If you had unlimited funds, political capital, and plenty of customer demand?
I would build it here:
On a man made island off the coast of Florida or Bahamas
Kind of like Dubai, but it would be less like a city:
I love Disney World but sometimes I dream of creating an even better version of what Disney World does perfectly, just as Walt Disney himself learned from his first project Disneyland and made Disney World Florida even better.
In the next 50 years, if there is growing United States and World economy, and all Disney Parks in North America are maxed out, where would you build a new Disney World?
I'll call it Disney Universe just for now.
Dubai planned to build something like this a few years ago called Dubailand.
The model looks amazing, however it still looks too much like Six Flags or a carnival, and not as special or as magical as Disney. This plan is still going on in Dubai but after the world financial crisis in the late 2000s the project is developing at a much slower pace.
However, to build a new Disney Universe you would need these things:
- Lots of land: Disney World is enormous and this would need to be even bigger. There needs to be plenty of room to create distance from civilization and space for dozens of hotels, large parks, parking lots, and other transportation services.
- Lots of water: every Disney park has lots of rivers, waterfalls, fountains, canals, lakes, man made lakes, and pools. Water makes places magical. It allows for beautiful views, refreshment and it makes everything visually appealing.
- Tropical climate or warm
- Connection to airport or transportation service to large urban center.
Different options to build new Disney parks, Refer to map above.
Red circle California or Arizona:
- This is what it would look like, it would be a paradise in the desert, and water would have to be transported in to make not such a dry climate.
- However, there would be easy connection to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Diego
Orange circle Texas
- Texas would be too dry, and too windy to be a Disney park paradise.
- Also there is not enough water
Yellow circle Tropical Islands
- This would be my favorite place to build a Disney paradise
- It would be on a man made island
- The island would have to be huge and expensive to build
- There would be perfect climate, except for hurricanes
- Beautiful beaches, views, water everywhere
- This is what I would choose
Green and Blue circles:
- Louisiana would be too swampy and not enough good land
- Central America would be too controversial and far away from the United States
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