Rumor Disney resort of some kind in Texas?

[DarkMetroid567]

My thought is they are catering too much to the ip crowd and not to the people who love the original ideas. I think this is because they are creatively bankrupt at this point and so far every new announcement proves me right....to myself

In other words, the parks used to generate its own ip and now they can't come up with that because they have to use existing stuff because they can't think of new things

Not that this conversation needs to be had over-and-over, but they cater to the IP crowd because those are the bulk of paying customers. It’s pretty silly to imply that an entire force of creators “can’t think of new things,” obviously there are other things at play.

I do think it’s sad we likely won’t see an original IP be created in the parks for a long time, but I recognize that the ones we do have were born in an era when Disney IPs weren’t a draw at all.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Wait I may be a bit dumb but, why does it matter which park they go to? the money all goes to the same place right? I get that there are investments made in each park but if they balance eachother out what's really the difference?

I just don’t get why they’d prioritize the castle parks that are already bursting at the seems, I don’t understand where they plan on putting these additional guests during fireworks, parades, closing, etc, they’ve already been taking out trees, flower beds, seating, etc for years to make the paths as wide as possible and they’re still impassable at times, what’s the point of spending all that money adding new lands to MK if the park can’t physically accommodate more people? Especially when there’s 3 other parks down the street that could easily accommodate millions more guests a year if they could just convince them they’re worth visiting also?

My suspicion is LL is the prime motivator for these decisions, by adding more to the busiest park (MK) they know the only way guests will be able to do these new rides will be a few by VQ with the majority buying Lightning Lane.

 

[TomboyJanet]

I just don’t get why they’d prioritize the castle parks that are already bursting at the seems, I don’t understand where they plan on putting these additional guests during fireworks, parades, closing, etc, they’ve already been taking out trees, flower beds, seating, etc for years to make the paths as wide as possible and they’re still impassable at times, what’s the point of spending all that money adding new lands to MK if the park can’t physically accommodate more people? Especially when there’s 3 other parks down the street that could easily accommodate millions more guests a year if they could just convince them they’re worth visiting also?

My suspicion is LL is the prime motivator for these decisions, by adding more to the busiest park (MK) they know the only way guests will be able to do these new rides will be a few by VQ with the majority buying Lightning Lane.

Oh no I was talking about like spreading attendence between say florida and a hypothetical Texas park

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Oh no I was talking about like spreading attendence between say florida and a hypothetical Texas park

Gothcha, basically the same reasons, why spend billions to cram a million more people into the existing castle parks when they could spend that money building a new park that can handle an additional 20 million people a year?

If this was a scenario like a restaurant that had outgrown its dining room and needed a dozen more tables I’d 100% support an expansion, there’d be no need to build another expensive building that requires additional management, cooks, dishwashers, etc just to add a few more tables… but this is more like a restaurant that has already been expanded, expanded again to the edges of their lot, is already stretching the lobby’s capacity, pushing the kitchens limits, pushing the dishrooms limits, etc and still can’t accommodate the demand, in that scenario the only viable scenario is to build another restaurant to spread out that demand.

 

[co10064]

I just don’t get why they’d prioritize the castle parks that are already bursting at the seems, I don’t understand where they plan on putting these additional guests during fireworks, parades, closing, etc, they’ve already been taking out trees, flower beds, seating, etc for years to make the paths as wide as possible and they’re still impassable at times, what’s the point of spending all that money adding new lands to MK if the park can’t physically accommodate more people? Especially when there’s 3 other parks down the street that could easily accommodate millions more guests a year if they could just convince them they’re worth visiting also?

My suspicion is LL is the prime motivator for these decisions, by adding more to the busiest park (MK) they know the only way guests will be able to do these new rides will be a few by VQ with the majority buying Lightning Lane.

I don’t really agree with the rationale, but my theory is that Disney is very keen on ensuring MK remains the #1 most visited theme park worldwide for generations to come.

Universal Japan trails MK by about 1.7 million. That seems like a lot of people, but it’s only about 5,000 extra people a day.

I really can’t think of any other reason to invest in MK ahead of the other parks beyond that reason alone.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

I don’t really agree with the rationale, but my theory is that Disney is very keen on ensuring MK remains the #1 most visited theme park worldwide for generations to come.

Universal Japan trails MK by about 1.7 million. That seems like a lot of people, but it’s only about 5,000 extra people a day.

I really can’t think of any other reason to invest in MK ahead of the other parks beyond that reason alone.

I’d be really surprised to see USJ surpass MK, not for any MK reasons but because USJ just has such ridiculously limited capacity. 5000 more people sounds insane!

 

[JoeCamel]

And on my limited theme park feed this rumor is buzzing now, what I see is that Dis has been buying land around Jerrell including 9000 acres, maybe storyliving by Dis or an entertainment venue it seems to be reverberating in the echo chamber. May be echoes of the past or something ramping up now.
New? No but something disturbed the force
Now I look like a blogger/rumormonger.....

 

[Bocabear]

Storyliving By Disney seems to be doing well in Palm Springs with the houses starting well above the million dollar mark and upwards... Not sure they could get anywhere near that price point in Jarrell, but I am sure they could try...

 

[MisterPenguin]

Storyliving By Disney seems to be doing well in Palm Springs with the houses starting well above the million dollar mark and upwards... Not sure they could get anywhere near that price point in Jarrell, but I am sure they could try...

Are those houses built and being bought, tho?

Every time I see a Cotino video, the landscape is severely lacking in housing.

 

[Comped]

And on my limited theme park feed this rumor is buzzing now, what I see is that Dis has been buying land around Jerrell including 9000 acres, maybe storyliving by Dis or an entertainment venue it seems to be reverberating in the echo chamber. May be echoes of the past or something ramping up now.
New? No but something disturbed the force
Now I look like a blogger/rumormonger.....

Almost certainly Storyliving if it's happening. If it was a park, they'd much more likely be closer to DFW/Houston.

 

[LittleMerman]

They could do what Universal is doing and just do a smaller park, like a halfway from DL to WDW kind of thing. Disney's Fantasyland or something.

 

[Comped]

They could do what Universal is doing and just do a smaller park, like a halfway from DL to WDW kind of thing. Disney's Fantasyland or something.

Eisner thought this was a good idea, and for a solid decade challenged his execs to give him a workable concept for a park that cost about $300 million that could be somewhat of a blueprint for regional operations (a 3rd full sized park had long since been condemned to the Archives due to findings by Buzz Price and others that it would seriously take guests from both DL and WDW). We eventually, after some revisions, got Disney's America out of the deal, but I've heard that wasn't the only flavour they could have built if that was a moderate success.

Disney almost partnered with a developer to build Texposition years before that, which is something that is so obscure it's barely on the internet. That could have been a major regional model for them (there was also the 84 proposal for anchor tenant sized developments for major shopping centres signed off on by Ron Miller and several other execs but was never developed once Eisner came in).