WHERE Could Disney BUILD A FIFTH PARK at Disney World? - Disney News Explained 

There is SO much work they need to do in their current parks at World where I feel like it would be absurd to even consider a fifth park.

I don't think Disney is doing a fifth park any time soon. It would be nice but.. I think Disney has too many other projects to focus on. Just my opinion

I'd far prefer that Disney put attention into the existing parks way before another park. So many rides seem to have issues frequent enough that you're unlikely to avoid an issue on a ride or have a temporary closure on your visit. And there is just an overall worn down-ness to a lot of things that it really takes the magic out of Disney. I deleted what was going to be a dissertation of my thoughts as it was filling my screen on just Magic Kingdom and part of EPCOT, but I think there is just so much that needs to be restored to original condition, put back in to operation, or replaced completely before even making improvements on things at the existing parks, let alone create a new park. I could see the argument for a new park to ease crowds on existing parks so that major improvements could be tackled (like a complete Tomorrowland overhaul). I enjoy going to the parks, but that's with an annual pass, I'd probably be depressed if was just tickets for a summer vacation.

Before a 5th park journey into imagination must be fixed to it former glory.

I have a STRONG feeling that Disney won't be building any new parks with the direction they are headed now, especially with the clowns in office LITERALLY destroying the country and making everything hard to afford. It's a lose-lose.

Also they could save land for a bigger park by building parking garages! I’ve been telling my wife for years that they could actually add stuff to Epcot by building, parking garages and make use of the parking lot. Same thing at Hollywood Studios.

Personally, I would LOVE them to add a theme park with a level of detail that matched Tokyo Disney Sea. A cool name could be Disney U.S.Sea like it’s the S.E.A’s US base. Would be great for them to finally incorporate some great steampunk elements as it’s so timeless & always seems to be a winner (Look at how well Phantasialand did it)

Adding this 5th park out near the All Star & Pop Century areas would also give more benefit to staying there and not having to travel "forever" to get to a park. Great point on using this as a way to expand the Skyliner - that would make it far more valuable.

While we can all agree a Disney Sea style non-IP highly themed park would be amazing, I think we would likely see an “Epic Universe” style “no united theme/IP multiverse” park

Apparently the fifth park will be a Florida state prison. 😅

9:04 There's actually a FOURTH potential site, based on the map--and with a bit of finessing, it's actually the biggest one: The big "red" (suitable) and "yellow" (marginally suitable) region between the west side of the Magic Kingdom and the north side of the golf courses. NOW...most of the "red" is closer to the golf courses, so obviously that's a noise issue...but the rest of the region is essentially freckled "red" and "yellow." Now obviously it'll require some work to upgrade the "marginally" suitable spots to full-on "red"...but it's been done before. So, again with some finesse, the northwest chunk of the property is a gold mine--maybe with a hotel or something put between the park and the golf courses, to manage the noise issue.

The parks will never be completed, so we will always have something to say as far as fixing up one of the current 4 parks. So its totally fine to consider a 5th gate. People keep saying to "fix" the current ones first, but why can't we consider a new park? Because we will forever be saying and finding something wrong with the current ones that would need fixing first. Why not build a new one where we could put all of our new ideas and after the new one is built, we can go back and continue updating the other 4. 😌

Well said Jack. It would make sense to have a 5th park with all the updates and changes Disney are going through. However, what would the park be centred around. I would love to hear more about this story for the 5th park developing.

I don't know why this isn't a bigger consideration by Disney. We book a lot of client trips for 4-6 days, and that is either three park days, or five (usually two at MK). However, adding a 5th park, would no doubt mean 6 park days for a lot of families, and that would also mean 8-9 nights at their resorts. That would be a HUGE gain for them! Seems like it would be a no brainer.

If they build Neverland, they should also build Pixie Hollow and bring back the other fairies meet and greets.

I really hope the current businessmen never plan to do that. I hate 90% of what they're doing in the US parks. They need to fix their current resorts first. There's a lot to expand, correct and perfect still.

