I agree. It's not being "lazy," it just doesn't make business sense. Remember, Disney is and always has been a business. Its primary goal is to enrich its shareholders. We all wish FW was updated, but what makes the most sense for both guests and TWDC is to make meaningful updates that will make them money and is happy. If it doesn't make them money, forget them devoting a meaningful budget to it.
What took so long with the 7DMT? It wasn't even planned until a long time after the NFL was started. There are massive amounts of detail, new types of technology for a roller-coaster that is sometimes a dark ride at a slow pace. A new ride vehicle and many things that required precise engineering and building. I have to wonder just how fast one thinks that things should be built. Should it be so fast that details are overlooked, perhaps rushing through it and having a major catastrophe happen because something was left out? I defy anyone to tell me that they know exactly how long it should take to build something. Not based on individual desire to see it done, but, based on the actual time required to perform the necessary actions that are required to actually build anything. Add to the the fact that it had no access that could be used during the day when thousands of people were busily trying to enjoy a theme park experience which was the case with 7DMT.
Lets see - just dig a huge hole in the ground and relocate service and maybe we will decide later what to put in the hole? Really you believe it was not planned?
Which would be fine if it weren't conveyed with anger and paranoia instead of understanding that things can take a while to build and are anxious to have it operational. The latter is a perfectly legitimate emotion to hold, the previous one filled with anger and incorrect ideas that it is always in their best interest to drag their feet because they don't and won't try and understand how accounting actually works. That is what makes it wrong. Sarcastically saying that they are directing it to take forever is just foolishness, but, is always the first thing that you hear.
Do you have rock hard evidence of that happening or are you just talking while wearing your tinfoil hat. That particular attraction has documented evidence that it was a last minute decision to go ahead with the construction. It was supposed to be a meet and greet in the original approved plans. I don't even know what you are talking about when you say they dig a huge hole and decide later what to put in it. Building anything is more then some guy in a hardhat looking at a set of blue prints and saying... run on down to Home Depot and pick up a few guys to start digging the foundation someplace around here.
Yeah I was there every day! They knew what they were going to put in the hole. Had to so they knew how big to dig the hole. The only question was what design they were going to build, the real coaster or the value engineered design they built. There was no question once they started digging.
I did work in construction for a number of years, I know about enough about the cranes to understand what they are doing and even though they might have figured it out the original plans did not call for the Mine Train and you know that. If I recall that whole area was a sub-lagoon for many, many years. routing utilities through there would be a probable thing. The point was not about when they knew it was going in anyway, it was about the length of time that it took to build and I still maintain that considering what they had to work around, especially after Under the Sea opened up didn't help speed up the process at all. Being there doesn't mean knowing what is planned and when it was planned, but, if it makes you happy and you were there, as you said you were, fine, but, I'm still not sure what it has to do with anything.
If only someone would track rumors on a more regular basis...
Thanks for that info and considering that it was a stand alone project that was surrounded by park guests all day for quite awhile, the additional time seems to be justifiable. That's not to say desirable, but, certainly hampered the speed of production.
