LOST Island at Disneyland?

The OC Weekly (my old stomping grounds) reports that a fan campaign is afoot to remake the rather forlorn Tom Sawyer/Pirates of the Caribbean island at Disneyland into a Lost-themed attraction.

I doubt it'll ever happen, and if it did it frankly sounds like something that could date quickly. The last thing Disney wants is to end up like Universal Studios. That park is always unveiling attractions based on popular franchises, only to end up looking pretty sad a few years later when the show goes off the air. (They got stuck with a pathetically irrelvant Miami Vice stunt show that ran until sometime around the Lewinski scandal. Then they replaced it with a Waterworld show, which wasn't exactly trading up.) Lost is not the smash hit it once was, and while the upcoming final season should attract plenty of interest, I suspect that this is a show won't linger on in reruns. Six years from now, it's not unlikely that kids visiting the park would have no idea what Lost was.

But the idea of a Lost island is so cool that I can't resist hoping it happens. Not only does Disney already own the rights to Lost (via ABC), the attraction would also be relatively cheap to produce. A hatch here, a puff of evil black smoke there, a rickety dock, palm trees, a big stone foot, and you're pretty much done. But here's hoping there are no animatronic Michelle Rodriguezes. The kids already get enough nightmares from The Haunted Mansion, they don't need some angry robot lady ranting at them.

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