If you created your own Disney park, where would it go?

[Big Disney Fan]

If Disney management came to you and asked you to create a new Disney park, where would you put it?

[DisneyJedi]

Honestly, I had been thinking about that when I was thirteen years old. Back then, I often daydreamed about them building a Disney park in my home state of Ohio.

[Margos]

Yeah, I would say Lancaster County, PA!
Seriously, if there was a Disney park right by my home, I think I would go there, like, everyday. Even if I couldn't afford tickets into the park, I would think that they would have a "Downtown Disney"-esque area that you could get in for free.

[Wonderlicious]

Honestly, I had been thinking about that when I was thirteen years old.

Me too! Back when I was 13 (and really up until I was, I essentially wished that Disney would build a park somewhere in Britain, though the prospect of Disney building another resort in Europe is pretty slim since people from all over Europe can get to Disneyland Paris reasonably easily.

My first instinct for new region of the world to build a Disney resort would be Australia (or possibly New Zealand), but even then, I'm not sure how successful it could be (what with relative isolation and Australia and New Zealand not having as large a population collectively as Europe or even Japan). If anything, looking from the fairly weak Hong Kong Disneyland (or various other cost-cutting parks of the last decade), I wouldn't want Australasia to get such a poor excuse of a Disneyland. Aside from that, there would probably be South America (perhaps too close to North America), the Middle East (controversial), Africa (generally unlikely) or Russia (just as unlikely).

As for new parks for any resorts, whilst I'm sure the Imagineers probably have plans drawn out somewhere, I'm personally not quite sure. I have some basic ideas, though:

*Improved or updated concepts of previously created parks (for example, a re-working of Epcot for Disneyland Paris, not that I've personally given it much thought).

*A park based around the concept of music. Granted, this theme would probably be a bit hard to stretch (probably more so even than the theme of California), and there have been attractions based around music in other parks.

*A park based around the concept of ecology and healthy living, though this theme could be brought into a simple re-working of Epcot or Animal Kingdom for a new resort.

*A park similar to the Magic Kingdoms or even Islands of Adventure in that it's a melange of themed lands based upon worlds created in popular works or that have entered the public imagination. They could even recycle plans of lands never used for Disneyland (such as Discovery Bay).

[slave2moonlight]

I suppose most people would want one nearer to where they live. Though, I've thought about this recently and figure adding any parks in North America would just hurt the business of the existing parks. If one were to do it, probably the best spot would be at the north and center most point, to get those people farthest away from either of the existing parks. There actually was serious talk about building a Disney park in my area, south Texas, or so I heard, but I don't know if that's just something everyone hears in their hometown. But it would have been a good spot too, since we are equally far away from either park, so most people in the area just never go to Disney.

But, personally, I would rather be allowed to work on the existing parks. Though I know a lot of folks would disagree with my intention to bring back a lot of extinct attractions and even some extinct shows. I'd probably update them, but still, I think some of that stuff, like MUCH of what has been removed from EPCOT's Futureworld, was much better than what is there now, and I don't just say that from a nostalgia bone. I also would reorganize some stuff (like moving Monsters, Inc's Laugh Floor to a different park) and restore the lagoon in Magic Kingdom and should never have been removed, among lots of other things, but I suppose there is a thread for this sort of thing.

[Big Disney Fan]

One of my major decisions of where to put a Disney park is actually a bizarre, almost questionable one: releases of Disney animated movies in those countries.

For example, in France and Japan, the release dates of the first five animated features are the following:

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
--May 4, 1938 (France)
--September 26, 1950 (Japan)

PINOCCHIO (1940)
--May 22, 1946 (France)
--May 17, 1952 (Japan)

FANTASIA (1940)
--November 1, 1946 (France)
--September 23, 1955 (Japan)

DUMBO (1941)
--October 25, 1947 (France)
--March 12, 1954 (Japan)

BAMBI (1942)
--July 15, 1947 (France)
--May 26, 1951 (Japan)

So, you get the idea now? International release dates, to me, are a big factor in deciding on a park location.

[pinkrenata]

One of my major decisions of where to put a Disney park is actually a bizarre, almost questionable one: releases of Disney animated movies in those countries.

For example, in France and Japan, the release dates of the first five animated features are the following:

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
--May 4, 1938 (France)
--September 26, 1950 (Japan)

PINOCCHIO (1940)
--May 22, 1946 (France)
--May 17, 1952 (Japan)

FANTASIA (1940)
--November 1, 1946 (France)
--September 23, 1955 (Japan)

DUMBO (1941)
--October 25, 1947 (France)
--March 12, 1954 (Japan)

BAMBI (1942)
--July 15, 1947 (France)
--May 26, 1951 (Japan)

So, you get the idea now? International release dates, to me, are a big factor in deciding on a park location.

Huh? Maybe I'm missing your point. If you're suggesting, though, that they were late to get those releases, I'm thinking WWII had something to do with that.

[BellesPrince]

I don't see what the point being made here is either.

[Big Disney Fan]

I don't see what the point being made here is either.

I'm just making a point that I have a factor in deciding where to put a Disney park.

[rs_milo_whatever]

I always had all of these ideas for Disney Parks growing up. The themed areas, the rides, and the castle. Texas or Mexico is where I would have wanted one. I could never really decide what castle would go well in Mexico. I decided on the Aladdin castle would be nice, but then I always thought that one day Disney would make some cool Disney Aztec princess and it would be better to start to think then.

[Disney Duster]

restore the lagoon in Magic Kingdom and should never have been removed

What lagoon? I'm curious.

[Big Disney Fan]

restore the lagoon in Magic Kingdom and should never have been removed

What lagoon? I'm curious.

Probably the 20,000 Leagues lagoon.

[Super Aurora]

made my ideal one awhile back. I would set it in WDW. I'll re-post it.

[Big Disney Fan]

Wouldn't that be impossible to do in actuality? Maybe in your imagination, but certainly not in actuality.

[Super Aurora]

yea it is in my imagination. In reality WDW is hopeless.

[Big Disney Fan]

yea it is in my imagination. In reality WDW is hopeless.

Well, it's not necessarily hopeless. I just think that it would not work physically.