Brer Panther
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...why so many Encanto rides?
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What will Disney announce for Disney World at the 2022 D23 expo?
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Well, it's the hottest thing since The Beatles! Have to capitalize on the huge crush of worldwide attention and unprecedented cultural impact.
Splashin' Ryan
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I know this was said in jest, but wasn't the plan to expand the Skyliner eventually and why haven't we heard anything on this in a while?
Have the yearly crashes become too much of a pr battle to expand or no?
I still think many resorts could benefit from an above-ground mode of transportation
Parker41056
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No way 1/3 of this would Happen. Too much Encanto and for the costs of all of this, Disney could build a 5th gate.
Casper Gutman
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Nothing. Tron, Guardians, Rat - we had rumblings those were coming for years before they were formally announced. We have no rumors, nothing. Disney is going to rest on their laurels for at least half a decade, or until EU actually scares someone.
No plans to expand the Skyliner, from what I recall.
doctornick
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Casper Gutman
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I like ToT as a poster, but I am unfamiliar with his track record on rumors. Maybe I'm just behind the times. But in the past, the info we had tended to be fairly clear and come from multiple trusted sources. Now, maybe Disney has gotten better about hiding our cards and/or maybe our traditional insiders have drifted away from WDW. But based on their track record, I'd be surprised if Disney doesn't stand pat for several years after the current work at EPCOT is complete.
ToTBellHop
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I never know what the hell I’m talking about. Ask my kids!
DisneyHead123
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My impression is that Chapek is enamored with tech and secretly wishes someone else was handling the parks so that he could focus on his true love, Disney+. He cut the amazing start to finish service of a Disney vacation and replaced it with a bunch of apps and online ordering, after all, presumably with the idea that people would consider this an ok trade. What’s Magic Express when mobile ordering for quick service is available throughout the parks? This is someone who loves him some tech solutions.
So I think it will be tech heavy. There was a thread about a patent related to virtual character experiences awhile ago, maybe something like that. Maybe a Disney NFT.
(Kidding, but seriously, since everyone is doing NFTs all of a sudden…) Maybe additions to the ways you can stare at your mobile phone while in the parks, or some amount of fixing the new Genie app which will be presented as An Amazing New Improvement (instead of Halfway Kinda Sorta Fixing This Crappy App That People Hate.) I don’t think Chapek is focused on the physical, 3D world so much as the virtual world, so I think that will be the focus.
So I think it will be tech heavy. There was a thread about a patent related to virtual character experiences awhile ago, maybe something like that. Maybe a Disney NFT.
(Kidding, but seriously, since everyone is doing NFTs all of a sudden…) Maybe additions to the ways you can stare at your mobile phone while in the parks, or some amount of fixing the new Genie app which will be presented as An Amazing New Improvement (instead of Halfway Kinda Sorta Fixing This Crappy App That People Hate.) I don’t think Chapek is focused on the physical, 3D world so much as the virtual world, so I think that will be the focus.doctornick
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Well the main source for rumors in the past was @marni1971 and the impression I get is that he is disinterested in asking about goings on at WDW. In fact he doesn’t seem to be posting much these days.
Also in the past, IIRC we mostly heard parks rumors in the month or two before D23 not months in advance. Disney doesn’t seem to really make any definitive decisions ahead of time and I’m sure they would be even more deliberate given the pandemic. Insiders have suggested they even change their minds about stuff on the day of presentations leading to last minute changes.
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I will say contrary to what I wrote a few years ago, there is a proposal to extend Skyliner. If it ever happens I don’t know. But yes, sadly your impression is right.
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mikejs78
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Before he was a bellhop, I hear that @ToTBellHop was a butler for 999 happy haunts... I wonder what that interview was like when he changed jobs?
Parker41056
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You mentioen sources - what credibility do youi have?
Oh, missed the intention then. Disney does need to respond though, and big!. It's not just the lack of activity in the pipeline it's also the removal of the magic. Removal of free fast passes, transportation, etc.. Need something original and on a fast track!I’d say no chance 95% of that happens. But that was the point.
Long time park visitor and very jaded by the actions of management over the past 15+ years. I set the bar very, very low these days. Their building timelines suggest something opening before Epic Universe would already have been announced. If they are going to announce anything, it needs to happen soon along with groundbreaking, unless they are planning to retheme something in response to an entirely new park.
Animaniac93-98
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Let us also not forget that just because Disney announces something at D23 doesn't mean it will actually happen...
RSoxNo1
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There was a stretch when Jay Rasulo’s announcement track record was worse than the trusted insiders on here.
Nordic4tKnight
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So what was going to go in that theater anyway? Any rumors or is it a total mystery, lost to time kind of thing?
iwilliam_23
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What are the legitimate odds of seeing an Encanto-inspired attraction announced at D23? Remember, Frozen was announced the September after it's November release in 2013, and Encanto very well could be announced at the D23 Expo in the September after it's November release in 2021.