MrPromey
Well-Known Member
I agree with some of your points, others I'm highly skeptical of - call me delusional, maybe that's accruate.
I do agree that some Disney super fans discount the popularity of Mario.
However, as has been said 100 times and needs said 1000 more times, a great IP or great move does not equate to a great land any more than a mediocre IP equates to a bad land. EXECUTION matters above all else.
Now your attendance numbers I'm just not seeing. I wouldn't doubt UO and IOA jumping Epcot/HS/AK... but when I see your list has Disneyland at #5 it makes me question the validity of the entire thing. Below #'s from the 2019 PUBLISHED TEA reports, not some partial period that may or may not be in the middle of a pandemic.
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I agree completely about how a great IP does not carry a land or attraction. Both Toy Story Land and the majority of Galaxy's Edge show current Disney management's belief that the IP can make up for execution with their own projects, though.
Universal on the other hand, has a pretty good recent record with their handling of IP based attractions so I do have a little more faith in them right now.
I'm the first to admit I've soured on Disney but that doesn't mean I want to see them fail or that I'm rooting for the competition. What I want is for them to go back to doing great things rather than trying to extract pennies out of guest while working on new systems to shuffle people around like mindless cattle.
My semi-recent showing of appreciation for Universal stems from having APs with them for the fist time in about a decade and being utterly shocked at the improvements to conditions in those parks and how much less stressful a visit there is compared to what I've come to expect a park experience to be from going to Disney.
I feel like I was a frog in a pot of water that was slowly set to boil and didn't appreciate how hot it was getting until I got thrown into another one that wasn't being heated.
For what it's worth, those aren't my numbers, they're the most current numbers from TEA as found in the link I referenced in my initial post.
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