Could Disney Imagineering's much wanted theme park, Shadowlands, a villain focused kingdom, be coming to Orlando? In its ongoing war with Universal Orlando Resort (not to mention the epic battle with Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis), insiders are talking. Could that multi-billion expansion really be happening? Take a look:
Who could be breaking this news? None other than the wonderful and often accurate insider Shelly Valladolid, aka the Fabulous Disney Babe of the past over at MiceChat (previously known as MiceAge).
Disney CEO Robert Iger may be onto something, but it would be at least ten years away. Ten Years!?! Why? Well, given how long its taken them to rebuilt the center core of Future World at Epcot, the lengthy add-on of Tron to the Magic Kingdom, or just about anything else other than a new resort, do you expect a faster timeline? No, not me either.
With Epic Universe on its way, Disney is bound to lose a third day of touring to those hard core Harry Potter and Super Nintendo fans come Summer 2025. (You can read here whole article here.) That includes me! Universal Orlando has become a very enticing piece of Central Florida's theme park landscape.
The beautiful piece of Disney concept art above is a slice of the once planned then canned Westcot. What a park that would have been. A bait and switch for California Adventure 1.0 came instead. Hmmm. Maybe Iger is blowing smoke after all.
(Art copyright The Walt Disney Company.)
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