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This was always true. Maybe they can get a good price for it, should they decide to sell it to another company or ship the parts over somewhere else.

Sorry when you said previous to that statement "What is seen is a stagnation in the US parks." and then immediately after "Finally, let us all stop comparing Disney to Universal," seemed obvious to me you were referring to the parks. The parks division has done pretty well through the last...

In 2019, Parks Revenue was $26.2B. In 2023, it was $32.5B. Up 24% In 2019, Parks Income was $6.7B. In 2023, it was $8.9B. Up 32%.

No, but they have also significantly raised prices and retooled the annual passes within the last few years. Building SWGE and relocating swaths of backstage infrastructure did necessitate huge price increases. The kind of huge price increases that would probably have to happen at MK if they...

I don't really have a horse in the "Disney Adult" race, but a historical correction here: in Walt's day, amusement parks (like seaside piers and boardwalks) were really seedy places mostly meant for adults. The real innovation with Disneyland was creating a place where adults felt it was safe to...

Disneyland has never just closed off attractions and venues without replacement before? Ever? News to me. I think the admission at Disneyland being lower has been a problem to solve for them, and they've been working to correct it. But that is generally a separate issue. It doesn't change the...

They have to have a reason, a pretty good reason to spend the kind of money needed to replace something. Even though their general reasoning can be cynically boiled down to "it will make us more money" in almost every case, there is still a level of popular opinion weighing on that. Splash...

Keeping operating costs in check, does ultimately serve the park and the guests. If more people utilized the ROA, they wouldn't need to replace it. If enough people used it, they wouldn't be able to remove it even if they wanted to.

Cost. It's not cost effective to keep expanding out the park if there are areas of the park that are not utilized. Think about the money that has to go into keeping the ROA and TSI open today.l The Cast Members needed to staff these areas and maintain them. And all the auxiliary cast members...

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??? Seems likely that 17 million is just where their target max attendance is.

Let's not pretend though, that the original designers were somehow unencumbered by their own pop culture biases. Wild West shoot-em-ups were insanely popular in cinema and eventually on TV throughout the 1940s and 1950s. The spirit of 76 was gripping the nation in the late 60s and early 70s as...

Give it a few more years of them removing more of your favorite things. Then you too will realize that they will never suffer any consequences from removing those untouchable things. Ever.

Of course they do. People just have to want them in order to justify the cost. Audiences are trending toward more thrill rides and more personal experiences, and building giant rotating theaters doesn't hold interest any longer. People have been saying that the parks NEED more capacity, but...

Apparently the attendance wasn't all that low at all.

Yes it is. Believe it or not.

What they are putting in, will be used by more guests than what is there today.

Disney does not care about it, because their guests do not care about it. They have the turnstile numbers, the guest satisfaction numbers, the survey data. They know how people feel about it. They know how much it costs to maintain today, and they know how much a new attraction will be. They...

4,000 posts and this keeps getting said ... The river isn't being removed because it's a convenient place to build CARs, or that the land use makes more sense. The river is being removed because people do not care about it. Moving Cars doesn't change that. Sending letters doesn't change that...

Just a guess, but it seems that the AECOM reporting is more in line with in-park estimates, which is a different method for counting admissions against the first use. When calculating which park gets the "credit" of admission, first entry makes sense. In park estimates are the rough count of...