Whatever they end up doing with a fifth park, if they build it at your suggestion location, it'd be a great way to replicate going between the Harry Potter lands at Universal, but for Star Wars instead. Repurpose the Starcruiser shuttles into something that transports guests between parks. Taking guests from the sequel era of Galaxy's Edge into another land themed for another era in the timeline. My personal choice would a prequel-era land so it has a more visually distinct look compared to Batuu. The Starcruiser itself could even be repurposed into a hub for guests park hopping while they wait for the shuttles.

Your videos are INCREDIBLE! This was amazing.

I think expansions of the four existing parks would be the better option. Your video on the haunted mansion restaurant was great!

What about a park that was geared to a slightly older audience with more thrill rides. This way it’s more appealing to the teenage and young adults demographic. Seeing some bigger thrill rides with Disney theming behind it would be awesome! Plus as the little kids get older Disney wouldn’t lose its appeal.

Jack- this is an outstanding vlog!! Loved all the facts and aspects you spoke about!! Thank you!

Honestly what they should do is work on there existing parks and adding more and improving before they consider working on a new park

Although a 5th gate is exciting, plus I would love to see it, the smart money says probably not. A better strategy might be to announce a multi park expansion plan that tells guests that all 4 parks will see major expansions, not replacements of current rides. Perhaps 20 to 50 acres each. I can see major expansion to Pandora, Galaxy's Edge, Epcot(maybe not) & Magic Kingdom. Disney is sort of doing this in Paris (sort of) plus there are tons of rumors about a Disney Villians land, Zootopia, Encanto etc.. I do like the idea of a "Nostalgia" park that celebrates past projects and history.

I personally think it’s likely that they would simply close the ESPN complex to build up the park in that location. I have heard through the years that the complex was built as a future expansion for a 5th park. It has the utilities already on-site. It has the infrastructure of Victory Way built to go straight into the property, as well as exits, roads, and ramps built to go there. It’s simply a perfect location tucked just far enough out of the normal areas to be a great location.

The company currently has 209 million dollars in cash, and they are heavily leveraged with a 9-15 billion dollar contracted purchase of the remaining 33% of Hulu stock from Comcast. They are far from making any changes.

A Disney sea version would be really nice

Excellent evaluation and research, Love your content !

I think it's safe to say they have no desire to build another theme park in Florida.

Love this easy to follow yet detailed break down Jack!

I'd go with option 3, have them build a Discovery Bay park, Add in all the rides they once had, but updated with new tech

Thank you for this video, you did great!

We need a neverland, wonderland, the emerald city immersive lands!!!

They should focus on building other experiences outside of the theme parks. In a week long vacation, it’s pretty tiring to cover all of the existing parks they have and see everything there is to see. I really liked Disney Quest because it gave you something to do that was a little more low key than a full park and the technology seems to have caught up to the concept now.

Excellent reporting, Jack! Phenomenal video!

It is incredibly evident how much work you put into thinking about this!

So good to see another video from you again!🙌🏿😊👏🏾🕺🏽💜

Very good points. But, see another location on the map as well. But, you did a great job.

If rumours are true they need money first. Aparently Iger is looking at selling the parks in Paris, Singapore, Japan and other parks.

I strongly suspect that Disney doesnt even have funds to build a new park. Their debt is high and they would need to take another loan to do it with interest rates are extremely high. Disney needs to find some way to stop is financial bleeding...start making money and pay down it's cutrent debt first. Plus!!....at Disney's current construction speed? It would take them 10 years to buildca new park....im not even kidding!

Where would they get the money? They aren't even maintaining their current parks as it is.

What ever Disney does, I hope they try to preserve wild areas as much as possible, as that is the difference between Disney World and every other theme park in the world.

Love this detailed reporting. Great work!!

