LOTS of new/revived tidbits at Screamscape today!

[buckylarue]

AK - longer hours being tested; Beastly Kingdom plans being dusted off and worked up to the max

Studios - Star WArs 2 back on; an unnamed new E-ticket and several smaller attractions to be added before closing the Indy stunt show; an all new Indy ride with bits culled from Anaheim, Tokyo and Paris versions

Epcot - massive rehab for Spaceship Earth (but this may only be the post-show area)

Tokyo - Monsters Inc. confirmed for Tomorrowland; Sinbad undergoing rehab; Tower of Terror opening date set

Disneyland - monorail rehab rumors - changing rail to same size as WDWs?

Disney Cruise Line - The Black Pearl to be docked at Castaway Cay?

.....verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting................

 

[2Xited4Disney]

Beastly Kingdom( The way it is desribed on Screamscape) will make AK a FULL day park that many people will enjoy. I have gone to WDW several times since AK has opened. I have never really been excited for AK but now I actually can't wait to go there and will probably go there the first day. I predict that in 5 years many people will become AK fans rather than skeptics (like myself untill the next trip)

 

[MJMcBride]

Where exactly does screamscape get their info?

 

[DancingBear]

Impressions:

Beastly Kingdom--believe it when I see it

StarWars 2--makes sense in the "Iger mends fences" vein of the Pixar acquisition and making Ms. Miller happy

Tokyo--would expect them to get a somehow better version of Monsters

Disneyland--Interesting monorail issue. Would the economies of scale of designing/buying trains for both properties be enough to pay for redoing Disneyland's monorail track? Is DL's track due for work anyway?

 

[buckylarue]

Word was that DL had sent one of their monorail trains to Imagineering to be reverse engineered, so that enw ones could be built. I guess they might have found that it would cost more to do that than to modify the beam to be able to use "standard"=sized trains that they could purchase...

 

[YoHo]

I do n't understand this. Why do they need to reverse engineer something they built? and while track size would be nice to have standardized, I can't imagine it's that hard to just make the monorails fit that track. It would cost an obscene amount to swap that track that runs in loops in the park over the sub lagoon and stuff.

 

[DancingBear]

Screamscape also says the Black Pearl might be docked at Castaway Cay for a time. That would be way cool to see.

 

[YoHo]

I know the interceptor is up in pudget sound right now. Supposedly, it's smaller then the Columbia in DL is.

 

[ChrisFL]

Where exactly does screamscape get their info?

from what I've seen they have a lot of sources who submit information, some insiders, others just hearing things.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Disneyland - monorail rehab rumors - changing rail to same size as WDWs?

I find it very difficult to believe that Disneyland would replace the entire existing monorail track, just to be able to have the trains built by Bombardier, supplier of the Las Vegas Monorail and the current WDW Monorail.

The Disneyland Monorail has tight turns, which can be handled by Disneyland's short Monorail cars. Presumably, the whole Disneyland route would need to be "straightened out" with gentler turns to accommodate the long Bombardier train cars.

It makes more sense to me to create new plans based on a current Disneyland Monorail train, and to run new trains on the existing track.

Take a look at http://thedisneyblog.typepad.com/tdb/2006/01/new_monorail_co.html

Also, for big pictures, check the links at http://mousehub.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t73.html

 

[DisInsider]

I heard that they are going to replace Spaceship Earth with a new ten-story parking structure. And they will be building Disney's Florida Adventure in the Epcot parking lot. There's supposed to be a really cool hurricane-type thrill ride, an orange juice making attraction sponsored by Florida's Natural, and a new trailer park themed resort called "Disney's White Trash Resort". Disney is also talking with Walmart about a possible joint venture that will bring a new discount shopping district to the resort area.

 

[Mickmse2002]

AK - longer hours being tested; Beastly Kingdom plans being dusted off and worked up to the max

I certainly hope they upgrade the attractions, i.e. Beastly Kingdom, before they put longer hours in place. They are long enough now.

 

[freakylick]

Tokyo - Monsters Inc. confirmed for Tomorrowland;

Can someone please explain what a hide-and-seek game with Boo, Mike & Sully have to do with Tomorrowland????? It seems to an attraction better suited for Fantasyland or Toontown... You gotta love synergy

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Can someone please explain what a hide-and-seek game with Boo, Mike & Sully have to do with Tomorrowland????? It seems to an attraction better suited for Fantasyland or Toontown... You gotta love synergy

It's my opinion that, of the three lands you've named, Monsters Inc. would best fit into Tomorrowand. At the Disney parks with a Tomorrowland, that land has never been strictly about the future. Think of the 20,000 Leagues Walk-through at Disneyland in the early 1960s or Buzz Lightyear and Stitch at Tomorrowland at WDW. These are fun, fantasy attractions. In a way, Tomorrowland is really Sci-Fi-Fantasyland (compared to the "real" Fantasyland which is essentially a fairy tale Fantasyland).

High-tech Monstropolis, where screams are converted to energy, would neither fit with the classic fairy tales of Fantasyland, nor with the classic Disney characters of Mickey's ToonTown.

At Tokyo Disneyland, Monsters Inc. is most appropriate in Tomorrowland.

Of course, another reason is that there's room in Tokyo's Tomorrowland, due to the closing of Meet The World.