issues. Not to say every gate needs to be perfect to make a new one, but a new gate will severely set back the others getting the investment they truly needed for perhaps up to a decade.
RSoxNo1
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We did an exercise on our most recent podcast where we each conceived of our own idea for a 5th gate. We didn't discuss the ideas ahead of time, but some interesting takeaways were not the theme concepts we came up with, but rather the approach we took.
Looking at how the current Disney company operates we all took the angle of working in reverse. We complain about new IP being thrust into areas where it doesn't belong. We all basically concluded that there needs to be another Fantasyland (or equivalent) in another park. Each of our 5th gates had something that met that description.
I don't think spreading these IPs out is necessarily the right move. Our takeaway was not necessarily that a 5th gate was needed, just that another Fantasyland was needed. While I've long been a proponent of expanding the existing Fantasyland through the relocation / removal of it's a small world and/or the Tomorrowland Speedway, a better option would be a Fantasyland style land in DHS or a 5th gate.
As good as Tokyo DisneySea is, they effectively realized this.
erstwo
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(Long exaggerated...) GAAASSSPP. How dare you? We don't say those words! #muppetsforever
BrianLo
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Tokyo DisneySea has always been Magic Kingdom 2.0. Mermaid Lagoon of course just isn't that grand of a Fantasyland stand-in. The through line of sub-genres with a general connective tissue (Seas) is what prevents it from merely becoming Islands of Adventure.
DHS is becoming islands of Adventure. Which, I personally don't think is necessarily a bad thing.
Animaniac93-98
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They're working on a replacement for Shrek-4D now and added two new coasters to IoA in the last 3 years, so I'm hopeful they won't just ignore their existing parks.