TrainsOfDisney
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Is cars land at DCA a money making machine?
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MK Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom
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DisneyHead123
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Presumably yes. Looks like Radiator Springs has an ILL option. Also, it’s an entire land with walkable areas, whereas I think the Disney World version will be primarily rides, with probably a store and snack area.
Not trying to be depressing, just realistic. There are versions of this new dynamic I could like. It’s certainly an incentive for Disney to build great new rides.
flynnibus
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Some income - yes.. but you also described labor intensive stuff that isn't high volume and doesn't run continuously all day, every day, virtually on its own.
Getting an attraction that can sell ILL just prints money. Let's do some super crude math. Take something with 1400 Riders per hour.. give 30% to LL.. let's round down for the non-paid in there too.. so let's say 25% of capacity being sold. That's 350 people /hr paying $20 to ride. Assuming just 13hrs of operating a day.. that's 91k a day. That's over 33 million a year for basically no extra cost over running the ride you are doing anyways. A 300 million dollar ride can pay for itself OUTRIGHT in less than 10yrs.. on an attraction you hope will last 20+years. Nevermind all the other revenue streams like merch, etc a ride generates. That kind of 'free money' will make any exec drunk with to repeat that formula.
TrainsOfDisney
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Isn’t that always a revolving door? Like there is only 1 per park correct? Maybe I’m not folllwing.
the_rich
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2 at Mk and 1 at each other park
Disstevefan1
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I was half kidding.
Every move they make will now take into consideration LL.
Getting rid of RoA, TSI, the riverboat, gets rid of a maintenance cost for something that brings in zero LL money.
Forget that beauty, theme, tranquility, this is A Business!
Besides that, Disney wants to erase TSI, Liberty square, HoP, Frontierland eventually anyway.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Think of it like free financing
Pay off attraction one... build new attraction two.. shift ILL to it... etc.
Animaniac93-98
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Cars Land is the best attraction in DCA.
Even if the revenue from the shops and eateries in that land don't make a ton of money on their own, the existence of the land is probably a large driver in park attendance, which is important in and of itself.
I think people are taking the success of Cars Land and extrapolating what it did to DCA to believe any Cars attraction or land would be an equal success at another Disney park. We know that's not the case with the two Cars rides at Disney Studios Paris, but even if the two at Magic Kingdom are not as bad, Magic Kingdom is already the most visited theme park in the world and this Cars addition won't have as large a focus on retail/dining.
It comes down to the belief that new rides sell LL and merch. I think that varies based on what's ultimately built.
Cosmic Rewind benefits from being the only coaster in that park, Tron the most intense in MK.
This Cars ride may be the breakout family hit that Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is, or maybe it won't. That's the risk they're taking.
WaltWiz1901
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moreso what I bolded. the "7.3 attractions per guest per day" model that shaped opening-day Walt Disney Studios and Hong Kong Disneyland apparently hasn't died, and the many, many systems/services/whatever that NextGen/MyMagic+ spawned have only exacerbated the problems with using said model as a guide for adding/"adding" new attractions
it has nothing to do with being cheap - this is the same company whose waste and ridiculously layered bureaucracy (or is it Imagineering's specifically?) bounce between doing a simple reskin/overhaul for relatively cheap and building grandiosely phoned-in misfires for millions if not billions
Bocabear
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Carsland at DCA works so well because it is a fully realized immersive themed land....to a location we all know from the Cars movie...it is also full of eye candy and clever nods to the film, gorgously done with an amazing big attraction and a couple smaller...with many shops and QS options. I do not know the location for this new Cars attraction, it was not in a Cars movie, there has been talk of a second attraction, but nothing for sure... Villainsland we know even less about...but we do know we will have a gigantic mess in a large quadrant of the park that will drag on for literally years and years...
Raineman
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And, it won't even just be the visual mess of construction walls-the sounds of construction will add to the mess. Instead of hearing the whistle on the riverboat or hearing "Maaark Twaaaain", we'll get to hear the magical sounds of construction equipment and power tools. The sound element of theming in Frontierland/Liberty Square may be just as important, if not more important, to that part of the park than anywhere else.
Casper Gutman
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You know that part in the old Roadrunner cartoons where the Coyote had run off the cliff but hasn’t looked down yet?
Disstevefan1
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