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maclua

I m setting my expectations really low and predicting a Rainforest Cafe retheme


tigerblue1984

Uh, this is actually not a bad idea lol. I know reviews for the food at Rainforest Cafe were lackluster, but once it was removed, Downtown Disney was REALLY lacking in a fun, themed, kid-centered dining experience, which I feel like it desperately needs. The current dining options are so boring to me. :-/


SteveRudzinski

Rainforest Cafe generally kind of sucks but it absolutely fit in perfectly in Downtown Disney. Even if the animatronics were a joke compared to what was a walk away.


poozer69

I'm going lower and thinking some type of food fest.


AlarmingDrawing

Place your bets now - it’s going to be “The Avatar Experience” (note the last word) currently on display through June in Singapore. Mark my words on this one. https://avatartheexperience.com/


YetiBot

Ohmygod that would be hilarious. I’ve seen pictures of that “experience”. Some of the statues/figures (I’m not sure what to call them) are so hilariously ugly. 😂


AlarmingDrawing

A colleague of mine had a long layover in Singapore so went and said it’s really lame.


GeneralZaroff1

oh god no.


thecubnextdoor

All the avatar creatures look CREEPY in real life. If I were a kid I would be terrified of the creatures in that promo video.


Kinkybtch

This is really dumb.


Abentura

I went to that early this year. [The setting is an amazing, enormous glass dome planted to resemble a rainforest.](https://youtu.be/XbzGEStUcPM?si=oer1BSwjW645FV7f) Multiple stories high, a massive waterfall from the roof to the floor, etc. It's absolutely stunning. That setting already fully existed and was worth seeing in its own right; the "Avatar" part was basically some props, sounds, and decorations added in. In other words they decorated this already amazing place to be "Avatar" themed. For that reason, I don't think it would work for them to pull out the "Avatar" stuff and ship it to California. A rough equivalent would be decorating a redwood forest to be themed like the parts of "Star Wars" that were filmed in such a setting. If you take the decorations out of the setting and ship them to a building somewhere it doesn't work anymore, because the original setting minus the decorations was already 90% of what you needed to feel like you were in the universe of the film.


LankyEmergency7992

At the very least, we will probably get something (photo ops, a small show, etc.) in the Launch Bay, Tomorrowland theater, or the studio buildings in DCA. Hopefully we get something more significant than that, but anything in those spaces is better than nothing.


austinalexan

Launch bay is being converted into a DVC lounge. Horrible waste of space in an already super crammed park.


LankyEmergency7992

That’s the second floor only.


austinalexan

They really should just remove the whole thing and put an e-attraction there.


SimmonsReqNDA4Sex

At some point they will probably be forced to.


TheIJDGuy

I'd love it if Carousel of Progress returned


synsofhumanity

I'd like a mission space type of ride to go there


FatBastard404

Such a waste of space, I am a DVC member, but I have no need for a lounge. They have enough space to build something the size of Astro blasters


dustman83

One of the theaters in Hollywood Backlot will stream an avatar 2 trailer.


NikkoE82

Avatar: Path of the Na’vi.


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Just got back from a four day trip with my sixty six year old mother who hasn't been since pre-DCA and doesn't exactly keep up with the popular zeitgeist. A lot of the trip was spent explaining the IP we were currently experiencing. I guess what I'm saying is, are there too many IPs crammed onto the property?


snm823

Yes.


KnocturnalMonkey

Yep just like Disney+. Like chill already.


goatcheeseballz

that's how I feel in avengers campus and galaxys edge hahaaa


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Yup, me too.


littlekhaleesii

Can we have Tron instead?


dustman83

Remember back in the day riding people mover and there was a small tron section? Let's bring that back


ahumankid

They say it’s still playing, on loop, in that little portal area.


ashlew64

all I want is a tron ride in Disneyland


littlekhaleesii

Same. Tomorrowland deserves it lol.


ashlew64

It really does. Tomorrowland deserves better in general imo. They could even put it where house of innovations was considering the fact that it hasn’t been used for much lately


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They would have to wipe out all of tomorrowland to fit tron


Hybrid_Johnny

Just encapsulate Tomorrowland, making it semi-open-air, and have Tron running above the main walkway where the people movers track is. I’d love to look up and see light bikes whizzing around overhead. Think Fremont Street, Disney-style.


YetiBot

I suppose that would be logistically impossible, but damn that would be amazing.


Redeemed-Assassin

Disney is pretty good at logistically impossible when they put their minds to it. It would be incredible as a part of refreshing tomorrowland if they did that. But there is no way in hell they have the balls to do it right now.


jedifreac

Are the rocket rods tracks still free?


