Yes, those rumors about the Skyway demolition were true! This is going to be a great new area for the Magic Kingdom, and we will explain to you WHERE these works are going to be, WHY this move is necessary, and WHAT they could include there.
First of all, WHERE are they going to work?
That would be the Fantasyland Skyway, as we stated before. If you don't know what it is, here's a photo of it:
As you can see, this is one of the nicest-looking spots in Fantasyland, right? I will miss it too, but since it was always closed, and since it will bring a lot of positive things, we are one hundred percent happy about this.
Then, WHY do they have to demolish it?
Well, since its closure many years ago, the station was going to be demolished, because it was of no use anymore, but they decided that it looked good anyway, and it added theming to the already poor-themed area (Peter Pan's Flight and "It's A Small World" are themed after cheap medieval tends), so why spending money on it?
- Now though, after some years, issues began to come up. First of all, they needed to expand the path that lead to Liberty Square, because it was (and, as of now, it still is) way too small to accommodate even the lightest crowds. They needed to make a bigger (or double) pathway.
- Also, they needed a bigger set of bathrooms. Everybody knows that Peter Pan's bathrooms are the worst in the park. They're small, always crowded, and the only ones in that really busy path.
- In addition to all that, now they need to implement the new next-generation queue system to Peter Pan's Flight, so they need to make the queue area bigger. And, how do you do that? By taking out the bathrooms. As one of the members of Discussion Kingdom commented, this is a domino effect.
WHAT could be included in this small "expansion"?
To answer this question, take a look at this drawing, courtesy of a Discussion Kingdom member:
As you can see, they will build a second pathway, that leads directly to the front of the ex-Fastpass Machine for the Mansion. This may cause it to be demolished, because it would only be in the way, and since they're building the new interactive queue, there MAY be no need of another extended queue (again, the domino effect). As you can see, there will be some water effects (that we love!), and new bathrooms will be built on the place of the old Skyway. Will it include a new stroller parking for IASW (Small World) and PPF (Peter Pan's Flight)? Very possibly, almost certainly because, as you notice, there will be two separate buildings....
So, what do you think about this?
