It feels like that area can breathe now.... I understand that they were going for a back alley look when it was built, but this feels so much better with a little space... Do we know what is replacing Rizzo yet? If it is Pizza again, please make it good pizza this time!
Pizza RAzzo of course!
Park perimeter roads are generally where major utilities are run. The building was likely pushed back to keep the area relatively clear in case there was ever a need to get access to them in the future.
The road between Toy Story Land and Galaxy’s Edge is to provide access to buildings that are in the middle of the park, but there is no such need with the perimeter roads. The coaster building will still need back of house access as well as fire truck access around most of it, so maintaining access would not be much of an issue.
There’s an extended queue that runs behind the theater. It also has a substantial retaining wall along it whose installation did not close the theater.
Lots of cynicism to unpack.
Since that extended queue was full on the last day, they would have struggled to reroute people through there on the last day, right? Is there a chance that they guessed that it would be so popular they decided it wasn't worth the hassle of turning the extended queue into an exit?
It is an informed but partial view which is the point you are failing to humbly acknowledge. In fact, to claim one's construction or project or map-reading expertise gives license to claim a company closed an attraction early is to not respect the dozens of other functional experts needed to weigh in on that kind of decision.
No clues about Rizzo yet.
What’s good there? The Mexican food used to be great but was seriously downgraded.
That's a bummer!
Do you remember the burritos they used to have there? They were so good. The tacos there and at Disneyland are so pathetic compared to the good days.
“Don’t build the church for Easter.” The last day was one day. Setting up a temporary extended queue for one day would have been trivial.
Chicken tacos were good, the potato one was ironically our favorite.
We have wildly different standards of good. That potato taco is Taco Bell quality at best. Unless you got a fresh one and I got one that had been sitting for 5 hours waiting to be ordered! Could happen!
It is only a construction zone because Disney wanted it to be one.
Disney, like a lot of large corporations, has many committees who hold meeting after meeting after meeting to make sometimes even the smallest decisions. The idea that Iger is sitting on a throne in Burbank making proclamations is simply not true.
Muppets was not closed to save money. The closing of the courtyard resulted in very little money. Especially when the lost revenue from the two restaurants is factored in.
Ah yes, the old, “You must not be considering something”. Beautiful really. A open-ended, vague demand to prove a negative. Especially since the argument is that this work is not being driven by construction needs and was driven by other factors. It’s those who don’t know construction insisting it must be related to construction needs. So what factors were ignored?
Iger isn’t the only level of executive who can just come in and demand changes, completely upending a project. They even give up revenue to facilitate such decisions.
Nobody knows everything so nobody knows anything. That’s means we can make up whatever garbage we want to and pretend it’s the truth.
Disney doesn't HAVE to open on Thursdays or sell cheeseburgers, either. Except they do, and they do have to start construction on Monsters Inc. land when shareholders are asking them how they're going to compete with the likes of Epic Universe and stay current with customer preferences.
That’s a boba sized straw man.