We all know Disney can't tie their own shoes never mind build a park. So Disney takes five years to build a clone ride like Tron and universals in the process of building a new park and you're doing a video on a possible park location for Disney that's pretty funny

adding a fifth park to control crowds is like adding another lane to a highway to control traffic

Hey Jack, great video. I think that option three definitely makes the most sense on the corner of world Drive in Osceola Parkway as the placement for a fifth park. It was funny that you gave a nod to the fifth Park I have dreamt of for years. A legacy type park whether it is called something like Disney vintage, or Disney retro, or Legacy, Disney. It would be a park where all of those beloved rides and attractions that have been removed from the other parks, could be restored with updated technology for all of us that grew up, going to the parks in the 80s and 90s, and to be able to share in person with our children. The wonders of life pavilion with Cranium Command, the World of Motion, Horizons, the original Journey into Imagination ride with the Dream Finder and Figment, Mr. toads wild ride, Snow White’s scary adventure, the back Lot tour, and so many other rides and attractions that we grew up loving. How I long to be able to share these beloved rides and attraction with those that never had a chance to experience them while they were around. This is what I would do with the fifth Park. It would be a nostalgic way for all of those who also loved these original rides and attractions to experience them again.

My suggestion for the 5th park at Disney World is futuristically themed. And it's gonna be visually bigger than Tomorrowland with a bit of the contents found at Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser which will be defunct in no time.🚀

I would want to see a park themed to the 4 seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. I think there’s a lot of room to work with IPs and original ideas that can fit into each season. Make the park icon a Sun-like structure and have each section revolve around it. I think it’s a great theme to add to a place like Florida, where it’s only summer year round, but you’re not married to a rigid theme like conservation at animal kingdom. If you pick an IP to theme a ride around, you just need the setting to match that season. And there are endless possibilities for original ideas in each season.

What a detailed and amazing video 👏 I agree with the land near ESPN and think a Villian Park would be amazing! Theresa 😊xo

Very well done!

I feel like a lot of people are already sacrificing Epcot for universal

Since Universal is now trying to Disney style family friendly parks, I would love to see a 5th WDW park that is a Universal style with more mature themes and a focus on thrill rides. They could fill the park with all the newly acquired 20th Century IP they can't use in other parks like Alien, Predator, Die Hard, Planet Of The Apes, Kingsman, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, ect

Here’s my idea for Disney world expansion…. Disney Springs. Add a mini theme park expansion to Disney Springs with Fantasy Springs and Radiator Springs. The shopping district would probably still be free and you buy a ticket to get into the theme park. Perhaps Typhoon Lagoon would also be associated? The hotels are there, the transportation is there, the parking spaces are there, and the desire to visit fantasy springs and radiator springs is also there!! I don’t think fantasy springs would be an exact replica, in order to make sense with what is already at Disney world. I could even see Frozen being replaced with Moana in our version.

I would love to see a music theme park that’s catered to music

100% agree with the ESPN area. Personally, I would like to see a park filled with massive, immersive dark rides and lands; designed a bit like Universal's Diagon Alley/Knockturn Alley, so there is plenty of shade. It might include Zootopia, Moana, Avatar the way of water, Encanto, Coco, which could all be designed indoors with simulated daytime and nighttime transformations throughout each day. (I grew up in FL and have always been able to handle intense sun and heat, but recent trips to FL have felt a bit too hot in July/August/Sept. And it will likely get worse thinking long-term. If Mall of America can put more than 100 acres indoors, so can Disney.)

Good video. Thanks.

I was watching some universal videos and had an idea for Disney in case anyone from WDI is listening. What if Disney did something in each park similar to Universals “tribute” stores? There are still lots of Spaces unopened in the Disney Parks (think storefronts). We also know that there is a huge fan base nostalgic for past rides and shows. So what if Disney opened some of these spaces as tribute stores to “Horizons”, “20,000 Leagues”; The great movie ride”; etc. it would be cool to have a movie or VR of the ride POV playing in the back of the store so that we could show our kids the Disney we grew up with and then have your merch and props scattered around the store with the old ride music playing in the background. I think that would be a great idea to infill some space in the parks and keep the history of the parks alive and well for future generations!

