Avatar Experience Replaces Monsters Inc. - Monsters Inc. Closing Early 2026 - Future DCA Expansion Plans - Avengers Campus Expansion, Coco Ride

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The one thing I keep wondering about is this:

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If they close the western entrance to the loop, and end the loop road next to the bottom buildings there - it would actually give them a pretty sizeable parcel to work on - including room for the potential bridge over Disneyland Drive for DisneyForward. They don't necessarily need that western entrance anymore - vehicles could get to Paradise Gardens from the GCH entrance, and to those bottom buildings using the loop road from Harbor. (There's a cut-through right underneath my black line.)

I think someone figured out that the ride building for Mermaid would fit in where the parade storage building is now. Potentially, there's room for something pretty sizeable (if they do something like this).

Scott Gustin claims they’re trying to build the ride with minimal backstage removal, so presumably the parade shed will stay. Coco is suppose to be a boat ride, I think think will have a large footprint than Mermaid? NRJ ar DAK is short but the show building is huge.

DCA 2.0 was suppose to have a second dark ride added to the PP/PG area, so I assume there has long been a plan.

I do wonder how they’ll expand the park with Disneylandforward. You’d have to think they’d close down West St, which would mean they’d be demolishing the western boarder of the park anyway. Building across the street and connecting the sections with a bridge seems like it’d waste a lot of space and just be… odd.

 

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Scott Gustin claims they’re trying to build the ride with minimal backstage removal, so presumably the parade shed will stay. Coco is suppose to be a boat ride, I think think will have a large footprint than Mermaid? NRJ ar DAK is short but the show building is huge.

DCA 2.0 was suppose to have a second dark ride added to the PP/PG area, so I assume there has long been a plan.

I'm wondering if it's possible that the parade shed might actually be some percentage of an attraction building - if it's possible that it was built for that purpose but adapted for parade storage. (I think Germany and Japan at EPCOT both have attraction buildings that are being used as storage, since the original attractions were cancelled.) That would explain why they wouldn't need to demolish anything - it would just be a matter of rehabbing/remodeling that building and potentially adding onto it.

They're losing the parade entry gate to Coco, so I don't know how they could still use that building for parade storage.

I've got a fantastically terrible idea - since that building is basically a long barn with garage doors on each end - have it be in one end and out the other and make it like Fast & Furious at Universal (lol).

I do wonder how they’ll expand the park with Disneylandforward. You’d have to think they’d close down West St, which would mean they’d be demolishing the western boarder of the park anyway. Building across the street and connecting the sections with a bridge seems like it’d waste a lot of space and just be… odd.

I was kind of imagining something sorta like Downtown Disney, where it would basically be a second level above Disneyland Drive without it necessarily feeling like one. (I was quietly hoping that they would use the Simba lot for Avatar - and essentially have you enter from a "hill" over Disneyland Drive that would overlook the land. If they did it right, I thought that might be an amazing view, especially at sunset.) But if Anaheim is willing to cede Disney that section of Disneyland Drive, that'd be pretty amazing.