All I know is that with all the future construction, Earl of Sandwich is going to be moved another 3 times.

I hope I get to see some of this before I die! 😂😂😂 In all seriousness, I have worked in the Construction field for 18 years and this had to be the most interesting construction video, ever! What a way to bring all the concept arts to life, David!!! This was awesome!

I would be very disappointed if Disney blows the Toy Story Lot land on a shopping center instead of a third gate, when GardenWalk is right there prime for retail redevelopment!

I'll be a ghost by the time this all happens. I plan to hang out and visit from another dimension. 😂

And once Disneyland Forward is finished, then they'll start on a new Tomorrowland.

FRESHBAKED at this point should have millions of followers along w/ a say in official Disney decisions in my book. Def represents real frustrations & hopes for Disney of the people better then any Board/CEO does.

Hey Brickey has great ideas on how they are going to do it and with zoning info. This is all very interesting to hear the ideas you all have!!! Very excited!!! But 40 year to complete it all :( I will be 88 LOL.

These videos give me real hope for the Disneyland Forward project as a whole so we thank you for all that you do David. I will also note how great it will be to finally get some of those good old fashioned bird’s eye views of the construction progress from Pixar Pals/Mickey & Friends parking structure as we did back when SWGE was being developed/constructed. That view at the end was a wonderful reminder of that exciting time for us fans.

Great video, but I believe that the first thing that they will do is build the Parking Structure on the east side, behind the hotels on Harbor Boulevard. They can't build anything on the parking lots until the have a replacement for all those cars to park.

Verrrrrrrrry interesting. All I can say is that I’m excited!! Thanks for the updates Fresh Baked!

I really appreciate this, I was having a hard time mapping the concept art to what's there right now. You did all the work! Thanks!

Looking forward to watching all of Fresh Baked's coverage! This was a great video!

They should put the power lines underground.

FRESHBAKED is DISNEYLAND!! ONce again, watching Freshbaked video's and another one hits. LOVE LOVE, LOVE Freshbaked!!!

Great future construction walk-thru David. I'm sure something will happen, but not in my lifetime. I love that Disneyland is always changing! Thank you for sharing, FreshBaked!❤

Wow, thank you for this amazingly informative video. The use of maps, visual, markers, acreage, overlays, size comparisons, and overall quality is unmatched. Thank you for all of the hard work you put into this video. We are looking forward to Disneyland's expansion. ❤

Great video Fresh Baked. Very informative getting a on the scene perspective.

So much to ponder. Not just a big wide open space. Lots of planning and details. But... Disneyland OG is the best... tight and original and no far flung pieces to transport to.

This Disneyland forward Excites me so much I'm so looking forward to this

Dave, I hope you and your family are doing well. Just wanted you to know that the Disney content you put together always brightens my day! Keep up the great family friendly content. Peace! 🙏

In the final Disneyland Forward proposal, Toy Story was quietly designated as "Theme Park East". I belive it was multi use before that.

Love your channel ❤ love this topic so much could watch this for hours

FANTASTIC video! I watched it three times!

Awesome analysis! Thanks for all the work you put into this video.

I stay at Kings Inn Anaheim right by the GardenWalk. I love being able to walk to the Gardenwalk and eat at Johnny Rockets or the Cheesecake factory, or purchase Starbucks for my wife. There's usually no one there, so the restraunts really cater to you and it's always quick.

Thank you for this gives more of a perspective of future spots

I always park at the Garden Walk parking structure but I’ve NEVER EVER been into the actual place 😂 Always just stop by to walk to Disneyland for lunch or something when I have a reservation.

Great video David if walt disney was around he would be walking around like you are doing creating ideas and plans but amazing video keep up the great work

I'll be dead by the time they are done 😂😂

Thank you for this video. It was super helpful! ❤

One of your best!

This is great David-love the insight.

Thank you for posting this. I've always been curious to see how much land they actually have to expand.

HERE WE GO! FRESHBAKED!

Thank god for other theme parks that dont have to go through what Disneyland is going through i feel bad for Disneyland this is why Disney tickets are up because there to busy to keep up with Disney World or try to be bigger then Disney World love you fresh baked

Great overview Dave!!

I've been watching you a long time, David. You've come a long way, baby. This was an impressively good video. 👍

I gotta say this video was super well made, pretty impressive actually

Thanks for this!

Aw... that hotel David mentions that got torn down to act as a gate for the Harbor parking lot was called the Carousel Inn. It was my favorite!

Always liked the yellow hoodie. Surprising you can still wear it n late spring.

