I am still working on my makeup posts, and the one about the Disney Princesses in particular is taking a long time, so I thought I'd make a post now about a Section 3 topic.
Right now Walt Disney World is busy constructing the biggest expansion to Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom ever. It will literally double the size of the place. The project is called New Fantasyland and according to their website, it should be fully finished by 2013.
In New Fantasyland it looks like each of the main Princesses will get their own special area where kids will be able to meet them and take pictures and stuff. There will be a Snow White area with a new seven dwarfs mine cart inspired roller coaster. The Little Mermaid is getting her own ride too using the same sort of technology that's in the Haunted Mansion and Harry Potter rides where guests will be able to journey under the sea. Beauty and the Beast is getting --what I consider-- a pretty big new section. Maurice's cottage (Belle's dad in the movie) will be a place for little kids to have some sort of story time activity with Lumiere and take pictures with Belle. Gaston's Pub will be a new restaurant and will be made in the style of his hunting lodge (he uses antlers in all of his decorating!). And finally, Beast's castle is being built and will house the Be Our Guest Restaurant. Sneak peak provided at this link---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_zJMY46qSs
There will also be a Princess Fairytale Hall where guests can meet with all of the other princesses like Rapunzel, Tiana, Aurora, and so on.
To do all of this not only are they expanding and changing a bit of current Fantasyland (the old Snow White ride will be closed) but they are also taking out Mickey's Toontown Fair, where previously guests could walk through all the iconic Disney character's homes (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, etc). They are planning on putting a new Mickey/Minnie meet and greet thing towards the front of the park instead. And on top of Mickey's Toontown Fair they are building Storybook Circus, which actually just opened. It's Dumbo/Circus based. There will be a new Dumbo ride, lots of carnival style games, and a revamped Barnstormer coaster.
The "new" Dumbo ride that's already open is the same as the old Dumbo ride (which is the same as the Aladdin ride, which is the same as the dinosaur ride in DAK, which is the same as Astro Orbiter). I don't know why they need four copies of the same ride (Aladdin, Dumbo, Dumbo, Astro Orbiter) in the same park though. Always upset me. But they are doing some new things with the rest of New Fantasyland, so I can't complain. The big draw with the Snow White roller coaster is that it's got carts that swing side to side as they go and that at some points it stops and turns into a dark ride (so we're not entirely losing that experience from the other one).
ReplyDeleteI wanna walk like you...!? Does repetition sell; people like the familiar (example: great song on radio--turn it up!) How does this Land relate to the Bo-Deryck comments or the Collin-Brooke debate; or, What is a new land for: to sell tickets; any side effects or implications (for assumptions, for persuasion, for use of landscape?)
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