What should the next Disney resort theme be?

I like the Asian idea, and in fact The Asian was a planned resort, would've been one of the originals, but was never built.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_Asian_Resort]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_Asian_Resort[/url]


EDIT: After re-reading the link I provided, I see that The Asian was not to have been an original resort, but would've opened in 1974.

I love the idea of a 'Disney Historical Resort', with a sort of built in museum, etc. You could have the restaurants themed after the various times in Walt's life, such as a small town diner from his boyhood, 50's restaurant from the Disneyland days, etc.

But, I have to say I love history and I'm sure this isn't everybody's thing.

Brings up a good trivia question though. When WDW was first built, I recall that they had tentative plans to build two more resorts on the monorail (other than the Contemporary and the Polynesian). I think that one was a Persian themed resort, but I don't remember the other. Anybody remember this?

Yes, I remember and I posted it just above your post.

One was The Asian and the other The Venetian.

I'd like the next park to be the villains park, but I'd like a "classics" resort.

That would be so much fun--and timely, as us oldies are starting to take over the world and would definitely stay in a resort like this!



The Venetian sounds great! (I voted for the Italian resort poll option)

I was just about to vote for pixar when I read this. This is a great idea. The museum in the resort would be awesome. Where can I invest?

Isn't POP already a Disney classics resort? And if not when Animation Inn and Suites is done it sure will be.

I Voted other because I want to see...

Disney's EPCOT Center Resort. Think a cross between TRON and Tommarowland. It would be located on the EPCOT Monorail loop.

Putting something more on the EPCOT monorail is a great idea. The monorail is SO quintessentially Disney that I wish they had made everyone on or near the Monorail and not given up. (Although I suspect my ticket price would be much higher if they had)

Speaking of the Epcot idea (which is a great one, btw), at Disneyland the wonderful thing is that you can walk right out of your hotel and in a few short steps be in either park. (In fact, there is a gate from the Grand California right into California Adventure)

How about following this concept at Epcot, where there is a hotel right at the entrance to the park, situated very close to the monorail or even further back?

Imagine an updated Contemporary type resort along the Epcot monorail.

You could even have a hotel at the Hollywood Studios as well, minus the monorail.

(This board leads me to one thought! That Disney should hire ALL of us, give us permanent suites at the hotel of our choice, and let us plan the future of this company!!!)

Such great ideas.

In reference to the comments about the originally planned MK resorts and the potential for an Epcot resort, we were speaking with a CM at the Contemporary one evening who told us that the original plan for the MK monorail resorts was to have them situated in a way that guests could walk right out of specific "lands" in the MK to the appropriately themed hotel (e.g. tomorrowland was to lead directly to the Contemporary and adventureland was to lead directly to the Poly).

I think this would be a great idea for the Epcot resort, too. Maybe you can have two sections to the resort: World Showcase and Future World!! (How cool would that be??)

After some thought I see it like this.

There is a section of unused land right before the monorail turns east to go to EPCOT with a lake right on the edge of property. (The Monorail goes down the west side of this land.) The resort would be there.

You would see a monorail station and a parking structure from the road (No Cars at this resort). Walkways from both would lead to a people mover station between the 2. The people mover would take a slightly winding path threw the woods (to obscure the view) until the reveal of the resort. The mover would then proceed to take a loop around the central building before stopping at the central complex.

The Central Complex would be the tallist building in the resort. It would house all the basics of the resort. Check IN/Out, Services, Arcade ect. The top of this building would be a large glass dome that house the EPCOT Resturant where you would look out on the resor sourounding the building...

More Later...

I'm thinking we're going to need that "WDWForGrownups PLANNING Session" on board DCL next year!

I would stay in the Flubber resort!

The resort rooms themselves would be in a series of 6-7 building surrounding the main building. Each one would have it's own sub theme and style but architecturally tie back into the main building. The rooms layouts would vary not only between buildings but also within buildings so that you have a range of accommodation options to choose from.

The outer ring of the resort would house various activities including Pools, Spa buildings (As in the massage, pampering spas) tennis courts, Cosmic Bowling, and several eating options. One of these would be a quick service area located right next to the WDW bus stops so guests could grab a quick bite on their waty to the parks. The property busses would Enter and Exit threw the rear of the resort, while the Airport/Cruse busses would operate next to the parking garage so everyone sees the resort for the first time from the people mover.

I think I might work up some Autocad sketches in my spare time.

So what do you all think?

I'm thinking its time to SEE some sketches!! Hurry up!! We're wasting time!!!

1. Cool
2. Want to know more about the Epcot restaurant
3. Interested in the PeopleMover idea. Really like the "big reveal." Hopefully lines won't get too long for this when everyone's coming back from the parks at the end of the night.
4. Would you be able to walk to Epcot from the resort?
5. What would some of the room buildings' themes be?
6. Sounds like a giant solar system.

2. Think of dining inside the top of spaceship earth. The Premier restaurant, located at the top of the center building will be inside a curved glass dome with a magnificent view of the whole resort and Epcot itself.

3. The mover will have a short leg and a long leg that goes around the resort. It will be designed so in the morning and all day the return loop will be the long one with the outgoing a short apx. 2 minute trip. At night as the parks close the route will be reversed to help prevent congestion. Also this system only has to deal with Epcot and MK traffic, the buses handle the rest.

4. Yes. A path from the center of the resort heading due south would come out at the intersection of Epcot Center Drive & Epcot Center Parking Rd.

5. Initial Ideas are similar to the future world layout. You enter a main building lobby and the rooms will be in the wings of the building. Think Lands, Sea, space, Ect...

6. The resort will be circular, like a wheel or solarsystem. This is to keep all travel short as possible without feeling cramped.

Mine too. I think I'd want to stay in the "Space" rooms first.

Could the "Sea" rooms be like that underwater hotel? You could create another Disney aquarium.

For the Epcot resort, what if you had a series of "mini hotels" behind each section of World Showcase? Theme them after each land with an entrance from those hotels into the lands themselves. Of course you'd enter from behind somehow.

I think that the World showcase portion of EPCOT would be off limits for this resort because most of the Disney resorts are location based and I wouldn't want to do a Italy build or Japan building when those could be full resorts later down the line. Think Future World Only for this one.

You know I never really liked that name, Future World. I mean how much of that area is about the future? Should be called Today World and featuring on the drawing boardville.

I always thought the name "Futureworld" was really uninspired too. I think they went "We'll call it Tomorrowland!!!! oh wait...Future World!"

This is actually a really good idea. I wonder why they haven't already started something like this. They've got the "animation" movies resort-ified, why don't they do some tribute to the Hollywood Heyday...a Hollywood Tower Hotel pre-lightning strike maybe?

You design for Future World. I'll imagine my idea in World Showcase. I like the idea of a number of 'boutique hotels' where you could live in much the manner you would if you were IN that country.

without the heavy taxes.

The funny thing to all of this is Disney is so apposed to outside ideas if you send an idea to Disney the attorneys delete it before it gets to anyone to avoid "That was my Idea and now you owe me" lawsuits. By even talking about stuff on this site we are almost guaranteeing non of this would ever get built.

If I could be an Imagineer for 1 day...

We're designing the anti-Disney! New meaning for "Neverland"

You'd think they would have enough legal processes in place to be able to steal other people's ideas and not get sued for it.