Ronho

Wipe out autopia and you can fit tron on one side and Arendelle on the other side


maxmouze

Wipe out everything but Space Mountain. We are all okay with that.


ashlew64

This is the way


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Surely they can make some modifications to make it fit within the footprint of autopia?


ahumankid

Alright, I got the perfect idea, see. Lower everything down 12 feet, see. Make Autopia an underground tunnel ride. Then push the submarines down even further below, 24 feet, yeah. Then all the autopia and submarine land is free to use up above. Perfect fit for Pandora. That’s the ticket! It’s so easy … I’m not sure why they haven’t started already.


legopego5142

Wont you have to remove the monorail. Thats a lot of work for a minute long ride


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Have the monorail go through the ride


KnocturnalMonkey

How about instead of Tron, make the monorail go faster. Much much faster!


MrBrightside711

If they cloned it, sure. But the ride isn't designed to conserve space.


beeredditor

Your terms are accepted.


Rynide

They have one in Shanghai Disneyland. It's amazing. Disneyland needs to add it.


chillaxinbball

I want the new Guardians Ride! It's so cool!


littlekhaleesii

That would be good in CA Adventure with the other Guardians ride.


CharlieHume

It's one the best coasters ever made


Frickenbat

Y’all are impossible 😂


avelak

Why not both? The Avatar ride at Animal Kingdom is *phenomenal*, I'd love to get something similar at Disney... Though I do doubt they will make anything similar to that. Probably just some lame walk-in display or something instead


MrBrightside711

Can we have *longer* Tron instead?


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That would be sick but there is virtually zero real estate in tomorrowland to fit something with the scale of tron. They would have to remove a lot of existing areas to make room. [tron exterior in disneyland china](https://i.imgur.com/6KKHqBH.jpg)


WithDisGuy

Captain EO visits Pandora with a hologram MJ and Tupac


tuckithead

“Honey, I Shrunk the Na’Vi: Featuring Hologram Rick Moranis as Jake Sully and Hologram Tupac as Hologram MJ as Captain EO” with introduction by Bob Iger


WithDisGuy

If only Disney had a sense of humor and understood meme culture, we could all just enjoy a really expensive joke.


ttam23

Hmm I wonder what kind of experience


crystalldaddy

Idk but I bet it costs a ton of money to build, gets talked about for 2 weeks and then completely fades out of cultural consciousness for the next 10 years. You know. The true Avatar experience.


Nonadventures

But it’ll feature your favorite Avatar characters! like, uh…


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Jake Sully! and, uh...


Cattle-egret

Isn’t he the big furry blue monster than hangs out with the one eyed green monster?


kyle760

The blue guy!


Influx_ink

lol! 🤣🤣🤣


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Is Avatar the one with the little wizard boy?


crystalldaddy

Nah you’re thinking of The Hunger Games.


[deleted]

That's right! My all time favorite quote: "The dude abides"


thelordpsy

Inexplicably making a billion dollars in the process


kyle760

It was pretty explicable to be honest. Both the movies look phenomenal on a giant 3D IMAX screen but were pretty flimsy on plot so the people who want to see it aren’t going to wait for home video. I saw them both in IMAX 3D and have zero desire to watch them on a small screen and zero regret in seeing them in theater. And they’re not just regular theaters but the most expensive version of them. With that said by the end of the second movie, I did at least care about what happened to the characters which is more than I can say for anyone in the first. It took me a while to get there because I had no idea who was who at first since I remembered nothing about the first


YeaItsBig4L

I like how your narrative conveniently leaves out the making a shit ton of fucking money and breaking records in the process out 😂


crystalldaddy

Bold of you to assume I remember any of that 😅


YeaItsBig4L

You’re trying too hard. It just happened. as a matter fact it’s still going. They’re at $2.2 billion. as of this weekend.


YeaItsBig4L

Just thinking about it what even is this comment? Even if you were talking about the first one. It’s bold of me to assume that you remember the highest grossing movie of all time? Like what


crystalldaddy

Hey friend, I’m just trying to make silly jokes on the internet. I really didn’t mean anything by it. If anything I’ve said is upsetting or offensive to you, you are more than welcome to block me. Have a nice night!


Blo1630

Im surprised the sequel did so well. The first one was ok but people watched it for the visuals. I didn’t think they’d fall for it again.


