Completely agree with you! I do think the future looks bright for Disneyland.

@@themainstreetnews that’s only because what’s going on with Florida though…

It’s funny how role reversal seems to work with both Disney and Universal. While Disney struggles to expand or get anything done in Florida, they’re making more ambitious plans to expand in California and while Universal Hollywood is landlocked and can only do so much, they have a new lease on life with Epic Universe (and more) on the horizon.

Disney isn't going ahead in Florida because business is not good right now. The parks are doing well but Disney+ is bleeding money and they haven't exactly been killing it at the box office so lately. Their stock is at a five year low. Estimates for the new park were from ten to seventeen billion dollars. You don't borrow $15B when times are tough.

I think the space they have is plenty, Disney is just lazy about fixing things they can utilize the space but refuse to, Example tomorrowland has Star tours and Star Wars launch bay, starcade, where do you suppose that should go. Now sudden that land has 3 rides and a lot of blue sky ideas. As for the “3 park” they literally have no more room, the zoning permit won’t allow it, it’s something they are try to persuade the city to change. So far they failed twice.

They are broke - watch the scramble as they try to get enough cash to pay for Hulu. Nothing is happing on either cost any time soon.

That would be the best case scenario! Truly a unique and beautiful project

Creative leadership is long gone, unfortunately… one of the things I think would be amazing for the company is putting the creatives in front of the number people.

@@themainstreetnews unfortunately “bean counters” are chosen over “visionaries” in public corporations to run them with “this quarter” as their focus.

The new Disney lost their minds when they devoted a whole portion of the park to Star Wars.

They own more land around the park and in surrounding cities than you would believe.

Pixar structure has 5500 spots Toy Story lot has about 7800, they can always build a couple more structures to accommodate

Or we can continue to invest in public transportation & Disney can help connect to the Amtrak/metro link future hsr stop near the angels stadium 🤔

They could go under ground with parking.

@@choco1490this. HSR solves the tourism and housing problem with a little extra funding

The problem is that a third park would probably take at least ten years to build from start to finish, and quite likely more when you factor in the entire process of environmental reviews, permits, lawsuits from local residents, etc. Look how long it has taken them for the new Downtown Disney expansion for example, and that's a far simpler project. Beyond that, the project would cost many billions, and that would present a tremendous financial risk for Disney, especially when they have no idea what things will be like in 10-15 years, or what will still be popular then, or even if they will still need a third park at that time in California. Also, a super impressive third park featuring the biggest and best of Disney brands and technologies would run a very serious risk of making the first two parks seem incredibly out-dated and boring by comparison. For example, how many kids would want to go do the current Fantasyland rides like Mr. Toad and Alice and Pinocchio, as opposed to going to a brand new park and riding a super impressive new Frozen or Tangled ride that's on par with what the parks in Asia are building these days. How many people would still want to ride Big Thunder Mountain or the Matterhorn or even Space Mountain when you could go to a new park and ride things like Tron or the new Guardians Of The Galaxy roller coaster? These potential issues are endless. If there is any lesson Disney should have learned from the cancellation of the Star Wars hotel, it's that they can't compete with themselves. They need to create complementary experiences, rather than competitive ones. Using the space across the street as expansion for the existing parks is probably their best bet. That would function more like Galaxy's Edge in the sense that it is separated from the rest of the park, accessed through a tunnel or bridge, but it's part of the park all the same and you don't have to choose between going there and going to the rest of the park in terms of ticket buying. This was smart, because Rise Of The Resistance makes the rest of the rides pale in comparison. An entire park on that level would destroy DCA, and likely seriously undermine Disneyland itself.

That park is will be for the new generation not for us. I’m 32 and I’m sure massive plans will be for my children and grandchildren to enjoy

@@AStageForTheKingdom You actually make a really strong point with the quality of rides. And I agree DCA would NOT stand a chance. I think Disneyland has the strong legs as the park itself is a representation of all the 3 eras i mentioned. I think the reason Disneyland can heavily compete is because the rides there are simply timeless. A boat ride will never be outdated, a rollercoaster themed to a mountain will never be outdated. The rides at Disneyland are pure iconic original fun. But if Disney ever ended up building a 3rd gate they would absolutely have to pour billions into DCA to put it on a level where it would still be worth visiting. I'd much rather visit Disneyland then DCA. I also like how you mentioned that Star Wars land is off to the side doing its own thing and I never really thought about it that way. I really hope Disney keeps padding out DCA after phase 2 of Avengers.

​@@AStageForTheKingdombut consider this epic universe opens next year and Disney needs something to compete with that and while this is in California and epic is in Orlando remember back in the 90s Europe was scrambling to open a theme park anywhere on the continent to indirectly compete with euro Disneyland

That's like saying Universal should have built a generic wizard park instead of Harry Potter, or a generic land instead of the Mario one. Sounds pretty foolish when you put it that way. Disney would be stupid to build a risky non-IP park, when they could build one with Pandora, Frozen, Tangled, Toy Story, Beauty And The Beast, Mary Poppins, Lion King, Aladdin, etc.