22:00 the parking beyond the berm is parking/ water retention pond with all that blacktop the water can’t rush out all together so that parking area has the ability to flood and release water in a controlled manner… pretty cool!

Excellent video, David!

Nice walk today. I wonder where the RV parking will go? Thank you for your updates

The space in front of the hotel, by the convention center at 18:00, Iit looks like it could be a walk way space, similar to the space they have between the hotel and pool space. Maybe even a small pond of some sort? I'm excited for all this!

Replacing the convention center with a parking lot is losing a huge revenue source. So I think the “Disney Springs” Toy Story lot space is the replacement hotel and convention center. This is a great video. Such fun to speculate and validate! Thanks for the footwork!

This is such a massive bunch of projects and will surely change a thousand times before anything is completed, but it's exciting to think about.

Great video Dave! Hopefully it gets done in my lifetime. Lol

Oh my gosh!! Was waiting for a video like this to break it down on the possibilities of how it would probably look when Disney expands. Overall I Love the vid!! I’m just sad that Toy Story parking lot will be gone. I love parking there. Don’t like parking structures because it’s a pain when I want to leave. Toy Story is so easy. 😁 I will be watching this video again! Thank you!!!

It’s giving Brickey 😂

Thanks!

I will be at Disneyland this Saturday I hope I see you over there

From a design standpoint they are going to need to put super e-ticket “must ride” attractions in these areas to draw crowds this deep into the areas.

A good companion videos to this is Hey Brickey’s Disneyland Forward series. His are a bit clearer vision.

haha oh man I just booked a trip and am staying at the JW, didn't realize it was in garden walk xD gonna have to stay up to date with news before I go!

Great vid. Re-themed/covered Disneyland drive will connect the north and south areas bypassing Downtown Disney all-together. Toy Story definitely will be 'themed' resort hotels--last chance for Disney to do this in 'urban' Orange County. How 'bout a high capacity skyway to move guests between Toy Story & Disney 'proper'. Eastern Gateway will have a walking path and a high capacity people-mover between parking and bag-check.

🎉CAN WAIT FOR ALL THE NEW CONTENT

Ok Fresh Baked! Now my head is just spinning.

300 feet is the set back, for residential area zones on Disneyproperty. Use the new Disneyland Hotel tower as a guide to see an example of the set back. (not the step up part, but the tower). The GardenWalk is zoned for Vacation Club use

More Disneyland Forward content please!

LOL! I’m 67. I’ll be gone before it’s done. So sad!! I hope some is done in 10 years! 😳

It will be interesting to see what Disney says at D23 if anything at all. If they're in the mindset to get avatar fully built and open by the time the 2028 summer Olympics come to LA then they would have to start building it starting next year. But who knows. I enjoyed this entire video.

David, have you seen the videos of Tokyo Disney Springs? It's amazing!

@3:19 concept art shows two show buildings with a connector between the show buildings. there is walkway for guest access to DCA to the east over Disneyland Dr between the two buildings. @12:49 the Downtown Disney Monorail Station is not shown? @26:24 looks like a new mega parking structure on the eastern side of the Katella cast member lot.

In regard to the second entrance issue, what if they added a transport option? Kind of like the Hogwarts Express in Universal Orlando that connects DL and DCA for park hopping, then you maintain one entrance.

If we're talking about a 30-40 year plan, who's to say they can't move Downtown Disney to the Toy Story parking lot, and remake the current Downtown Disney space into theme park? I feel like we need to look at the long-term plan instead of what we see today. In 20ish years, the "new" Downtown Disney is going to start looking outdated and moving to a new hotel/shopping area might be attractive. And, since they already have the parking and transportation from the Toy Story lot, I could see that being developed down the road and in the meantime absorbing the other parking lots (except the DL Hotel lot) until the Eastern Gateway is completed. I love speculating on what might come next, and hope I live long enough to see it! Thanks for the very thoughtful and thorough video!

For me GardenWalk is a parking lot for when I want to go to the parks for a few hours. I have maybe been to the shops there once.

Something purely aesthetic I would love to see from Disneyland Forward would be the undergrounding of the high-voltage power lines that run right in front of California Adventure and around the perimeter of the Simba Lot. Undergrounding those lines would be extremely expensive but would substantially improve the look in this area (and the view from Paradise Pier), and would increase the amount of buildable land in the Simba Lot.

