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Disney Parks of the Future!
Hey everyone, I’m Mike, she’s Sophie, that’s Brenda, and he’s Grogu, and We’re On the Road with Mickey! This is episode 285, and our feature topic this week is Disney Parks of the Future! Today we’re taking a look at what we might experience when we go to the Disney Parks in both the near future and the far future! Here’s what we talked about:
- Cheddar from the Big Cheese:
- Brenda: Beginning on October 12th, the breakfast at Hollywood & Vine will no longer be Disney Junior Play n’ Dine, but will become the same character experience that you get at lunch and dinner at the restaurant, Minnie’s Seasonal Dining (in this case, it will become Minnie’s Halloween Dine). For breakfast, you will no longer be able to meet Disney Junior characters. Instead, the characters will include Minnie and her friends.
- Sophie: starting October 8, you’ll be able to treat yourself to 13 different types of new sauced chicken strips.
- Mike: Over at Disneyland, Disney announced that Tangled will be joining Storybook Land Canal Boats This Winter
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- Question of the Week Feedback:
- What is your favorite parade?
- Sophie: Boo to you Parade
- Brenda: Very Merry Christmas Parade
- Mike: Main Street Electrical Parade
- Pam said: “TIE: Electric Light Parade from the 1990s in MK. and MNSSHP Boo to You, every year!!”
- Chandler said: “Main Street Electrical Parade – keeping it classic”
- Kim said: “The original Disneyland electrical light parade”
- Cindy said: “Mickey’s Jammin’ Jungle parade from Animal Kingdom 2001-2014 and 2024 Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party parade.”
- What is your favorite parade?
- Feature Topic: Disney Parks of the Future!
- Magic Kingdom:
- Near Future:
- Cars Land – estimated late 2029 or 2030 opening date
- Villains Land – estimate 2030 opening date
- Far Future:
- Will Fantasyland become more like a Disney Princesses themed land?
- Will Fantasyland be expanded more at the expense of Storybook Circus?
- Will there be more Castles related to Disney Princesses?
- Will we see Tomorrowland Speedway with Electric Vehicles instead of gas powered?
- Will we get an update to the PeopleMover, perhaps true hover vehicles?
- Will we see some sort of PeopleMover to go around the whole park?
- Near Future:
- Epcot:
- Far Future:
- Add Mary Poppins to UK Area. Brenda says to do it now!
- Umbrella Ride? Carousel Ride with no Carousel?
- Mary Poppins Dark Ride?
- Update to Spaceship Earth to include more recent history?
- Country Scavenger Hunt to learn more about each country?
- Will we see Pavilion Countries change to new countries?
- Far Future:
- Hollywood Studios:
- Near Future
- Monster’s Inc Land earliest opening date 2027? Possibly?
- Animator Courtyard
- Far Future
- Will they connect Star Tours to Galaxy’s Edge?
- Near Future
- Animal Kingdom:
- Near Future:
- Tropical Americas Opening date 2027?
- Encanto and Indiana Jones
- Replacing DinoLand U.S.A.
- Zootopia: Better Zoogether replacing Its Tough to be a Bug
- Tropical Americas Opening date 2027?
- Far Future:
- Will we see nighttime hours at Animal Kingdom?
- Will there be an expansion of Avatar, world of Pandora?
- Near Future:
- Magic Kingdom:
- Sophie’s Question of the Week:
- What do you want to see at Walt Disney World in the future?
- This Day in Disney History for 10/13:
- Stump the Soph!
- Mr. Spell from Toy Story
- A little bit of Walt
- “Disneyland is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to. It’s alive. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor you’re through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. A live picture I just finished, the one I wrapped up a few weeks ago, it’s gone, I can’t touch it. There are things in it I don’t like; I can’t do anything about it. I wanted something alive, something that could grow, something I could keep plussing with ideas; the park is that. Not only can I add things, but even the trees will keep growing. The things will get more beautiful each year. And as I find out what the public likes, and when a picture’s finished and I put it out, I find out what the public doesn’t like, I can’t change it, it’s finished, but I can change the park, because it’s alive. That is why I wanted that park.” – Walt Disney
- “Disneyland is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to. It’s alive. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor you’re through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. A live picture I just finished, the one I wrapped up a few weeks ago, it’s gone, I can’t touch it. There are things in it I don’t like; I can’t do anything about it. I wanted something alive, something that could grow, something I could keep plussing with ideas; the park is that. Not only can I add things, but even the trees will keep growing. The things will get more beautiful each year. And as I find out what the public likes, and when a picture’s finished and I put it out, I find out what the public doesn’t like, I can’t change it, it’s finished, but I can change the park, because it’s alive. That is why I wanted that park.” – Walt Disney
- Coming next week: Brenda’s Disneyland Trip Recap!
As always, thank you for listening. We are having a lot of fun talking Disney, and I’m glad you are enjoying it as well! Remember, you can reach us in many ways — by email to info@ontheroadwithmickey.com. You can also talk to us on our Facebook Page, On the Road with Mickey or in our On the Road with Mickey Group. Feel free to join us! Have a great week, and we’ll be back to talk with you again next week!
