Question about construction

[Pluto468]

Does anyone know when the "Disneyland Forward" project is supposed to start? I thought it was 2027 but I forget. I'm thinking about my trips over the next few years and I want to avoid major construction times. The park isn't as fun for me when those walls are everywhere!

Aside from the Disneyland Forward project, is there anything else on the horizon?

 

[Aspencreek]

The park isn't as fun for me when those walls are everywhere!

Amen to that. Still better to be there than not, but having the massive stretch from New Orleans square past Hungry Bear all walled off for ages really hurt the experience. Hopefully there won't be such large chunks of the park worked on like that in the Disney Forward project.

 

[disneychrista]

I don’t think they have officially announced anything officially “Disneyland Forward” yet.

 

[irlandaise]

You can keep an eye on the DisneylandForward website for updates, but it doesn't look like they've posted anything since the Anaheim City Council decision last May.

 

[LAS2AMS]

DisneylandForwqrd simply gives Disney the flexibility to build out their footprint as they see fit. While they’re promising $2.5B in development in 10 years, they complete build out of the project will take decades.

From what we know… it basically earmarks the Disneyland Hotel parking lot for future Disneyland expansion, and the Pixar Pier parking lot/garage for California Adventure expansion. Toy Story lot becomes new entertainment distrust. Disneyland Esplanade bus and pickup swallowed up by DCA/DL expansion. Empty lots across the street on Harbor get direct access to the 5 and become parking garages/ bus/ pickup. One idea is to get guests to smaller Esplanade via Skyliner.

Besides the potential Esplanade reconfiguration, none of these projects will impede on your enjoyment like DCA 2.0, or Star Warsland.

That said… Disney announced those parking garages off of Harbor during the Westcot expansion. Then again in the early 2010s. So, I wouldn’t hold my breath for any of this. Almost every project Disney announces gets downsized before it’s built out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Garden Walk eventually becomes the new entertainment disreict.

Don’t get me wrong - they will go forward with some expansion. Avatarland itself will eat up a lot of real estate in the DTD parking lot and satisfy mucb of the 2.5B.

 

[LAS2AMS]

I want to add: DisneylandForward was necessary for Disney to further develop the DLR, and required community support plus city council approval. It replaced an agreement signed on the dying days of WestCot - that agreement was reached after a bitter response and protest from Anaheim residents. (Of course, Anaheim is a much different place today and few of those residents still live there.)

But in my lifetime, think of all the cancelled projects that were announced… a full buildout of Toontown based on Roger Rabbit. A new land based on Hollywood featuring The Great Moviie Ride and attractions based on the Muppets. WestCot abd PortDisney. DCA 2.0 downsizing, featuring the loss of a second dark ride. Initial Avengers Canpus attractions. Redevelopment of Innovariojs/ Autopia/ Submarine Voyage/ the defunct water Autopia.

The list goes on… same thing at WDW. They cut the budget of Animal Kingdom so badly, that many of the people that joined Disney from San Diego Zoo and elsewhere left. Heck, the Imagineers that designed one of the headlining attractions in Beaslty Kingdom (cancelled) left to build at similar attraction at Islands of Adventure.