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↩ replying to marni1971Shouldn't the GotG gravity building count as being on an expansion pad? I know GotG is replacing UoE, but with how big that building is, it could have been it's own ride had they chose to go that route. Plus, Soarin is connected to Land and replaced an attraction anyway.
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↩ replying to Next Big ThingIt wasn’t an expansion pad as the park was originally designed. Sometime in the 90s (I think) or early noughtees that whole area was proposed to be used eventually for onstage, pushing into the parking lot. However, this is the same as the MK is proposed to push through to behind Splash and BTM sometime between now and the end of days.
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↩ replying to marni1971Thanks for the quick response.
This is a more general question, but i'm just wondering, after Tron and GotG open in 2021, is anything currently planned to happen in the following years? I haven't been following as close and I know i've heard about the black box ride, but that's one of those things i'll believe when I see.
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↩ replying to Next Big ThingAs in additions? There’s murmurs always floating around but I’ve heard nothing beyond blue sky. Nor that they’ll get much further than that.
Hope I’m wrong.
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↩ replying to marni1971Yeah, my fear is that they've spent all this money "fixing" these broken parks from about 2017-2022 stateside and they spent $5.5B on Shanghai before that. They've also spent billions on WDSP and HKDL and are building 3 new cruise ships which is many more billions.
Somebody at Disney clearly sees all this as necessary right now, but I just worry once the current investment period is over, we're gonna see another dry spell. Hopefully Epic Universe makes it so that they are forced to continue investment.
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↩ replying to Next Big ThingIIRC, one of the Bob's said a while back that capital investments in the US parks would be curtailed significantly once the current slate of announced projects was completed.
Sadly, what they are spending now was necessary 10+ years ago. We'll see if they've learned any lessons from the past 15 years.
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↩ replying to trainplane3I Assumed he was talking about World Showplace - that thing they've kept but used for almost nothing but private events since the Millennium Celebration ended.
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Is the other side of the breezeway still coming down? They still show it on the map.
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↩ replying to EJ96Especially in central Florida where air conditioning and shelter from thunder storms are welcome things.
I don't think anyone is arguing that something didn't need to be done but it feels like certain people around here take the criticisims of the path chosen as saying we all wanted big mostly empty buildings to remain as they were.
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↩ replying to Lands of WonderBecause it’s still intact.
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I wouldn’t expect to see much visible progress on the demolition now until after the first of the year.
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↩ replying to MisterPenguinStarbucks... Part 2 :joyfull:
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↩ replying to marni1971Yeah but even before the demolition it was still there, it would be pointless if they did.
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↩ replying to Lands of WonderBefore the demolition the entire building was on the map. They removed the half that they entirely closed and are actively demolishing.
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I noticed with the demolition of West There’s a part of the beams that look chard and black due to fire damage was there ever a fire in that part?