What will Disney announce for Disney World at the 2022 D23 expo?

Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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TikibirdLand said:
I love seeing a real artist's interpretation of ideas being bounced around; both by her and others. The drawings are gorgeous and there's some good ideas there. Anything TDO would EVER build? No. But, I'd love to see some of them come to life!
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I’m not disrespecting the artist…just saying it’s inconsequential to management. Busy work more than anything until the next farm out project paid for by OLC or the Chinese Central Committee comes in.
 
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lazyboy97o

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BrianLo said:
It's way too early for Encanto. Unless Chapek pulls a Bob Iger and announces an Avatar like project before the Imagineers are really aware. Then its mostly a vapourware announcement.
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TRON, Ratatouille and Skyliner were all announced before or shortly after design had really commenced. Same for most of the Evolving EPCOT stuff and Space 220. Main Street Theater too. A lot of Disney projects are announced very early in the design process.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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EricsBiscuit said:
Wouldn’t it make them look weak if they announced something after the stock dips instead of when they usually make these sort of announcements?
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So if you mean the “Iger way”…that means “rare to never” with a timeline that could be beat by the munchkins from Oz and constant behind the scenes reductions of scope and cost?
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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lazyboy97o said:
TRON, Ratatouille and Skyliner were all announced before or shortly after design had really commenced. Same for most of the Evolving EPCOT stuff and Space 220. Main Street Theater too. A lot of Disney projects are announced very early in the design process.
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Yeah…almost like if they do that, fools will pound the place for 5 years while 6 guys put one bolt in per hour on a canopy…
 
Bocabear

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They are beginning to have a reputation for announcing projects that they later either value engineer out of existence or cut completely... In the case of the last slew of big announcements I would think they would want to say as little as possible until they complete all the projects they never did... Pretty, vague concept art for projects that will never be built are becoming the norm.
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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Bocabear said:
They are beginning to have a reputation for announcing projects that they later either value engineer out of existence or cut completely... In the case of the last slew of big announcements I would think they would want to say as little as possible until they complete all the projects they never did... Pretty, vague concept art for projects that will never be built are becoming the norm.
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That’s a “tactic”…and I mean completely tactical for the moment on the ticker and horrible strategically.

Strategic is unfortunately no longer required when you can do quick and large cash outs at the top.
 
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jpinkc

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I honestly dont think they will announce anything of substance for the US Parks. I think they will be on a DLP and Shanghai spree. They will tout how much they are spending and expanding both overseas parks to try and boost the stock. The only things I expect for the USA will be the GOG, and the coming of Tron. Maybe they will tell us when WDW Railroad might be coming back. If they announce anything maybe some new Carnie Rides to go in Dinoland at AK. I hate to feel this way but its what I expect anymore with Disney.
 
Mac Tonight

Mac Tonight

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They'll hem and haw about how the parks managed to "weather the storm" of the pandemic, coming out of it "stronger than ever" with the runaway "success" of Genie+ and the new Magic Keys...

They'll tout the recently opened Guardians coaster and Galactic Starcruiser as being the best things they've ever done...

They'll flaunt Disney "leading the charge" of Immersive Storytelling...Metaverse... yada yada yada...

They'll give a status update and new art for the Splash re-do (still likely several years away), maybe a new concept art look at the "re-imagined" festival center at Epcot, and a slightly better idea of what the Play pavilion will include, and why not, some International Parks updates as well...

Anything beyond that would be a surprise.
 
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celluloid

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Don't forget they will also pat themselves on the back for the Disney Plus method of offering a lower value with ads to a wider audience and more revenue from the increased price of the no ad version of the streaming service.
 

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