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Yeah this has been one of the things I have never been able to understand. Disney is an 800 pound gorilla. Everybody wants to do business with them. A company like Walmart has historically squeezed their suppliers within an inch of their life to get the best prices because they can. Disney...

Last I checked the Zootopia show in Tree of Life was slated to open in 2025 (I believe they said Winter 2025 which would at this point have to mean Nov/Dec not Jan/Feb and that lines up with the new movie too). All we have is a name and a poster. Zero concept art of the actual show, zero...

Galaxy’s Edge has 2 rides last time I checked, this land is just one new ride plus a repurposed theater that already exists. If they wanted to cut costs they’d cut the Door Coaster since that’s the most expensive part. Replace a show and 2 restaurants themed to Muppets with a show and 2...

Yes, so to sum up, officially Disney is still planning to put a new theater show in the MV3D theater. The parks blog is giving us the official company line. It’s fair game for anyone to speculate that this will later get cancelled or scaled back, but there is no indication that today the plan...

It could be to cut operating costs now, it could be to spread construction costs over different years, it could be to re-open the front half of the land earlier. It could be none of those reasons or even all of those reasons. Nobody here knows for sure but it’s fun speculating.

Nobody said the show opening first was definitely the plan. It was just speculation from 1 poster which I happen to think could be a possibility. I don’t know if the original poster was saying it to try to excuse Disney for closing the whole land earlier than needed. Can’t speak for him. I...

Are you saying you don’t think there will be a Monsters show at all because they didn’t include a glimpse of the show in the concept art? The outside of the theater is clearly still there in the art and they announced (in words) replacing MV3D with a new theater show. I’m fairly confident...

That was a one day drop. The stock is up 35% since the announcement. The consensus amongst sell side analysts after the announcement was overwhelmingly positive. This is a pretty good summary from the time from Seeking Alpha Disney levels off as analysts see upside in new Parks investments...

A good rule of thumb, but there’s also the saying it takes money to make money. DIS stock is up more than 35% since the announcement about increased spending on the parks, $60B over a decade. Many other factors influence that price too, but at the time the street took the news pretty well with...

Of course they will be eager to impress Wall Street. A large portion of compensation for executive management at almost any Fortune 500 company is directly tied to the stock price not to mention their personal job security. The better question is why would anyone assume Wall Street will be...

There’s also no real reason to release all of the details of a show that won’t open for 18+ months to 3 years.

Planned or not it still happened. Regrets or not it still happened. Disney has announced the plan to replace MV3D with a brand new theater show. People here seem to want to ignore that and assume that nothing will replace MV3D but it was announced, Disney has not been completely quiet about...

I hope not. I like Disney coasters in general. I love Hagrids which I imagine is more likely the style they would build (launches vs large lift hills) but I’d prefer Villians to be slower moving dark rides. Just my opinion. I don’t think he’s a troll. We don’t agree on everything (maybe a...

We don’t know it’s closing years early to save on spending. That’s one valid theory. There are others as well. We will see what actually happens.

I am not opposed to to a coaster in general. For example, I actually think the door coaster is a great concept for Monsters. I just wish Villians would have more of a fantasyland feel to it. A coaster could exist like Mine Train now in FL but not be the main attraction for the whole land. If...

There is a clear history of Disney closing stuff just to save costs. There’s also a clear history of new projects being announced and actually being built. Both exist in history. So while it’s possible everything they announced gets canceled and very little gets built it’s also possible they...

Unless the front half opens before the coaster. See FLE where mine train opened last or even SWGE where rise opened later. It’s possible they reopen the front half rethemed to Monsters before Door Coaster opens.

I think part of the issue is hard core Muppets fans feel the area is more popular than it probably is….me included. They are showing no interest in contorting anything to keep Muppets around longer. I agree that’s most likely purely a financial decision.

That’s interesting and something I hadn’t considered for such a small project. We all assumed they would keep the Muppet front half open as long as possible while building door coaster but they could do the opposite. Close Muppets and restaurants now, redo front half first and reopen as new...

It actually could be both. It makes no sense to me either why they would do what they are doing, but if they decided to do construction on the front half of the land first before fully ramping up the Door Coaster than it explains the quick schedule of construction walls soon and also allows...