How much free space does Disney World have left?

[TiggerBouncy]

River country was and has been looked at as a site for a new DVC resort nothing more.

I wouldn't say nothing more. It's come up a number of times in the past 10 years. Among the ideas have been:
* Making it the pool area for Fort Wilderness (probably limited to Fort Wilderness like the Yacht Club is)
* A water park exclusive to DVC to try to shunt DVC guests away from other areas.
* Tearing it down for a new DVC property / hotel
* Resurrecting the park itself has been tossed about at least 3 times that I know of. However, the general consensus is that it's a fair bit of work.

the major problem with making it a water park is that it's just too small to compete with Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach. It would barely make a dent at only 5,000 guests.

Still - reopening it or re-purposing it would be a smaller task than building a whole new park.

 

[rteetz]

I wouldn't say nothing more. It's come up a number of times in the past 10 years. Among the ideas have been:
* Making it the pool area for Fort Wilderness (probably limited to Fort Wilderness like the Yacht Club is)
* A water park exclusive to DVC to try to shunt DVC guests away from other areas.
* Tearing it down for a new DVC property / hotel
* Resurrecting the park itself has been tossed about at least 3 times that I know of. However, the general consensus is that it's a fair bit of work.

the major problem with making it a water park is that it's just too small to compete with Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach. It would barely make a dent at only 5,000 guests.

Still - reopening it or re-purposing it would be a smaller task than building a whole new park.

They wouldn't resurrect the park as is. It uses lake water and Disney doesn't allow swimming in their lakes for obvious reasons.

They are much more likely to fill it in and build a new resort than anything else. Honestly Disney is most likely to continue to leave it sit there as is for as long as the can.

Also confused at your probably limited to fort wilderness like yacht club is. Yacht club shares a pool with beach club. That pool is fenced like the vast majority of pools in WDW these days.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Nope, and I also have never seen Sleeping Beauty. I base my statements on what I see on a regular basis in the permits.

It's good to get s legitimate take on the facts of the place...
Many around these here parts think it was a bunch of charitable nuns with magic dust who built the place

 

[DDLand]

That doesn't surprise me at all considering how big a part of the local economy Disney is. mainly posting for the benefit of those that may believe that since Disney has their own government, they have carte blanche to do whatever they want.

They're subject to the South Florida Water Management District's oversight. They are a legitimate apparatus that is not controlled by Disney. That's in contrast to RCID. They have to post because it's the law.

 

[TiggerBouncy]

They wouldn't resurrect the park as is. It uses lake water and Disney doesn't allow swimming in their lakes for obvious reasons.

I agree with you there - they wouldn't bring it back exactly as it was. Although using lake water is not really a problem. The amoeba scare was largely a hoax seeing as how there were only ever 4 reporting incidents and a lot more people had been exposed, and there was a 10 year gap from the last case to the closing of the park. However, they would almost CERTAINLY revamp all of the filtration system *IF* they ever decided to do anything with it.

Also confused at your probably limited to fort wilderness like yacht club is. Yacht club shares a pool with beach club. That pool is fenced like the vast majority of pools in WDW these days.

I mean that as far as I know (unless they have changed it), DVC guests staying at any resort can visit any other resort pool EXCEPT the Yacht / Beach club. I.E. If I am staying at BLT, I can use the pool at the Grand Floridian without a problem. However, only guests staying at the Yacht / Beach club can use that pool. Unless they changed it in the last year.

[Edit] Seems like Poly was added to the no-fly list. I guess that's not a shocker.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

River country would never reopen as constructed due to a variety of modern liability issues.

It had its day (world's first water park)...that day was "yesterday"

 

[lockedoutlogic]

They're subject to the South Florida Water Management District's oversight. They are a legitimate apparatus that is not controlled by Disney. That's in contrast to RCID. They have to post because it's the law.

While true...Disney holds massive political influence in that state. Probably nobody holds more due to sheer economic impact. That influence carries weight to the federal system.

Any semi-reasonable plan they submit would be approved

 

[DanBoris]

While true...Disney holds massive political influence in that state. Probably nobody holds more due to sheer economic impact. That influence carries weight to the federal system.

Any semi-reasonable plan they submit would be approved

Yeah, I don't think there would ever be a question of something getting approval or not, it's more a question of how much time and money that goes into the approval process. There is a lot of engineering and documentation in the SFWMD permits and I imagine that that stuff doesn't come cheap. It's also not unsual for the SFWMD to kick permits back to Disney for more information and documentation.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

It's also not unsual for the SFWMD to kick permits back to Disney for more information and documentation.

...gotta make it "look good"