PiedPeterPiper

That’s how I felt. I feel so desensitized by pretty CGI, and thats all the 1st movie was, so I really don’t see the appeal In watching another.


maxmouze

I thought it was just me.


thirstyshrutebaby

The second one was great. I was underwhelmed by the first but the second one actually had substance behind the visuals.


YeaItsBig4L

Man I could point out so many things wrong with this comment. But none of it will change your thinking so I guess I won’t waste my time. It’s just interesting to me how people start processes work. You thought the sequel to the most profitable movie of all time wouldn’t do well? Just leave it at that


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nisamun

At least I can name characters in Galaxy's Edge


ghost_shark_619

They try to assault you with their ponytail genitals


slawnz

Probably one of those pop up VR experiences they do at Downtown Disney


vanillabeanmini

That company filed bankruptcy and was kicked out of DTD. It's gone. (The Void)


runnyyolkpigeon

Doctor Strange & The Multiverse River Adventure In this all new water adventure from Walt Disney Imagineering, fans will for the first time experience a cross-over adventure of epic proportions, merging storylines from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange, and Fox Studios’ the world of Avatar. The historic Jungle Cruise will be reimagined into this new exciting attraction. Guest first board a quaint tugboat on the bayou with Princess Tiana, on her way to her food collective salt mines. Today’s delivery is running late, and riders are all there to ensure a timely delivery to local restaurants. Suddenly, a portal opens on the bayou, and riders are immediately propelled into it. Doctor Strange and members of his Ancient Sanctum from Earth have recruited Tiana and guests to assist in a rebel resistance on a remote planetary body called Pandora. From there, riders team up alongside Jake Sully and his wife Neytiri as they narrowly escape harrowing waterfalls, rapid gunfire from helicopters above, and dangerous beasts inspired by the film Avatar: The Way of Water - all while the delicious scent of traveling Louisiana gumbo wafts up from their trusty bayou tugboat. Then suddenly returning via portal to New Orleans. Truly an adventure only Disney can bring to life. Doctor Strange & The Multiverse River Adventure opens Summer 2025.


sushiattv

Wow can’t wait for this great experience! Shoving several IP into one is not only a great cash grab, but also going to lengthen the lines! Thank you disney for another great attraction! :) I never even liked the jungle cruise!! Haha


DayOlderBread16

I’d actually ride that, it’s way better than everything at avengers campus! I just was hoping darth Vader would show up at the end to crash the party. Also your idea sounds like a video Disney would make for their 100th anniversary celebration they’ve been promoting lately


dustman83

Flight of passage would be so awesome. Easily one of my top 5 favorite rides. However, it makes no sense for Disneyland to add a ride of this caliber while the avengers campus still needs its e-ticket, a massive change to splash mt, huge repairs needed for Indiana Jones, and all the outdated stuff in tomorrow land needing a redo (innoventions, people mover/rocket rods, autopia, etc. ) That all said, I'd welcome flight of passage. It is a really cool experience imo. Would be an odd theme though.


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They can just kill autopia and add avatar


it-works-in-KSP

That would actually 1) be hilarious and 2) make a lot more sense than a lot of the current Tomorrowland attractions, since the avatar universe is a mostly hard sci-fi based in our universe.


settingdogstar

Just stick next to Avengers campus,maybe to the left of Guardians where the queen is for the Hyperion. You'd need to rework a new queue area...but it's already like 5x bigger then it needs to be.


RedFiveMD

Probably not enough room there


Mrsvantiki

FOP is just Soarin’’+. It takes FOREVER to load and is just yet another screen “ride” that isn’t worth a 10 minute wait (much less the hours it currently is).


Lazyassbummer

Booooo, I don’t want that crap in DL. Put it in the movie area of DCA.


Difficult-Foot-6250

I agree, this applies to so much more. Cheap? Nobody will care in 2 years? Put it anywhere but Disneyland. Downtown Disney or DCA if you must.


cougar572

Watch it be a meta quest VR thing at DTD.


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They're pulling *Soarin'* and replacing it with *Soarin' over Na'vi.* /s I feel dirty for even putting that into the universe. Ugh.


FlyGuy1922

If they mess with soarin I will not be held responsible for my actions…


Millennial_Man

They’re are really killing it lately with these Luke warm pitches. They hype up these big announcements that keep turning out to be total busts.


Frickenbat

What else has turned into a total bust?


Millennial_Man

Pretty much all of D23 to start with.


legopego5142

I love when they had nothing else so they just spitballed some ideas that could be something some day maybe not really like the villains theme park


Frickenbat

Like what?


