But where is the actual harm in what they did??? What is hurt by knowing what to expect when the ride reopens? I'd certainly rather know than have people building up unrealistic expectations or complaining about the lack of information. That happens enough as it is. If people want mystery, they can take comfort in the fact that firm closing and reopening dates haven't been announced yet.
The most negative reaction would be from those most inconvenienced.
They spoiled a more timely reveal.
Nobody has disputed that.
They didn’t do that “big mock-up” simply to gather social media content. Project resources weren’t used to create content. Even calling it a “big mock-up” is more than a little hyperbolic.
They set up some targets and plastic guns in a room for media. that’s it.
Yes. ...the when and the how. I can't speak for others, but what I suggested was revealing this update with the attraction's reopening. "We improved things so come down and see your beloved classic with some fun upgrades."
I didn’t say they created the mock-up for media. It already existed as part of the project development process. That’s it exists at the scale it does is the problem because it is part of the broken project delivery process.
Yeah, I am also scratching my head after watching that video again. All I can say is that I don't mind if they sometimes decide to show what they're working on when it comes to upgrades or new attractions and I expect them to talk about what they're doing enthusiastically; it would be odd if they didn't.
They just plopped down some of the new targets on tripods in the attraction. It wasn’t elaborate or anything of significant scale.
What "more timely reveal" would that be? Who cares if they tell us now or in 4 months? The project resources you're referring to - is that the testing or the social media post? They need to test the blasters and targets, so that's not wasteful. Every project gets some sort of marketing budget and they didn't exactly go with some over the top production putting together that Instagram video. This all feels like a real stretch looking for anything to criticize for what is a positive development.
Plenty of guests want to know that and attraction shutting down for several months will reopen with more than just some basic maintenance having been done, so there is a benefit to telling people that it is getting some needed improvements to the most visible problems. What actual benefit is there to letting people speculate???
If they thought this update would drive attendance then they would have done a lot more than a Disney Parks Blog post and a short social media video. If they run an ad for this during the Final Four then we can talk about how excessive their marketing efforts are.
Where did I say no one cared about it? Please quote where I did.
Yep. You would show up and there was a physical board at the parking kiosks listing which attractions were closed that day. In the park you might see a sign like "returning next summer!"
I never said you said that. I said that something doesn't gave to be a major attraction for people to care about it because there has been an attitude in this thread that the ride isn't important enough to merit the extensive marketing campaign of a single blog post and a quick social media video.