Dave, Fantasy Springs is a fascinating addition to these speculations. It is about 15 acres (not counting the new hotel), and it is a kind of "uber land" that encompasses three small lands in about the same space as Galaxy's Edge. The three IPs in FS are close enough in tone that they don't need huge thematic transitions between them. Looks like a design success to me. While Avatar would need to be its own separated thing, perhaps there are other IP's that could flow together with smaller footprints like at Fantasy Springs.

I often stay at The Holiday Inn on the backside of Mickey and Friends parking. So I walk up Magic Way to go into to the resort and I can attest there is hardly ever traffic on Magic Way. If there is it is Disney Hotel Guests or Yard Crew with a cop and a maintenance vehicle just parked in the middle of the street.

Put the parking structure above ground and the convention center under the parking lot. By the time this all starts we are going to have atleast one if not two more Avatar movies so it could fill a whole land with many parts of avatar.

I do hope that whatever plans they make still allow east side hotel patrons to enter via harbour, it’s such a convenient and more affordable area to stay!

Great video. Hope the Toy Story lot is a third gate because why would they build a fancy hotel attached to another Garden Walk. Westcot?

Dang simba lot is so massive. Incredicoaster looks so tiny from out there. Even pixar place hotel looks small. Despite the size of the towers, foreground trees and structures would do a lot to hide them. Already impressed by how much a wall of treesout there can completely hide this stuff. They coukd fit pandora, peter pan or a moana volcano or both, coco and encanto, and still have room left over. Will make dca feel absolutely massive. Would love pandora in the southeast corner of simba so it isnt too far away from the park. And disneylands expansion being 26 acres... wow. If galaxys edge is 14 qnd that land is pretty much understood to be too large for one ip, im imagining 5 acres for some lands, 10 for the largest of them, so 3 to 5 lands. As for that sort of blended dtd slash theme park space in the center, i imagine disney would just take a page from fantasy springs and have those floral rockwork facades and fountains. They blend well with dca/grizzly peak, and they blend well with the ip/fantasyland/disneyland stuff. Just a very expensive and beautiful way to do disney resort grounds, at a resort that has typically kept things modern outside of the theme park gates. Final and less important thought, i hope disney saves all the trees in the parking lots to reuse in the lands. They are huge!

Seems simple to just have bag check on the overpass and include stairs/escalators on harbor up to the gateway bridge.

My dream is to see Disneyland Drive submerged for the full length from Magic Way down to Katella then be capped like some cities do over freeways to create urban park space. There could still be ramps for traffic to go back above ground for current parking lots. However, to pull a page from Walts version of EPCOT, all parking would be underground for the hotels. The Grand Californian has underground parking under the DVC wing.

This video is a masterpiece. Great work. Thank you. Shopping malls are shuttering all over America. Why would anyone build a new one? You would need a bag check and escalator up to the bridge on harbor blvd. why isn’t that possible? As for getting to third gate, how about a skyway, like in DW.

Great video! Some thoughts: 1. Crossing Disneyland Drive - instead of thinking of it as a long walk over a bridge, think of building a very wide bridge deck and then maximizing the use of all that "free" acreage. Those crossings won't feel like crossings at all - they will feel like key sections of lands loaded with F+B, retail, landscaping, etc. 2. Toy Story - to be a bit critical, WDW has been hijacked by timeshare development. I have to wonder if the entire Toy Story area is being given over to DVC and other fast ROI development schemes? Alternatively, do you think SoCal has any need for a waterpark? That would require only a smaller plot. Maybe it could be some combo of timeshare developments anchored with a water park and F+B/retail?

I remember when the GardenWalk was a field of weeds.

They should add a People Mover as part of the Avatar Experience.

FRESHBAKED is DISNEYLAND!! Can't wait to see your construction updates as part of Forward!!!!!!!!!! Those are going to be TIGHT!

They'll have four gates I think. They will do some buildings that will act as sound barriers to not lose the space. Downtown disney is moving to to Toy Story lot. It will also be a hotel location for Disney near the shopping with some interactive hotel experiences.

Nicely done. There is already a bus that takes you from Toy Story to the gates so they could expand that to take folks back and forth to a 3rd gate?

