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At least the stage is less obtrusive during the fireworks than the hat. Though I must say those pictures of the cleared out area were a revelation followed immediately by sadness when that stage went up. :(

^ Yet I can still get a burger, fries and a coke at WDW for less than I can at a Cedar Fair or Six Flags park. ;)

It's really not hard to do a little research and add it all up. Aggressive spending in the parks: $450 million for new Fantasyland $50 million for infrastructure related Fantasyland updates including FoF, Pooh queue, Pan queue, Tangled restrooms $50 million for infrastructure relating to the...

I'm no expert (wait, I actually am), but Disneyland needed an adjustment in their attendance and per cap numbers. The parks have been bursting at the seams with cheap annual passholders that "drop by" for a few hours and contribute a fraction of the per capita spending of a typical guest. The...

"Slapping a clone" in there is what they could do with the budget that was deemed prudent. And 99% of the people visiting could care less if it's a clone, much like Pirates, Mansion, Splash, Peter Pan, Small World, Tiki Room and about half of the rest of the park. Clones make sense. The story...

Not very many business and/or hospitality oriented people here I see... When there's a segment of a company that is skyrocketing (WDW within P&R) despite what's viewed as a lack of innovation and investment, it's a pretty bad idea to take money from lesser performing segments and focus that...

I can't wait for OLC to begin dumping fugly slurry all over the pathways and letting it rot for decades. I also can't wait for "limited merchandise releases" that last for a few weeks and then return to the same generic/terrible crappy merchandise for much of the year. I also can't wait for...

What really gets me is the notion that it should rival stuff like Splash Mountain or Indiana Jones Adventure. It's a Fantasyland dark ride. What do you believe Disney was intending to do with Little Mermaid? If you expected an E-ticket, then you're exactly the person I was referring to when I...

Rockn Rollercoaster rarely breaks 1400 an hour Everest rarely goes below 2200 an hour It's a massive difference especially added up over a 10-12 hour operating day.

We have no idea how those revenues stack up against Disney without some actual hard numbers. Percentages are the ultimate tool to obfuscate. I'm guessing that this massive revenue growth which is probably on the order of double compared to pre-Potter still isn't close to the revenues generated...

Fact: If the Magic Kingdom's installation of Little Mermaid was never built here in the states, and was instead put into Tokyo's Fantasyland or even DisneySea as a unique attraction- most of the people around here would be screaming bloody murder about how unfair it is that Tokyo yet-again got a...

At this point I've concluded that if you can't appreciate Little Mermaid for what it is, you're just far too jaded for me to ever take seriously. It's a superb dark ride (better now with the blacklighting) with one of the best queues in the whole of Orlando (and one of WDW's best queues ever to...

Total gain in attendance at Universal Orlando from 2008-2013: 3.68 million According to the prevailing notions on this board and similar "doom and gloom" assessments of WDW and the nearly deification of Universal- Uni Orlando is outsmarting, out building and out classing WDW in every single way...