OCRegister (//http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disney-grier-disneyland-2025017-hotel-plans) has an interesting article about the Disneyland expansion.
The following parts of the article hint to an third park for the Anaheim resort:
QuoteAt some point, Disney might add a third theme park on 88 acres of land next to Disneyland and possibly operate two hotels proposed for the Anaheim GardenWalk, Grier told a crowd of about 150 at an Orange County Forum event Wednesday.
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A third theme park was hinted at by Grier on Wednesday. "We do see a tremendous opportunity on our 88 acres of land," Grier said.
OOOH! This is interesting! Do you know what the theme of the third park will be?
I read somewhere that Disneyland Resort bought a huge patch of land which is a strawberry farm and they promised to keep it running for 5 years until they can develop on it. And i think they bought it in 2004 so this sounds like where it could go.
Mind you with a failing park like DCA, they should only open a water park not another new themepark :!:
Quote from: "Owain"Mind you with a failing park like DCA, they should only open a water park not another new themepark :!:
Yeah, the failing DCA makes it a bit weird to open a thrid themepark. The plans they have to transform DCA in a Disney worthy themepark will take up some more years.
A water park should do the trick. The climate isn't really like Florida's, but there are enough hot days for a nice swim.
Quote from: "Remco K."Quote from: "Owain"Mind you with a failing park like DCA, they should only open a water park not another new themepark :!:
Yeah, the failing DCA makes it a bit weird to open a thrid themepark. The plans they have to transform DCA in a Disney worthy themepark will take up some more years.
Is DCA failing? Has anybody got any numbers to support this argument? They are pumping a billion dollars (which, admittedly, isn't that much these days :wink: ) into the park over the next five years... I doubt they would do that if DCA was a failing business.
Now, you can argue about any artistic flaws this park might have as much as you want... but Disney seems to think that DCA has a profitable future ... and the Disneyland Resort in general, as well...
Quote from: "experiment627"Is DCA failing? Has anybody got any numbers to support this argument?
I don't have any numbers at hand, but taking a look at the plans for the coming years it seems like they're not happy with the current park... :wink:
Again, I don't have the numbers at hand, and I don't feel like looking them up right now, but DCA sure is anything but a success.
Quote from: "Remco K."Again, I don't have the numbers at hand, and I don't feel like looking them up right now, but DCA sure is anything but a success.
I never said it was a success, but I doubt that the theme park is a failure, either... In the end, they must believe they are getting a good return on investment by doing so much work on the park.
Quote from: "experiment627"In the end, they must believe they are getting a good return on investment by doing so much work on the park.
They're doing all this work in the hope it will lead to good results.