Second Entrance? How about an Early Entrance for Hotel guests (west of Disney Drive) and the Rope drop entrance at Main Street

I do think that the Disney Springs-esque idea for the Toy Story parking lot doesn't necessitate squandering it forever as a 3rd gate opportunity. The truth is we don't really need a 3rd gate right now, DCA isn't 100% maxed out yet, the transportation hub moving would open an additional opportunity for it, and we're looking at another 4-6 lands between the two parks in that side of this project alone. That's not that far off than the total amount of expansion we've had since DCA opened (which debuted with only 4 lands itself, although that was a mistake). They have enough space for enough new ideas to continue to drive park traffic without even needing to tap it yet. Although, they could generate a lot of retail income and the resort is desperately in need of more Disney hotels, so that's a pretty good temporary use. They can easily spend the next few decades using the Toy Story lot as a retail/hotel district and then modify that for theme park use once they've actually run out of space, particularly for a 40 year vision. By the time we're even halfway through that timeline, it wouldn't exactly be absurd of them to close the existing spaces given they'd have lived a significant life already. We watched them close a solid portion of Downtown Disney for a hotel project less than 20 years after the area opened. At that point, they could even revisit the Garden Walk as a purchase option, or look into purchasing more land in the surrounding area to remove buffer concerns (notably the adjacent hotels that do occupy significant space on some sides of it), or they could just go ahead and create a smaller park akin to what we're seeing Universal do in Texas. Nothing they're proposing in the concept art (except maybe the lake) would be particularly difficult to tear down and revisit down the line, and as David pointed out, they don't even seem to be using all of the space even with the buffer concerns.

Would love to get the new tangled, beauty and the beast ride, or something big hero 6

hear me out : Underground tram tunnel from the hotels right into the middle of the park ?

didnt the plans that was presented to the city, refer to 3 bridges going over Harbor?

Either way one of the parking lots will be a version of Fantasy Springs as its 34.5 acres and they've said “look forward to” but it could change

there are 3 marriotts on property in florida. perfect fit.

How you get to toy story lot for park hopping? Hire elon to bore a tunnel and put a underground themed subway like attraction. Walt loved transportation . Or a underground omni mover

I would hope that they will build transport from DCA to the new area, like People Mover or SkyWay

I think a Polynesian themed land would be awesome and could transition quite well into avatar potentially. It would be so cool to get LILO and Stich attractions as well as Moana.

Do you think they will drop down the road like they did at Downtown Disney david? Because elevation to get people up and over Disneyland Drive would be quite a bit of elevation and definitely not handicap friendly

All of those high tension power cables running through the lot will be what run underground? How much would the cost to move those power grids holey smokes

David, do we know if some of the more spectacular rides at Tokyo Disney like beauty and the beast have do not compete clauses for a certain number of years? I thought I remember that tron, for example, had a do not compete clause for a number of years before they could begin building it in WDW. Thanks for your attention to the details of this possible future expansion.

Hey Fresh Baked!!

I had no idea that Gardenwalk was even a thing...

So I definitely thought about your last point and I posted a video 9 months ago with my thoughts. To me the ESPN zone building is in the perfect spot to be morphed into a new entrance to the expansion space. I’m actually hoping for some sort of indoor entrance which would be unique. I believe one of the Disney parks in Asia has something like that?

For a third gate, which may be needed for marketing to long-distance visitors that they need to come for longer visits, a solution to the noise setback (and any sightline) issues at Toy Story lot would be to build an indoor, multi-level theme park. They can achieve greater density of entertainment (more square footage of fun per acre of land available). I overlaid Mall of America onto the Toy Story lot and it fits. Mall of America has over 40 million visitors per year. Since those visits are probably 3-4 hours average and a theme park visit is probably average of 10-12 hours, that means you could maybe accommodate up to 8-10 million visitors (DCA gets about 9 million visitors annually) depending on how it's designed. One benefit of an indoor theme park is it allows for less permanent scenic theming (foam and polyurethane rock work rather than concrete for mountains, for example) which can be changed less expensively over time as popularity of IPs change. (Look at the challenge in changing the rock work of Splash Mountain, imagine if that was interior-grade scenic materials?). Another benefit is differentiation from Disneyland and California Adventure. With the way Disney's parks struggle to adhere to an intended theme (movie parks, animal parks, Epcot, castle parks...all have similar IPs and attractions), a regular third gate would likely be too similar to DL and DCA. An indoor park would be an entirely unique offering, including a climate- and light-controlled space. A mostly indoor theme park could be built like a donut with an open area hub (like inside a volcano) in the middle like Fantasy Springs with rock work, landscaping, a lake and waterfalls, so when you traverse the park you can cut through the hub across multi-level bridges and have some outdoor exposure if you want. This hub could be location for nighttime show with views all around. A Skyliner system could take you from this park to other parks, and like Hogwarts Express it could be done creatively. For example, you could board an Avengers flying vehicle and fly to Avengers Campus, with the interior of the gondola having screens simulating flying through space. A second parallel line could go to Tomorrowland at DL.