As much as I frequently criticize Disney's horrifically slow rate of construction, China absolutely isn't the standard anyone should be holding Disney to. And hopefully I shouldn't really have to explain why.
Because it isn't 1980 anymore. There are more safety regulations and standards, construction takes more time, testing takes longer, and there are more inspections. They need to do things safer to 2024 standards, not 1980 standards. They need to do it to American standards, not Chinese standards.
Except that the Epcot comparison is accurate. Just not the 3 month Chinese airport timeline. Disney does in fact move stupidly slow on construction projects. Universal is a decent modern day analogy.
You can build things both fast and safe. It’s a budget thing.
They’ve become laughably inefficient doing anything these days
But wasn’t it worth it in the end? Haha
You’re right…it’s not 1980 anymore
Yup. There are three ways to do construction. On time. On budget. On quality. You can only choose 2/3 of those at once. Fast and high quality? Will cost more money. This is where Unoversal lives typically. High quality and on budget? Won’t be fast. This is where Disney lives lately.
… the last few projects have been high quality and on budget? Are we talking about the same company?
Correct. But to be high quality and on budget they have to sacrifice time. They’re certainly not building by speed demon standards.
I feel like consistent high quality is a recent thing for Universal. It wasn’t too long ago when they were routinely rolling out crap like Race Through New York & Supercharged.
Yup. Fast and cheap? Low quality. Lol
Well they’ve been “alledgedly” high budget
This was true once upon a time but the delta has reduced significantly.
The most recent attraction retheme is an odd one to the above statement. High budget, a debatable quality, and a fast pace.
