The Disney Corporation announced that it will be expanding the Disney World Fantasyland attraction in two phases with a ready date in 2012-2013. This will reportedly replicate the California Adventure Park’s Little Mermaid ride.
Most of the changes will come to the east of the current Fantasyland area and north of the Winnie the Pooh ride in Magic Kingdom. This will include attractions for Cinderella and Aurora with an elaborate ride planned with the Little Mermaid theme. An expansion to the Dumbo area is also part of the plan. This is reportedly the largest change to the Magic Kingdom Park in 38 years according to the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando media also has high hopes that the Fantasyland expansion will trigger strong future parks and attractions growth.
Much of the fantasyland speculation from various sources indicates a commonly held belief that Universal will capture the imagination of the market in 2010 with the opening of the Harry Potter attraction. We believe that this could be part of a larger plan to upgrade the Disney theme parks in Orlando and some future creative use of the Disney and Marvel strategic partnership may be in order as well. For now, the Disney Princess and Fairies merchandise is hugely popular for Disney with over $4 billion in annual sales and the company does want to build on that in Fantasyland.
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Click on the following link for the Fantasyland Expansion video announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08W5Os-Wnj0&feature=fvw