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What Project Do You Wish Disney Had of Followed Through With?

Of all those rides and projects that never were, which one do you wish was?

From Tom Rigg
Posted October 16, 2011 at 7:19 PM
I was recently thinking about Walt Disney's America that was slated for Hay Market, VA and lamenting over how it never came to fruition. And then I started thinking about all of the projects that Disney has dreamed up and never fabricated. It got me thinking about which one I would most like them to have followed through on. So I wanted to see what everyone else thought would have been the one project they wished Disney had gone through with.

A neat site for this is :

http://www.theneverlandfiles.com/tnf/

As for me, I think it would be Thunder Mesa for the Magic Kingdom, with it Pirates like dark ride about the Wild West.

So which is yours?


Comments in chronological order. Most recent at the bottom. Scroll down to respond.

From Robert Niles
Posted October 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Mineral King. (Read about it here.)

From TH Creative
Posted October 17, 2011 at 1:11 AM
(1) Mineral King

(2) Disney's America

From Andrew Mooney
Posted October 17, 2011 at 6:52 AM
For me it's Mineral King/Lake Independence Ski resorts. It's still possible for Disney to consider the idea - but with the problems at Aulani any possible resort/DVC combo will probably be put on the back burner. It's ashame really, because Disney is one of those companies that tourists feel comfortable handing their money over to.

Discovery Bay, Beastly Kingdom and Mythia are other projects that I would love to have see happen; just not as much as the ski resort.

From Tom Rigg
Posted October 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM
Yea I had heard about Mineral King a few years ago when I read one of the imagineering books. It was talking about the fact that The Country Bear Jamboree was a fruit of the development of Mineral King. I too like skiing, but much like the beach I don't want to do it all day for a week. I think Disney could have gone a long way in making a ski resort that engaged the whole family for multiple days. The other thing I think Disney could have risen above was the traditional "other options at many 4 Season ski resorts. I live near a VA 4 season resort and unless you want to ride horses, golf, or play tennis you pretty much grow moss. Disney could have realy instilled an amazing amount of adventure into Mineral King.

From Andrew Carrieri
Posted October 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM
The proposed 1994 MGM Studios expansion which would have added a few Roger Rabbit attractions, a Dick Tracy attraction, and a Mickey Movie making attraction to the new Sunset Boulevard. This was when Disney was at its best and these attractions might have been very creative and fun.

From Andy Milito
Posted October 17, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Beastly Kingdom, anyone?

From Victoria Jurkowski
Posted October 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM
Yes Andy, Beastly Kingdom for me please. Animal Kingdom could use a little fantasy and whimsy, and not of the dino carnival variety.

From Anthony Murphy
Posted October 17, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Beastly Kingdom

From Dennis Daggs
Posted October 19, 2011 at 5:59 AM
Westcot--the proposed West Coast version of EPCOT. There was actually a preview center at the old shopping plaza near the two-level section of the Disneyland Hotel.

From Tony Perkins
Posted October 19, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Disney's America would not have been very good. Some of the plans for it were put into California Adventure and we know how that turned out. They had rides planned like Lewis and Clark river rapids, which would have been cheesy and trite. Colonial Williamsburg already exists and it is quite good.

My vote would be for Beastly Kingdom.

From Manny Rodriguez
Posted October 19, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Beastley kingdome ps that's how they would of put the sign

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