I do believe a location near the Wide World of Sports Complex could work. Whatever this 5th park should include, I highly suggest having Discovery Bay finally coming to reality. The lore of S.E.A. is already expansive in Disney World the other global parks, but I think they should kick up a notch. I know Fortress Exploration is the main hub in Tokyo but I think Florida should have the same treatment. Perhaps we could have a Jason Chandler attraction that can expand BTM further and maybe connect to say Jungle Cruise, Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc. Also whenever the tv show or movie comes out they can add some tie-ins as well and maybe some character meet and greets from the Shinji Takahashi books.

There will NEVER be a 5th park in WDW, and there is a litany of reasons for that. Universal is actually learning some of those right now. A new gate actually doesn’t bring in more people, it divides them. Walt Disney World has all the people it can handle on a daily basis. Adding a 5th park just takes people away from the other parks. It happened when they added Animal Kingdom. It didn’t add to the total amount of visitors. It just pulled people from the other parks and activities. They have more than the number of parks they need. 4 is the highest that number will ever go.

Super informative video! Love the use of the photoshop generative AI for the satellite photos!

A fifth park isn't additive in any way. It's actually reductive. Families from out of state typically only have one week for vacation, and 2 of those days are travel days giving the family 5 days. Between 4 major parks, 2 water parks, and Disney Springs, it would be next to impossible to squeeze in another full park, and NO ONE I know would be willing to give up a day at one of the existing parks to see some new park. What Disney needs to focus on is expanding and growing the current 4 parks. Adding at least 3 new offerings to each park (for a total of 12) along with new shops and eating, WOULD be the equivalent of a whole new smaller park, without increasing ticket prices or requiring additional vacation days.

This has 1 caviot. Universal must let disney have its " no marvel on east side of mississippi " clause taken out. For the 5th park... WAKANDA! I know it sounds crazy but a 5th park based around the MCU and Marvel as a whole would be amazing. There is so many IP within Marvel, so much potential, so much wandering characters as most of them are human or humanoid. It could potentially compete with Epic Universe on a scale hither to undreamt of.

I would also love Disney to do a hunchback of Notre dame ride it’s one of my favorite Disney movies from the reinassance and seeing frollo and Esmeralda as animatronics would be so magical and so stunning

5th gate… Disneys Super Heroic Adventure Multiple Marvel areas with Avengers tower/NYC/Spider-Man/Dr Strange Bleeker Street (Sanctum), a Wakanda land, and a space area for Asgard/Xander/Knowhere/etc. Could also add X-men down the road. DISNEY…BUY THE THEME PARK RIGHTS FROM UNIVERSAL!!! Incredibles land Big Hero 6 land Sky-High land

I love ur videos man

Excellent video!

Great investigative and video editing work here! I agree with you on the reasons explained that the last location would be the best option for the a fifth park! As for what the theme should be, I think it should be more Pixar focused or Marvel focused if they can ever secured the rights to more of those characters at their parks!

I’ve decided you’re clearly the smartest Disney RU-vidr! Thank you for this great insight. 😀

