Honestly, I think GE is a bit of a poor design personally, it's just too cramped. BUT, as far as lackluster, I think a part of it (I guess at least for me) is that there has been a recent history of over-promising and under-delivering. Go look at the TSL concept art (the original) and then look at the details removed. Go listen to the big announcement for GE and then look at the stuff cut out of it (with parts of it put behind a $6,000 paywall eventually). I think when you get people excited for a thing and then cut portions out, people will find it lackluster, whether what was left was done very well or not.
Is the quick service planned to be sushi too? I wasn’t sure if they were going to be 2 independent restaurants or just a table service and quick service version of the same. The pizza at Rizzo was not good at all and was mostly the same as when it was pizza planet (also bad) so I won‘t be sad to see that go. Quick service Asian food with sushi would be a nice addition to the park. Since Italian food is pretty popular I wonder if they eventually update something else to Italian.
So I've been tracking it and with RNRC & Muppets closing in 2025 whilst Little Mermaid and Villains open, the park capacity will be at 18 listed attractions in 2025. Once Muppets RNRC, Monsters Show and Monsters Door Coaster opens, there will be 21 attractions operating at the park (as long as nothing closes), the most attractions since 2009/10 when there were 20
Not me.
That's fair, I do enjoy SGE even though I do think it could have been done better in hindsight. I do agree on the overpromising though. For me the main example of that is EPCOT.
Do we know that MuppetVision*3D is officially closing in 2025? Who’s to say Disney doesn’t do a phased closure of the area and leave MuppetVision open longer. They can build the coaster in the backstage without interrupting the current offerings.
It spells it out for you in the preview room. That's like saying CBS shouldn't air the pilot of The Twilight Zone in the 1950s because no one knew what it was about.
You cite two wins most would agree with...of 20 years.
I think they may need to re-route the exit of the theater which goes through a somewhat narrow ally between the theater and the gift shop building that is going to be demoed. Outside of figuring that out they could leave Muppets open until they need to close it. So if the new Monsters show will take 9 months to redo than they could wait until 9 months prior to the whole land opening to close Muppets. The Door Coaster can also be built mostly back stage without closing the rest of the stuff.
I am similarly skeptical of MV3D returning. That’s an odd way to spend money. Maybe they’ll load it onto Disney+.
Correct, most guests are skipping PizzeRizzo and Mama Melrose anyway so they could probably figure a way to route the exit as they take down Stage 1 and wall all of that off.
Not officially yet. We know construction begins in 2025, but we don't know for certain that Muppets and RNRC are closing in 2025. If they are delayed to 2026, then 2025 will be the first year in 15 years where HS has 20 attractions
Logistically I hope they keep the bathrooms open too. Good spot to stop that is not too crowded.
If they bring a Muppet show back, it wont be MV3D I think. They might pull a scene or so from it to incorporate with the new show out of tribute to what was and out of respect for Jim Henson’s last work, but they’ll have something new to go along with it.
On a positive note, humanity is now forever grateful to Disney and Bob Iger for finally ridding the world of Pizza Rizzo.
I felt the post I was responding to wasn't talking about the last 20 years, but the last 5-10. Which has included: Avatar, SGE, TSL, Cosmic Rewind, Ratatouille, Tron, MMRR, and yes, the disappointing EPCOT refresh. A few of those attractions I believe to be on a similar scale as Everest, and I have hard time thinking of any attractions from the 2,000's outside of Everest that are on the same level. But my memory may be failing.
