The problem with MK Paris was not attendance or quality; it was overspending on hotels, the debt, and a miscalculation in local spending habits. The problem with Paris Studios is a major lack of quality and attractions.
>Since China is too lucrative just to ignore, Disney will have to add new and exciting attractions very quickly to attract guests.
Possibly. But if the park tanks, they may say that they can't afford to build new attractions. Where is the money going to come from if not from profits? Disney won't want to throw money at it and I doubt the HK government will either. If they had planned to build a great park they would have done so from the start - like the OLC did with TDS. If the park tanks, they will dangle new attractions just enough to stave off criticism and make it sound like they are doing something. When a woman called in to Larry King to complain to Eisner that there was nothing for her kids to do at DCA, he replied, "Have they been to A Bug's Land." That was his solution!
Everytime Disney opens an anemic park, people say that in Phase 2 or whatever the park will expand rapidly and be a great park, but I've yet to see that happen. AK is seven years old and has basically had nothing new other than the mini-Dino park. It is getting an E-ticket but it will have taken eight years! Eisner walked around the park and begrudingly admitted that it needed more. What is new at the Paris Studios. Everything they do is a knee-jerk reaction. Nothing seems planned. This is the new-Disney philosophy. Give as little as possible; charge as much as possible; and add in bits and pieces to stem the criticism.