I agree with you that the last option for land for a 5th park makes more sense. Now, what type pf theme park would be cool to have???? That´s a great question. Maybe the 5th park can have the following: Some sort of villan area using all the villians from all the Disney movies? Or, a park that has former rides from the other parks. I read that they´re going to be demaloshing Dinoland Usa for either Zootopia or Moana Land (or something like that.) If/when that happens they could create a 5th park that has the Dinosaur Park (and other Dinoland Usa experieences) and make it even better. Have a log flume ride like the one in Universal Studios, the Dinosaur Ride that could be relocated to this park, a similation ride (like the one that they used to have in Epcot called Body Wars,) etc. Maybe they can build the Indiana Jones ride that Disneyland has in this new park. Or, now that Disney owns Fox (and I think all the movies that Fox used to own like Alien and Predator) wouldn´t it be cool to use some of thoes ip´s in this new park? Inmagine mix rides (a walk through with a similation ride and a ride similar to Dinosaur) of the history of the Predator franchise, the Alien franchise and then AVP? That´ll be so cool. A walk though (kinda like the one that they had at Universal Studios Florida a while back during an HHN event that the walk through with the 2nd AVP movie (or at least a few scenes from the movie), then you´ll go through a similator ride (like the Body Wars ride that was at Epcot), and then a ride like Dinosaur (but obviously with Alien and Predator in which you´ll be on the side of the predator who wins the battle towrds the end of the ride.) Then have two different resturants which is designed by certain scenes from the franchises. One resturant would be made to look like the jungle from the original predator movie (with cast members dressed as the charecters from that specific movie and with the predator wondering around the resturant also.) And a resturant that has aspects of certain scenes from the 1st or 2nd Alien movie with (again) cast members dressed as charecters from thoes movies with the Alien running around the resturant, etc. Ofcourse there would be signs stating that little kids could get scared going on these attractions/experiences. I mean there is so much stuff that can be done since DIsney owns Fox (at least the entertainment part.) Or, they could do a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle experience/show. Or, a Might Morphen Power Ranger experience. A show in which a few audience members get choosen to be either on the Power Ranger side or the Villian side. They´ll get to dress up as one of the Ranger or an assistant to the Villan. Kinda like the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular in Hollywwod Studios. The difference is that the guests will get to take a pic with all the actors/actresses after the show (as a momento) maybe keep the costume (or some part of it) and get to see behind the scenes of how the show id done. That´ll be so cool. It´ll be cool to see them have The Great Movie Ride, Horizons, World of Motion, Malestrom, Backlot Tour, etc. They could also build new hotels that have activities for all ages. I think that it´ll be so cool if they offered cooking classes for the guests (not just the children though.) I would love to take a class in making freak shakes or baking cakes that look like Disney charecters (not just Mickey Mouse either though.) The hotels would offer babysitting services so that the adults can have some time alone. Maybe go see a movie, out to dinner, go back to the park and go on the rides without the kids, go to the spa, go do some of thoes behind the scenes tours, etc. I also agree that they should also fix all the older rides/ the rides that are currently having issue working correctly. There is so much potencial when it comes to making things work better at Disney World. The question is though.... Would they be actually willing to spend the money for a new park or to fix the rides/attractions that aren´t working too well at the moment.

The area of the lot is brilliant for the fifth theme park. It could be Live-Action Adaptation Plateau or Storybook Land.

The Disney Vs DeSantis chapter does a pretty big hand-wave assumption. It's actually *not* guaranteed that Disney will want to retain Florida properties by default. I acknowledge that it's an enormous value to lose, but without getting into all the legal and political details, let's note that the possibility still exists.

I love the Disney SEA idea. With most of the work already done because of the park in Japan. I would also love to see the Adventurers Club from Pleasure Island resurrected in some form. Maybe part Frozen Sing-A-Long and part Olga's cantina but with the Adventurers telling their stories.

Watching this video from Flamingo Crossings! Thanks for the CP shoutout!

They should build one in Australia, like they originally planned in the 90's

Good analysis

The cash flow situation is very bad… This pie in the sky 5th park is not happening anytime soon

We need a villain's theme park...that location would be perfect for it too! Or even near the Magic Kingdom, but like you said it may disrupt the guests staying at the cabins. The ideas running through my head of what could go at that last location...Maleficent castle in the middle of the park...just to name one idea.

I have long been enamored with the idea of a legacy attraction park to move aging rides to as well as acting as a museum to the history of the parks/company. The theming could be a bit like Paris with a number of large studio buildings that things are moved into for 'storage.' I personally also think that there is a great opportunity in having a ski resort/indoor waterpark with some outdoor fair-weather rides somewhere near the population centers of the northeast (Pocono mts, upstate NY...). This would make it more physically accessible to a large number of people who can't make it to Florida for an extended trip. It would be smaller and only be pulling people in for a day or two or a weekend, and would not be as grand as WDW, but would allow families to experience the 'Disney Magic' closer to home.

