I understand all that. But my point is that the number of guests entering MK on a given day is not determined by the park’s max capacity (with a few exceptions, like Christmas). It’s primarily driven by demand. If you add more attractions to MK, it’s popularity relative to the other parks will increase. I still think it would help crowding at MK to an extent, but building up the other parks would probably help more, and is more sustainable long term.
There isn't a demand problem. They are raising prices higher and higher bc the demand is non stop.
But Batuu is the Frontier–of the galaxy!
“It’s a small world” looks like it is made of toys which transitions to Toy Story Playland.
I don’t think there’s a demand problem, but everything is relative. Attendance at WDW has generally (very roughly) followed a 40%-20%-20%-20% MK-Ep-DHS-DAK pattern, and I’ve seen no evidence to indicate that the reservation system has drastically changed the distribution (or we would have seen wait times markedly improve at some parks while getting much worse at others). The closer that distribution gets to 25-25-25-25, the more MK would benefit. I don’t think we will ever get there, but we would see movement in that direction with substantial investment into the three less popular parks.
There's a better chance of Mr Chapek serving popcorn at a cart in magic kingdom to help with staffing before they lower prices.
It doesn't seem that Villains would connect to Fantasyland - more like Liberty Square.
They already do it. The base ticket is $109 for a single day, yet a single day ticket on October 8/9th is $154, $149 on 10/10/22 and $139 on 10/11/22. Attendance is less on Tuesday than Sat/Sunday, or even Monday, so the price is lower to entice you to go on Tuesday instead.
Only if they are paying for it. If you look at Tokyo it's a different story.
Well that's a bit different. First, that is seasonal pricing. Based not around current demand, but what was historically busier times of the year. Second, they didn't lower anything. They raised all the other times. They will not lower anything, that's not their business model.
Seasonal pricing = Demand pricing
No it’s not. Fantasy Springs is a grab bag noodly appendage.
Then it's even worse. Why have they gone downhill so much? They used to really care about theming and how it fit into the parks.
one the things that made me think expansion here would never truly be on the horizon, are all of the work you would have to do to get this land ready for development. If you build into RoA, you need to fill and stabilize that land and replace the water reclamation area you are taking out + whatever else you are required to create as part of the expansion. If you maintain the Belle and the service canal you will need a pedestrian bridge to navigate that. Depending on how you build this out, railroad will require reprofiling, pedestrian over or underpasses, and/or an at-grade crossing (unlikely). Show buildings will likely be outside the rail line and would require elements to get you from the land hub into the attraction building.
The only thing against this assessment is that Disney already did most of this for Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland and made relatively short work of it. Conditions are a little different in Florida, especially with regards to the River, but I can't imagine they're particularly concerned. If they want to get back there they'll just go for it.
I know a lot of people feel the same way but it always makes me sad when I see this.
