Also, I remember, Eisner cancelled all (or most) projects that were under development under his predecessor when he first became CEO. He, then, relaunched major projects under the Disney Decade banner some time later. So, this makes sense that Iger would do something similar. The bad news is...
Here’s the deal. I saw the details of Chepek’s plan to overhaul EPCOT. It’s actually a good thing that much of it never panned out. The “attractions” were mostly facades, which looked good but were really cheap as far as its attractions go.
I’m confident Igor will green light worthy new...
$17 billion is A LOT of money. It can buy a fifth park, expansions and plusing at all existing parks, new hotels, new transportation options, a train station, and more. I’m excited to see what they will announce after they budget it.
By the way, did you all know that originally a Mary Poppins ride was going to go into the Magic Kingdom for Opening Day 1971? In the end, Roy Disney decided to clone Peter Pan for Fantasyland’s dark “flying” ride than to spend a whole new development budget on an original Mary Poppins MK dark ride.
So, the EPCOT announcements are over? What I’m seeing...
Mary Poppins (ride?) coming to UK
Space Ship Earth redo
The water attraction thing
Demolition of half of Innovations
Trees
New entrance fountains (two of them)
Did I miss anything?
I remember, during the Eisner era, Disney was ready to respond to Universal’s Harry Potter announcements by building new E-ticket attractions in each park (including Fire Mountain). In the end, it was decided to shelve these projects because Burbank calculated that the Universal announcement...