Very preliminary plans in the 1960’s had the Magic Kingdom sited at that southern plot where ESPN. That plan was abandoned early on as property taxes were lower in the Orange County portion of the property and Walt wanted to guests to have that building anticipation as they traveled World Drive to a park that was not immediately visible from the highway.

As a recent graduate of the Disney College Program I can say with full confidence that the Western Way location would be the most unlikely location as the road was backed up all the time due to it being small and the bottle neck that would occur when an accident would happen made it impossible to move both cast members and guests. And they happened quite a few times causing 30+ minute delays. All the other CP’s would joke about the ESPN location being a great spot for a potential 5th gate because of the low guest traffic to the area when it wasn’t marathon season.

*If* there's going to be a 5th gate, I completely agree with you. Plot #3 is the most likely.

I agree with you Jack. The 3 spot is the best choice. What I would like to see is a similar replica of Fantasy Springs including a Beauty and the Beast area Making 4 areas total along with Frozen, Peter Pan/Tinker Bell, Tangled ! I think it would be a slam dunk keeping in competition with Epic Universe.

I’m just in the camp that this will never happen, and or there is no reason for this to happen!

I was thinking they could build a new water park at Disney World.

Thanks for such an interesting video Would be great to see a 5th park. Like you said in the video bringing back some classic attractions but modernized.

A villains Themed Area with some thrill and family mix be cool!

DSNY is a super under rated channel.

I would love to sea a combination of Tokyo DisneySea and a park with various lands of historical time periods. Example, an area dedicated to Greek mythology with perhaps a fun boat ride featuring characters from Hercules. I wouldn't want the park to be too heavy on intellectual properties though. Another example would be an area with ride dedicated to the Renaissance. You could easily combine historical areas with rides like Journey to the Center of the Earth. Welcome to Disney's Forgotten Kingdom!

Forget Disney. Many great amusement parks in this country as well like Six Flags and other local amusement parks

Thanks for the fun topic but down vote this idea. They can't fix a fourth of their rides and short so much transportation already. No capital for a new park please.... Please!

I think in addition to a large scale park Disney should try their luck with a boutique park where they can cap the amount of people who visit while using ideas that are too small in scale for a regular theme park but too big for a land. For example if they didn’t shove Star Wars into a land concept they could’ve done this as an experiment to test the waters. Having it be boutique would make the interactions more intimate but not full on LARPing like the Star Wars hotel wanted and there would be a handful of rides that fit into the story if you do want to follow the story of the park to the fullest extent. The only problem is getting Disney to care enough about a project like this.

I’d love to see a Disney Sea style park but I can imagine them having a park based on ip. Disney’s Wondrous Worlds or something like that.

So I have 4 ideas for a Disney 5th gate; 1. Disney’s Tragic Kingdom (based on villains) 2. A Pixar theme park 3. A sister park to Disney’s California Adventure (Disney’s Florida Adventure) 4. A park celebrating the newest Disney IP (from like 2010 on)

They need to fix the current parks now before they even consider building entirely new park

Before even bothering w/a 5th park, just expand the already existing parks - Magic Kingom, especially, but also EPCOT & Hollywood Studios, especially.

I like the idea for the park over by the runway for unrealized, visions, and popular rides that have gone away. That could be a small park. Maybe a half day visit.

great idea!

If there’s going to be a fifth Disney park, they should make it either like Disney quest or Tokyo Disneysea!

I would love a 5th park based on the 60s and 70s classic movies like 101 Dalmatians, the sword in the stone, the jungle book, The rescuers, Robin Hood, the aristocats and yeah they could do a Ferris wheel ride also which would be the Icon

above the transpo parking lot. build garage levels upwards. on top, east coast disneysea. views to the magic kingdom.

The new park could have a Star Wars land set in a different part of the galaxy and then connect the park to Hollywood Studios through the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser, creating an experience for park hopper guests similar to what already exists with the Harry Potter lands at Universal Resort.