Concept Art
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New Entrance Model
- The Little Mermaid's Approx. Price tag is $100 million. (Note: Though the price tag is big, it is not considered a E-ticket, but merely an attraction for now.)
- Carsland is price tag is $200+ million (Radiators Springs Racers - $300 million)
- Entrance is priced at around $ 75 million
- Name change is being discussed
Phase 1 of the project (The first 5 years) will use around $800 million of the 1.1-1.2 billion dollar figure. Phase 2 (Start around 2013) will use the remaining amount if turnstile clicks permit it, the remaining money might even get an extra boast if attendance reach 8+ million.
Current Schedule for announced things:
New Park Entrance Complex by 2011
-New Art Deco turnstiles pushed out to the current California letters
-Pacific Electric Red Cars(Removed due to safetly issues) to Hollywood and Radiator Springs
-Antique vehicles to Hollywood
-Carthay Circle Theater with new Walt Disney Story(Removed dur to the Number show shows and the amount of rides in park, Concept may be moved to Disneyland)
-Walt Disney Plaza
-1920's Los Angeles architecture throughout
Paradise Pier Remake 2008-2011 (Bulldozers will start moving in summer 2008)
-Toy Story Midway Mania in Mid-June (Soft openings in early June)
-DCA Preview Center (Moved inside of the park, will be placed at the Wine Country area) Replaced by bigger restrooms from across the path. The reason is because the Little Mermaid Ride will need the space to do a scene that is very "DisneySea" like.
-Disney's World of Color in late 2010 (winter) with new amphitheater
-Little Mermaid Attraction(Building is being finalized as an ornate Edwardian-era aquarium that could have been found at San Francisco's 1915 World's Fair) and play area(Triton water area)
-Goofy's Flying Academy
-Beer Garden
-Victorian architecture and themeing throughout
-Disney-Pixar character overlay to midway games
Cars Land expansion 2012
-12 acre expansion into the existing Timon Lot
-Radiator Springs Racers E Ticket
-Luigi's bumper tires C Ticket (a la' Flying Saucers)
-Mater's Spinner C Ticket
-Drive-In Movie Restaurant will be removed so Radiator Springs Racer due to extra costs added to Radiator Springs Racers
-Radiator Springs area development, stores, quick serve dining
-Realigned parade route
Phase 2 2013- (Updated 2-11-08)
- The Pacific Wharf area might be rethemed to the San Francisco area of the park. It's one of several proposals that are being pitched for the Wharf area in the Second Phase. Then the Golden State will get the retheming of the Extreme Sports look and have it replaced with the period "Yosemite" turn-of-the-century national park look that we've all been hearing about. The animatronic creatures native to California will dot the GRR attraction along with a much more elaborately themed Theodore Roosevelt style park area. The Redwood Creek Challenge Trail will be replaced with a new E-Ticket. The proposals are between a natural adventure type attraction and a vintage locomotive type attraction. Neither are themed to Disney cartoons for those of you that are ranting about the "cartooning" of the park.
- The Hollywood Backlot area will be themed more toward the 30's Hollywood that they abandoned in the early design phase of the park. There is a proposal to take all the area around the TOT attraction that is used for the road access to the Timon parking lot and transform it into the Golden Era of Hollywood with several ventures and areas that evoke the time when Walt Disney started to make motion pictures and buckle the system. Just as the new front entrance will give visitors a look at what Los Angeles was like when Walt came here in the late 20's, the Hollywood section will continue on that by focusing on the glory of Hollywood in the 30's.
- Car Land was designed to hold at least two more attractions. By the Second Phase we should see at least one more D-Ticket or a plussed C-Ticket at the least.
- The Paradise Pier area will get another E-Ticket during the Second Phase, most likely one of several that have been pitched for the helix next to the entrance of Screamin' or it will have an entrance there with an attraction behind the stage. Should enough money be available expect Goofy's Sky School to be taken down and a true E-Ticket put in its place. And the proposals so far include one attraction that is an original thrill ride and another that is based on a classic character.
Resort Expansion
- (Currently on hold due to problems during the planning stages, Towers may be rebuilt completely(4/8/08)Sometime before the end of spring the company should come out and finally reveal the "Extreme Makeover" plans for the Disneyland Hotel. Expect some artwork and a presentation along the lines of what we saw for the Grand Californian expansion a while back. Work should commence on one of the towers by the middle of summer should the current schedule be kept.
- Grand Californian Expansion should be completed by 2010
- There are plans for many proposed hotels. One would be in the Simba Lot, and greet guests entering the resort area. (i.e Paris, Tokyo)
- Retheming of the Paradise Pier Hotel
- Downtown Disney Expansion might take place around 2010 (Depending on AGW development)
Tomorrowland Update:
- Tony Baxters's version (Around 400-500 Million)
- Star Tours 2.0 will hopefully be up by the 55th.
- Take place over a 4 year period in 2-3 phases.
- When completed will have at least 1 E, and possibly 2 D's.
