Looks interesting. A couple comments:
* Someone asked about that big green space between the Coaster cottage and the teacups. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that area contained the "show building" for the coaster. If you look at the existing pictures we have of the construction and the path plans, they wouldn't have a lot of room for a show building going towards the back of the park from the cottage location, so the coaster show building would likely be done up as a forested mountain between Belle's Village/Little Mermaid, and Pooh.
*Now depending upon space/themeing, i could see them maybe doing a small little play area on the "hillside"... but honestly with the proximity to Pooh's interactive queue and all that space up by the circus, I'm going to guess it'd be more likely to have something by the circus.
* I'm kind of saddened by the close of SWSA, but at the same time, I have to admit that the placement of the Princess meet "within the castle walls" actually does make quite a bit of sense.
* The original talk was the Railroad would close at some point because of the obvious need to redo the station and the construction mess. Personally, i've always wondered if they might just close the one station and do the 1 train in shuttle mode again like they did back when Splash was being built.
*ultimately.... I gotta say that I think this "re-do" isn't that bad. The biggest complaint I had about the previous version was it was EXTREMELY M&G heavy. It didn't matter to me if it was mostly princesses, it was just that they were doing all that building, using all that space, and all we really seemed to gain out of it was 1 new ride, a much needed TS restaurant, an extra Dumbo....And some meet and greets. Girl or Boy, you have to admit that there comes a time when standing in line to meet a character starts to get old or "been there done that, and not worth the line this time."
* The new plans are different, but still give us many of the core items of the first while adding a new attraction to the mix. I feel like it even makes better use of the space... and is also potentially more flexible. Instead of having a seperate M&G for each of the princesses/fairies like in the original, You still get the interactive experience for Belle (which themes and fits nicely into the castle/village area), and you gain the nice Hall space for the other princesses. While making it easier to possible rotate the princesses in the Hall (new movie/princess? squeeze her into the castle's hall! easier to explain than why she is in Aurora's cottage...), It also would possibly allow for the multiple princesses at once situation some parents crave.
And my biggest
?? It just seems a more thematically cohesive plan than the original. We've already seen the pictures on how they tied the Teacups into Pooh via the amazing brickwork in the new queue. The Castle walls are supposed to go up on the other side of Pooh and route over to approximately where the bathrooms are. you then have the Dwarf's cottage and mine train across from Pooh in a very heavily forested/themed area (based off artwork.). Odds are, that theming and the show building will do a decent job cutting off the line of sight from Pooh to Belle's village and the Little Mermaid. Now go around the other way, and you have Belle's cottage and a village. It's obvious from the construction pictures and the artwork that Beast's castle is likely going to rely heavily on forced perspective to get it to fit... which will make it possible to have Belle's Village not be in Cinderella's backyard. I also noticed the artwork included a structure on what appeared to be cliff... which could be a great visual segway to the coast and The Little Mermaid's ride. And of course... you have the circus on the far side of the forest in the clearing.
It just makes it a lot easily to cohesively tie everything together, rather than have every princess live in Cinderella's backyard.
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