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Love the plans- except they need to keep Mickey & Minnie's houses!! I can't believe they are ditching them! I would say get rid of the race track instead.
Love the plans- except they need to keep Mickey & Minnie's houses!! I can't believe they are ditching them! I would say get rid of the race track instead.
Mickey and Minnie's home will be moved to the front of the park. No clue what that means though.
Wowee! Maybe they'll plan a better Toontown like the one in DLR. Who knows? I think it will be sad to lose the houses, too, but I think the expansion sounds awesome!!!
The press release says it's opening in 2013, so 2012 probably means when construction starts. That gives us two years to say goodbye to Mickey and Minnie's houses.
From what I have seen you think that it will only take a year to build all those new areas? I would think that it would take much longer than that. From the blueprints I can see them blocking off the northern section of Fantasyland, keeping Pooh, Snow White, PhilharMagic and Pinocchio Village Haus open, only closing down Ariel's Grotto and Pooh's Playful Spot.
I'm really excited to see this new area expansion.
Disney says Mickey and Minnie will get new homes near the front entrance of the park. The children's roller coaster, the Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm, will remain, though it will be re-themed, likely with a circus overlay linking it to Dumbo.
Hey guys, like I posted with the link above -- we're not losing their homes exactly....they're moving according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Hey guys, like I posted with the link above -- we're not losing their homes exactly....they're moving according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Simply because Main St is considered the front of the park, and because Main St is already pretty urbanized, I consider the reference to a "new home" for Mickey and Minnie to refer to a new character meet and greet somewhere in the Main St. area - perhaps something new in the back of Main St. Exposition Hall?
Yeah, it's possible they could build new houses somewhere near the Hub (in the Rose Gardens, etc.), but I have my doubts (could you imagine how crowded they could become by being so obvious, in such a super high-traffic area?).
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Simply because Main St is considered the front of the park, and because Main St is already pretty urbanized, I consider the reference to a "new home" for Mickey and Minnie to refer to a new character meet and greet somewhere in the Main St. area - perhaps something new in the back of Main St. Exposition Hall?
That's kind of what I was thinking, Dave.
No one really knows anything is back there anyways and it just kind of sits empty all the time, why not put something in there to take up the space? Only bad thing is the crowding that is likely to happen in there . . . the PhotoPass "studio", camera store and the entrance to Tony's . . . it could bottleneck a little in there.
Another thought is . . . maybe there would be an entrance to their "houses" off of one of the little side streets to the right of Main Street (as you are walking towards the Castle). I am not sure there is really much back there except for the back of the Galaxy Palace Theater.
It is difficult to see what they really mean when they say the duo with get new homes near the front of the park. I can't imagine they would only have small "Meet and Greet" area. But on the other hand, I can't picture in my mind where they would build new houses. Would they close one of the shops and have Mickey and Minnie live there? Who really knows with Disney sometimes.
I think Diz is right on this one, though - Mickey and Minnie will get married and live in the Suite!
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