Unfortunately with how people are in America, I would have to agree with your statements since product placement is what most people in the US sadly want the most. However looking at places like Tokyo, it seems that they’re adding Disney IPs as well but don’t relay in using them for everything. I know the Oriental Land Company owns it, but it stands out with having something original and distantly Disney (DisneySea). Some of the parks here in the states (EPCOT and California Adventure) are losing identity and originality with IPs slapped everywhere.

It will be budget trash, as has become the norm under Iger. His legacy, will be of a man(?) who single-handedly destroyed everything that made Disney special. He lost families, he priced out the average enthusiast, and he ruined he last 10+ films, with his dogged determination to embrace ESG, no matter what. He has allowed Kathy Kennedy, to absolutely destroy Star Wars, Willow, Indiana Jones, etc., with no real path back. It’s less Kennedy’s fault, than it is IGER’S fault.

Agreed, ultimately the problems come down to Bob Iger and even Michael Eisner for starting these trends. Iger put Disney in a position of having to continue paying for the FOX deal at the ridiculous amount of nearly $70 billion, owning money back to their main competitor Comcast, price gouging tickets and parking, charging for former free services, and suggesting selling the company to Apple after returning as CEO to avoid bankruptcy.

Lol little Samuel what are you going to do about it? Do you think the imagineers are listening to you little Sammy sweatheart? Nope,keep on being a delusional person who doesn’t know jack about anything. Keep on dreaming you little girl

I agree with you, E-Tickets are needed. I feel like especially a thrill ride could be very well suited, as Disneyland lacks these…

Thank you! The proposal is really interesting, hopefully the city gives the thumbs up!

I'd hate to see this Walt era attraction go but that area is wildly underutilized.

So just dust off WestCot's plans and maybe some Port Disney mixed in then we're golden!

Epcot as a work live area I would live there no problem.

There aint any room for it.

@@LeonSKennedy7777 This was about Disneyland not Disneyworld.

@@dvferyance my bad, comment retracted. It's been about a year ago so I forgot. However, I believe that Disneyland California is certainly considering a new park expansion since they own tracts of land surrounding their parks, including a large parking block to the south west of California Adventure. Logistics still need to be thought-out and would probably require shuttles, but I'm sure they have people planning those things.

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That’s true. I do think it would maybe make more sense to build the three hotels on the top right. Wouldn’t be as much space, but still pretty good and closer to Disneyland.

Disney can snap it’s fingers and acquire the property with help of the city.

I personally think there’s way too much space just to expand Downtown Disney. I think there should be a middle ground: expand downtown in the perimeter of the hotels and use the rest of the land as park expansions.

Thinks are looking good!

Newsom is still an awful governor

Well, according to this proposal both parks would have a new entrance. Again, I do need to emphasise that these aren’t actual plans, but a proposal with possibilities.

If you want to get technical, the monorail acts as a second entry point to Disneyland.

Absolutely!!! Keep Disney classic..

Just uploaded them!

@@themainstreetnews grazie

It won’t be anytime soon. We might see some developments if the proposal is accepted next year, but it’ll take some time.

Probably at least ten to fifteen years.

Yeah, I’d say somewhere within that timeframe. Of course, smaller things will happen between now and then, like possibly a bigger remodel of Downtown Disney and the area around the hotels.

A third gate wasted on attractions that failed once already? No thanks.

People can be curious to desire to see the original rebooted Disneyland if they haven't done so, esp. those who haven't visited before from the old and young generations. Maybe one in Asia and a western country for this?

How the jobless Star Wars nerds can afford that is beyond most of us.

That’s a really fun sounding idea!

This will take very long. As I said, Disney isn’t promising to build anything just yet, they only gave us the possibilities of what could be built one day…

That’s true. One of the things my “home park”, Disneyland Paris does so well. Even being quite far away from Paris you have Metro and High Speed Trains that drop you off IN the resort!

@@themainstreetnews I heard there was Orange county was building light rail and would go to disneyland. Never hear any updated about this.

Never heard about this… I do know that Disney World will be getting a brightline station near Springs…

Should've Disney had bought all that area when they could? Yeah, for sure. Can Disney do it now? I'm honestly not sure... One thing I do know is that they have a lot of land that can be used, so that should (and seems to be) their number one priority. To get the approval from the city to freely build what they want. Going back to the houses, not only would they be super expensive to buy, but also I'm not sure it would read well with the public... "Disney pressures families to move out of their homes to expand theme park" Ooof...

That’s a nice though, but yeah, I bit too late haha.

Oooh I’d love up!

Mary Poppins would be great, as long as it is based on the original movie.