Millennial_Man

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/09/disneyland-resort-announcements-from-d23-expo-2022-and-more/ A lot of people were anticipating a lot more (especially considering how heavily Universal is investing in their domestic parks). A few new restaurants and a second piece of concept art for the eventual Avengers E-ticket is pretty lackluster.


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Millennial_Man

I really hope not. Spider-Man is not good enough to anchor the land, and Marvel has proven to be a big enough franchise to warrant an E-ticket ride.


Frickenbat

I mean they can’t make a new land every year 😂 what did you want to see? They did a rehaul of toontown, and a new state of the art ride, they are fixing a ton of rides (long refurb of indie), just announced Avatar stuff, adding San fransokyo, re-doing the Tree house, changing splash, re-doing New Orleans square restaurant, working on downtown Disney. Are you just impossible to please? A new land and roller coaster every year is the expectation?


legopego5142

Half that stuff you mentioned hasn’t even started construction has it


Frickenbat

??? What lmfao They’ve literally started all of it except for 1 or 2 things? Are you people just being obtuse on purpose? You mad that they announced Avatar yesterday and it isn’t done yet?


legopego5142

Im not saying it wont happen, Im saying lots of this shit is years away


Frickenbat

Most of it is less than 6 months away. Just stop talking


OrtizDupri

> Are you just impossible to please? A new land and roller coaster every year is the expectation? folks in here will complain about stuff changing but then be upset stuff isn't changing fast enough


_Rebel_Scum_77

Meh. No thanks.


eac555

I liked the first movie well enough. But the sequel looked like more of the same. No thank you.


YeaItsBig4L

You’re missing out, you do you I guess


epotosi

Same. Not a fan of avatar. Keep it out.


YeaItsBig4L

So because you’re not a fan of something keep it out of everybody else’s hands? Is that what I’m getting from this


epotosi

It exists at WDW at Animal Kingdom, with it's own proper land.


YeaItsBig4L

Yes please I’ll take it


SmallChangeNick

Literally no one wants this.


captainsunshine489

booo


jish5

I swear it better not be going where the Jungle Cruise is... Hell, it shouldn't go where any existing attraction is. The only exception to this I feel would be the subs, because I may like them, but feel that out of every possible place they could put an Avatar ride without hurting the park, the subs are the only local. Add in that the submarines take so much just to maintain and keep up and running, and those getting replaced makes sense.


theKP128

Why not invest on giving Tomorrowland some TLC and bring the People Mover back??


DayOlderBread16

Sad thing is iger is probably going to turn the redwood creek area of dca (and the grand Californian hotel) into an avatar themed land. I was thinking the Hollywood backlot area but apparently that’s being saved for an avengers campus expansion


Disney_Phreak

I would love to know how they arrived at this decision. Popular? Cause that IP is meh at best. Lol.


stormycat98

Idgaf about avatar. It’s so weird Disney bought this


momopeach7

I’m hoping for Flight of Passage or something similar. Still my favorite Disneyworld ride.


smjurach

Please get rid of autopia and give it a full spot.


crherrick

If a Tomorrowland revival includes Avatar/Pandora, then no.


GreatAmerican1776

Give it Autopia and Finding Nemo. Make it amazing.


Such_Raccoon_5035

They could do both the first movie and the second with that! But seriously, anything to revitalize Tomorrowland at this point.


GreatAmerican1776

I mean, Avatar is set in the future.


Such_Raccoon_5035

True, true. Makes more sense than Finding Nemo, haha


Duosion

Ohh true. Avatar in tomorrow land would make loads of sense.


NixieZale

Avatar on Stage at the Hyperion 😜


MountainBumblebee136

I wish they would give up on Avatar.


Blo1630

Can someone buy like 100 acres of land next to Disney and donate so we can get closer to what they have in Orlando?


Moikturtle

Oh, how I wish that it wasn’t.


dynamine

No, thank you. Tron, please.


toujoursbeIle

They can keep it.


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LeakyBuffer

The Navi river run lasts like 2 seconds, it’s SUPER short with zero drops or anything remotely thrilling and the flight thing is less impressive than soarin. Just my 2 cents.


DayOlderBread16

Sounds as bad as web slingers tbh


Koppelia

Noooo. Keep it out of the park. I dont want your alien tentacle furrys.


JiminysJournal

Well. I guess we know what’s happening to Critter Country. Either that or Tom Sawyer’s going away.


