So at this point, over the last five episodes, we've already explored all of the ride and resort announcements for Disney World in Florida,

as well as a few projects that are almost surely happening but haven't been discussed publicly yet.

Today, we begin to explore the California Resort.

Disneyland has the largest number of attractions at any Disney Park in America, so it's California

adventure that needs the most improvements.

This is also a park that's moving through a multi-year identity shift from its original

conceit as presenting the various landscapes and cultures of California

to a park that now is largely arranged around intellectual properties

fused in places with California landscapes,

from San Fransokio to Pixar Pier to Avengers campus and so on.

That trend of focusing IP-based lands, not unlike Hollywood

studios out in Florida, will surely continue into the next four or five years with some of the

recent announcements playing into that identity shift. But before we jump in, I need to thank

another round of recent Bandcamp subscribers.

We're an ad-free listener-supported podcast, so these are the people who keep this whole enterprise going.

Gratitude today is going out to Amaretz fan, Daniel 1313 South Harbor, and Abigail.

Thanks to each of you and to all of our band camp subscribers for supporting what we do here.

And now we have a lot to explore today.

So, if you're ready, let's go.

This episode will be entirely focused on DCA, and the range of projects coming to that park.

We'll start with the Avatar area.

Previously, we could assume that the new Avatar area would be themed to the second Avatar movie, The Way of Water.

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