Not directly in Vegas, that's where mostly the adults playground. Probably at state line on the 15, in Nipton/Primm...b4 going into Vegas/on your way back to L.A.

I made sure to say that a couple of times. This is very blue sky and probably won’t see the light of day, BUT that doesn’t mean that other (as exciting as these) projects do!

Personally wouldn’t mind that. Would be fun to see how Disney might theme a giga 😂

I think it’s way past that. Tomorrowland needs a complete makeover… the old peoplemover tracks are falling apart, and so many stuff just feeling old. It needs to be completely redone!

@@themainstreetnews I agree completely. It's hard to design something for "tomorrow" that won't become outdated given time and that's probably one of the reasons Disney hasn't done much to update Tomorrowland but I think that is missing the point. The "tomorrow" in Tomorrowland only needs to be the idea of "tomorrow" to the current guests. Space exploration will likely be future-y for a very long time. Why not start a modification of the theme (refresh) of Tomorrowland to focus on exploring other planets in the future. What would we need for transportation on land (Autopia) or in alien oceans (submarines) or through human outposts on alien planets (Peoplemovers) or in the atmosphere of alien planets (astro orbiter)?

@@Ryecrash617 that sounds really good! The Tomorrowland Problem will always eventually prevail, but those themes should be okay for quite some time!

I understand what you mean by that, but to be honest, seeing that it’s an expansion completely separated from the park, I don’t think would be too bad…

@@themainstreetnews yeah but it’s still apart of the park. These lands could work well if Disney tied them into the Hollywood theme.

@@tylerhfroemming That's true... What would you want to see in those areas?

@@themainstreetnews an expansion to the CA theme using IP and original experiences. Maybe a San Francisco land?

@@tylerhfroemming That could be nice! You do have San Fransokio getting built now, but could be good! I just don't think that will see new big expansions not tied to IP anytime soon, unfortunately...

I personally don’t think that Universal Hollywood can really compete with Disneyland, at least not the current park. It needs to expand, build hotels and even still, there’s a lot of work to reach the same level…

I think you’re sadly mistaken, Universal, even Europe and Japan are catching up while Disney itself is in a stalemate quagmire with the direction they going.

While most of what you said is indeed true and you make a great point, Disney is still very much profitable. Disney+ was suffering so changes have been made to lower the operational cost, layoffs have happened (unfortunately I might add) to help with company wide cost reductions. Iger is putting all he has to relieve the company debt but one thing that’s making money is the parks. They need to continue to invest in the parks so that the revenue keeps up. No investment means less interest. Disney won’t stop investing in the Parks, it may be less than before with tighter budgets, but that’s not always a bad thing! (Sorry for the huge size of the reply haha)

@@themainstreetnews I don't disagree they need to keep investing in the parks (cleaning them would be a great first step) but with what money? It's going to be interesting to see what they have to do to scrape up the cash for Hulu. If they would go back to making good, family friendly movies and stop injecting ideological crap into them we wouldn't even be having this discussion. It's so stupid. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Disaster is going to lose money big time - forget breaking even. They are screwed. Maybe the stock going down another 30% will finally get the investors pissed off enough we will see a good housecleaning of the board as well as the idiotic executives like Iger too. Or maybe the stock will have to go down 50% before they truly care? Time will tell.

@@themainstreetnews Disney - so profitable they just fired two top executives at Pixar. So profitable they are laying off a ton of people. So profitable they pulled back on the expansion in Florida. So profitable they pulled a ton of content from Disney+ so they didn't have to pay out residuals and could claim it as a tax write off. You can have all the rose colored glasses you want - numbers don't lie and Disney is in deep doo doo - and this Hulu buy out is going to be a real make or break point for Disney. Talk about painting yourself into a corner!

No, they really shouldn’t

@@Matterhorny 🤣🤣

You have many great points, you did forget one thing. The branch that’s truly making money for disney right now is Parks. They need to expand and create more demand for their parks in order to continue generating the record high profits!

@@themainstreetnews I agree but they have no money. It will take them a year of two to clear out their debt. My opinion is they are talking about expansions at magic kingdom and Disneyland to compete with universal but I think these plans are years away from starting.

@@cfoy3 They have a huge debt but they still have money, they're just very carefully spending it and investing, so a huge expansion like this won't happen very soon. So yeah, you're right, it'll be some years until we see any of these plans become a reality.

Disney already has Fox's stake in Hulu when they bought FOX years ago. You're confused with Comcast.

@@s_lopez8052 your right I ment Comcast. Thanks

Well yeah, English isn’t my first language

I'm sure that investment would have a nice return. With more hotel rooms and attractions, more people will come, spend money, stay longer... If done well, Investment = More return!

Agreed. Most people don't even know what we know though.

@@vanihansen2136 The majority of the population needs to be told what to believe.

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