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Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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But then, Houston lost Astroworld, so they are instantly in the running.
I know! Houston is getting another theme park called Earth Quest Adventures. Well, the Greater Houston area... it will be in New Caney near Conroe and The Woodlands. //www.city-data.com/forum/houst...dventures.html
Virginia.
Woops...Disney tried that already and the locals (with national help) ran them off.
Boy, IMO, that was a huge loss.
Oh well, I hope Disney will try their Disney's America (or something else) in VA again sometime in the future (though I know, after they public backlash they endured, they will not).
Wasn't the main reason that Virginia turned Disney down was because the site of the Disney park was to be on Civil War battlefield grounds or something? Or was it something else?
I don't remember. That was like 1995, a long time ago now.
I know! Houston is getting another theme park called Earth Quest Adventures. Well, the Greater Houston area... it will be in New Caney near Conroe and The Woodlands. //www.city-data.com/forum/houst...dventures.html
This project would be great for the Houston area and also could get it more tourist! New Caney could become the new Orlando! lol
Or maybe a location thats also a bit more northern than Texas?
I would seriously doubt it. All of Disney's current parks are year-round parks. Even chilly Paris doesn't get nearly as cold in the winter as it does in the Great Plains in the US. All of Disney's current parks (OC, Orlando, Tokyo, Paris, HongKong) are in places with stable and very predictable weather patterns. Even Florida's hurricanes rarely have much of an impact on Disney World since it's so far inland--and those hurricanes occur once every 50 years or so. The same can't be said for the tornadoes and blizzards of the Great Plains.
I honestly don't think Disney will ever build another theme park in the US. It's outrageously expensive to build a brand new theme park from scratch in the US, plus there's just too much competition here, and that segment is not growing very quickly. Right now Disney is focusing on expanding in the Far East and is rumored to be looking at building a park near Shanghai.
Texas sounds good, but now that some have mentioned others....You could give it to Washington DC... It would fit good there but... they already have everything...
Dallas is already getting this park with like indoor Winter sports (I think... right now), I think if it were to go anywhere in Texas they wouldn't put it in Dallas or Houston as those cities don't have but a few Tourist attractions....
They would put it near San Antonio....
I don't think Disney is going to build anything in Texas anytime soon...
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Houston is getting another theme park called Earth Quest Adventures. Well, the Greater Houston area... it will be in New Caney near Conroe and The Woodlands. 
