Is there any update on that? I am HOPING that this come to fruition for multiple reasons, the largest being my g/f's dad owns an excavation company that has been struggling and I can imagine this would help (assuming they got a part of the job). From what my g/f told me, Disney is currently looking for a general contractor and then will start accepting bids to begin work.

They started building this 5 months ago. The entire project is subterranean.

This is Houston's version of the Disney myth. Virtually every warm weather city has the Disney is looking/bought/buying/has secret land men out......stories since the late 60's. In the 60/70's it was a fact that Disney was only months away from starting up in Spring..or out near Clear Lake..or out in Katy.
When I was living near OKC years ago it was a fact that Disney had bought a bunch of land east of town to build a mid-America park....
NONE of these are true but there are hundreds of people in damn near every city that has these direct connections with that uncle/cousin/classmate..who is in the know.
This is right up there with ALL of the people who has a best friend who has an uncle who has seen the 120 MPG carb in that safe in a dungeon at GM/Ford/Chrysler/Packard/Nash....HQ.

Disney is going to focus on growth markets overseas. They just announced a new theme park in China, which will be the first on the mainland (with a population of 1.2B). Can't see Disney building a theme park in Texas that will only detract from the Orlando resort. As the above posters have said, these rumors have been around for decades.

College Station had it's own version(s) - Disney had bought/was going to buy the Renaissance Festival; or the other one - they were buying land south of the racetrack for a themepark.

I am not sure if I have ever heard a Disney rumor, LOL

However I did hear a rumor of some sort of Jurassic Park or something...

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College Station had it's own version(s) - Disney had bought/was going to buy the Renaissance Festival; or the other one - they were buying land south of the racetrack for a themepark.

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I grew up in Magnolia, and it is a confirmed fact that Disney has already invested a large sum of money into putting a park in around Plantersville. They have been working on it for over 20 years, so they must be getting close.

You must be talking about Earth Quest.

http://www.earthquestadventures.com/

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Disney is currently looking for a general contractor and then will start accepting bids to begin work.

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If this were the case, I would know about it. Not true.

Earthquest is no myth. We gonna be rockin a big ass theme park and resort in a few years.

Disney Tomball - "It's Closer Than You Think!"

Is Earthquest going in on 59 North around porter/new caney?

I think I saw a sign for it...

I've been hearing the "Disney is buying land around Plantersville and the Renaissance Festival" rumor for as long as I can remember. Like 1985 maybe.

Here's some stuff on Earthquest:
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2009/02/13/kingwood_observer/news/08realtor.txt

http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/index.php

I remember in the early 80s it was going in on Lake Travis just outside of Austin.

In this economy I don't see it. But maybe you undertake such a project in a down economy when it is cheaper to do.

Houston is one of the more logical places if Disney does build a 3rd US park. Weather is about the same as Orlando, port close by for bringing in equipment and for the Disney cruise line, 2 airports including an international one with lots of Latin America being served from, large international community in Houston, crossroads of an east-west interstate with a north-south interstate close to the middle between the existing parks putting most Americans w/i a 2 day drive of a Disney park, 4 million people w/i an hour's drive, 11-12 million w/i a 3-4 hour drive, plenty of inexpensive water available,employment at will state, ~100,000 college kids within 4 hour's drive for summer staffing plus internships, and so forth.



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You're all idiots.....it's going to be in Columbus.

Either that or Kendleton.