The 20k Site at WDW - What would you like to see?

[socalMAN123]

Seriously, DCA is the cheapest Disney park you will ever see. I mean, look at California Screamin. That's one of the only good Disney rides they have made, but they made it out of steel. Its supposed to be a tribute to wooden coasters?

[JT3000]

They definitely aren't afraid of spending money. They just happen to be building expensive crap.

[ChrisZer0]

The optimum word is "Crap"

[Gregory DG]

Any news on what's going on at the 20K site? Is the site finished or what?

[maliboomer]

Seriously, DCA is the cheapest Disney park you will ever see. I mean, look at California Screamin. That's one of the only good Disney rides they have made, but they made it out of steel. Its supposed to be a tribute to wooden coasters?

 

Brent is going through an anti-Disney stage, but anyways, they made California Screamin' out of steel because it's safer, easier to mantain, way less jerky, ages better then wood, and is more easily changed and adjusted. A normal guest wouldn't even notice if the support structure was made out of steel or woodshop plywood if Disney had bothered disguising it for aesthetics, which they did, not to pull wool over people eyes so they don't think they are cheap.

California Adventure isn't the 'worst' at all, it rivals even HKDL and defiantly the Studios at DLP, which has a lot of potential, and so does DCA. It is a failure by no means, at least to the regular person, who don't really care if the Tower has no 5th dimension or the River Rapids has no bear.

[DATman]

^you mean California Castrated...note the new icky trims of doom and lack of air that made the ride great

[twistedmickey]

What about a Kingdom Hearts ride? It could be as immersive as Spiderman and you can play along like Buzz. We need more rides on steroids at the Magic Kingdom.

[jackskellington101]

Now, I may be an uber fan boy and in turn incredibly biased, but I happened to kind of...like California Adventure. I'm not saying there isn't problems with it, but it wasn't the God awful park that I hear about all the time from the other die hards and park junkies. It was decent. It does sound like, at least in CA, major money is being put into that park, but not on rides. They have to fix everything else before they can begin on putting in and working on rides.

 

In terms of the 20K section of WDW, I think that the idea of the Little Mermaid attraction originally planned for Disneyland Paris, where their Space Mountain is currently, might be an excellent ride idea for that area, or a version of the Ariel's Kingdom from Tokyo Disneysea. The dark ride's more conceivable, however. I don't see the Magic Kingdom as the place for the "thrill ride". It's not made for people like us. Disney never seemed to seriously push into the thrill seeker, credit whoring market aka us. They try their hardest at being a "family park", always have been, and the Magic Kingdoms are at the forefront at that. Their business model is just different. If they do add modern, top of the line thrill rides, MK is really not the place. I totally expect full on thrill rides and coasters, like the good tower or Rock N Roller Coaster, in Disney-MGM and those make no concessions to the younger audience. That's where a Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man style Kingdom Hearts ride should be. As for space where that could be, link up the old Superstar TV/Doug Live building and the Sounds Dangerous building. It probably isn't a large enough foot print, even with those two buildings, but it's a start. Another place would the the Little Mermaid show in the Animation area, but I've always thought a sit-down restaurant based on the show "House of Mouse" would be an excellent idea for that space, but that's just me.

 

On "making expensive crap", that seems to be changing, as much as I can see. Look at Expedition Everest. In my humble, and again probably biased opinion, I think that it looks incredible. Now, who knows what the ride will be like, but by sheer external view, it looks beautiful and looks like it's been there for all time. It also seems to be all we're going to get from the "Beastly Kingdom" ideas, sadly. On the other coast, who knows what Monsters Inc or Nemo are going to be like? I mean, with the Monsters Inc area, you can only go up. It certainly seems like those times are changing. The real test of that will be if there will be hiring and job openings at WDI. Then something good might be happening.

[stingrock23]

An attraction should definitely be built, and a Kingdom Hearts ride would fit right into Fantasyland.