Speaking of mountain lodges, a DisneySKI in Colorado might not be a bad idea...
The last project Walt Disney had a hand in was a massive ski resort in Colorado. It was abandoned due to a combination of Walt's death and the Sierra Club going back on endorsing the project. If Henson approves of a similar project it can't be in the proposed location of Walt's ski resort since that valley was annexed into a national park in the late '70s.
For the Japanese, it makes a lot of sense. The OLC plays extremely safe when building anything in the Tokyo Disneyland property, to the point where they just simply copied the Magic Kingdom almost exactly for TDL and copied most of the ideas from OTL DisneySea for TDS.
ITTL Tokyo DisneySea won't have any carryovers nor would have an Oceana counterpart (thus removing a lot of what makes ITTL DisneySea different from other Disney parks), so it's only natural that the OLC would want IPs to fill in most of the park since they know that their popularity will bring in huge crowds for the theme park, whereas doing something completely original carries some risk.
The Imagineers can easily do something detailed and creative with IP, as we have seen in OTL, but they need money and creative freedom, something that the OLC will happily provide.
It could pop up at Disney, but it's not a bad idea for WB Movie World either.
Don't we have a Disneytown in Denver/Colorado Springs? It could happen.
I didn't say to have something
completely original. Just to have a careful balance between rides based on IP, especially outside IP, and rides based on original concepts.
It would be interesting to discuss how to make the inevitable second Japanese theme park distinct from both OTL Tokyo DisneySea and TTL's DisneySea.
You can't deny that while OLC plays it safe their budget for Tokyo DisneySea was generous compared with what Imagineers had to deal with when it came to building California Adventure or Hong Kong Disneyland.
We should really put more attention on the parks built by the competition. How are Universal's parks different from OTL? How are the Warner Bros parks different from OTL? We've explored Columbia's theme park venture, so we should look into the rest of the competition.
The best part of having the haunted mountain lodge ride be merely "inspired by" The Shining is that you don't have to directly get permission from King himself. Though that'd be moot when we're talking about a ride based on a movie Warner Bros made.