DCA, Future Expansion
Topic: DCA Preview Center and new Beer Garden

#	Author	Message
1	Darkbeer Tue 8/28/2007 9:48a	Today's update from Al Lutz is an interesting read. http://www.miceage.com/allutz/ al082807b.htm I knew that Karl Strauss wants to build a Beer Garden similar to what is offered at Universal CityWalk, to include food and an actual brewery, and Al mentions it today.... >>On the other side of the parade route, backing up to this new terraced area, the Route 66 section is planned to be removed entirely. In place of the cheap Mulholland Madness county fair coaster and the McDonalds and pizza parlor a beautiful Victorian beer garden would be built. Nestled next to the beer garden would be a new coaster themed to Ratatouille and a mad race through kitchens and alleys, although there are some Imagineers who don't think that rides theme will do much to increase food sales next door at the beer garden. << Come on, bring in those Bulldozers! And there will be a reason to go to Bathroom Row other than to see "Push"... >>But those row houses won't be empty for long, and this is where John Lasseter's style really starts to make an immediate impact. In fact, those row houses will likely feature the first proof that DCA has hit the budget jackpot while more and more Imagineers and many Disney fans (even the few who actually like the place now) get excited about the first-rate park DCA will become. The current plans call for those empty San Francisco row houses to become a new Disneyland Resort Preview Center with models and sketches of the new attractions and park themes coming to Anaheim in the next few years. The center will most heavily tout the plans for DCA, especially at first. But it would also be used to showcase the new Disneyland Resort hotels, Downtown Disney expansion, the new Disney Cruise Line ships based out of Long Beach, the new look and attractions planned for Tomorrowland, and any number of the growing list of new projects now headed to Anaheim. << Looking forward to this, I still miss the Disney Showcase on Main Street when it had future ideas and exhibits.
2	dshyates Tue 8/28/2007 10:20a	New preview center. Cool. I'll have to wait until the full scale version is mostly complete. But I'm sure some nice folks will upload a pic or two somewhere. Doobie.
3	WorldDisney Tue 8/28/2007 10:30a	LOL, people are still deeply discussing the LAST AL update with that 600+ thread going and now we get ANOTHER juicey one. Man oh man, if true, DCA is sounding like a park that I will happily pay full price and can look people in the eye later ;D. All I can say about these rumors: Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! Please be true! I think I you got the gist ;). Wow, if this fix really does happen the way Al says it will, hell, we won't even recognize the old DCA by the time it happens.....but I guess that's the point lol. And it's 1.2 billion now, wow, SOMEBODY either really likes you OR hates you DCA. ;D
4	WorldDisney Tue 8/28/2007 10:45a	LOL, the last thread is 700+ posts. Wow, we sure can ramble ;). Completely forgot to comment on the preview center. Yeah, once again, please be true! God, what I would give to see a new scale model of the 'new and improved' DCA sitting in one of those houses and you know what, the word would spread fast that DCA is changing, getting better, a place Disney fans want to visit. Just the fact alone Route 66 and the entrance will be completely gone is ALL good news!! Hollywood having REAL stores and buildings, a revamped theater with a real lobby (which TDS had from day one, but digressing now), 1920's and 30's theme which we ALL thought should've been there from day one (thanks for listening to the us for a change guys ;)) just makes it exciting for the future. And the biggest, WTF news of all, a possible Little Mermaid ride???? Wow, I guess I been too busy IN the parks lately because I didn't even know this was a rumor anywhere, but yes, if true, more excitement :D. I guess will know it's true or not when we see it in the preview center ;).
5	dshyates Tue 8/28/2007 10:58a	Just read Al's usual anti-Disney drival :-) These plans for DCA literally gave me goosebumps. If one third of it comes true, wow. They are actually going to address my issues of the mall look to HPB. New totally new entrance. Little mermaid dark ride. Replacing the thing a absolutely dislike the most, Mulholland with a Victorian beer garden. And the Remy coaster. I could kiss Lasseter. The Remy coaster sounds cool.There's a big discussion about the Remy coaster in WDW GENERAL with links to the similar Crush coaster@DSP. Taking what is going to happen in DCA, DL, DLH, DtD, and the 2 hotels at gardenwalk, this has to be the single biggest Disney construction project in the U.S. since "The Florida Project". WOW, I'll start saving today. (Disney's team monitoing subverssive internet chater share high-fives, "dshyates' reprogramming complete")
6	Jim in Merced CA Tue 8/28/2007 11:11a	I liked the plans too. The entrance 'looks' great in my mind. Question: What does 'The Little Mermaid' have to do with San Francisco? Or California for that matter? Are they going to theme it as a Halloween party in the Castro District? 'You look FAB-u-LOUUUUS!' [<--irritated that 'Golden Dreams' never got its due]
7	dshyates Tue 8/28/2007 11:18a	"'The Little Mermaid' have to do with San Francisco? Or California..." I think it will be to the left of the beer garden in the Pier. Remy will probably be the last SF specific building before the beer garden. At least in my mind
8	WorldDisney Tue 8/28/2007 11:27a	^^Yeah JIM, I like Golden Dreams actually....although I haven't watched it years..wait a minute ;). Oh JIM, BTW, when I read Al's latest article, I thought of you and it has to do with the Vine movie. Well, a few years ago, I said I couldn't be bothered to see yet ANOTHER film talking about the wine film, you chastised me and said I should take the 10 minutes out of my very busy day at DCA to see it. First that comment got me angry and decided to do something about it, but since I couldn't FIND your house in Merced ;), I decided to take your other advice instead and try and see the movie and you know what, to this day, I'm STILL trying to see that movie >:(. I couldn't figure out where it was, where the hell the line was and etc until I read this little section in Al's article: <<The theater is managed by the Foods department instead of the Attractions department and it is rarely ever opened to visitors. The average number of people who view the Mondavi show each day has averaged about 15 this summer, and that requires the viewer to know to go across the patio, track down a Cast Member, and specifically ask to have the movie started for them. There are days when the attraction is simply kept shuttered and closed all day.>> So that finally solves that mystery. All that time, it was shuttered lol. It's DCA, why am I not completely surprised now ;D.
9	berol Tue 8/28/2007 12:19p	When it was open all the time, I walked around and around and around that tiny building my first time in DCA, trying to figure out where the front door and line were.
10	jonvn Tue 8/28/2007 12:33p	I saw the wine movie. It belongs as a film in the waiting area for a larger attraction. It's as if they took the movie in the Indy queue and made that to be the entire ride.

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