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Tom Sawyer Isle Getting The Axe !?

From Al's latest update:

Quote:

The Burbank bigwigs have Tom Sawyer Island in their sights, and if the budget gets approved later this fall that 50 year old piece of Disneyland history will go the way of the Skyway and the House of the Future. What Burbank has proposed is an ambitious plan to restructure and retheme the island into a pirate playground, where Captain Barbossa and Davy Jones would displace the less than blockbuster Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher.
The current proposal calls for over 28 million to be spent this winter rebuilding and rebranding the Tom Sawyer themed attraction. Gone would be the treehouses, trails and caves referenced in the literary works of Mark Twain and originally designed for the simpler audiences of the 1950's. In their place would be snazzier pirate themed activities designed for the kids of the 21st century who have grown up with extreme sports and Super Mario Brothers instead of barrel hoops and Tom Sawyer. The current lush wooded landscaping would also presumably be substantially altered, as tropical islands don't quite match the southern American landscape.

The article: http://www.miceage.com/allutz/al100306a.htm

I hope this is not happening.

I don't see how it can happen, because they'd also have to re-theme the RoA.... and the Mark Twain would hardly look right "sailing the Caribbean".

Who's to say they'll keep the Mark Twain ? They could just keep it in dry dock, only use it for Fantasmic, and retheme the Columbia to The Black Pearl.

ok, even I...as big a PotC fan as I am, really dont need to/want to see the entire park rethemed for one set of movies.

(even if I do think the Columbia would look great as the Black Pearl)

Oh, I hope not. What a bummer! My namesake's headstone would be removed.

That aside, it's such a nice, peaceful respite from the rest of the park, just the way it is. Dammity damn!

Pirates is the it thing right now. I'm not surprised. I hardly ever go over there anyway. I didn't get the reference to Super Mario. Are they going to install video game consoles? Will it be Innoventions West?

This would just suck.

I wouldn't mind an overhaul..but pirates? Geez, find something new to theme it to, you lazy asses.