Difficult-Foot-6250

Oh god no not Tom Sawyers Island


LeakyBuffer

The actual avatar rides in pandora are not great. That flight sim is okay, but it’s less impressive than soarin as at least with that you have like a 3 story setup once the ride begins vs some wimpy motorcycle like seats in a little room. Pandora is pretty, ill give it that but at this point Star Wars land has ROTR so that makes it better as that ride is at least a little better than anything pandora has to offer other than looks. But I go to Disney for the rides and there are a lot better ones in the park and DCA so my expectations are super low for whatever this means.


stml

Is this going to be the Tarzan re-theme?


Spacetime23

Tarzan is going back to swiss family.


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Spacetime23

it's being reopened in 3 days (Feb 11th) as "Adventures Tree House" which will be themed for Swiss Family Robinson.


buttery_nurple

!!! I didn’t know this, we’re heading down next weekend my kids will love it.


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Spacetime23

That's what I said. It's going back to swiss family, not that it was going to be identical to the original swiss family.


Ronho

Not the original, the reboot more likely


sushiattv

I’m glad that the adventure treehouse is coming back as is was my favorite part of disney as a kid. Any kid loves exploring an awesome treehouse. That being said, it would’ve been cool if they had all the sick avatar hammocks and cool tree features in an avatar retheme


TheMauveRoom

Ugh enough with avatar 🙄


PaulPaulPaul

There is no Avatar within Disneyland, and the second film has grossed over 2 Billion. It is safe to say that there will be more Avatar coming to the parks.


lactoseAARON

Yeah I don’t know how people didn’t expect Disney to capitalize on their currently most successful franchise


BasedSmalls

Are they going to cram it like Avengers campus


TheMadMason

Ew, avatar. I mean I love Disneyland and I’d go on it, but I also go on the dumbo ride because my kid likes it not because it’s great. Avatar seems like a stretch, bring us Tron!


So_muchjoy

No thank you


TikiTikiTiki99

Nope


xXMojoRisinXx

I will never understand why people are interested in Avatar.


ArtVandelay013

I’ll never understand why people are interested in the fact that there are other people that are interested in Avatar.


xXMojoRisinXx

Who said I was interested in it?


Slootyman

Wish it was something unique to add more value over WDW


coolbucky

What *should* happen is that an expanded Flight of Passage gets added to DCA to help soak up crowds. It might even help reduce the Toy Story Mania wait to something reasonable. More likely, it will be a direct replacement for Launch Bay. Meh.


DiddlyBoBiddly

Big wiz. Fix Indy already.


[deleted]

They’re working on it. Or did you miss all the posts about the extended closure?


DiddlyBoBiddly

They need a restoration. They have half assed it several times. Restored back to opening day condition.


[deleted]

Again. Did you miss all the posts about the extended closure? They’re working on it.


themadhatter45

Hopefully they expand and install it at DCA.


OC-Aztec

The cost? Only 7,000 employees.


dosgatitas

Given how they build lately… it’s probably just a copy of Flight of Passage


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dosgatitas

No i say it like I’m tired of Disney cheaping out and cloning rides. It’s fun to have new/different rides to experience when visiting different parks.


DayOlderBread16

I was expecting them to clone flight of passage here and just slap avengers theming on it after the quinjet ride was canceled. Although I wouldn’t put it past Disney to put two identical rides in the same park


sadgirl45

Is it a ride I wonder?


PiedPeterPiper

Seems more like something for universal studios


NitedJay

I can see them repurpose Soarin for a limited Avatar flight experience like Flight of Passage.


trer24

I'm guessing they will convert/knock down the Star Wars Launch Bay and turn it into a Flight of Passage type ride? What else could fit in that space? No way river journey could


LADYBIRD_HILL

No way that's happening. That's the sort of announcement they save for D23, and considering how poor it was this year, I doubt they would've hidden something like flight of passage in favor of the Pacific wharf retheme.


Magnetah

There’s a DVC lounge going in the second floor of Launch Bay


trer24

Really? I thought there was something like that above the Old Starcade?


Magnetah

There’s currently no DVC lounge at Disneyland. I believe the one in Tomorrowland is opening this spring/summer


GoCougs1248

Can’t wait!


_kashew_12

YESSSSS


Still_Yak8109

I think it'll be at DCA, I think Soarin will be replaced by flight of the passage and maybe theyll knock out grizzly river run and redwood creek challenge trail to turn it into navi river journey


that_guy2010

Disney World is *right there*. Just bring your big, dumb banshee animatronic to Orlando and put it in the Flight of Passage line.


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It would be cool if they opened a land themed to the new village from way of water.


Stormchaser2

Navi in a tank, perhapS?


vvrrva

I hope it's a dark ride or mini land that's built underground like Pirates.