Recent content by Sir_Cliff

Indeed. I certainly respect the creativity with which they approached the assignment of creating a land based around dinosaurs.

I think one of the things you mentioned is an accurate description of what they're doing, and all the others are very different from that thing. Perhaps some people are looking to Disney vloggers to be public ombudsmen, but I think most understand they are providing entertainment and ultimately...

I think people are more saying that Tropical Americas has the potential to be a good fit for Animal Kingdom and that Dinoland USA fell short of the potential of a dinosaur-based land. I don't recall anyone saying that dinosaurs have no place in Animal Kingdom, though I might have missed that. I...

My impression was that the Las Vegas Loop was also a case of over-promising and under-delivering in that it turned out to be just a relatively slow, low-capacity and generally inefficient underground Tesla taxi service.

Many thanks for your observations, which were great to read! I feel quite the same. For a few reasons, I'm not super keen on travelling to the US anytime soon but also haven't been to the US parks in a good while and am not aching to get back. My last trip to WDW was fun, but it felt a lot more...

Honestly, at what point can some posters just be considered trolls?

Reading this thread, I am amazed there are not more wildly profitable streaming services out there as they are apparently very straightforward to set up and run if you don't have management as incompetent as Disney. Either that or other entertainment companies that wisely chose not to go into...

This was my feeling, too. It's nicer, but it still feels a little like a bunch of themed (to various degrees) facades dotted around a big open space. I really think that, at a minimum, they need to at least demolish everything in front of ToT and either demolish or completely re-work the...

I think the broader point, though, is that a large middle class with a disposable income for things like vacations that existed during the first few decades of WDW's existence no longer exists. The trend for travel in general and really most businesses that sell luxuries (in the sense of...

A far bigger weakness of Dinosaur was relying too much on dialogue to communicate the story. The fact you needed to watch a video to explain what the ride experience was about and then have a narrator for most of the experience to tell you what you were supposed to be doing is further evidence...

You could say that about tourism in the United States more generally, though, as high income earners have been consistently growing their share of the the tourism market and middle and lower income earners' share has been declining. Those trends are not being fuelled by Disney and Universal...

There was definitely a long period under Iger where they didn't see the value in expanding capacity which has had long-term repercussions. That's what makes the recent shift in strategy so notable, however. What has been surprising to me is not that the last quarter was soft for the parks, but...

Yes, I get the impression from the way people talk about this issue that a lot of people imagine Disney executives are just adjusting profit margins at the parks to cover declining profit margins elsewhere when the reality appears far more nuanced than that. They certainly can and have made bad...

Well, there you go: that allows them to thread that needle in an organic manner.

Would it be a problem if they found a way to work that song into the ride somewhere with everything else they've revealed about the ride being true? Your example from FEA shows that they can do that without it having to literally occur in the ride at the same point in the Encanto universe...